It’s … Irish-Italian fusion cooking, or something.
Delicious. It’s delicious; let’s just leave it at that.
By the way … asking someone to pronounce the word “spaghetti” is a reliable way of testing whether or not they are a vampire.
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Octopasta!
Because there are two things in this world I cannot resist. One is octopus and the other is a decent portmanteau.
Spillwords Press publishes “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks”
I’m honored today to see Spillwords Press publish my poem, “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks.” You can find it right here.
Thanks, as always, to Chief Editor Dagmara K. for allowing me to see my work appear in such a wonderful online literary magazine!
My World-Famous Octopus-Swiss-Burger.
The trick to deliciousness is to pour the juice from the octopus can onto the beef while it is frying — preferably with Swiss cheese from the good people at Food Lion.
The last time I shared an octopus recipe online, somebody told me to “up my meds.” Sigh … like pearls before swine, people.
Update — I know that this does not seem like part of a heart-healthy diet. But it actually IS, because an octopus has eight hearts.
Throwback Thursday: this 80’s-era fake wood paneling!
People on the “I Found This Online” Facebook page are joking about this weird faux-wood paneling from the 1980’s. (It got 96,000 “likes.”) There is even a Reddit page about them! These walls were everywhere in my rural/suburban New York neighborhood.
I love them! Sure, you couldn’t hang anything up because you couldn’t get a thumb-tack in. But they’re dark and rustic, and they take me right back to the 1980’s. Gimme a basement with these walls, a plush rug, a television, an Atari 2600 and a stack of 80’s horror films on VHS ands I’ll be very happy. (Hopefully the movies will include 1986’s “Aliens” and 1982’s “The Thing.”)
Better yet, leave out a couple of liters of soda and some chips, and let me invite a couple of Longwood High School friends over.
Move over, pineapple pizza. It’s time for OCTOPUS PIZZA.
I am a man who is loathe to tamper with a classic. And every slice of pizza from Benny Marconi’s in Roanoke, Virginia is a damned artwork.
Still … they did not offer octopus as a topping. (I searched their website pretty thoroughly.) And then I realized that I had NEVER seen the most sublime of foods offered as a pizza topping.
Innovation built this country, and I have a flair for the culinary. So I went home and concocted the brilliance you see below.
Update — Damn. I just realized I wrote this whole post ignoring the potential for an “octupie” pun.
Hurricane? More like a hurrican’t.
And I’m thankful for that. There were none of the high winds and flooding in my neighborhood that people were worried about. And today the skies were sunny and blue.
Sure, we got loads of rain yesterday. But that just seems to be the baseline for this summer.
The World According to AARP.
Throwback Thursday: Hurricane Gloria Hits Long Island in 1985.
I am linking here to ABC 7 Eyewitness News for some clips about Hurricane Gloria hitting Long Island in 1985. I smiled when I heard people talking about the long-defunct “LILCO” (The Long Island Lighting Company). It was the region’s much-maligned electricity provider (and the company behind the doomed Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant.)
Anti-Heroin Chic publishes a photo of mine!
I am delighted today to see a photo of mine published in Issue 35 of Anti-Heroin Chic. 🙂
You can find it right here at this link. (Or, you can simply link through my name in the issue’s table of contents.)
Anti-Heroin Chic has consistently been the home of some of the most raw and compelling creative work that I’ve found online. I’m honored to see one of my photos featured there, and I’m grateful to Editor Roy Duffield for selecting it.
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