Cheesy Broccoli-Chicken w/Rice

Please make sure to check out my new recipe at Cocina De Don Pedro!  Click on the picture and add this healthy recipe to your collection.

What a Hot Mess: Street Perfomer Punches Annoying Guy In The Face

There are few things we shouldn't do in life. Be a jerk, being a jerk, and jerking people around.  Oh, and mess with street performers.

In the following clip, a street performer can only take so much prodding until he punches an annoying guy in the face.  LMAO, What a Hot Mess!

A Case of the Brain Farts?

C'mon, who hasn't had a Brain Fart at one point or another? Hell, I lose my train of thought at least once a week. LOL.  But seriously though, have you ever been in a middle of a conversation and before you knew it, the conversation was over and you had no foggy idea what the conversation was about? - That's a Brain Fart.

Think Dory from Disney's animated classic, "Finding Nemo" - that's a serious case of the Brain Farts.  LOL.

If you've spelled a word a certain way all your life, and then all of sudden you can't remember how to spell it - that's a Brain Fart.

Below are 13 of the most common Brain Farts known to mankind.  How many have you experienced?  I'll be honest, I've experienced every one. LOL.

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Cyanide and Happiness: Dad Fight

 LMAO - this is not how it would work between two Gay dads!

Saturday Morning Coffee Break: Help Straight Couples From Getting Divorced and Hating Their Children

If you're waking up on a Saturday morning and I'm on your Facebook news feed, you're probably familiar with my Saturday Morning Coffee Break series.  Every weekend I ask my readers to grab a cup of coffee and join me for a short gay film.  It can range anywhere from 2 to 15 minutes, or maybe more.  Regardless, I try to post films focusing on being in the closet, coming out, falling in love, hate, abuse, bullying, and/or parenting, but most importantly, videos representing who we are in some form or another.

In today's issue, we come across a video that was written and posted by YouTube vlogger, Brandon Muller.  He and a few of his friends produced an anti-marriage ad that is quite humorous and I had to share it. 

In the following Ultimate Anti-Gay Marriage Ad, a couple confronts the horrific consequences of same-sex marriage, while their daughter worries if mommy and daddy will still love her if this sacrilege is allowed.

While it is an advertisement for a cause, it is in essence a short film.  Check it out.

How Not To Get Stuck Next To Someone That Sucks

Pure genius.  You've always had this problem. You arrive at a dinner party and don't know where to sit?  If the table is a 4 person, circle it's pretty simple. But if you're talking about a 6 or 8 person rectangular table, things start to get difficult.  How do you keep from getting stuck at the lonely side of the table, or sitting next to someone you particularly don't want to sit next to?

Well, Alex Cornell has given us some tips on choosing the right seat.  Check out his infographic and explanation:

One of the most complex social situations you will encounter is the 45 seconds that elapse while deciding where to sit for dinner at a restaurant. Your choice should appear natural, unbiased and haphazard if executed properly. Timing is everything.

These 45 seconds determine how enjoyable your next 2 hours will be. Once the pieces start to fall into place and people take their seats, your choices narrow. People sit, seemingly at random, and if you don't take the appropriate measures, you're inevitably stuck at the least interesting end of the table.

4 Person Circle: This is the ideal setup. You are safe sitting in any seat. Regardless how interesting everyone is, you pretty much can’t go wrong. Note: as the diameter of the table increases, so too does the importance that you sit adjacent to someone you like.
4 Person Square: This configuration (as opposed to two chairs on each side) is less fraught with problems. Something to watch out for is diagonal conversations, i.e. breaking the into two parts and getting stuck with the more boring of the three tablemates.
6 Person Circle: How loud the restaurant is determines how important it is that you claim a middle seat. A quiet space allows for cross-table diagnoal talking, and generally one conversation. A loud space however forces multiple conversations and less diagonal.
8 Person Rectangle: To get one of the interior 4 seats, you need to time your approach expertly. You can’t be first, else you’ll be expected to file to the end. And you can’t be last, else you’ll be stuck with the least interesting seat at the table. Timing is everything.
7 Person Rectangle: It’s very easy to get screwed in this scenario. While it may appear like you can sit anywhere except the ends, this is not so. You are at risk of sitting next to the lonely end-seat, which requires you to speak soley to that person for the duration of the meal.
2 Tables of Any Size: You’re fucked. Regardless of how you time your approach, you will inevitably choose too soon. Lament as the other table’s attendance crystallizes into what is clearly the superior group. Sometimes it’s best to visit the bathroom while seats are chosen, so any seating disasters are the result of chance, and not your own miscalculation.

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Expectations vs. Reality

Here's a few things we usually expect, but in reality it's the other way around.  LMAO.  Hope you enjoy.

Expectation: Taking a Self-Pic

 

Reality

 Expectation: Bursting out of the pool

Reality

Reality Check:  What He Really Looks Like

Cutting your own hair

OMG Hilarious! Sue Sylvester Belts Out Nicki Minaj's Super Bass

Talk about an epic performance last night on GLEE.  If you didn't get the chance to see the "Feud" episode last night, you missed a really fantastic performance by Sue Sylvester.  Well.... the feud was between her and Blaine, but who was paying attention to him after Sue belted out "Super Bass" by Nicki Minaj.  OMG, it was hilarious, but oh so good!!!  God, I love her!

You can check out the video here - you'll definitely enjoy it if you're a GLEE fan, or two you're a Nicki Minaj fan.  Mariah Carey & Blaine, not so much.

