Mystery Meat

Mystery Meat

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An Ode To Walmart

Where else can you walk in and pick up bread, milk, a 25 pound dumbbell, some goofy looking boots, two tubes of fabric glue, all in the same place?

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Bigfoot and the Epic Scientific Fail

Apparently this is what passes for science these days: a photo of a fursuit in a refrigerator and a big press conference announcing they're going to be doing some tests.

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Legend of the Snake Hooptie

The Chef shares with you a story of the greatest car ever spotted in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

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The Chef Is A Snob

The Chef admits that he is, in fact, a snob. But it's not for the reasons you think.

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Red Pistachios -- WTF?

The Maitre d' is naive, and knows little of food dye.

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The Legend of Cornshirt

The Cornshirt: coming soon to a white trash wedding near you.

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Five Immutable Truths of Indiana Jones

There are certain things you can expect from an Indiana Jones movie, and here they are.

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Four Reasons Iron Man's Tony Stark Fails as an Engineer

It's not that he's not brilliant and charismatic. It's just that he's more of a mad scientist than a mad engineer. (Spoilers ensue.)

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The Top Ten Reasons Firefly/Serenity Is Better Than Star Trek

The Chef shares one of his peculiar obsessions: that little show about a spaceship. No, not the goddamned Enterprise.

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The Maitre d's Guide to Cosplay

The Maitre d' creates one costume, and apparently declares himself enough of an expert to write a whole friggin' article on the subject.

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The Grilling Time of Year

Some meat poetry from The Chef and The Maitre d'

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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

The Maitre d' visits his parents, and discovers how charming small-town suburbia can begin to turn into a trashy redneck mess in just a few months.

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The Ultimate White Trash Wedding

The Chef shares his wedding plans involving a Pigeon Forge drive-thru window, an Elvis impersonator, and one of those t-shirts with a tuxedo printed on the front. Only in Tennessee are such things considered high class.

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In Praise of Eliot Spitzer

The Chef expresses admiration for the man who has shown us what it truly means to be a public official: Eliot Spitzer.

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The Greatest Law and Order Series Ever Created

Combining two random posts he made in the same day, The Maitre d' comes up with the most horrible greatest idea for a Law and Order series ever devised.

At least it would sell to the otaku crowd.

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Vitamin C: the modern world's greatest placebo?

This article has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This website is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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The Maitre d': Mr. Potato Head?

The Chef has often claimed that my head looks like an uncommonly large potato. So now I'm asking you, loyal reader, to weigh in on this controversy. When you see my head, do you feel the odd urge to wrap it in foil, put it in an oven, fill it with sour cream, and feast on its delicate flaky insides?

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Ten Years Ago...

As we approach the end of 2007, the Chef ponders how things have changed in the last decade.

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The Chef Fucking Hates Traveling

The Chef recounts his holiday travels. Warning: This involves Northwest Airlines, so it has lots of profanity.

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Miracle On Whatever Street The Buffet Is Located On

A heartwarming tale of holiday cheer featuring The Chef, The Maitre d', and some hobo dressed up like Santa Claus.

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Digitally Inking Sketches with Inkscape and GIMP - Part 2

The Maitre d' continues his tutorial by covering the transition from Inkscape to GIMP. Also, a runthrough of what nifty things we can do in GIMP to make our image look awesome.

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Digitally Inking Sketches with Inkscape and GIMP - Part 1

Or, how to create your own Maitre d' the cheap and easy way!

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The Chef Goes to AWA

The Chef goes to Anime Weekend Atlanta. The horror...the horror...

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