It’s sad that the following needs to be said over and over again.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
“I’m Gonna Be (500 miles)” by the Proclaimers is a fantastic song. How far would I walk to fall at your front door if I followed their lyrics? The two pictures below show just how far this would be. Sorry, if you’re outside the circle on the right.
“But I would walk five hundred miles”
“And I would walk five hundred more”
The red dot is Poway, California
“Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
“To fall down at your front door.”
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
I’ve been quite depressed because of non-stop health problems, including Covid and surgery.
Then a sweetheart, an angel of mercy, lifted my spirits by sending me this thoughtful gift. By the way, the gift is so me.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Wanda Wunder #42
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Was robbed
Rage, rage against the demotion of Pluto from full planetary status to dwarf-planet. Augh! May the demented astronomers who stabbed you in the back have lutefisk to eat for every meal.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Sometimes it gets a bit much.
– Paul De Lancey, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Losing his liberty and the freedom of his people to Julius Caesar was one thing, but when people mispell gall as Gaul, King Vercingetorix, King of the Gauls gets hopping mad.
– Paul De Lancey, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
My extrovert double
I’m stepping out! I’m going to walk around the block. This is the first time since I went to the hospital to have my gall bladder removed, that I am going outside, wearing street clothes, and moving along under my own power.
Baby steps sure, but still steps.
– Paul De Lancey, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
My family’s favorite brand of freedom
I love refried beans. They’re part of my heritage, my family’s culinary history, and an essential ingredients in the world’s greatest cuisine – Mexican. So you can imagine I’m picky about refried beans. They should not include jalapeno peppers. Nothing wrong about jalapenos, but are we such savages, that we cannot add our own fresh jalapenos to the beans? Are we to be denied the freedom to decide the exact, proper amount, perhaps none that day, to our refried beans?
GIVE ME LIBERTY TO ADD MY OWN JAPENOS OR GIVE ME DEATH.
(Not as exhilirating as John Patrick Henry’s famous slogan, but you get the idea.)
So, you can imagine my horror and outrage when the two major supermarkets only had refried beans with jalapenos. I had to order plain refried beans from Amazon. Yes, Amazon was freedom’s last line of defense.
Write your senator, gather your arms, and take to the streets. The apocalypse is at hand.
– Paul De Lancey, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Uranus is on the right
This blog derives from quite a similar blog called, “How Many Strawberries Will Fit in Uranus?” There, I calculated the number to be 9.626 * 10^27 strawberries. Afterward, my mind naturally thought of a way of confronting my arch enemy, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Why is he my arch enemy? He helped engineer the downfall of our beloved Pluto from planet to mere dwarf planet. Such a debasement of celestial status!
How would I confront Mr. Tyson? By attending a conference of astromers and engaging in the following conversation:
Me: Mr. Tyson.
Tyson: Yes, do you have a question?
Me: Yes, I do. Thanks (Always start out respectfully.) Did you know Uranus was originally called George?
(People titter. Mr. Tyson looks both annoyed and a tad worried.)
Me: Did you know that 9.626 * 10^27 strawberries could fit in Uranus?
(The auditorium erupts into laughter. The shaken man recognizes the absurdity of his views on Pluto. He withdraws his assertion that Pluto is a dwarf planet. The other astronomers follow his lead. They vote again. The magnificent Pluto regains its rightful place in the heavens as a proud, glorious planet. I’d then bask in the knowledge that I had righted a grievous wrong.)
Well no. In “How Many Strawberries Will Fit in Uranus?” I had used the figure of 6.83 * 10^13 cubic miles for the volume of Uranus. This was incorrect, Uranus’ volume is 6.83 * 10^27 cubic kilometers. The true volume of Uranus in miles equals 1.639 * 10^13 miles. This adjustment lowers the number of strawberries fitting in Uranus to 2.311 * 10^27.
Oh gosh, I’m ever so glad I didn’t cross words with Mr. Tyson back then. Eventually some astronomer would have checked my calculations and detected my error. He, probably Bob, would have published my error. The whole community of astronomers would have laughed and laughed at me. I’d have be mortified. The astronomer cabal would have taken my humiliation to dethrone Pluto, once again, to dwarf planetar status. And once again, life would have been bereft of joy.
But I didn’t see Mr. Tyson at such a conference. My goof has gone unnoticed. (Unless, of course, the learned man reads this blog.) Now, I have the opportunity to alter one line of my conference conversation to:
Me: Did you know that 2.311 * 10^27 strawberries could fit in Uranus?
And the conference will surely erupt into laughter. Pluto will once more be a planet. And I will win a Nobel Prize. Yay! The Sun will again shine over our lives.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
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