Come - Thing a Thong...

Photo courtesy of grendelkhan. Thank you. A thong contest is a beautiful thing! Sometimes, the music is so loud that nobody will notice your lisp. I wonder what moron came up with the idea to put an "s" in the word "lisp", anyway. Even though I find a lisp cute and/or funny, I would never make fun of the person having a lisp. Especially, if they are depressed about it. I made a somewhat confusing lens, playing around with the words "thong" and "song". It might be a fun experiment to see how the search robots react to this. I can't wait! A Thong is a Beautiful Thing

Aging Rock Star - I'm talking about me...

Before this year is over, I wanted to look back - 40 years ago... I played in a semi-professional Top 40 band in Munich, Germany. Most of our gigs were for American soldiers stationed in one of the military bases in our area. We played rock, soul, R & B, you name it. We didn't play very good, but everyone drank a lot of beer and that made our music sound acceptable, I guess. Our band was called 'The Penny Dreadful": Josef - drums, vocals Harro - bass, vocals Juergen - keyboards, vocals Bernd, Andy, Rolf, Harry (one at a time, over the course of 4 years) - guitar Achim (Chef Keem) - keyboards, saxophone, percussion, vocals Earlier this year, my former band mates organized a reunion. They all played together again - without me, I'm in Texas now. My friends sent me pictures. I post one here, next to a black & white image from a contact print of our band promo material. It's amazing to look at these side by side, and wonder what happened with 40 years' worth of time. I'm looking at our old band pictures and it feels like it all happened...well...40 years ago. (In case you were wondering - I'm the second from the right in those old prints.)

2008 Giant Squid Awards - May I ask for your vote, please!

Would you please take a minute - wait, in all honesty, it'll take about 5 minutes - and cast your vote for the 2008 Giant Squid Awards? I am humbled and honored by my 3 nominations: Best Baking Lens - "Best Peach Cobbler Recipe" Best Lensography - "Chef Keem :: My Lensography" Giant of the Year - "Chef Keem" What can I say? There are so many deserving lenses and lensmasters - it's hard to make a single selection. On the other hand - you know what you like. And if that happens to be one of my lenses, or my personality for the Giant Award, I'd appreciate your vote in deep gratitude. Main thing - vote. Please. Thank you.

Food-testing is not as easy as you might think!

Take pop tarts. Which ones taste the best? Whoa! Not so fast! There are a few waaay more important things to consider before you can settle on the yummiest of them all. How about aerodynamics, hah? Wouldn't you want to know just how far your flatbed muffin ejects before you can burn your sticky fingers on it? Flammability? Don't you dare waving me off, pal! Recent statistics have shown that far more kitchen fires could be prevented if people would eat their breakfast foods in a semi-frozen state. Your toaster should be toast! Anyway, I want you to go and check out this hilarious page about the best Toaster Pastries. Be safe.

My AGASWEET has a new face!

About 4 years ago, I created AGASWEET flavored agave nectar - a low-glycemic and diabetic-friendly natural sweetener made from the juice of the agave plant. Last year, the "biggies" approached me - Whole Foods market, Central Market Texas, etc. I decided to play in the big leagues - and it almost bankrupted me. It takes money to make money. But when do you make money? That's the question... To make a long, nasty story short - I found a young and energetic couple of entrepreneurs as new business partners. We improved on the flavorings and designed a new label for my AGASWEET. Things are looking up again. Come by for a visit, would you? The New AGASWEET Flavored Agave Nectar

What do "real men" do when it's cold outside?

They stay in...inside their pink, blue, or black fuzzy bunny slippers. That's right. What could be better than a lazy Sunday morning without any pressure whatsoever, and there's time to play around in the kitchen, harassing your small appliances? Nothing, for a chef. Now you see what I look like when I'm not in the glaring lime light of public attention. (Which is, most of the time!) I poke some fun at myself in this lens. And, I offer you some cool fuzzy large-size bunny slippers for men and for sale. So you can, too. (Poke fun at yourself, that is.) Fuzzy Bunny Slippers

Two questions, turkey slaughter, and Squidoo tips!

Seemingly unrelated - these crossed my mind, today. Why do they advertise "restaurants with an extensive wine list" in a radio commercial? With traffic noise in the background it sounds like "expensive". Why do men go to strip clubs to watch sports and eat cheap steaks? The Gov should have chosen a different background: For a collection of my Squidoo Tips go to my lightly humorous sub-lensography.