Back In The Penthouse

Well, I'm back in Ann Arbor midway up a large building near a road.
Its a little on the lonely side here, but its still dang comfy. Can't say I missed it all that much, but still.
It should be noted that this is the first time, at least in my short stay in Ann Arbor, that I have seen so many parking spaces. Huzzah!
I think I'd like a pet of some kind. My lovely plants will have to do for now.

Coming Home

If only briefly.
The Max will be back in Troyland starting today until sometime in the evening on Tuesday. He's going to be measuring and plotting out his yard and retrieving some tax-related materials.
His train will leave ANN AHBA at about 1:30, lets hope he doesn't miss it!

Purgatory Pasta

3 Cloves of Garlic
3 Chicken Breasts
1 Green Pepper
2 Yellow Onions
1/2 Cup Olive Oil
Dried Basil


Take three chicken breasts and rub with salt, pepper, and dried basil. Cut into chunks and set aside.
Slice up two yellow onions, and dice three cloves of garlic and the whole dang green pepper.
Start 1/2 cup of olive oil simmering in a frying pan.
Add onions, and garlic.
Simmer, and smell the delicious flavoring. Add basil and pepper.
Enjoy the aroma, because it's all you are going to get.
Add chicken. Then get paranoid and add more oil.
Simmer until chicken is cooked through.
Then cook for longer because you are paranoid.
Remember the pepper and chuck that in.
Cook for longer.
Notice that you can no longer smell anything at all from the pan.
Serve over meijer egg noodles.
Eat and taste nothing.
Flavor with your bitter tears of failure.

Gargoyle Launches EAT THIS ISSUE Issue!

Well, it was a tough one, but the issue is complete!
The story is harrowing one. After taking a long break to get ourselves in top-notch writing shape, we made what we considered to be the best issue to date. The articles were great, we had tried out some new ideas in terms of content and had some truly incredible artwork. It was PDF'ed and sent out to the printers with nary a hitch.
And then, we got the issues back.
Oh man.
Firstly, it was printed on the wrong paper. At some point, we got confused with the proper weight of paper and told the printers 5lb lower than what we normally use. Now, that may not seem like a lot, but here's a handy comparison. Take a sheet of normal printer paper. Look at its sheen, and its pure whiteness expressing the infinite possibilities of what could be made with it.
Now get a paper bag, and put it on your head. Try looking at the paper.
Truth be told, its not that bad. It sure is a bugger though.
The worst of the news was that the color pages were misaligned when we laid out the issue. Meaning that 4 of the 8 color pages were printed in black and white.
After a marathon of phone calls and a mighty stressful weekend, we get word that a reprint will be impossible.
(Explative.)
There was only one solution: print 15,000 amusing inserts making light of the errors and staple them to the inside of the issues, on every faulty page.
Then, we affixed cabbage leaves to each issue and encouraged patrons to "Eat this comedy magazine!"
I'd like to take all the credit for the idea, but we stole it from the "Burn This Issue" from eons back in the Gargoyle past. That was, incidentally, the best selling Gargoyle in history. It also resulted in large piles of burning magazines on the Diag.
Here's our contribution to Garg-History: EAT THIS ISSUE.

Many thanks to Andy Romeo, Nichol _______?, and Di (Indecipherable), for their assistance today!