Today in Bacon:

haricots verts (that means green beans) with bacon and chestnuts[recipe via gourmet on cbsnews]

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Still I Rise.

i have never heard a bagpipe without the hair on my arms standing on end.

i have never listened to ronald reagan or jfk speak without getting goosebumps.

likewise, i never expect to listen to maya angelou speak without a glistening tear in my eye, because her intellectual depth is fathoms deeper than any other in the world...

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

[WATCH maya angelou on the cbs morning show yesterday HERE]
[via jezebel, poemhunter]

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'The Bush Doctrine' Movie as seen in Times Square, decidedly NOT about Politics... [UPDATED]

{originally posted at 2:11pm}

saturday night live was great last night, and not just because of this sketch. every sketch was pretty funny for a change. but after rewatching the entire episode a second time, i realized that this palin/couric interview got the most laughs, and it got me thinking...

so i went back and watched last week's skit when tina fey was on the first time. after the crowd's initial reaction to her being back, it was just the typical laughs of "wow, what an idiot." however this week, you could hear a lot more belly laughs throughout the entire 6 minute dialogue. great for nbc, but really, really bad for the moose queen of wasilla. because i went and found the transcript from the actual cbs news interview, and found that most of the dialogue from snl was not written by their writers, rather it was taken directly from the transcript of the original interview! i snipped a few examples below, but you can check out the rest of the transcript HERE.

[transcript screen grabs via tv.spreadit.org]

**3PM UPDATE** 49 minutes later, jezebel agrees.

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"At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought."

unless you just crawled out from under a massive, moss covered boulder, then you've already seen this. if you have just crawled out from under said rock, i hope, for your sake, that that space is still available; because trust me, you don't want to see what you've been missing. if you are indeed still reading this, then you must be interested. so enjoy these two clips. as you are watching the first one from last night's cbs news, see if you can recall where you've heard the lines from sarah palin's teleprompter before. i knew they sounded familiar, but i couldn't recall why. then i found the youtube clip (@ 1:08). the proverbial light bulb instantly glowed it's blazin' 120 watts.

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sa-sa-sa-sarah pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-palin and da-da-da-da-danny sound way too much alike. do you think maybe we could get sarah to stutter read through a paragraph or two of "my sister fannie?" you know, for comparison purposes?

**UPDATE** apparently i'm not the only one that draws comparisons between sarah palin and billy madison. in a post about this palin interview video over on dooce, a commenter left the following:

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In Memory of my Popi, George T. Cobb.

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