lay down your money & you'll play your part

So my dad and I went to the soon-to-be-demolished Spectrum to see Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band last night. They were just, well, incredibly awesome.

( Well it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive )

We took SEPTA there and back, and on PATCO back into Jersey we heard thanks to our cell phones that the Phillies had pulled it out in the bottom of the ninth, 5-4 over the Dodgers, and the entire train car broke out cheering. So really, how could it have been any better? 

Certain values of awesome (she blinded me with SCIENCE)

First off, via samvara, this awesome video. It seriously contains more awesome per ounce than a neutron star does matter--and that's a lot of awesome. (P.S. If people in Australia actually refer to the PM as "K.Rudd," that automatically makes it ten times more awesome.) Also, my bird started dancing to it, which is a serious sign of approval.

I've been baking things lately--rosemary shortbread and pumpkin cookies. Next time, though, I might throw maybe a teaspoon of lemon zest into the shortbread dough, and for the pumpkin cookies, I follow ( this variation. )

YUM.