Irish People Try Smash Burgers

 

Are Smash Burgers superior? 6 Irish people can't be wrong.

I myself have been trying to perfect smash burgers recently and it's been a struggle but I'm learning and making progress. The amazing thing about smash burgers is: it's pretty fool-proof - even when I've messed up everything, the burgers are still good.

The Mr. T Set

 

Popcorn in Bed - Tombstone

It's been a while since I re-visited "Tombstone." Pretty classic.

Looking at the chat, I'm surprised at how many people claim the line "I'm your huckleberry" is actually "I'm your huckle bearer."

A copy of the script is online and it says "huckleberry." Also, Val Kilmer confirmed that it's "huckleberry":

The proponents arguing for "huckle bearer" did not give a lot of justification for their position, youtube chats don't allow for a great deal of explanation, but one reason I heard repeatedly was "huckleberry doesn't make any sense." Which itself makes no sense. People really expect to listen in on conversation from the past and understand every word intuitively?

Idioms of the past usually don't make sense. "I'm your huckleberry" means "I'm the one you want," "I'm the man for the job." You can read about further examples of that in the old west here.

Led Zeppelin at Live Aid (1985)

 I'm increasingly getting the ultra-strange experience of remembering a certain blog post and finding that it actually doesn't exist. Many years back I got the full DVD set of Live Aid and made detailed notes for a blog post (or series of blog posts) about the whole thing. Today I find no such blog post exists. Where was I writing all those observations? What am I remembering? I'm not going to try again.

Regardless, one of the main stories of Live Aid was how Led Zeppelin reunited for it but when the time came for the full concert footage to be released on DVD (the one I watched), they refused to let their performance be included.

Remembering all of this recently, I wondered whether the footage had shown up on the web, and found that it had.

I don't post it here because it's great, but because of the historical uniqueness of it. "Rare" footage of a famous performance and all that.

Also on youtube is an overlong mini-documentary about the reunion - what went wrong and why. It's titled "Not Phil Collins' Fault: The Story of Led Zeppelin 's 1985 Live Aid Reunion." Check it out if you're interested enough to spend an hour.

Late Night - Baking with Bev Tanner

 

A standard late night baking segment.

How Donuts Are Made

 

I love donuts and I'm passionate about them. For my money, cake donuts are not donuts - there is only yeast. Everything else is pointless and a waste of time.

I'll throw something else out there that will probably affect nobody in the world. When I was in elementary school, we had a day where we were all sat down and shown a movie where someone invents a donut making machine that goes haywire and makes infinite donuts. The conundrum of the movie is literally that a machine won't stop making donuts and they're just piling up and they don't know how to stop it. The movie was terrible but the image of the delicious donuts, as well as the mechanization aspect, were enough to keep me interested and leave an indelible memory.

If you're looking for that movie, it's "The Doughnuts" from 1963 and you can watch it here. All the top youtube comments are people talking about how they also remember watching it in school.  And it is still terrible. But thanks to the above video I now know that the machine in the movie is making cake donuts.