Meat muffins sounds amazing!  It's just a single-serving meatloaf with a name that everyone can titter at.  (And is totally not a meatball.  I mean, are meat muffins spherical?  I think not.)

I was thinking of installing a French 75 tradition this year for Christmas; it's good to know your family considers them essential, so I have some ammunition when I propose it to my family… ("But guys, Scrawler's family does it!"  ::crickets chirp::  "Guys?")

I was thinking of installing a French 75 tradition this year for Christmas; it's good to know your family considers them essential, so I have some ammunition when I propose it to my family… ("But guys, Scrawler's family does it!"  ::crickets chirp::  "Guys?")

We do hot open-face sandwiches with the leftover turkey (where you reheat and then layer all the big dinner dishes — the mashed
potatoes, stuffing, and sweet potatoes — on some toast, then top it
all with turkey and gravy) after Thanksgiving and Christmas.  They're so beloved in my household that we actually started…

We do hot open-face sandwiches with the leftover turkey (where you reheat and then layer all the big dinner dishes — the mashed
potatoes, stuffing, and sweet potatoes — on some toast, then top it
all with turkey and gravy) after Thanksgiving and Christmas.  They're so beloved in my household that we actually started…

The Textopacalypse sounds extremely plausible — I'm getting off the grid now so I'm ready when the textplosion happens.

The Textopacalypse sounds extremely plausible — I'm getting off the grid now so I'm ready when the textplosion happens.

I saw "27 Dresses" in the theater — it's the only movie I've seen in the theater in the last 10 years.  I was dragged there by my aunt and two cousins, and what I remember best from it is that the theater (in New Orleans) sells alcoholic slushies.  So I had a slushie White Russian Big Gulp, and it made the movie…

I saw "27 Dresses" in the theater — it's the only movie I've seen in the theater in the last 10 years.  I was dragged there by my aunt and two cousins, and what I remember best from it is that the theater (in New Orleans) sells alcoholic slushies.  So I had a slushie White Russian Big Gulp, and it made the movie…

I watched the entirety of "The Shield" over one summer a couple of years ago, and while I really loved it (I second that the story arc with Shane is just incredible), I definitely reached a point where I had severe "Shield" fatigue.  It gets to be a lot if you're watching it all stacked on top of itself, and, while I…

I watched the entirety of "The Shield" over one summer a couple of years ago, and while I really loved it (I second that the story arc with Shane is just incredible), I definitely reached a point where I had severe "Shield" fatigue.  It gets to be a lot if you're watching it all stacked on top of itself, and, while I…

I also watched "Bourne Legacy" this weekend, and, as a massive, massive Bourne Franchise fangirl, I decided I kind of liked it.  I mean, I don't mind having a sleek, stylish, badass action movie about super-assassins and their evil bureaucratic handlers trying to kill them coming out every few years.  Sure, it's just…

I also watched "Bourne Legacy" this weekend, and, as a massive, massive Bourne Franchise fangirl, I decided I kind of liked it.  I mean, I don't mind having a sleek, stylish, badass action movie about super-assassins and their evil bureaucratic handlers trying to kill them coming out every few years.  Sure, it's just…

I've also been hearing the siren call of RDR again.  Man, what a great game that was.  And anyone who doesn't like being face-murdered by stealth cougars just doesn't know what's good for them.

I've also been hearing the siren call of RDR again.  Man, what a great game that was.  And anyone who doesn't like being face-murdered by stealth cougars just doesn't know what's good for them.

Seriously, "2000 Man" in Bottle Rocket is just perfection.

Seriously, "2000 Man" in Bottle Rocket is just perfection.

By far my most-played individual song of 2012 was Secret Chiefs 3 & Mike Patton, "La Chanson du Jacky".  I'm an obsessive Patton fangirl, and this is Patton's most "singerly singer doing singing" recording, so what's not to love?  Also, it once prompted the security guard at my workplace to remark, when I was driving…

By far my most-played individual song of 2012 was Secret Chiefs 3 & Mike Patton, "La Chanson du Jacky".  I'm an obsessive Patton fangirl, and this is Patton's most "singerly singer doing singing" recording, so what's not to love?  Also, it once prompted the security guard at my workplace to remark, when I was driving…

This was a big year for catching up on a lot of back catalogs for me, but a couple of standout songs are: