Archive for June, 2008

Tuesdays with Dorky (and the temple of chocolate)

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 28th, 2008 filed in baking, food

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 [...]

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Arts and Farts and Crafts: Week 3: Heroes

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 26th, 2008 filed in food

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. [...]

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Arts and Farts and Crafts: Week 2: Outdoors

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 20th, 2008 filed in arts and farts and crafts

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 [...]

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Arts and Farts and Crafts Week 1: Writing - “Tar and Feathers”

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 12th, 2008 filed in arts and farts and crafts, fiction

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 [...]

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Inspiration

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 10th, 2008 filed in fiction, food

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: [...]

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Ugly Movies!

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 5th, 2008 filed in food

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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