This is how I like to see my tax dollars spent:

And hey – it’s only 3 light years tall … road trip!

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Too tired to put this up last night – it took 5 hours start to finish. I had forgotten that the stew has to spend 3-4 hours in the oven.  The finished product:

And yes – it was worth it. The result was delicious. The only change for next time is 2 pans for browning the meat – you can’t get a conventional stove hot enough to brown 3 pounds of meat at once. Complete recipe after the jump.
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Title: “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”

Author: Sarah Silverman

Rank: 67

Blurb: “When I was asked to provide text for an author page, I decided to approach it in a scholarly manner, because that’s what authors do. I looked to other author pages for inspiration, and I learned so much. For example, while Hemingway and Dostoevsky do not have their own author pages on Amazon.com, Paris Hilton does. And so does former teenage porn star and multi-tasking fellatrix, Traci Lords. Hemingway and Dostoevsky might be wondering, quite literally, ‘Whom do I have to blow to get my own author page?’ If someone had a cruel sense of humor, they might respond to Hemingway, ‘How about your head off? Oh wait — you already DID that!’ But such a remark would be in bad taste, and as a serious author, I’m above all that.”

Review: “It’s the e-mails between her and her editor that show the truth of the old adage that comedy is tragedy plus time.”

Customers Also Bought: “American Idiot”

Footnote: It’s just nice to see something in the Amazon Top 100 that isn’t a cookbook, a wingnut rant, a Twilight sequel, or Sookie Stackhouse.

The Bedwetter [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

When reading the article in The Oregonian linked to Nojo’s post about Talibunny’s visit to The People’s Republic of Eugene, I stumbled upon this gem of a photo of some of the tchotchkes for sale outside the Eugene Hilton.

It begs for an open caption contest. Pour yourself your cocktail of choice and let the creative juices flow!

[Photo by Thomas Boyd, The Oregonian]

[The Oregonian, written by Nojo college-rag colleague Harry Esteve]

In roughly five seven hours, thirty forty dollars worth of ingredients will become either Julia Child’s Beef Bourguignon or a smoking pile of culinary wreckage.  Unless I chicken out and order Indian. And after I clean the stove.

Bachmann sure can stir ’em up:

The twenty-six percent who believe Bush was a great president will always be with us.

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