Two poems in this Shit Creek Review. I feel all proprietary because Michael Cantor’s Ali poem uses a title I suggested on Whup Ass. FAME! FORTUNE! Well, fame at least.

Well, at least a blog post.

That’s going to count for now.

My goal is simply to get more exercise, so I’m doing 100 days straight. Look, I even have a ticker. I’m not sure that I would want to watch a baseball game in which the batter kept getting closer and closer to the pitcher, but… well… it’s a ticker. Get off my back!

18 days in, because I rock.

I tried a new chili recipe last night because a certain person, not naming any names, Chris, doesn’t like beans and I tend to like chili with some sort of something other than meat and spices.

So I found a substitute.

Gird your loins.

It’s pumpkin. One 15 oz can for a recipe with a little over a pound of meat. I used hot sausage because I was a little afraid the pumpkin taste needed covered up, but I think it would work with ground beef.

So, your normal chili recipe plus a can of pumpkin (my god, don’t buy the pumpkin pie filling) or your normal recipe less beans plus pumpkin. Don’t tell Chris, but it’s even healthy!