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algHappy birthday to me! To celebrate, I'm having an Alias marathon. Pizza for lunch! And the cake I've been dreaming of for months: Smitten Kitchen's Big Crumb Coffee Cake
Oh, this cake is so great. First of all, I almost always find coffee cake to not have enough crumby topping. This cake has a lot of topping! Secondly, I almost always find coffee cake to be too sweet. This cake has a nice tangy rhubarb in the middle -- but even without the rhubarb to cut the sweetness, it's not all that sweet. And there's ground ginger in it, which cuts through the sweetness even more (but there's not any kind of overwhelming ginger flavor; just a nice hint of spice). It is my new go-to cake for everything, I think -- and I bet it would be amazing with strawberries, blueberries, peaches, whatever. Anything. Except watermelon. It probably wouldn't be very good with melon.
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Meh. The shows I watch never have the right people kissing, so I don't always pay a lot of attention. Like, for example, check out White Collar -- Peter and Neal never kiss! Neal never kisses Elizabeth, either. On Alias, Anna and Sydney never make out in a hallway; on The Office Pam ends up with Jim (ugh) instead of Karen; on Stargate Atlantis there is no John/Rodney/Teyla/Ronon happily ever after foursome. Despite going off into the sunset together, Ray and Fraser never lock lips on Due South ("buddy breathing" decidedly does not count!) and even in that wonderful Anne of Green Gables miniseries, there's no Boston marriage, or even youthful experimentation -- and Diana ends up with boring old Fred instead of wonderful Anne-with-an-E.
I repeat: Meh.
Plus, what matters to me isn't the kissing, but the talking. The characters. The story. I'm not watching TV for the kissing, people!
But you know what? I did like Parker and Hardison, up against the emergency exit door, in Leverage, season one, "The First David Job" --
"We should pretend to make out!"
"Can we talk about the pretending? That was nice..."
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(Too bad Eliot wasn't there, too. Daaaaamn.)
Oh -- you know what? I went away and thought about this for a while, and have decided that I am also a big fan of Burke and Cristina's first kiss in the first season of Grey's Anatomy. I mostly hated Burke, and I 100% hated the way their relationship was written 99% of the time, but this is a pretty hot kiss:
Other days...
Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
Oh, this cake is so great. First of all, I almost always find coffee cake to not have enough crumby topping. This cake has a lot of topping! Secondly, I almost always find coffee cake to be too sweet. This cake has a nice tangy rhubarb in the middle -- but even without the rhubarb to cut the sweetness, it's not all that sweet. And there's ground ginger in it, which cuts through the sweetness even more (but there's not any kind of overwhelming ginger flavor; just a nice hint of spice). It is my new go-to cake for everything, I think -- and I bet it would be amazing with strawberries, blueberries, peaches, whatever. Anything. Except watermelon. It probably wouldn't be very good with melon.
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Meh. The shows I watch never have the right people kissing, so I don't always pay a lot of attention. Like, for example, check out White Collar -- Peter and Neal never kiss! Neal never kisses Elizabeth, either. On Alias, Anna and Sydney never make out in a hallway; on The Office Pam ends up with Jim (ugh) instead of Karen; on Stargate Atlantis there is no John/Rodney/Teyla/Ronon happily ever after foursome. Despite going off into the sunset together, Ray and Fraser never lock lips on Due South ("buddy breathing" decidedly does not count!) and even in that wonderful Anne of Green Gables miniseries, there's no Boston marriage, or even youthful experimentation -- and Diana ends up with boring old Fred instead of wonderful Anne-with-an-E.
I repeat: Meh.
Plus, what matters to me isn't the kissing, but the talking. The characters. The story. I'm not watching TV for the kissing, people!
But you know what? I did like Parker and Hardison, up against the emergency exit door, in Leverage, season one, "The First David Job" --
"We should pretend to make out!"
"Can we talk about the pretending? That was nice..."
click to embiggen
(Too bad Eliot wasn't there, too. Daaaaamn.)
Oh -- you know what? I went away and thought about this for a while, and have decided that I am also a big fan of Burke and Cristina's first kiss in the first season of Grey's Anatomy. I mostly hated Burke, and I 100% hated the way their relationship was written 99% of the time, but this is a pretty hot kiss:
Other days...
Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death