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Yet another one of my knives have disappeared. :\

I think someone threw it away accidentally. Which is what I think happened to the last one. It probably was in a pastry box and when it was empty but with the knife still in there, it was probably thrown out. God damn it. I'm down to only two knives now, two! :(

This totally bothers me on the most basic levels.

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Boston Legal, season 3, episode 18, Son of the Defender is quite possibly the best episode of Boston Legal I've seen so far. I can't imagine any other episode topping it. Even Death Be Not Proud, that amazing finale to the first season might not beat it. Why? Because this episode shows you just how good of an actor William Shatner really is. You forget that, especially in the last two decades...

The music was good, both storylines were good, and you got to see Denny Crane be more than that yucky old man. And it used old footage from a show Shatner used to do back when TV was black and white! I was so shocked when I first saw it... Was that really a young William Shatner? Why, yes, it was! Damn, he was cute back then...

Not only that, but Paul (played by the always awesome Rene Auberjonois) had an actual substantial part! The part where they were all deliberating was amazing. Even Miss Some-Southern-State-That-I've-Already-Forgotten offered up some relevant insight! Even though Alan was not up front and center, it was an amazing episode.

Hmm...Okay, maybe Death Be Not Proud is up there with Son of the Defender but for different reason. Best Alan episode and best Denny episode. Overall, which is best? God, I don't know. Maybe I should reserve it for the future Supreme Court death penalty episode... I have no idea when it's coming aside from sometime in season four but hopefully it comes soon... I can't wait! Hopefully it's a good Alan episode since it's been a while since I've felt like I've seen one. At least one that isn't somewhat formulaic. As it is, after this season, things change... And after that, things get sad and serious in season five with Denny, whom somehow I've managed to come to care for despite his being rather yucky. I can't say I want to see him deteriorate... But it's a short season and hopefully it'll all end with somewhat of a happy ending...Rather than The Practice where everyone was split up...

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Success!!!

Look at that cake, just look at it! It's perfect! It's amazing! It's how my first cake should have been but wasn't. I tried making it for the first time by myself (it's usually a cake my mother generally makes for the family) and I messed up. It was an unmitigated disaster in the truest sense of the word. It was only partially cooked, inedible at parts, and the pan leaked like all hell. I made an absolute mess and I fucked up the recipe.

And actually, this wasn't the absolutely perfect cake that I had wanted. I forgot the last two ingredients of water and oil and had to try and mix them in while already in the Angel Food Cake pan... That was not good. It started to leak after that so I can only assume the water and oil did not incorporate as evenly as it should have. Still, I placed a baking sheet under it and hoped for the best. And it turned out perfectly! ^^

It wasn't as soft and bouncy or light as the first cake that was partially inedible but the part that was was absolutely divine. I'm not really sure it would be possible to have that light, soft and bouncy cake, at least not baked in an Angel Food Cake pan and not have it get ruined. But I'll take my perfectly cooked Chinese Sponge Cake.