Hot Buttered Rum Cupcakes

Cupcakes, alcohol. What more needs to be said?

YUM

There are other lots of other great recipes on the site too. I'm especially looking forward to trying the Butterscotch Pudding recipe because Butterscotch is my favorite.

flickr

flickr.com is a good photo hosting site that a number of my friends use to do what is basically a photo blog. Abby, is especially talented with her camera and I think you should check it out. One example I particularly like is from the night we went to see Bobby Long last week at Hotel Cafe. This is the lights in the club


Here photostream is HERE.

Listen Up: Bobby Long

Went to HOTEL CAFE to hear a great up and coming musician named Bobby Long. Discovered his music randomly through someones video post on facebook and immediately fell for this talented Brits soulful lyrics and raspy voice. Bobby is a Singer-Songwriter who's skill and brilliance has grown over the course of his 2009 world-wide tour with his most recent performance even more engaging than the previous one I saw just a few months ago.




You can hear Bobby's music on his MYSPACE PAGE or check him out
on YOUTUBE.

I'm especially fond of Penance Fire Blues.



Photo Credits ABBY.

Go You, It's Ya Birthday!

In anticipation of my upcoming Birthday, I have been searching for ideas of things to do to celebrate, especially super cheap stuff. I found this site that lists things you can do or get for free in LA on your Birthday. Some of it you have to belong to their club or something, so if you want to get it you have to plan at least a month in advance to sign up so you can get it this year.

FREE IN LA ON YOU BIRTHDAY

If you live elsewhere in the US, then try HERE. Courtesy of Mr.Cheap Stuff

All Too True

I saw a witty bumper sticker the other day that made a simple, yet profound commentary on how all to often religion causes separation and conflict between us. How something with such a potential for beauty and communion can so repeatedly be used by humanity to shame, oppress and sometimes even 'excuse' the slaughter of our fellow man is beyond me. What is intended to uplift, too frequently is justification for the most despicable and low behavior we are capable of.


Is it evidentiary of the predictability of humans propensity for cruelty and conflict that religion is so regularly abused and misused to justify our wars and perpetuating abuses of power on our fellow world citizens, or is it a testament to the inherent potential for goodness and fellowship of man that a practice of worshiping a higher power can imbue that is the reason that modern organized religion even exists?

Fun Theory

Here's a website with cute videos about how making things fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. "Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better."

The vids how people taking the stairs instead of the escalator when the turn the staircase into a piano, or recycling when lights and sounds are added to the recycling receptacle.

The site is sponsored/ created by Volkswagon.

http://www.thefuntheory.com/

To Do: LA Day Trip

THE FORESTIERE UNDERGROUND GARDENS of Fresno, CA are the 40 year labor of love modeled after ancient catacombs.


Located at 5021 West Shaw Avenue in Fresno, California they are an unusual manmade creation built by Baldasare Forestiere (1879--1946), an immigrant from Sicily, over a period of 40 years from 1906 to until his death in 1946. The gardens, while subterranean, have many skylights and catchbasins for water.

There are a wide variety of hybrids and grafted trees, and the underground temperature helps guard against frost.

It is operated by members of the Forestiere family through the Forestiere Historical Center, and can be considered a spectacular and unconventional example of vernacular architecture.



Baldassare Forestiere was a Self - taught Artist, Architect, Engineer, Horticulturist and Builder.





The Forestiere Underground Gardens
are located at 5021 West Shaw Avenue
Fresno, CA 93722-5026
and are open March thru November
for tours.