Tawdry Talk

I made a Pork Wellington last night for dinner, wrapping the cooked tenderloins and brie and dried cranberries with puff pastry, then baking until golden. The Wellington was served to , , , , and (who, of course, declined). It was very rich. Served with it were some broiled grilled tomatoes topped with a gratin of homemade bread crumbs and parmesan cheese. Also, I stir-fried a bunch of whole green beans in a very hot chili garlic paste and orange juice sauce.

I’ve always been fascinated by Photomosaics, or a photograph that has been turned into a mosaic with other photographs as the tiles. I went on a search of the available software choices, and I decided to first try AndreaMosaic, a piece of freeware by a German software developer.

Last night, and I walked from the house up Haight Street all the way to Golden Gate Park and back. Walking that street after 10pm is a real eye-opener. All the restaurants and shops are closed, but the bars are all open, and people are walking the streets, hanging out, smoking cigarettes, engaged in drunken conversation, escaping the close air of the bars.

So, I had a phone interview yesterday evening with a company for a part-time web developer position. They are in Allentown, PA, but I’d be working out of the house here.

My crazy younger sister, Vel, is getting married next week to her man, Jim. She asked me to perform the ceremony. For a $43.00 fee, one can get a one-day permit to perform a marriage, like I did for my older sister, Erica, a few years ago. Well, apparently, one can also become ordained by The Universal Ministries by filling out an online form. And, it’s both totally legal and free!

So, now, I’m a minister for Universal Ministries as

The Reverend Paul, First Brother of the Fraternal Order of Cyber-Amish!

From FlyLady.net:

We do this assignment as fast as we can. Take a garbage bag and walk through your home and throw away 27 items. Do not stop until you have collected all 27 items. Then close the garbage bag and pitch it. DO NOT LOOK IN IT!!! Just do it.

Next, take an empty box and go through your home collecting 27 items to give away. Suze Orman taught me this in her book, The Courage to Be Rich. This will change the energy in your home and bring about good feelings. Every time I do this I feel better and my home is becoming decluttered in the process. As soon as you finish filling the box, take it to the car. You are less tempted to rescue the items.

Rule of thumb: if you have two of any item and you only need one, get rid of the least desirable.

I also sing a wonderful song as I am doing this fun job: “Please Release Me, Let Me Go” as sung from the stuff’s point of view.

Bruschetta done, and eaten - man, those Dore Alley returning bears are a hungry lot!

Man oh man, what a fun night last night at the Trash Film Orgy’s screening of Barbarellawas! I was lookin’ hot in my space-bear costume, consisting of my bear mask sprayed with silver hairspray and glitter, my TFO t-shirt, and some black spandex pants, black socks and shoes. I had had silver glitter fingernail polish applied to my bear-claws, and was feeling really great!

The crowd was a good sized crowd, with over 500 people there! There were tons and tons of people in costume, which made the atmosphere wonderfully festive, the lobby had some fun stuff, like the LIVE ALIEN AUTOPSY! and the BLACK HOLE, the WHEEL OF PAIN, and SPACE TRAVEL AGENCY!

While the crowd was in the lobby, partaking of the festivities, we were inside the house, scrambling to get through our final rehearsals of El Tigre Diable vs the Space Vampires!!! Man, what crazy pressurized fun! A Spacey Soap Opera with some fantastic wrestling! and many Big-boobed Space Hookers! and a Cyborg Orgamodroid that did an incredible dance number! I was pretty blown away by the complexity we packed into those few minutes of madness!

Afterward, we all headed over to Darin and Christy’s and watched the raw footage. As I keep saying last night, we should really try to package this as a TV pilot and sell it to Showtime or somesuch. It was pretty fantastic.

Didn’t get to sleep until 05:00, to the sound of the dawn’s bird chorus to lull me to sleep. Made the 12:40 train home, went shopping, got my picture taken by some nice photographer, and came home to make peach sorbet and creme brulee, and bruschetta and pasta. Well, I haven’t finished the bruschetta or pasta yet, but it’s in the works.

Damn you, Ursula Shultz! Enough with your fixation on mastadons!!!! You’re driving me mad! Mad, I tell you! Mad!!!!!!!!!!