The US Writers' Strike has had an unexpected local boon: American actors coming here to play Texas Holdem.

Poker is scripted? What next, staged wrestling?!

In other news: just what you've been waiting for in order to complete your edible flying spaghetti monster! Edible googly eyes, of course, from the Evil Mad Scientist site.

Sure beats communion wafers.

So. The flying spaghetti monster becomes edible at last. That's not irony, that's ... I don't know what that is.

(Full credit to the people who posted these links into LJ land, & whose names I forget...)