this photo makes me happy down to my very soul

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Ahahahahahahahah! That is so amazing on so many levels. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

This also is amazing: Restaurant Review: Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square. It is so hilariously mean, I cackled. Here's a representative quote: "Did panic grip your soul as you stared into the whirling hypno wheel of the menu, where adjectives and nouns spin in a crazy vortex? When you saw the burger described as “Guy’s Pat LaFrieda custom blend, all-natural Creekstone Farm Black Angus beef patty, LTOP (lettuce, tomato, onion + pickle), SMC (super-melty-cheese) and a slathering of Donkey Sauce on garlic-buttered brioche,” did your mind touch the void for a minute?" HAHHAHA. I love Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, but man, the review's thorough takedown of Guy Fieri is a thing of beauty.

College Humor: Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends (VIDEO) also made me laugh.

In sadder news, RIP Hostess. I can't remember the last time I ate a Twinkie. Which might explain why they are going bankrupt, I suppose. "Twinkies, the unpretentious, freakishly versatile and seemingly indestructible snack pastry dubbed “the cream puff of the proletariat,” died Friday of complications from economic reality."

In a moment of culinary ambition, I bought a can of pumpkin, but now I realize I have no idea what to do with it. I want a side dish meal type thing, not a dessert. Any advice? And know that there is no way I am making my own ravioli, so that is out. Link me to recipes, if you would be so kind.

The writing staff of The Vampire Diaries are creative geniuses. They have managed the triangle so well, with every iteration and change seeming very organic to the moment and to the characters. Stefan and Elena's breakup was logical, yet still very sad. Of course it came to this. Stefan can't be the one teaching her, because he never learned controlled feeding, and he hates being a vampire. She isn't the girl he loved, and they both know that. I am a little sad (and nervous) for Jeremy's sake, but I guess he was never going to have a normal life anyhow. I'll need to rewatch the scene with Creepy Professor, but I am guessing the dude in that origin myth is what the map leads to and is also somehow the cure? And Bonnie, girl, YOU ARE IN HIGH SCHOOL, how are you not creeped out??? I hope she gets her powers back so she can brainhurt him like she did vampires if he gets fresh. Caroline playing Klaus continues to delight. And Damon, still in mourning for his friend. ♥

Eeeeeeeee! Haven has eaten my brain. Duke this season is giving me heart-eyes. But I am worried now that he'll interpret how the 1955 thing went as meaning that you can't fight fate. The time travel stuff was well done, I thought, but still can make my head hurt, like when I think about where that doubloon came from. I've seen some speculation that Nathan fathered the Colorado Kid, and I guess they did cut away from the beach adventure, so there is no proof either way, but I for one did not think they had sex. I loved that Nathan told Sarah that she could trust Duke. I know it's not Audrey's style, per se, but I just really really really want the drunken heart to heart with Nathan and Duke. The Colorado jaunt was a beginning in the right direction, but they all have a lot of air to clear before it is too late. I can't wait for answers! I hope some come this season. I really wonder why the Guard doesn't work with Audrey. They are both helping the Troubled, so what happened to make them not seek her out when she returned? I am just genuinely enjoying watching a show where I am nowhere close to having figured it out yet. Also MOAR NATHAN IN THAT HAT, KPLSTHX.

I continue to enjoy the delicious cheese of Beauty and the Beast, but I also recognize the show is not actually that good? Here's one improvement that should be easy to make: stop having people in the cases say things to Cat that are So On The Nose about her and Vincent. I can see the parallels without you shining a spotlight and buying a flashing neon sign. Oy. But I like the characters and the non-cop parts of the show, so I have no intention of stopping watching. It's just staying firmly in the realm of guilty pleasure. I was surprised at how quickly they dispatched the Muirfield danger, or at least that manifestation of it, in part because they had Peter Outerbridge. Perhaps he is less famous in an objective sense than he is to me on the Canadian Actor Bingo card in my mind? Vincent's blackouts seem like a potentially fruitful storyline. Perhaps during his next fugue state, he'll lose all his shirts and have no idea where he put them? I, for one, would not mind.