Baby Mobius is HERE!!!

Baby Mobius was born yesterday at 6:31 pm! He is 19 1/2 inches long and 6 pounds, five ounces. He and his mommy are both doing very well. Here's a pic or two:



My wife and I are very happy he's finally here. Give baby Honkey Magoo a warm welcome, won't you? :oD

Baby Mobius update 5/3/07

My wife and the baby are doing okay, but the induction is going slower than we had hoped. At this point, it looks like the major part of the induction may take place tomorrow (Friday, 5/4), provided my wife's body cooperates and her and the baby's health are not endangered.

Keep us in your prayers, please.

Baby Mobius update

Just a quick post to say that we are taking my wife in to be induced at midnight. Odds are very good that Baby Honkey Magoo Mobius will be born on Thursday, May 3!

That is all. :o)

Thanks to Wurwolf!!!

My good friend Wurwolf of Cooties Cards sent me some neat bookmarks she made. If you haven't looked at her site before, check it out; she does wonderful work!

Here are the three of them:


The first one has a Chinese food takeout box and three fortune cookies on it. The fortune says "You will always get what you want through your charm and personality." :o)



The second one is a neat collage of vintage motorcycle imagery, with three chrome studs and my real life initials!



And the third has a Coke bottlecap background, two chrome studs and a shiny plastic coke bottle decal!



Thank you so much for these, wurwolf! They are very neat; excellent work as always. :o) I'm going to put them to very good use, as I am an avid reader. I'm going to use the fortune cookie bookmark to mark my place in A Clash of Kings!

Foodblogging: Monday, 4/9/07

I know I haven't posted anything new in awhile, but things have been crazy busy lately, what with getting things ready for Honkey Magoo (aka PM Junior). We had the baby shower this weekend, which took a lot out of us (what with setup, cleanup, and toting all the gifts home). It was another one of those times where a regular work day was more restful than the weekend!

But enough of that. I'm here to post a foodblog entry. Today's food question is: "what do you do with leftover meatball hors d'ourves when the party's over?" And the answer is: "make spaghetti and meatballs with them."



Yeah, it's not terribly original, but it was delicious. :o) I whipped up a quickie sauce with a can of tomato sauce, a (chopped up) can of stewed tomatoes, some Italian sausage, and some Italian-type seasonings (basil, oregano, rosemary, garlic, etc.), to which I added the meatballs. Once that had come together and the meatballs were heated through, I put that on low and put a pot on the boil to make the noodles. Once those were done, I drained 'em and mixed them into the sauce. The finished product is what you see in the picture above.

It was good stuff, if I do say so myself. Nothing innovative (my cooking rarely is), but it tasted good and there was enough left over for us to take in our lunches tomorrow. The meatballs I didn't use today went in the freezer. Sometime in the future I may post other uses for leftover meatballs (hint: meatball subs may be involved).

"Honkey Magoo" says hello!

As those who know me already know, my wife is pregnant with our first child, and is due to have him in seven weeks! Needless to say, we're very excited about it. My friends on the net are excited, too, have have taken to calling our little boy Honkey Magoo (long story as to that...).

Anyway, we had an OB appointment today, and they took an ultrasound. We got some good 3D pics out of it; this one's my favorite:

"Hello, Internets!" - Baby Mobius

What.

I have found evidence that people are even more insane (and asinine) than I previously even thought.



"How do I know if my cat will dance with me?

Well the question you should really ask is not, "Will my cat dance with me?" but rather, "Will I dance with my cat?"

No, the question you should really ask is, "do I really need to buy a book about dancing with cats, or buy a cd of music specifically designed for dancing with my cat?

I mean, seriously. What the hell?

Foodblogging: Sunday, 3/25/07

Well, it's the first really nice weekend of spring, so you know what that means (note: if you don't know what that means, read the words that come next): grill season has begun! :oD

Yeah, I brought the grill out of its hibernatory cave (note: I mean the garage. I do not literally have a cave), cleaned it up, opened up a bag of quick-light charcoal, and fired that puppy up! (Note: by "puppy" I mean grill. I am not burning dogs!)

On the menu for today: pork ribs smothered in barbecue sauce (Maul's original, for the record) with some onion chopped up in it, corn on the cob, and homemade potato salad. I put the ribs in a pan, poured sauce and grated onion over them, and covered in aluminum foil. Nothing fancy, mind you, but they've been on a little over an hour at this poin and after about 45 more minutes they ought to be very tender and delicious. Jenny wrapped the corn in foil with butter, salt, and pepper inside and we put those on the grill, too. Jenny finished the potato salad an hour ago, and it's been chilling in the fridge ever since. All in all, it promises to be a great kickoff to grill season! :o)

We're having some family over to eat with us, because good food is better if you share it with people you care about. Plus, my sister is bringing a homemade banana cream pie for dessert, which should cap everything off wonderfully. Well, time to get the house ready for company. I'll let you all know how dinner turned out!! :oD

Update: Monday, 3/26
The ribs were just about perfect! We started the corn a little late, though, especially considering it started out frozen. We saved dinner by popping it in the oven for about 15 minutes; it ended up good and hot and buttery and delicious. Jenny did a fantastic job on the potato salad, and my sister made an excellent pie! Overall, a fantastic meal.

Hot Hot Swinging Action

Our good friend Wurwolf has expressed a desire to see hot hot pictures of swingers on Tork's Blog, but Tork refuses to post any such pictures. He says it goes against his morals or something.

