I made a quinoa salad with grape tomatoes, feta, fresh mint and basil, and lemon juice. Nothing spectacular, but it's the first thing I've made with quinoa that I've liked.

Cut it lengthwise in 1/8 in. thick slices, smear with olive oil and season with salt and pepper and grill it.

ROMAN MORONI DEPORTED TO SWEDEN. SAYS HE'S NOT FROM THERE!

I've been making some of the Thai-style stir fries featured recently in the NY Times (nyti.ms/Wnewog). The corn, squash and onion stir fry with coconut oil was outstanding. I had never eaten black rice before. It was….interesting.

A few film scenes that would have been improved by an "Are you kidding me?"

See Emily Nap

James Cameron already said he was doing Aquaman. Hey Turtle, you fat fuck, get Ari on the phone!!

Do you own an immersion blender? A few zaps with that would thicken that soup right quick.

I made chicken noodle soup the other night using a store-bought rotisserie chicken (dark meat only), along with some carrots, celery, onions and fresh thyme. I used linguine for the pasta, and cut it up with kitchen shears to make it easier to ladle. Simple, but my poor sniffling, runny-nosed kids ate it up and…

My John Thomas is about to pop off and fly around the room, there's so much tasty here.

I was tuned in to Mountain Goats by the Sklar Brothers' podcast. "(God)Damn These Vampires" (off All Eternals Deck) is such a great song.

"I have reservations." — A.A. Dowd

Once again, the direction of the Index is wrong. Anything with bacon is tolerable. Anything on or related to MTV is unbearable. Oprah is a statistical outlier on the tolerability index.

At least we'll have zombie Bill Murray.

I was on Tatooine and then I took a balloon up my ass to Dagobah.

Dr. Spaceman: Tracy, I don’t know how to say this… de-ay-bah-tees?Tracy: Diabetes?Dr. Spaceman: That's it! Well, now we know what we're dealing with.

Let's not forget that the Panthers are playing the What-the-Fuck-aneers on some podunk channel called the NFL Network. They shoot cannons, don't they?

This could be fun to watch? 
I thought I recognized Michael Conrad as one of the refs in that trailer.  He played the duty seargent on "Hill Street Blues," and played the coach for Burt Reynolds' inmate team in "The Longest Yard."  Great actor.

My 10 year-old daughter wanted me to do a Chopped challenge (Food TV show).  She put the following items in my basket:  butternut squash, a can of black eyed peas, rice, and avocado.  Pretty creative, I thought.  I made rice in the rice cooker, roasted cubed butternut squash, and cooked the black-eyed peas with…

Why are they plaid and mad and bad?  I do not know, go ask your raking dad.