Archive for July, 2008

Poetry

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 31st, 2008 filed in food

Here is some poetry I wrote.  This is from college.
Fatty
You spend your days
trapped
by the reflection
in your funhouse glass eye.
You have a problem.
Angles
a slipshod sculpture of poorly-welded and rusty metal
in a case by the door
not on display
but ogled nonetheless
by bespectacled connoisseurs of nothing but their own opinions
who cluck their tongues
and tell you
what is and
what isn’t
artful
while they [...]

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Arts and Farts and Crafts - Saying Goodbye

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 31st, 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 drawing? A recipe? Whatever you’d like. [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie - New Car Galette

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 29th, 2008 filed in baking, food, tuesdays with dorie

Today I finally got my new car–a 2008 Honda Civic Hybrid.  This means a lot of different things to me.  First, I can give my mom back her pimpin’ Astro Van.  Second, I can feel free to drive where I want when I want.  Third, I can finally put the horrifying, traumatic car wreck behind [...]

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Arts and Farts and Crafts - The Wind Beneath My Wings

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 24th, 2008 filed in arts and farts and crafts, fiction

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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Tuesdays with Dorie - Cherry Something Cobbler

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 22nd, 2008 filed in baking, food, tuesdays with dorie

The comment turn-out was huge for my last TWD entry.  Maybe if I make stuff explode every time, people will continue to love me.  I just got back from a five-day vacation, so I have a lot of reading to do.  I’ll be meme-ing and reading your blogs in the near future.  At any rate, [...]

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Laser Meme

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 21st, 2008 filed in food

This is a very special moment in my blogsistence.  I’ve been tagged in a meme!  A MEME!  A meme for me.
My very close, personal friend MacDuff (hey, it’s not every day somebody memes you for a meme!) memed me, saying, “I like to think [Ugly Food for an Ugly Dude] is George Clooney’s personal blog, [...]

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Arts and Farts and Crafts: Stealing People

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 17th, 2008 filed in arts and farts and crafts, fiction, movies

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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Tuesdays with Dorie - Chocolate Pudding Disaster

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 15th, 2008 filed in baking, food, meme, tuesdays with dorie

Last week’s Double Crusted Blueberry Pie was DIFFICULT.  I was so happy to hear that this week’s would be chocolate pudding, a recipe I’ve made dozens of times.
1)  Open packet of pudding mix.
2)  Add milk and/or water.
3)  Shake shake shake shake shake.
Okay, so it’s bound to be more difficult than that, but not much, right?
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
I [...]

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Things I Love

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 12th, 2008 filed in baking, food, health, movies, personal

Black marble composition books.  I own boxes full of them, and they’re pretty much all empty.  There’s something nostalgic about these things.  I was forced to write “journal entries” in these during Sunday School when I was little.  I remember quite clearly answering a prompt about Moses with a longwinded answer about Moses Malone.  I [...]

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Arts and Farts and Crafts Week 4 - Naked in NYC

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 10th, 2008 filed in arts and farts and crafts, fiction

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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