Lindsay Lohan, 24, is all over the news because she's a celebrity drug addict.
Justin Allen 23, Brett Linley 29, Matthew Weikert 29, Justus Bartett 27, Dave Santos 21, Chase Stanley 21, Jesse Reed 26, Matthew Johnson 21, Zachary Fisher 24, Brandon King 23, Christopher Goeke 23, and Sheldon Tate 27 are all Marines that gave their lives this week.
There was no mass media mention.
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Two fine words...
Hot Doug's is an "encased meat emporium" (aka hot dog joint) in Chicago. I've never been there, but I've seen the place on TV. He's quasi-famous for this saying on his wall:
You can even buy a Tee Shirt with the saying on it:
Without casting any aspersions on the hot dog or sausage and with all due respect to Doug, I can think of two much more fine words in the English language:
FREE BEER!
Something I read....
I read somewhere there are few things funnier than the way dogs look while they're lying on their backs.
Since I endeavor to give the public what they want, here is a picture of my dog lying on her back!
Some good Dog Toppers
Willie's Dawgs Red Onion Sauce (Recipe Courtesy of Willie's Dawgs)
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 onions, sliced
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 tablespoons white vinegar
11/2 teaspoons paprika
3/4 cup of water
2 tablespoons sugar
1tsp hot sauce
½ tsp salt
½ tsp black pepper
In a medium-sized pot, heat the vegetable oil over medium heat; add the onion slices and garlic and sweat for about 5 minutes, until opaque and tender. Add tomato paste and cook for another 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Add remaining ingredients and bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, for about 40 minutes. Serve over hot dogs.
PEPPER RELISH
12 red peppers (sweet)
12 green peppers
6 large onions
1 1/2 pt. Vinegar
3 tbsp. salt
2 c. sugar
Grind peppers and onions as coarse as possible, pour boiling water to cover. Let stand 5 minutes. Let it drain a while. Dissolve salt and sugar in vinegar. Boil all ingredients for 20 minutes. Place in sterilized jars and seal. Makes about 5 pints.
Coastal Coaster, part 3
In the third and final installment of Coastal Coasters, I present a video of me riding the Galaxi Roller Coaster at Palace Playland in Old Orchard Beach.
This video is shot from the car in front of me-you can see my five year old hiding throughout the ride.
If you want a laugh, pause the video during the descent segments. I am making some seriously goofy faces!
You can tell I don't like roller coasters.
Enjoy.
Talk Like a Pirate Day
Drew from Benspark commented on our trip to the Trolley Stop and mentioned that today, September 19, 2010 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! This little "holiday" has existed for 8 years now.
Here's a video from the International Talk Like a Pirate Day website.
Celebrate with the world!
Don't forget to say "AAARRRRRrrrrrrrr!"
Coastal Coaster, part 2
As I stated the other day, I don't like roller coasters. On a recent trip to Palace Playland in Old Orchard Beach, I rode the Galaxi Coaster. It's the last seaside roller coaster in New England.
This is a video of me riding the coaster. It's shot from inside the car I am riding in. You can see how uncomfortable I am, but I did it for history!
Enjoy.
Coastal Coaster, part 1
Revere beach in Revere, MA is touted as the country's oldest public beach. There used to be an amusement park with a roller coaster there too. In fact, there used to be quite a few shore front amusement parks in New England. Places like Wonderland Park (at Revere Beach); Nantasket Point and Paragon Park at Nantasket beach in Hull, MA; Salisbury Beach had a park (parts are still open, but no coaster); Plum Island in Newburyport, MA; Bass Point in Nahant, MA; Rocky Point in Warwick, RI; Pleasure Beach and Seabreeze in Bridgeport, CT; Walnut Beach Park in Walnut Beach, CT; and Orchard Beach Amusement Park in Old Orchard Beach, ME.
There's only one seaside amusement park left in New England: Palace Playland in Old Orchard beach, Maine. I used to love going to amusement parks as a kid. I am not so crazy about it anymore. Mrs. Hotdogman still loves amusement parks, especially roller coasters. She once rode Superman (now called Bizarro) at Six Flags New England 20 times IN A ROW! I rode Superman once and cried like a little baby the whole time. Being hurtled through space in an open car at high speed is not my idea of fun. It's not good for my back either.
It was with some trepidation that I agreed to ride the Galaxi Roller Coaster at Palace Playland in Old Orchard Beach, Maine on a recent visit there with my young daughters. They begged me to ride and even the 5 year old said she'd ride it if I did. Since it is the LAST coastal coaster-it's right on the beach- in New England, I agreed to ride it, twice, for posterity.
