ray’s post is awesome and genius, so i feel badly bumping it down the main page with something so lame. so this won’t actually appear until the afternoon sometime.

but here are a couple of silly links.

1. how to make bacon. yourself. at home.
john, i’m looking at you.

as detailed in “the rub” part of preparing it:

This is the step that I call the “Vegan in Hiding” step. If you suspect someone you trust might actually be a vegan, simply ask them to rub a sugar-salt-syrup mix into the still-slightly-hairy skin of a raw pork belly, while you sing “Rub It In” in your best Boris Karloff voice. This reveals all but the most repressed vegans.

yeah, im from the south. what’s it to you?

2. the is a biography on shel silverstein out.
i want to read this — not only did that man totally shape my childhood, knowing that he also hung out at the playboy mansion and traveled a lot might bump him into my shortlist of heroes.

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