January 8, 2004

Featured Song: "Fight the Good Fight" by Triumph. At work we will frequently listen to the gold rock station off the satellite dish. While this does have somewhat of a predictable downside, what with the all the Rod Stewart they play (of course, any Rod Stewart is just too much), and the disturbing way that Meatloaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" will pop up every six hours or so, it does result in hearing some great songs that one would likely never hear on conventional radio. "Fight the Good Fight" is an excellent example. If you like late '70s prog rock ala Rush or Styx, this is something you should definitely check out.

Featured Food: Turducken. A turkey, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with the chicken. The ultimate holiday feast for people like me who prefer chicken, but feel they should have turkey at Christmas. I find the very notion somewhat disturbing, but intriguing at the same time. And a little scary, since something made of this much meat, even when completely deboned, will be quite large, in the order of 20 pounds or so, and can feed upwards of 30 people. I had never heard of this until recently, but apparently this is an old cajun recipe. Now every time I turn around mention of this food product is hitting me in the face. I even heard a radio commercial just before Christmas for a cell phone dealer who was giving away 100 of these abominations.

Featured Word: Fangoriously. Okay, so this is not a real word, at least not yet. I predict this will be the "bling bling" or "metrosexual" of 2004. Well, maybe not, but one can dream. Fangoriously comes from Homestarruner.com, in particular one email about a Kids' Book. It is an adverb used to describe how a gelatinous monster would consume a person. One could infer that this implies the use of fangs and plenty of gore, or possibly just a reference to Fangoria magazine.

Featured Website: Urbandictionary.com. My quest (and by quest, I mean quick visit to Google) to find out if fangoriously was a real word lead me directly to this site. It's an online dictionary where you can submit your own definitions for words. Some of these definitions are useful; others are highly entertaining. Check it out, but be warned — as the definitions are user defined, some of them contain strong profanity.