We took three videos of the ride: one is a rider's view, one is a view of me riding the coaster from the car ahead of me, and one is a side view of me riding the coaster.
The first installment is the rider's view video. The other videos will be shown in the days that follow.
Enjoy!
Steamers
Since I wrote about Quahogs, I felt I needed to give their cousins-the soft shell clam or steamer, some equal time. Soft shell clams live in the sand and mud near shore and you need to dig for them.
After an hour or so, I had my basket nearly full. I left it in the water to let the clams clean themselves out.
This is a lot of clams!
Into the pot....
...and all steamed up, ready to eat.
DELISH!
Archie's is on a Roll!
A Hot Dog Truck reader who used to come to my truck ended up buying his own truck! Archie's on a Roll was recently featured on The Hot Dog Truck's sister site, Hot Dog Stories. It seems Archie's is contending to get on The Great Food Truck Race: You can vote for Archie's on a Roll HERE.
NECN stopped by his truck the other day and interviewed owner Alan "Archie" Archibald. The other guy they interviewed was MIA when Little Miss and I went looking for his Hot Dog Truck- then I saw it for sale on Craigslist!
VOTE FOR ARCHIE'S!
Peace Prize
Irena Sendler
There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' ... She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family.
Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
Recently, Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not selected.
However, Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming and Barack Obama won for a speech on peace.
Powerful message, especially the "cartoon." Let us never forget!
63 years later...
Stuffed Quahogs
Quahogs (pronounced KO-hogs) are a variety of clam that can be found in abundance on the shores of New England. We have a clamming license and we pluck a few dozen quahogs whenever we're at the shore. These aren't steaming clams, they're best eaten raw or in what we call "stuffies." Smaller quahogs can be eaten raw, but the larger ones are better suited to making "stuffies" or stuffed quahogs.
Rather than shuck the clams, I drop them on the grill on medium high heat until they open.
Then I clean out the meat...
I chop up a whole onion, a green or red pepper and a few stalks of celery.
I'll need these in a little while....
Chop up the clam meat and put it in a mixing bowl.
Saute the onion, pepper and celery.
Toss the saute in the bowl with the clams and stir it up.
Add a couple of cups of bread crumbs...
and empty the contents of the jar of salsa into the bowl.
Add two eggs to bind it all together and mix everything together.
I've put my shells on wax paper because I am going to freeze them.
Spoon the mixture into the shells...
VOILA! These "stuffies" are ready to go. You can pop them in the oven at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or freeze them.
Here they are all frozen.
These frozen stuffed quahogs are bagged and ready for the freezer.
They make a great appetizer or "football snack." Just take out the frozen "stuffies" and bake for 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees. They are DELISH!
Obama Bummer End of Summer
Ever since President Obama came to Martha's Vineyard for a family vacation, we've had a MAJOR N'or Easter, a hurricane, school has started again and the economy is back in the crapper.
Go back to Washington and DO SOMETHING!
Theme to "All in the Family," with extra mustard
Back in the "olden days," as my kids call them, we had one black and white television in our house. It got five channels- NBC, CBS and ABC networks and a couple of local UHF channels. We could sometimes get a third UHF channel if we fiddled with the antennae enough.
In the days before cable and multiple TV's in homes, watching a good TV show was a family event. One of my family's favorites was "All in the Family." It used to be on on Saturday nights and my little brother and I would watch and laugh until our sides split. Even back then, I did a pretty mean Edith Bunker impersonation.
My brother rather reluctantly agreed to perform the song for our kids with him singing Archie's part and me reviving my Edith part.
What follows is a video documentation of two grown men being very silly. Watch little bro try to keep from laughing (when the song ended there was much hilarity).
So, at the risk of alienating my little bro... I give you the Theme Song to "All in the Family."
View the real Theme to All in the Family HERE
Walmart vs. The Morons
My dad and mom like to send me emails-you know, the ones that circulate all over the internet. Most of them are dopey, but every once in a while, something strikes a chord. Here's the first installment of mom and dad's email. Now if I could only get them to turn on their cell phones...
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger in sales ($415B) than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined ($327B).
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart has the largest sales of any company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
This should be read and understood by all Americans Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!
To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature,
It is now official --
You are ALL corrupt morons:
a. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
b. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
d. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
e. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
g. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every major "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ??
MAYBE WE OUGHT TO KICK YOUR EGG-HEAD BUDDY BUMS OUT OF OFFICE AND HIRE WAL MART TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT ???
WAL MART SEEMS TO KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS.......WHY DON'T YOU GUYS JUST ADMIT IT'S WAY BEYOND YOUR PAY GRADE, AND QUIT?
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