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Blash-up: salad dressing ingredients/signs the graft isn't taking

For those unfamiliar with “blash-up” it’s short for “blog mash-up,” a term coined by the lovely Laura Leu when I was casting about for one and a debt is owed as well to my favorite book, For the Love of Cheese from the makers of Might magazine. I don’t even love cheese! But they used to do similar types of lists. Anyway:

Salad dressing ingredients/signs the graft isn’t taking

oil
vinegar
gangrene
salt
intense itching
garlic
what’s that smell? oh, it’s your hand
mustard
pain
dill
what type of blood did you say you had?
marjoram
can you feel this?
pepper
come back in two weeks and bring the hand

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TV this weekend

Greetings cherubs,

It will be impossible to turn on the television this weekend without seeing my loveliness especially if you are watching Red Eye tonight, Good Day New York tomorrow, Saturday Today in New York tomorrow or Good Day New York on Sunday. If you watch anything else there’s a good chance you’ll miss me, since I’m not on anything else. Okay then. WAIT, THIS JUST IN: I’m not sure Good Day New York is called that on the weekends but it’s on the local Fox channel (ch. 5) and it’s a half hour show about Global Warming and it’s on tomorrow at 6am and Sunday at 11:30am and my segment involves a worm bin. Truly!

Alison

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To serve dog

(from the TONYblog….)

This sign was up over the weekend at a Riverside Park dog run:

In related news, apparently they were saying “Hunan” not “human,” much to the disappointment of curious local gourmands. (thanks to Richard Koss for the photo)
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