 

Post Secret Fridays - Issue 108

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

On Back of Card:  I refuse to become a mindless brain-eater

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Kiss of the Week - Issue No. 020 - Louise Erickson

"Kissing may not spread germs, but they certainly lower resistance."
~ Louise Erickson

What Happened After the "Ever-Afters" of Ariel, Jasmine, Belle and Pocahontas?

My Facebook is overrun by this viral video that was posted merely two days ago.  So in order to satisfy those who haven't seen it.  I've posted it on my blog.

So who needs YouTube when you got PAINT, right?  At least that's what the protagonist, Jon Cozart calls himself on YouTube.

If you want to know what happened to Ariel, Jasmine, Belle and Pocahontas after their "ever-afters", Jon will sing it to you in this cute parody of Disney animations.  Enjoy.

How to Fold a Fitted Sheet

How many of you have tried folding a fitted sheet?  Don't lie, you've tried it, got pissed, and you just crumbled it up into a ball and stuffed it into your closet or dresser somewhere.  Am I right?  Yeah, you know I am.

But seriously though.  Here is how to fold a fitted sheet.

Instructions continue after the jump...

To Boldly Go Where No Peep Has Gone Before

In the spirit of Easter.  At least for those who celebrate it. :-)

The Waterfall Swing

Now, why didn't we have one of these growing up?  It's pretty darn cool.

Designed by dash7design, the waterfall works by water recirculating through 273 independently controlled solenoid valves at the top of the structure to create a wall of water. This water starts from a collection pool on the ground and is pumped up to a 4" distribution pipe that feeds the solenoids. Rotational encoders mounted on the swing axis gather information about the angle and speed of each swing. That information is sent to a computer that predicts the action of the rider. The computer then creates a hole in the wall of water, allowing the rider to swing through without getting wet.

OMG Hilairous! - Petroleum Jelly

OMG, I saw this on Facebook just a few moments ago and had to post it. LMAO!!!!

A man escapes from a prison where he’s been locked up for 15 years.

He breaks into a house and inside, he finds a young couple in bed.

He ties them to a chair. While tying the wife to the bed, the convict gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom.

While he’s in there, the husband whispers over to his wife, “Listen, this guy is an escaped convict. Look at his clothes! He’s probably spent a lot of time in jail and hasn’t seen a woman in years.  I saw how he kissed your neck. If he wants sex, don’t resist, don’t complain. Do whatever he tells you. Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you. This guy is obviously very dangerous. If he gets angry, he’ll kill us both. Be strong, honey. I love you!”

She responds: “He wasn’t kissing my neck. He was whispering in my ear. He told me that he’s gay, thinks you’re cute, and asked if we had any Vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be strong honey. I love you, too.”

Nobody Forces Us To Eat Anything by Ryan Lopez

So on October, 2011 I offended someone with one of my blog posts, Foods That Will Make You Fat - Issue No. 25.   

I think I gave a pretty decent response, but suffice it to say, I discontinued the series with the hope of bringing it back someday.

But before I bring back the series - my partner, Ryan gave a response I'd like to share with my readers.  I thought it was great.

"nobody forces us to eat anything, unless you consider the peer pressure to 'be with the group and not a hater' when it comes to eating with family, friends or co-workers. Even so, most restaurants will nowadays at least try to offer something healthy to everyone that is knowledgeable about their health and cares to not over indulge.  Still, if I was raised in a family that never ate healthy and this food is all the food that I knew, I might not be aware of what is healthy and what is not. Granted, it's not hard to see how the sh!t on this particular blog, "Foods that will make you fat," will undoubtedly make you fat, but at the same time until people really started saying something about the health concerns that fast food brings with it, these restaurants had no healthy options. If they did they more than likely were not that healthy to begin with. 

My point is this: While there may be some frivolous lawsuits out there, lawyers aren't cheap and time is money, especially when you consider the expensive attorney you'd need to hire to try and take on a fast food corporation as well as the time it'd take for this case to go through the numerous courts just to possibly get anywhere with any results whatsoever. It's not easy to just go and sue and get money. The people that decided to bravely take this journey on are mainly interested in having their message heard and making change. Take the infamous hot coffee incident that, for the most part, everybody has heard of but no one truly knows the details. A woman at McDonald's spills hot coffee on herself, sues because the coffee is too hot, wins and makes money off her own mistake.

Sounds horrible right? 

But what if I told you that the coffee was so hot that it seared the flesh off her bones. When the poor woman got to the hospital the doctors could see the internal muscle and bones inside the two gaping holes in her legs that the hot coffee had made. She needed multiple skin graphs to fix the injury that her insurance wouldn't cover and that she couldn't afford. So she sues McDonald's for two reasons: To not only get the money that she needs to pay back the debt she owes on her surgery, but to also get McDonald's to lower the temperature on their coffee so this suffering could not happen to anyone else. 

While suing McDonald's because you're fat sounds outright ridiculous, it'd help get them to change what they offer so at least there's something somewhat decent to eat there now for all of us health conscious people out there. But what about those that aren't and all they can afford to feed themselves, as well as their children, is a quick fast food meal? At least those places now give not only alternate food options but possibly what their food products now contain regarding calories and grams of fat. They didn't do this on their own. Somebody had to have the bravery to stand up to them and say something. So next time you may thing about criticizing the "lazy, good for nothing" plaintiff that's suing somebody, or consider standing up and applauding tort reform (lawsuit reform) please check out the documentary, "Hot Coffee". Yes, a plug at this point doesn't sound too good, but it really opened my eyes to what's happening to the courts in our country and how it doesn't look too good for our future unless we stand up and say something right now. Change does not happen by itself, it takes people to make it happen, as well as a whole lot of bitching. I appreciate what these people have done for us, and we all owe them a big thank you. I won't forget it, will you?" 

- Ryan Joseph Lopez