Posts published during December, 2006

Dudes of the haus, this post is for you.

See I know that Christmas can be difficult. You want to impress your lady—really thank her for all the nice things she’s done throughout the year. You want to say “gracias mi amor” for being your baby, for being your rock, for being the one who keeps you in clean cotton underpants.

After all, undies are important … unless of course your name is Britney Spears, in which case they’re just optional.

…but I digress.

So yeah, you want to get your lady a special gift, but you probably don’t know where to start. Bath salts, gift cards, candles—it’s all to cliché.

Want to get your sweetie something she’ll never forget? Check out this instructional video!

Because her favorite package this year is bound to be yours, enjoy:

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Last weekend I attended a Christmas party. And at that Christmas party, the hostess said, “Eat, drink and freak dance with strangers.” And it was so.

Then the hostess baked a killer brie, served some sumptuous stuffed mushrooms and cooked the cutest baby quiche. Merriment—like our peppermint martinis–flowed freely. And it was good.

The party I attended was a BeanTown bash thrown by the lovely Erin Cooks and her charming boytoy (and our hannihaus admin), SORM. It was good to see Son of Marx again and it awesome to talk tortellini with the fabulous Miss E.

… Because that girl knows her tortellini … And she also knows her desserts.

After enjoying the decadent goodness of Erin Cooks’ famous peanut butter bon bons all weekend, I’m finding it hard to be without. I e-mailed my favorite bakerella this afternoon.

“Erin,” I wrote, “I need some chocolate-covered peanut butter balls right.effing.now.”

“So sorry,” she replied, “I tossed them this morning. Those little things are evil and probably 500 calories a piece!”

I was really bummed. She didn’t need to trash the sweets! Erin could’ve brought her balls to work. After all other people do it all the time.

Granted, those other people are called men.

But I digress.
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Not only can Erin cook, she also can click–a camera that is. Peep her pics stalkerazzi:

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Nucking Futz

So one thing Bro Bro and I did during the Tofurkey Day holiday was drink some California wine. It was awesome because wine is my new hobby.

Yes I’ve decided I need some so-fiss-ti-kay-shun in my life. Mostly because I recently figured out that Angel’s daily declaration of “Hänni, crack kills!” is not a commentary on narcotics and necrosis, but rather a heads up that my butt’s hanging out my blue jeans.

And apparently this is a common occurrence. Ref: my coworker who told me today—after discussing the Angel ass-crack epiphany—”oh honey, we’ve all seen your undies.”

And then I decided to change my name to Super Mario, as it’s obvious I have a serious case of perpetual plumber’s butt.

But I digress.

So yeah I’m just learning about wine. But Bro Bro has been studying the vino for a while because he lives in California. And Californians love the wine.

You know what else Californian’s love? Almonds.

Did you know 80% of the domestic crop comes from California? It’s true. I read that on CNN. There was an article about how some dude got busted for stealing 400K worth of almonds.

That’s a lot of freaking almonds. I don’t know why you’d steal that much, except if you wanted to make like 100 million almond joys or a massive vat of marzipan or something.

In any event, the dude who stole the goods is probably going to jail for being an almond thief.

Which is only slightly better than being a grape smuggler.

What is a grape smuggler, you ask? Well it’s not someone who sneaks around in vineyards. It’s a dude who wears his pants so tight his Christmas bulbs splay sideways.

And while you can’t be jailed for grape smuggling, a crime is clearly committed—a crime against fashion.

I personally think almond thieves and grape smugglers should be treated with equivalent recourse. After all, they’re practically the same thing.

Both are reprehensible. And both deal in nuts.