I am over at The Music is the Message today, with a post about some of the guilty pleasures in my music collection entitled, well, Guilty Pleasures (Emphasis on the Pleasure!).

Check out this awesome Candy Sushi from tif.ca. It looks like a lot of fun. Oh, and you should also look at the Guinness Stout Gingerbread Cake.

I saw Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008) last night, the documentary about Philippe Petit's illegal rigging of and walking on a high wire between the Twin Towers in 1974. What a crazy, megalomaniacal bastard! But really, it's a great film, and Philippe is a highly engaging story teller. His band of accomplices are no slouches either; I highly recommend it (no pun intended).

All the Recipes

• Bear's Eggplant Parmesan

• Black Bread (of the Sea)

• Homemade Butter

• Vegetable Curry and Nan

• Bear's Catfish Kiev

• Bear's Oatmeal Chocolate-Espresso Cookies

• If Things Were Perfect

• Mushroom and Three Cheese Tomato Sauce

• Bear's Cinnamon Bread

• Chocolate Brownies

• Sausage Pie

• Pain Ordinaire, the Stuff of Life

• Irish Apple Cake

• Was it Lonliness That Brought You Here?

Recent Calamities

• Walking in the Fields of Mars...

• Continuing Adventures in Fermentation

• The Music is the Message

• This Hard Land

• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

• Turn On Me

Favorite Calamities

• Chronicles of the Old Man
• Room 712, The Apache