All posts for the month May, 2010

Magno-Lacto-Dextrus Skull Encapsulation

I like to think I live my life with no regrets, but, there is one. And that is, I wish I would have watched Johnny Carson more from 1984 to 1992 (except for the nights when Leno guest-hosted). I don’t care if I was born in 1984, I still regret it. I should have known [...]

Search Post: dirty jokes about eating pie

Here’s a new segment @ Make Me Some Pie – it’s called “Search Post”. Thanks to fancy technology, I can see what people are searching for when they arrive at my blog. So, if I see something interesting that people are searching for that I haven’t covered on the blog yet, I’ll write a post [...]

Pie Review: Otis Cafe – Strawberry Rhubarb

The Otis Cafe has been around for ages and any person from the Portland area who visits Lincoln City is most certainly familiar with it. It’s about the only thing, besides a gas station & a post office in the town. Otis has been in the national news in the past because the “town” was [...]

My S-PIE-dey Sense is Tingling

Check out this sweet Hostess Fruit Pie comic book advertisement I ran across on Branded in the 80s. Apparently ads for Hostess Snacks, with the likes of Spiderman, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and more, were in comic books from 1977 to 1982. In this episode, Spiderman uses a pie to negotiate his release. Hostess Fruit [...]

Pie Review: Back to Eden – Lemon Coconut Cream

Back to Eden Bakery Boutique on Portland’s Alberta Street is an all Vegan bakery. They opened their cute and quaint little storefront last September, but they had been selling their goods wholesale prior to switching to retail. They have an “ever-changing menu of cakes, cookies, muffins, scones, pies, tarts and sweet breads”. Typically they only [...]

Pie Robot

I came across an article about some middle school kids in Fargo, ND that created a “Destination Imagination” skit that features a pie-serving robot. Awesome, I thought, but when I read the article and looked at the pictures, it’s not quite what I had in mind – in fact, I’m not even sure if it’s [...]