Yeah, but it's a good reason. I mean, food-on-a-stick! Livestock! Midway rides! Rigged baking contests!

I dinged Cowbelle after I wrote that post - I thought we should see when she's at the State Fair with her cows. No reply yet.

At the Minnesota State Fair, they have a 4 oz piece of bacon on a stick, grilled with maple syrup.

Totally. I get that Minneapolis is a little bit hipper (at least in its' own eyes), but I'm still kinda confused why. There are so many great places to eat and just hang out in Saint Paul, and our parking is free after 5 - plenty of it if you know where to look and don't mind walking a block or two.

I actually have yet to eat at any of those, so I'm not losing out I think. Salut is nice, but you can get a lot of what they serve at other places, so not a huge loss.

Totally. And I didn't realize Salut is Parasole. There are plenty of other places to eat, so that's off the list, too.

I knew about Oasis, I did not know about Blue Plate. They have some of the busiest restaurants around - that's bullshit. We've only been to one, but we won't bother with the others now. That's ridiculous.

When I was a teenager, we were coming back from a family vacation in Smith Mountain Lake, headed home to the DC area. We were in two cars - my Dad driving one with my brother and sister, and me and my Mom in another. I don't remember which southern Virginia county it was, but they pulled my Mom over for going 11 mph…

Bulldogs LOVE rolling down hills. I'm not sure why that is, but it never ceases to make me laugh.

The sundae sounds awesome. The in-a-can thing and the price tag are a bit off-putting. If I could just have a scoop of the ice cream, I'd be happy.

I hate that. I'm overweight - I don't talk about my diet unless someone asks. (I am a recipe-sharer though, but only with people who like to cook.) If we would go out on a team lunch or something, I'd order a salad or just an appetizer, and I took so much shit.

Oh, no - I think it's great they're good in front of their kids. And the reality is, I'm sure the kids are used to spending time with parents apart, since he's a touring musician and she does a movie once or so a year.

The first thought that crossed my mind was "When each person is worth many millions of dollars - and there was probably a massive pre-nup - it's easy to be civil to each other."

It is. Lemon custard with a Basil Izzy is a life changer. ;)

I'm just being sarcastic. Or maybe I'm just thinking back to last night's Izzy's and thinking that was some damn good ice cream, even without color change.

My question is, why would you lick perfectly good ice cream and just let it sit there?

Mine almost had me on the toilet - she was in labor, she really wanted to go to the bathroom normally, so they let her go to the one down the hall by herself instead of giving her a bedpan in the maternity ward.

I always felt self-conscious about my heavier brows in the 90's - my friends were plucking theirs to oblivion which was the thing to do, but I thought it looked weird, and would take a huge amount of grooming time I didn't feel like investing. I just kept them neat, and left it at that, feeling like a caveman of…

I had a post on this several months ago, but I must have deleted it at some point.

From Chapter 2 of Christopher Moore's "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" (Note - the narrator has a little boy's crush on Mary.)