Touch me. Touch me like you didn't touch me last night.

So, yeah...we've been a little slack lately. We make no apologies but will endeavor to do them more often in the future.

Also, please excuse that I only thank a few people in this one, as we accidentally mixed up the letters about what food came from whom. If we did one of yours and don't credit you, let me know and I'll edit the entry.

Okay, picture time.

schmidtybooger informed us that this is exactly how they were described in the bin they were found in at an Asian market.
Also, I enjoy pretending that the pig is saying "DINK!" because it would be funny to hear a real pig make that noise.



There's a reason this one was "unfortunately" not included in the tasting. I'm looking at YOU,interdisciple. I'm looking at you with eyes of distrust and shame.



This "SURPRISE! BUTTSECKS!" moment brought to you by plumeriandeity. Also, it's hilarious that she's totally gonna blush when she reads that sentence.

Man, I love a lot of stuff about this package. I love that it's got a fish-shaped window, I love that it uses, like, five fonts. I love that the background is a beautiful oceanscape covered by a fucking fisherman's net.

Sorry, I don't know where I was going with that.

They look like they're made of gold leaf. And I think I went to high school with a Kieler Sprotten. Worked at the Hardee's across the street from the elementary school.



Whether it's fish or candy, when in doubt, put it in a plastic tube. Indeed, "bolsa veliotas" translates as "we've put it in a tube for you."



Look, YOU figure out something funny to say about licorice olives and you can write these damn posts, okay?



Mmm! Potent fermented soybeans with the strong flavor of onion! Next stop, Limburger and Ass!



Happy fun sour-sour lemon time best for you fairyarmadillo plus magic husband dr_beep ?!



Enough pictures, watch these two videos.

Fair warning, the audio is rubbish anytime I open a package. Time for a new camera, what with the flash having shat itself while we were in D.C....



Who loves you?

Hint: It's benjamin, Your Internet Monkey King

Smooches,

b

You may remember Lovely Wife Sara commenting on how she needs a nose cozy for when she's cold.

jennnlee supplied the awesome in a package that arrived a few days ago:



And now...

Small GEEKDUMP:

Neon Genesis Evangelion -- It's taken me years to get past my resistance to this show, since it seems to be a love-or-hate sort of show, according to my friends. I've found myself really liking it, but not yet loving it. Maybe when we get to the part where the creator has a nervous breakdown and changes the entire direction of the show.

Spider Man: Brand New Day -- Quit bitching, comic book fans. It's happened, let it ride. I didn't read the actual lead up, but...you know, just enjoy the stories, which are more fun than they've been since the beginning of Stracinskiwysisyasi's run. Except Anti-Venom. He's dumb. And you know that the status quo will eventually be restored.

Final Crisis -- Quit looking at it in the traditional crossover sense. Realize that evil has won. Go back and read it from issue one, spinoffs included. It's really rather damn good. This is DC comics on a grand scale. It's not heroes vs villains, or heroes vs cosmic threat, this is heroes vs gods. That tends to not end well.

Walter Simonson -- Man, I'm going back and reading the entirety of his run on Thor from the beginning, as I missed a lot of it growing up. I have the Beta Ray Bill stuff collected, but...wow. The whole thing was amazing, from his writing and pencils all the way down to the coloring.

Brian Michael Bendis -- I'm...bored...by his stuff. I think perhaps he's stretching himself too thin. He's producing material in such preposterously large quantities that it's diluting his talent, particularly in comparison to his work from five-plus years ago.

24 -- Good season start, let's see if it degenerates into formula. It's really weird to find yourself rooting for a total bastard who tortures mercilessly to get the answers he wants.

Lost -- The major hook for this season is a risky thing to build a plot around. It's working so far...

Konono N°1 -- Yes, god yes.

Oh, and yowzer  captured a lovely moment at Home of Gourmet Chinese Restaurant yesterday and made this fumetti of it before I sat down:



Yep, that's pretty much how the conversation went. The dude always hooks me the hell up.

Love,

b

Well, okay, this installment of So You Don't Have To actually took place two months ago, but I've finally gotten the photos in gear.

Kinda.



See, I had these in the cupboard for a while. Then chuckdawg  and sarahsam  were over one night, and I decided to have witnesses to their consumption.

And then I peer-pressured chuckdawg  into eating one. Many photos were taken, but that's where the suck part comes in.

Somehow, in my infinite dumbness, I managed to delete the initial photos of me eating them.

As such, the beginning of this photostravaganza is chuckdawg doing his part, then me eating them again after we...