Food porn: Baking & Pastry edition

From BuzzFeed, 17 Baking GIFs That Are So Satisfying They're Borderline Erotic.

Yes, please.

That last one at the bottom of the page looks like an actual sponge. Just sayin'.

If you don't see it right away, just keep looking

Via Ma'am: Mature and Awesome Moms on FB. Seriously, even if you don't have kids, check out their photos. They are hilarious.

Edgar Allen Pooh FTW

Be sure to take notice of the tail pinned to the wall.

Words fail me

I never understood the whole parkour thing, but this...I've already watched it three or four times and I can't stop laughing. Ladies and gentlemen, Jurassic Parkour!

I think it's the floppy T-Rex head that got me.

Then, I found this:

Make sure you have your volume turned up for the second one - it's funny enough without sound, but with the music...OH. MY. GOD. GENIUS!!!

I don't know who these people behind these videos are, but they're absolutely brilliant.

Sure, it sounds soothing, but DAMN!

The part I don't understand is how this appears to have been done inside, and not say, out in the middle of a big deserted parking lot somewhere.

Burn, baby, burn:

The next video is going to be of this person's house going up in flames.

H/T to Obama is Officially The Worst President In History on FB.

It's funny cuz it's true: Culinary edition

Not an April Fools joke - via BuzzFeed Food on Facebook:

The struggle is real.

I highly recommend clicking on the link and checking out the comments. They are hilarious.

Here come the NHL playoffs...

...and here comes a blast from the past, in more ways than one.

The amazing and gifted Miss Kate Smith, belting out "God Bless America".

Sadly, more like God help America these days.

Donations Confidential

He wanted to keep it a secret. Bravo, Demon Dog, bravo.

US author gives to attack victims.

From the article:

AMERICAN author James Ellroy, who wrote L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia, is reported to be donating his royalties from 2015 in France to victims of the Paris attacks of November 13. 

I wish he was still in L.A. I don't know why he moved to Denver, but in the last couple of articles I've seen about him, he seems happy there.

Happy Easter!

Based on my Facebook feed today, people are celebrating Easter in a variety of ways. Images of faith, humor, food, photoshop, bunny ears, nostalgia and lots of love are peppering my FB. In no particular order:

These next two are from Silence is Consent's gallery:

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Hank Phillippi Ryan on writing yourself out of a corner

Hank Phillippi Ryan is a best-selling author and human award magnet. In her day job as an investigative reporter in Boston, she has won a staggering thirty-three Emmys along with a boatload of other awards for her reporting and novels. Here she offers 8 Ways to Write Yourself Out of That Corner. There's some really great advice here - take a look if you're looking for help getting unstuck.

Jackie Fox on the complicated psychology of trauma

I don't know much if anything about the Jian Gomeshi case, and I'm fortunate that I've never been the victim of a violent crime, but I found this to be an amazingly well-written piece on the complicated psychology of trauma and how people don't understand how and why victims process things the way they do in the aftermath of their attacks. Jackie Fuchs, aka Jackie Fox of the 1970's girl band The Runaways (who went public last year with her story of being raped by the band's manager) discusses What the Jian Gomeshi acquittal can teach us about victim blaming.

Like I said, I'm not knowledgable about this case so I can't say whether or not the acquittal was warranted, or if a serial rapist just got away with his crimes. But the idea of having been raped, then having to sit in a courtroom with your attacker just a few feet away and be ripped to shreds in front of everyone by a lawyer whose job isn't to defend the innocent, but to keep their client out of jail - guilty or not - must be beyond agonizing. Not to mention adding horrifying insult to an already decimating injury. And then to have to sit there and see them set free...I can't imagine what that must do to a person, both emotionally and psychologically. It's just beyond words. And that's on top of the trauma of the attack itself. No wonder victims are reluctant to come forward, or wait years to do so. Who wants to set themselves up to be victimized again?

Definitely take the time to read Jackie's post. It makes so many astute observations that I can't even begin to list them all here without just copying and pasting the whole thing. Really amazing stuff.

Someone actually came up with this idea

And by someone, I mean some sick fuck(s). Pardon my language, but this is just unbearably cruel: Dog intentionally drowned at Mother's Beach in Marina del Rey.

You can't turn around in MdR without seeing someone with a dog. I'm hoping it wasn't a local, not that it makes a difference to this poor pup. From the sound of those Facebook posts, if they really want to punish the idiot(s) responsible, just turn the public loose on them.

If you have any info about the puppy or his tormentor(s), L.A. County Sheriffs would be very interested in hearing from you. They can be reached at (310) 582-6000.