Election Distraction #1: Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Coulton

I've decided it's my patriotic duty to entertain y'all with stuff that is not related in any way to the US elections (since I bet that 80% of the posts on my flist are related to the US elections, and the other 20% are from furriners).

Ergo, from the blog of Neil Gaiman, "Here's Creepy Doll in Manchester, from just before the second verse (when a call has gone out for any best-selling authors of scary fiction in the audience to make themselves known, and I have stumbled up onto the stage) to the end."

Election Distraction #2: Message from the feline overlords

more animals

Election Distraction #3: The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt

Because nothing says yum like fat, meat, fat, and starch, The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt.

Excerpty!

But I guess with something like this, more is more, and so I heeded the call of the internets, and decided to make a second version of this burger with what you all said was the missing ingredient. What you are looking at above, ladies and gents, is the new, improved Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt. Here's the smack on this meat stack. From top to bottom:

* Bacon-stuffed grilled cheese sandwich as bun top
* Bacon
* Cheese
* Four-ounce beef patty
* Bacon-stuffed grilled cheese sandwich as bun bottom