Thankful Thursdays, ep. 15

I'm thankful that it is payday today. Like seriously thankful. I have spent way too much money on dumb bullshit this last month, so I am just happy I am getting more to spend on more dumb bullshit.

Alright so it's also Guy Fawkes Night and for those of you who don't know what that is, I will give you a moment to put "V for Vendetta" in your Netflix queue because it's totally accurate... there... ready? Good.

Okay Guy Fawkes Night (the fifth day of November every year) is a celebration in the United Kingdom with fireworks and all kinds of shit over the thwarted plot to destroy the parliament building in London in something like 1605. Apparently some Catholics were pissed off because the Protestant King J was spending way too much money on his hooker and buying her Porsches and caviar and satin q-tips and chocolate clitoral piercings and all sorts of shit and wasn't putting any in their collection plates. Oh and also the whole Protestant thing and church and state were kinda hand-in-hand back in the day.

So they were royally (get it?) pissed off about the whole thing and were gonna bomb his nigga ass and all of the other non-catholic peeps in the government so as to make Team Brimstone #1 again. They had some gunpowder specialist named Guy Fawkes hook them up with all the explosives he had stolen over the years from the military and make giant a-bomb. Somebody heard about this plot because it was basically televised and Guy was arrested on the toilet while taking a dump and reading The New Yorker.

Nothing ever happened and so basically they're celebrating absolutely nothing. I totally love the English for that. So, to follow suit and celebrate not-a-god-damn-thing tonight, I'm going to have a beer about it. Cheers!

Top 10 songs played on my iPhone

Okay so for this Tuesday Tens I'll give you a peak into my top 10 played songs on my iPhone in case you're interested. You can click on each link to preview or purchase the song in iTunes.

10. Runaway - The Corrs
(from the album "Forgiven, Not Forgotten")

09. Gotta Get Thru This (D'n'D Radio Edit) - Daniel Bedingfield
(from the album "Gotta Get Thru This")

08. Landslide - Dixie Chicks
(from the album "Home")

07. You Were Meant for Me - Jewel
(from the album "Pieces of You")

06. Listen to the Music - The Doobie Brothers
(from the album "Best of The Doobies")

05. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
(from the album "Violator")

04. Like a Boy - Ciara
(from the album "The Evolution")

03. Whiskey Lullaby - Brad Paisley ft. Alison Krauss
(from the album "Mud on the Tires")

02. Human - The Killers
(from the album "Day & Age")

01. Beautiful Disaster (Live) - Kelly Clarkson
(from the album "Breakaway")

What's your top iPod/iPhone song today?

Nice wood

Last night Stacks and I went to the Goodwood Barbecue Company for dinner and oh my hell it was delicious! I don't know if it's the fact that I have spent more nights in Texas this year than in my own bed or if it's because I'm slowing becoming a chaw-chewin' hick but I love barbecue lately. Not just throwing a damn steak on the grill because I've always loved that but actual barbecue.

So we got two different plates and just shared because that's the best way to enjoy multiple menu items without looking like/feeling like a fat fucking heifer when you're done. The first plate was their St. Louis-Style Spare Ribs that were basted in a sauce so good I could have bathed in it or used it as lube or something. The second was their Apple-Smoked Sliced Turkey Breast which if you like smoked turkey you would jizz over this. The edges were perfectly crispy from the slow smoking and the meat was tender and juicy just like a teenager.

Anyway yeah it was pretty fucking good and if you are in the area you should totally give this place a try. I also made banana bread last night before dinner because the 3 bananas that were sitting on my counter were going to grow legs and walk away if I didn't do something with them pronto. How domestic!

Oh yeah I totally never posted this

But this was my Halloween costume this year. It is completely homemade (thanks to Dixie) and deliciously warm in the freezing Salt Lake cold air. We had our annual Halloween party at the manor and saw an excellent turnout, complete with mostly-naked boys, vampires, alcohol, and insane drunken humping (mostly by me because I like to hump). My rendition of Max from "Where the Wild Things Are"

Happy Day of the Dead

One of the popular figures of the Day of the Dead is the Catrina and I've decided that it would be really cool to own one! They're totally creepy and beautiful at the same time and bring to mind what Tim Burton's sexual fantasies must be filled with. Check out some of these:

Musical Banners

Okay so I changed it back because the other one was way to generic and if this one pisses anyone off they are looking way to deeply into it.

Fuck it

I hated it, so I changed it. This is so much more general and irrelevant.

I'm a day late, but you'll find a way to get over it

So I wanted to change my banner to something that reflected the month a little differently than turkeys and mashed potatoes. So here you have it, the new banner!

So long, farewell

Smile!