Tin Foil Soldier

After I get home from work / the gym, I usually like a little snack to hold me over until dinner.  With the constant stream of fresh grape, cherry, and roma tomatoes coming from the garden right out my back door, I have been making a tasty snack from some combination of:

Rye Triscuits that are [...]

The Omnivore’s Hundred
Here’s a chance for a little interactivity for all the bloggers out there. Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food - but a [...]

Ian’s Shoelace Site - Shoe Lacing Methods
Criss Cross Lacing
This is probably the most common method of lacing normal shoes and boots. The laces simply criss-cross as they work their way up the shoe.
Friday’s run in the woods turned into a run in the fields, which turned into a climb through the woods to get back [...]

Outing Riley 2004
Bobby is a gay man in the closet in 2003, afraid to come out to his three older brothers, even though he’s at least 30 and is being pressed by his sister, his boyfriend, and his lesbian beard to tell the lads.
not really sure what to say about this one, I enjoyed it [...]

The Curiosity of Chance (2006)
We actually watched this one before we watched Kinky Boots.  I really liked this movie and I am fairly certain it ranks highly for Kevin as well.
High school coming-of-age tale. It is the 1980’s — and new wave angst and gender-bending fashion are all the rage. The new kid at school, [...]

Woot Shirt : One Shirt, No Shoes, No Service (SM)
I have been buying shirts from shirt.woot.com lately.  The shirt of the day is 10$ with free shipping, which is a great price for quality shirts with awesome designs.  Plus they are so unique and well, fun, that I get comments on them wherever I go.  [...]

I have watched a bunch of gay themed movies lately, but I haven’t really gotten around to writing about them.
Kevin and I watched Kinky Boots (2005) the other day and we both liked it.
While in despair at his failed attempts to save the business, Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret [...]

Attn:Nickelback
Make Chat Kroeger get a haircut before you make any more music videos.  We watch the HD music video channel in the morning before work as something to eat and drink coffee to, and Photograph came on.  The song doesn’t really make any sense to me, but I think its nice to listen to as [...]

Unfortunately I don’t think today was as much fun as usual at motorcycle class.  It started out fun, but then some of the turns are just ridiculous in what they expect us to do while not looking at the tiny little dots on the ground.  Yes, I am going to look at the ground if [...]

I never got around to posting about it, but day 3 was mostly like day 2 in the learn 2 ride class.  We practiced shifting, stopping, cornering, U-turns, etc.
Day 4 was another classroom session where we reviewed things like swerving, carrying a load / a passenger, cornering, etc.  We also took the 50 question multiple [...]

frontline: assault on gay america: how ‘homophobic’ are you?
In 1996, as part of his study on homophobia, Dr. Henry Adams and his colleagues at the University of Georgia developed their own “Homophobia Scale” by modifying scales used by other researchers in earlier studies. It’s a 25-item questionnaire “designed to measure your thoughts, feelings and behaviors [...]

Today we got to sit on the motorcycles.
After reviewing the different parts on the motorcycles, we mount them:

standing on the left side of the bike, grab the right handlebar
lift your right leg over the bike
straighten it out and upright
raise the side stand

Then we start the bike using FINE-C

Fuel switch - to ON
Ignition - Key to [...]

Beginner
Basic RiderCourse
The Motorcycle Safety Foundation’s Basic Rider Course BRC is a Beginner / Novice motorcycle rider-training program designed for those with very little or no experience in riding a motorcycle. The program consists of classroom and hands-on motorcycle training. The ability to ride a bicycle is necessary for this program.
Classroom adult learning discussions [...]

Last night I made a citrus chicken stir fry over oven baked brown rice and I thought it was delicious.
Make brown rice according to the Good Eats recipe for Baked Brown Rice

~1 lb Chicken cut into pieces
3 TB lime juice
salt, pepper, garlic

Cook chicken with lime juice and spices until the chicken is mostly cooked.

1 onion [...]

GUEST BLOG: Socks - A History at Puntabulous
When I was a kid you could always tell the “have” kids from the “have not” kids by their socks. If their socks stayed up around their calves they were definitely “have” kids. If, on the other hand, their socks slid down around their ankles they were poor, [...]