Posts filed under 'Pleasure'

WordPress’ Surrealist Poetry Generator

So WordPress has this feature when you hover over a link it gives you related searches suggestions.

I went to my blog this morning to get a link to email to my friend. The related searches WordPress offered read like a surrealist poem. Here it is in a couple different versions. A prize goes to the person with the best theory about why a link about John McCain and evangelical politics was related to these items:

Rental car,
Foucault,
Sadomasochism,
Medicaid,
Wheat allergy. (more…)

Add comment January 22, 2008

Iowa Cuisine

“Bacon Pancakes.” That was this morning’s special this morning at Cedar Rapid’s Diner on First. I had to ask if there was a missing combo, but the waitress assured me that they actually put bits of bacon in the batter. I had to quell a certain structural objection (you can’t put a savory ingredient like bacon in a confection like a pancake), but once I thought about it, it made some sense. The yummy bacon fat would be absorbed by the batter, and I always did like when my syrup strayed onto my bacon’s salty goodness. Sadly, I had already ordered an omelette with a side of bacon. I thought about changing my order, but I’d been pushing my wheat allergy to the limit ever since arriving in the breadbasket of America. (more…)

1 comment December 22, 2007


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