Archive for June, 2008
Tuesdays with Dorky (and the temple of chocolate)
Gold, I tell you! Everything I touch turns to gold! I’ve been winning grand awards left and right!
I recently won a contest at Tuesdays with Dorie, giving me a free baking cookbook (and a seat among the hallowed TWD blogroll). TWD is a baking event. Every week, a recipe is picked from the [...]
Arts and Farts and Crafts: Week 3: Heroes
Arts and Farts and Crafts is a weekly artistic challenge. Every Thursday, a new prompt will be posted here on Ugly Food for an Ugly Dude. Then, you will create some sort of media based on the prompt. Is it a rhyming couplet? A ten-page story? A photograph? A drawing? A recipe? Whatever you’d like. [...]
Read More..>>Arts and Farts and Crafts: Week 2: Outdoors
Arts and Farts and Crafts is a weekly artistic challenge. Every Thursday, a new prompt will be posted here on Ugly Food for an Ugly Dude. Then, you will create some sort of media based on the prompt. Is it a rhyming couplet? A ten-page story? A photograph? A [...]
Read More..>>Arts and Farts and Crafts Week 1: Writing - “Tar and Feathers”
We’ve decided to take a more “mixed media” feel to our artsy-fartsy challenge (once called “Writer Wrong”), so I’ve decided to call it “Arts and Farts and Crafts” in reference to one of my favorite films.
Next week’s medium is PHOTOGRAPHY. The theme is OUTDOORS. If anybody would like to play along, create some [...]
Inspiration
I am writing again. And not silly blog-writing, either (although that will continue at my normal, leisurely clip). I’m going back to my training in creative writing and actually putting things down on paper.
I was inspired, in a way, by a lot of these weekly/monthly food challenges on the Internet (see especially: [...]
Ugly Movies!
Click on “Ugly Movies” on the right (or on this link) to see my constantly-updated reviews of movies. They’re just one-paragraph baubles, but it keeps me writing and maybe it will keep you infotained.
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