Today as it is about a 100 degrees, I decided to cook ribs. I had planned on doing this on the grill until John explained that this would not work due to the fact our grill is like a blast furnace. John suggested that using the slow cooker would be the least heat causing cooking method. I agreed.

Now due to my love of pot roast, I should be a master of the sl0w cooker. However, this thing confounds me. Nothing I make every comes out right. These ribs are to be no exception. They are by far the creepiest ribs I have ever seen. Indeed, although not a fan of food photography, I may have to do so to document the sheer creepiness of them.

These things are black-not that beautiful reddish color I've grown to associate with bbq ribs. At first I was gonna describe them as LaBrea tar pittish but they are weirder then that. It finally hit me what they were like--imagine your skin contracted leprosy and chunks fell off and laid around for say three months. This about hits it. At this point, I'm not even certain I can dine on them without thinking of the Donner Party. I did macaroni salad that did taste pretty good so all may not be lost.

While laboring over the creepy ribs (which I seem to have to watch an awful lot considering you are suppose to be able to put a slow cooker on and come home to a meal), I was listening to Rush Limbaugh. Let me just put on the record that I really dislike that man. I listen to the other shows on the station and was to lazy to shut him off. Anyway he was discussing the election in Ohio to replace the guy President Bush chose as US trade representative. Rush played the commercial for the democrat who apparently served in Iraq and doesnt identify himself in the commercial as a democrat. Rush said that this was to hide the fact he was democrat. That may very well be true but it ocurred to me, that I would really like people to come on to a commercial and give their stand on positions and not tell me their party affliation. It would be interesting to see how voting went if people really did vote on the issues and not on the party name attached.

Well time to make sure the creepy ribs havent formed into some kind zombie cow in the kitchen...