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Blogroll update: guest of honor spot awarded!

February 7th, 2008 by Bill Corbett · 21 Comments

Thanks for all the excellent, quirky, and bacon-y suggestions for our first Blogroll Guest of the Month.

Edgewriter’s nomination wins the spot. The Films of Mitchell Rose (mitchellrose.com) feature short, funny pieces, some of which involve dance.

I wasn’t familiar with Mitchell Rose’s work before this. But I’m grateful to be introduced to it, especially since Kevin, Mike and I love to DANCE!!!!!!!

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    A shot from “Modern Daydreams 1: Deere John”

Check out “Case Studies from the Groat Center for Sleep Disorders”, “Modern Daydreams 1: Deere John”, or “Modern Daydreams 2: Unleashed” for a start.

The lucky Mr. Rose can anticipate anywhere from 0 – 2 extra hits this month!!

(Thanks, Edgewriter!)

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BACON UPDATE! If you live in the Boston area, you can join a Bacon Club! See article here. Excerpt:

    Almost everything on the table is finger food and going fast – bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with toasted almonds, and bacon-wrapped bananas roasted with curry powder and brown sugar. The bananas are spicy, smoky, sweet, tender, and crisp in the same remarkable mouthful. Hummus with bacon and green and black olives, spread on crostini, is being scooped up quickly by the 10 participants.

    Nicholson invited the initial group with a mailing that included the answers to obvious questions. As to whether participants could cook at her house, she wrote, “No. I accumulate a healthy amount of bacon grease on my own without any help, so please cook your bacon at your own house.” Her advice about the fare: “Bacon Club dishes may be low-brow, high-brow, trashy, weird, or exotic.”

Bacon Club: not just a great sandwich idea, it’s a way of life!

cheers,
Bill
(getting increasingly resentful that he’s not eating bacon right now…)

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21 responses so far ↓

  • 1 dignan on Feb 7, 2008 at 10:18 am

    Mmm, sounds like a tasty little club. Even though I do live in the Boston area, I doubt they’d let someone like me infiltrate their club with no real prior bacon experience aside from the eating of it. I think though, that maybe I could start a competing club, where friends make bacon-related items and bring them to me for me to sample and critique.

    Also, if no one else has recommended this already, I suggest checking out Jim Gaffigan’s bit on either Conan, Letterman, or Leno, where he did nothing but talk about bacon for his whole set:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVKJpkq-wNo

  • 2 Courtney on Feb 7, 2008 at 10:24 am

    When can we get to work on the Bacon National Anthem? I think this is important.

  • 3 Krunchy on Feb 7, 2008 at 10:36 am

    Boston area? Woohoo !!! Perhaps I can find a splinter group in Providence.

    I’m hoping that the bacon will dull my senses after the depression that is … the super bowl. Perhaps they’ll be enough bacon for the entire New England area? just don’t bring any Manhattan Clam Chowder.

    Krunchy

  • 4 MikeP on Feb 7, 2008 at 10:50 am

    I don’t live near Boston, but I am in a country that has a whole type of bacon named after it. That’s gotta count for something, eh?

  • 5 Tim on Feb 7, 2008 at 10:55 am

    Except for the fact that, in Canada, Canadians refer to “Canadian bacon” simply as “ham”.

    How that mix-up originally occurred, I’m not sure. Was a joke played on an American by some Canadians? Did the Canadians facetiously show the American a simple slice of ham and say, “Did you know that this is bacon to us? Yep, in Canada, this is bacon.” Then they laughed at the American when he walked away.

  • 6 wurwolf on Feb 7, 2008 at 10:55 am

    “No. I accumulate a healthy amount of bacon grease on my own…”

    Isn’t that an oxymoron?

  • 7 MikeP on Feb 7, 2008 at 11:33 am

    IANAB*, but I believe Canadian Bacon is actually just “back bacon.” How that differs from “ham” I have no idea, but I presume it’s called “back bacon” because “ass bacon” doesn’t have the same marketability.

    * I Am No A Baconologist

  • 8 Tim on Feb 7, 2008 at 11:52 am

    I’ve been toying with the concept of renaming some food product, giving it the “American” title. Something that really doesn’t fit with the item it’s describing.

    Maybe renaming common olives to be “American Strawberries”. I think that might work out really well. That way, if somebody orders a pizza with olives, they will need to use the new name.

    “I’d like a large pizza with Canadian bacon and American strawberries, please.”

  • 9 Bill Corbett on Feb 7, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Yeah, it’s like saying “I watch an enlightening amount of television on my own…”

  • 10 Conor Lastowka on Feb 7, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    * I Am No A Baconologist

    With punctuation, that becomes a bacon thieves haunting last words.

    I am…No! A Baconologist!!!

  • 11 Walter on Feb 7, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    What are there meetings like? Do they eat bacon or review bacon related products?

  • 12 Mr. Slick on Feb 7, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    Now if I join this “Bacon Club” will there be bacon related events?
    A bacon themed news letter?
    Will we explore bacon from around the world? (Except Canadian bacon, not just cause its straight HAM but because it’s Canadian)
    Can some PLEASE tell me?

  • 13 Natureboy (Ken) on Feb 7, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    I would like to take this time to formally withdraw my candidacy for Blogroll Guest of the Month. I think all of us need to support Edgewriter at this time and he has my full endorsement.

    Thank you for all of your hardwork.
    Mitt Natureboy

  • 14 Mr. Slick on Feb 7, 2008 at 1:43 pm

  • 15 Shawn on Feb 7, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Then again, can you ever have enough bacon grease? It has so many uses, aside from being delicious! Something strikes me as odd about that person. Might she be a bacon poseur?

  • 16 R.A. Roth on Feb 7, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    I got excited there for a moment, till I realized it was a club dedicated to actual bacon and not the game Kevin Bacon.

    I like to start with French generals of the Napoleonic Wars and work my way toward Kevin Bacon. It’s more like a hundred and seven degrees of separation, but that’s okay because I have no friends or life to speak of.

    Randy

  • 17 MikeP on Feb 7, 2008 at 4:59 pm

    Good point!

  • 18 edgewriter on Feb 7, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    I am glad that we share an appreciation for dancing with machinery and bacon. If only Mitchel Rose would dance with bacon. Now there is a short I could stand behind. Or cut a clip out of to use as my avatar.

  • 19 edgewriter on Feb 7, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Oh, and my favorite of the short films is Modern Daydreams 4. The cherry pickers dance was amazing. It is especially cool when you look into the distance and see that the world is populated entirely by people dancing on cherry pickers.

  • 20 Mitchell Rose on Feb 9, 2008 at 6:50 am

    “The lucky Mr. Rose can anticipate anywhere from 0 – 2 extra hits this month!!”

    Nope. 25.

    And my bacon dance-film is in the works.

  • 21 Bill Corbett on Feb 10, 2008 at 7:56 am

    Hey, thanks for stopping by!

    “And my bacon dance-film is in the works.”

    Huzzah!!

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