Well, I have no such scruples against posting that sort of picture. And so, I will post some! But because I want to keep my blog at least a little bit work friendly, I will only post links to the pics. You have been warned: only click on the following links if you want to see pictures of people who are totally unashamed to be SWINGERS!!!

Swingers 1!
Swingers 2!!
Swingers 3!!!

I hope you enjoy these, Wurwolf. I may never post such pictures again!

Foodblogging: Sunday, 3/18/07

Okay, so today was one of those days where I sort of had to fend for myself for lunch, and I didn't feel like having a sandwich or anything like that. And so, I went into cooking experiment mode. I didn't want to use up stuff that we might use for supper sometime, so I was forced to work with stuff that we had on hand that we either had a ton of, or that we probably weren't going to use right away. I threw something together, and it didn't turn out half bad. It's not something I would want to eat all the time, but if I had to make a lunch or dinner with these ingredients, I could rest assured of making something edible and filling.

Here's the recipe, if you want to see for yourself whether I veered closer to madness or genius:

PM's Artichoke & Carrot Skillet

Ingredients:
1 12 oz jar artichoke quarters
1 can sliced carrots
1 can Campbell's cream of mushroom soup w/ roasted garlic
Milk with which to fill the soup can
1 cup instant rice
1/4 stick of margarine or butter (4 tablespoons)
1 pinch minced garlic
1 or 2 dashes Paula Deen's Silly Salt (if you don't have Silly Salt, you can substitute a dash of garlic salt combined with a dash of pepper and a pinch of thyme and savory. Or, just salt and season to taste.)

Procedure:
Put a large saucepan on high heat and melt the margarine. Once it's well melted, drain the artichokes and dump them in the saucepan. When the artichoke pieces start to caramelize, flip them and then drain and add the carrots. Add the minced garlic and the Silly Salt and stir the veggies until they're all heated through. Add the cream of mushroom soup and the can of milk. Stir well until it all comes together. Let the mixture come to a boil, then turn down heat to low and allow it to simmer for a few minutes. Add the rice and mix it in well. Allow the mixture to simmer for five more minutes, stirring occasionally. Turn off the heat and allow to stand for a few minutes, then serve. Serves two, unless you're a p-i-g hog like me and you're hungry, in which case you might eat the whole thing yourself.

Like I said, it's not grand cuisine, but it tasted pretty good and I'm very full. Time to roll myself into the kitchen again and clean the saucepan I dirtied. :o)

Lame Half-assed Post #1

This is the first in what is likely to be a long series of lame, half-assed posts which serve only to increase my post count. I don't have much to say today (tune in tomorrow to see if that changes!), but I will post a pic I did experimenting with coloring on Photoshop.



Enjoy, please.

Be Good, Supernanny

So I'm sitting here minding my own business, and I hear my wife watching Supernanny in the other room. No big deal, she can watch whatever she wants. The thing is, every time the show goes to commercial, they play a snippet of the theme song, which is "Be Good, Johnny" by Men At Work. I've known that song since I was a child (it's a musical deconstruction of the classic song "Johnny Be Good"), and God knows I know what the words are, but every time I hear it, I still think it sounds like they're saying "Bigot, bigot! Bigot, bigot!".

All this is just to say that it makes me chuckle inside to think of the Supernanny being called a bigot. Maybe it's just that she's racist against bad parenting? (Where "racist" means simply that she hates bad parents, not that bad parenting has anything to do with race. Just to clarify.)

Kool Aid Man: What a Jerk!

So I've seen this Kool Aid commercial lately where some kids see Kool Aid Man on a deserted island with the letters "SUS" written in the sand. When the kids get there and tell him they're responding to his SOS, though, he tells them it actually says "S-U-S: Stirrin' Up Singles!" No, Kool Aid Man, putting out a phony SOS is more like "stirrin' up sh-- I mean, crap". Jerkface.

Makes me long for the old Kool Aid commercials. Or even a Kool Aid/Mad World mashup on You Tube.

Comic Project Update: 3/6/07

Okay, just so you all know that I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth or anything, here's a sneak peek at my latest character concept sketch for the Big Comic Project. I'm also close to narrowing down a name, but I need to mull it over/run it by a few people before I fully settle on it.

New Greatest Idea Ever!!!

So, I was thinking about carbon offsets today. You know, carbon offsets. Where someone like a preachy celebrity or Al Gore who chides other people for causing global warming can't be bothered to reduce their energy usage or take the bus or any of the other crap they tell people to do, so they pay someone else to reduce their own "carbon footprint" so that they can keep on producing lots and lots of CO2. Sort of like paying someone else to do your homework for you in college.

Anyway, thinking about that gave me a great idea. Today I invented a new dieting method: calorie offsets. Now I can eat whatever the heck I want whenever the heck I want to, and I can just pay someone else to eat less for me!

Oooh, better yet... there's plenty of people going hungry in the world already. So I can just use their calories without even having to pay them a dime. I ought to be back to my college weight in no time!

Inaugural Post!!1!!omgone!!!!!

Hello there and welcome to PM's Lair of Villainy, or as it will undoubtedly soon be called in certain quarters (which for now shall remain nameless), PMS Lair of Villainy. I really have no idea why I'm starting another blog, because historically I have been horrible about updating such things. Oh well, all the cool kids are doing it. :o)

I'll probably write on an irregular basis about stupid crap that crosses my mind or about TV or comics or videogames or stuff like that. You know, like pretty much every other blog in existence. :oD I may also have updates about my big comic project I'm working on. Maybe!

So anyway, welcome to my blog. Hopefully you enjoy at least some of what you read here. If not, tough! I'm writing it anyway. :o)