Preach, yoga instructor, preach.
Yoga instructor #18
– 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.
May you have the best holidays ever. May 2025 be the most wonderful year ever. May you coexist with all relatives and colleagues. May your favorite food go down in price. May it only rain and snow when you’re indoors. May nobody block the aisles with their shopping carts. May traffic be astoundingly light whenever you need to drive. May lutefisk be outlawed. May every day be Taco Day.May you feel my love for you.
Here’s a Christmas card of my brother and I from 30 years ago. 🙂 As you can see, I improvised an improvement.
– 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.
And here it is
I have had my Honda HR-V for over 20,000 miles. In that distance, I’ve had:
1) One of the safety systems take control of the steering wheel and veer the car sharply to the edge of an overpass. Thank goodness, I successfully fought its attempt to move me away from a semi and over the edge of the bridge onto the road below. (Now, this can be a difficult onramp.) There’s little approach before entering the right lane of the freeway. Sometimes there’s a semi still in that lane. This involves driving briefly on the shoulder. It’s a bit tricky, but not difficult for an alert driver.)
The decision for this problem was utterly simple for Honda’s safety system. Avoid the semi and instead slam the side of the bridge and quite possibly plunge to the road below.
2) My windshielf cracked due to a tiny, tiny pebble.
Me: Okay, fix it Honda.
Honda: Not so fast, we need to order the part.
Me: Okay, order the part.
Honda: Not so fast, we don’t even now when we’ll get it. It could take montns. (I’d be driving all that time without a windshield!)
Me: Is there anything you could do?
Honda: You could call Honda national to see if they have it and if not, ask them to expedite the windshield as an emergency measure.
Me: Since you’re Honda dealership, could you call Honda National?
Honda: No. you have to call national.
It went rather downhill after that.
3) Slamming on the brakes for no apparent reason. I was not going faster than the flow of traffic and there were no cars in front of me, only to the left.
I’m sorry this is not a funny post.
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 feel Inigo Montoya’s pain.
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.
Watch Earth’s plates separate.
And they are:
1) The wait in an urgent care’s waiting room on a Tuesday morning after Labor Day. 2,700 people were there 15 minutes after opening. (All the people who would have gone on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday stampeded the facility today.)
2) Road repair. (The jury’s out on this one, but I suspect plate tectonics is a little slower.)
3) Watching a foreign move because your good looking date wanted to.
4) The line at the DMV.
5) Red lights. (There’s always a direction of traffic that gets massively favored and one that gets screwed.)
6) Any line when you have a bad back.
7) Reading the last 200 pages of War and Peace. (Again, another close call.)
8) Parties where you are the only introvert, don’t know anyone, and have no ride home.
9) And there are no snacks to eat and no animals to pet.
10) Recovering from Covid.
11) Watching a pot of water and waiting for it to boil.
12) Games of Risk(tm), Uno(tm), and Monopoly(tm).
– 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.
My stunt double
This will be a short post. I had yet another doctor’s appointment today. Traffic was bad. I got quite lost. Good thing I left with plenty of time. This time the visit was for my ear canal that got severely blocked during Covid. The good news is the surgery for the ear seems less likely. The bad news is that the hearing in my ear has gone downhill. I think Covid affected my taste a bit. At any rate, it’s been a struggle since the end of April and I’m more than a bit worn down. I feel like I’m standing up to big waves on the beach.
Sorry, this post wasn’t funny.
– Paul De Lancey, Ph.D.
Face it, life imposes all sorts of restraints on us. Such as picking up our litter, not running red lights, or shooting someone. Most people are against murder. Just say no. So restraining from killing people is not much of a hardship. But other restrictions such as speed limits where there’s no traffic, or the guff you get nowadays when you want to put two spaces at the end of the sentence, seem harder to bear.
So, why voluntarily impose rules on ourselves?
Why closet your innermosts desires or joys?
Why ride a motorcycle that looks like the traditional motorcycle?
Ride a chopper that says, “This is me, at last this is me. I love it.”
Ride a motorcycle that looks like a grasshopper.
Live large.
You need to see #40
– 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.
Will he like his taco?
Got up, showered, and dressed. It’s important to do this in the right order.
As usual, I did not wake up refreshed. Had a coffee drink.
Went grocery shopping.
Went to exercise class. Getting fit.
Drove home. It was so slow due to huge amounts of traffic and road repair sites that took a major freeway from two lanes to one.
Balanced check book.
Had left overs.
Decided to go back in time to debate philosophy with my man, Plato. However, I speak no ancient Greek and his modern-day English is quite rudimentary. We went to a toga party. Let me tell you, Plato rocks.
We shook hands and went our separate ways. I did give him a taco before I left. That might affect history. I don’t know.
– 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.
I had planned to patrol for scouts from Venus. I had been anticipating their imminent arrival. Unfortuately, I had to see a doctor and then do errands. As we all know, the Venusian invaders didn’t land today. Perhaps my sternly worded message, “Now, see here,” scared them off. Perhaps they liked the chocolate chip cookies I left them in a space bubble so much, that they refrained from attacking. Or maybe, just maybe, they found something more entertaining to do at home. But whatever the reason, they didn’t invade and I, for one, am happy about that.
Meanwhile back on Earth I saw a doctor for the bursitis in my shoulders. One shoulder was so bad that it disturbed my sleep. The shots to help, hurt a fair amount, but only for a short while. I did errands and suffered through backed-up traffic. At one point, there was no remotely reasonable route how that didn’t involve inching past road repair. Does the county coordinate? Are there any road repairs that have more than one worker actually doing anything?
Anyway, I’m exhausted.
Please refrain from invading Venus. I think the crisis has passed.
– 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.
Could this happen?
Deep Thought Man #13
– 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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