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Remember the Double Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt? The double bacon cheeseburger that used bacon-stuffed grilled cheese sandwiches as the bun? The one that I considered making my last meal? Sure you do!

Well, a challenger has appeared.

Everybody say hello to the KFC Double Down, a bacon and cheese sandwich with a bun made out of two pieces of fried chicken.

I'm not even kidding, you guys, this monstrosity totally derailed my information design class tonight. And now I sit here before you, to ask not what the hell KFC might have been thinking, but a much more important question: which of these would you rather eat?

( Helpful Pictorial Guide cut to save your gag reflex )

Recap: the Double Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt consists of three bacon-stuffed grilled cheese sandwiches and two four-ounce beef patties with bacon and cheese. The Double Down consists of one slice of pepper jack cheese, one slice of Swiss cheese, two strips of bacon, two KFC chicken breast fillets, and "the Colonel's sauce."

I know which one I'd go for. The fact is, I love bacon cheeseburgers. I also love grilled cheese sandwiches, and I don't much care for pepper jack cheese. Also, I don't ever plan on actually eating either one of these, so this is mostly theoretical anyway, and if I ever did reach the point at which I just didn't care what I did to my arteries anymore, I figure I'd just go all out.

But maybe you feel differently. After all, white meat chicken is actually reasonably healthy. Also, where the Double Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt is, perhaps, one-note and bland, the Double Down contains spicy cheese and a presumably flavorful sauce. But at the same time, aren't sandwiches meant to have actual buns? Aren't enormous sandwiches made with love and care in your own kitchen simply more rewarding than those purchased as a $7 combo meal at a fast-food restaurant in Providence or Omaha? Make your decision, and then vote!

[Poll #1548618]

I had a Chipotle burrito for dinner. I don't even like Chipotle all that much; it's their stupid new radio ad campaign that's getting me. I'm just driving along, minding my own business, when one of those ads comes on, and it's not like they're doing anything exciting; it's just guys talking about what they put in their burritos, and I'm all "mmm, sour cream" and the next thing I know, I'm like, oh god, I want a burrito. I am so mad at myself right now.

The new chapter of FMA is out! Even though the wait seemed shorter this month (as it does when you spend it marathoning the anime and then doing a full reread of the manga), it still couldn't come out fast enough. Oh, hey, according to an interview Arakawa gave, the ending is going to be a bit farther off than she was planning. Yay! So maybe it'll be more than a hundred chapters. Anyway, reactions to the new one!

( Excellent, this chapter pissed me off in the beginning rather than at the end, like the chapters of FMA that piss me off usually do )

Guys, Breyers Fried Ice Cream ice cream is the best thing I have ever had. Ever. According to the front of the carton, it's "cinnamon caramel light ice cream swirled with honey caramel with cinnamon tostada pieces," so basically, sopapillas in delicious, convenient ice cream form.

Now, I know what you're thinking. "Is this fried ice cream-flavored ice cream, in fact, even better than actual fried ice cream?" And the answer is, no, not technically, I guess. But which would you rather do: go to a Mexican restaurant and pay like fourteen bucks plus tip for one scoop of real fried ice cream, or stay at home and watch Law & Order while eating 1.75 quarts (less than $3) of this stuff, which really is almost as good? I mean, you wouldn't have to eat all 1.75 quarts at once, but you could if you wanted to.

Man, I wish it weren't a special edition flavor. It's not fair; I just discovered it! Why does all the best junk food have to be available for only a limited time? I'm looking at you, Creme Caramel Ritter-Sport.

Birthday dinner at Cafe Lily = foodgasm. SO worth the money.

Off to have more fun now with roommates and clodia_risa (yay!). Am already planning e-mail to music theory professor. "Hi Dr. Chattah, sorry I wasn't in class today; yesterday was my birthday and I was still too drunk to drive this morning."

I'd say this was a GIP, but I actually have stuff to talk about too. After my math modeling class last week in which we all presented our own graph theory models and were required to involve monkeys in our presentations in some way*, I was reminded of myrtlelarson's and my noble crusade to see monkeys roaming wedding receptions and looking so cute with their little bar mops. So I thought I'd be a little more proactive in spreading the love on LJ. By the way, support monkeys catering weddings.

I decided while making the icon that this was a good weekend to make all those other icons I mentioned wanting to have awhile back, so I was looking around for stock photos of flutes, preferably ones with easily-croppable watermarks, and among the pages and pages of photos of champagne flutes I found a flute fingering chart. So I forgot about the icons entirely and went to look at fingering charts, because for the first time in years, I need one. Apparently there's this local musician who composes for harp and occasionally violin and flute. My teacher saw one of her compositions being performed on TV and foolishly assumed that the piece for solo violin and interpretive dancer was satire, and only found out that it wasn't while he was calling up all his musician friends to let them in on the joke. Anyway, she or somebody associated with her sent him one of her newer pieces to have one of his students perform, which he was happy to ignore until somebody contacted him to follow up on it.

So he decided to give it to me. Now, he's not actually the music snob that those last couple sentences have sort of made him out to be. He's normally very willing to try new pieces, it's just that he was unable to take this one seriously, seeing as the title is Puddlicious*. Well, Puddlicious turns out to have a fourth-octave F. Also the other fourth-octave notes leading up to F. The only reason I know anything above C is the fourth movement of the flute arrangement of Fantasia para un gentilhombre, which kicks copious ass OMG. So here's the fingering chart I eventually found--you'll notice that some of those notes really can't be written legibly without the 8va. Think of the highest note you can possibly imagine a flute playing, and go up an octave. I am really not looking forward to this piece; I mean, there's the ludicrously high notes, and I don't even think I get interpretive dancers for it.

Anyway, I eventually remembered the icon and went back to looking for photos. My google-fu managed to yield a bit of nostalgia--my history day project in 9th grade was the evolution of the flute, and I remembered that a lot of the pictures I used for it came from the same website. Apparently it was like the only place to find pictures of flutes at the time. How things change. The project sucked, much like my grasp of history in general, but whatever. The reason the site stuck out in my mind was that it had this amazing picture of a green glass flute, and as soon as I remembered it I decided that it had to be the one I used for the icon. And I found it. I would totally give both my arms to own an instrument like this, if it wouldn't completely negate the point. I mean, I wish I could even hope to begin to think I could possibly try to convey just how awesome it would never not be. By the way, check this out. Dude, that's a lot of flutes. They look like twigs or something.

I feel like I should say something about FMA 49 here. Wow, I can't believe it's almost over. Every time ( I watch this one thing happen, I have this spoilery thought. Why am I cutting this, again? ) The hell, Ed. Also, I didn't notice this when I was watching the first time through because it was all at once, but the Big-Ass Thing From the Beginning of 50 that made my jaw drop open and stay that way is actually rather clearly implied in 49. So when the Big-Ass Thing is revealed, it's really less of a spoiler and more of a way to confirm that even the most oblivious of us who couldn't have figured it out even when given a week between episodes to ponder it would be in the know. Oh well. Still a lovely episode. Suitably eerie. I did notice that Ed/Rose seemed to be explicitly shot down here--was it always like that? I'd check my subs, but I've loaned my DVDs out to someone being indoctrinated (so at least it's for a good cause). I wonder how far she's gotten and if she likes it, by the by.

Oh, and finally...

( Q and A )

*I am not making this up.