Oh, come on.

Dear USA Network,

I'm thrilled that you're showing the Indiana Jones movies today, but why the hell are you showing them BACKWARDS?

Sincerely,

Me

***

I ran up the house to find my mother's beef chow mein recipe, which I can't because my mother's cookbook is a mess and if I'd known about it before today I totally would have retyped the whole thing for her for Mother's Day (but I did find her apple pie recipe, YAY), and spotted her copy of Escape by Carolyn Jessop. So I plopped down on the easy chair (my brother fell asleep on the couch last night and was still there, he is SO my dad, do NOT tell him that, though) and started reading.

And then I stopped and put it back, because nine o'clock on Saturday morning when I just woke up is quite possibly the worst time for me to be reading a book about a woman escaping the FLDS.

This might be a little difficult.

Anybody know where I can obtain or have a good recommendation for a really ridiculously detailed street map of New York? Not on the Internet. I need a big fold-out map or a poster or something big that I can stick on my wall, and I need it scary-accurate. I want to set a story there, but I have a much easier time of it if I know it well, and the first step for me is usually a really good map. (Which sounds lame, but ... yeah.)

And if anybody's got any suggestions for books or whatever that give you a really good idea of what the city like without getting all touristy, that would help, too. I've been there before but not in, like, ten years.

Oh, Olivia.

And ... aw, boys.

When Google's parents left town ...

... the Internet had a party. (NSFW)

Apple pie!

My mom's apple pie recipe, for my own reference (and, you know, if anybody else wants it):

2 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup water
3 lbs. apples, peeled and sliced
3 pats of butter
cinnamon to flavor
1/2 cup sugar
milk and sugar for top of pie crust

( Rest of recipe )

I'm pretty sure all of that actually makes two pies -- she always makes two pies at once, so ... *shrugs* -- but I'll have to ask about that when she gets back from her trip, so I'll probably be altering this a bit tomorrow.

Awww.

more cat pictures

Yes. This is true.

Doctor Who

( The Doctor's Daughter )

I miss "America's Got Talent" so much right now.

EDIT: *squeaks* They're showing the very first New Who episode on PBS right now! Rose! Nine! YAY! \o/