An update on what I am eating.

Today I added cinnamon and chili powder to my hot chocolate, thinking I should fake some Mexican Hot Chocolate since I certainly can’t afford to buy it ready-made. I’m pretty sure there were choirs of angels singing in my kitchen. It could use a bit more chili powder, but that might be because I have A Problem. (Just as some people think that all shortcomings can be resolved with the addition of More Cowbell, I feel most cooking dilemmas can be solved by adding More Chili Powder. Or cheese. The hot chocolate certainly didn’t call for cheese.)

Cheese. That’s the other thing I’m eating a lot of. What can I say, I like to pack on the pounds before the holidays. I’ve also been eating the potato in all of its forms, and gallons of soup. English cuisine is about as varied and healthy as  any good consumer of popular culture might assume, though I’m certainly no health-nut and am coping admirably. Maybe the food is the reason why English girls seem to think clothing is a bad idea when going out at night; shivering burns more calories.

Excuse this nonsensical entry. I’m practically asleep.

I’m nerdy in the extreme, whiter than sour cream

Another new, incredibly shitty, header. The other one was too dark, but I think this one might misrepresent the type of nerdiness readers can expect. Plus you can see the pixels. Those two factors lead me to believe that this header won’t last long either.

Any nerdy images that you’d care to recommend for me?

Always protect your banana!

My computer is malfunctioning and it takes me about 20 minutes to maneuver my mouse to the point where it can accurately click anything, but this was too good not to share. It was an ad in my Gmail inbox, because Google knows me and it knows what I like. So this ad was selected especially for me, as it were. That just makes it even better.

http://www.safebanana.com/

From the FAQs:

Q: Bananas are not all the same size and shape so how can the Banana Guard fit them all?”

A: The Banana Guard was specially designed to fit the majority of banana sizes. Highly curved bananas can be slightly straightened without harm to fit the Banana Guard. Curved, straight, big and small bananas will usually fit inside the Banana Guard keeping them safe at all times.

It’s pretty much as great as it sounds.

And I wonder why people find my blog with pornographic search terms.

Wahunsonacock wore WHAT?!?

The title of this entry is the title I wish I could give my first essay of grad school. Unfortunately in England, or perhaps just in the University of Leicester Department of Museum Studies, we have to title our essays with the question that was set. Thus my title will be: ‘Choose one object now in a museum. Describe, analyse and critically discuss the object’s biography and social life since its production.’

Somehow it just lacks snazz in comparison.

The object I’m doing is this little beauty, aka ‘Powhatan’s Mantle’, an object that is so exquisitely documented that it is referred to with quotation marks in half of the official literature. I saw it in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and became kind of obsessed with it, mostly because I’d never heard of it before and the way it’s presented in the museum is as if it’s 100% real, no doubt about it, Powhatan sooo totally wore this like OMG. I was originally doing an essay where I was grappling with the big questions like ‘What is material culture?’, but then I saw that I could do this and immediately reverted back to academic type. I get to write an essay about cabinets of curiosity and cultural imperialism and Jamestown. If only I could have worked Catch-22 in there somewhere (I admit, that would have been a long-shot) we might have hit all the essay g-spots.

I think it’s time for a new Nerdgasms banner. I’m sure I only think this because I need something else to do to procrastinate now that I’ve written this entry. Still, stay tuned. Or just come back in a month, which seems like a more efficient use of your time.

Edit: Or you could just look now, as apparently I felt compelled to change it immediately. It’s a bit dreary, but yay cabinets of curiosity!