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i took some photos with my friends’ leica m8 camera today:

the camera is amazing… so impressive. i’d never used a rangefinder camera before—it takes some getting used to, but you get incredible sharpness and optics… the photos were taken at a farmer’s market, and yes, those are the real colors of the cauliflower. cool, huh? i don’t know what ‘bacon avocado’ are either—if they are meant to be eaten with bacon or if they have been somehow engineered to taste like bacon or what…

That’s right, bacon-wrapped hot dogs. I’ve grilled hot dogs on the grill before, and of course everyone likes bacon, but it had never occurred to me to combine the two until I read this article in LA Weekly about busts on people illegally selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs from unlicensed carts in Los Angeles. Ours didn’t come out exactly like this or this, because all we had to go on was the phrase “bacon-wrapped hot dogs”. One trip to the store later — to buy bacon and hot dogs — and we were ready to go. I got thick-cut bacon, which, judging by those photos, was perhaps not the best choice. They still came out great though!

I used half-toothpicks to hold the bacon on on each end, which I removed after grilling. We had gotten out the usual condiments but these came out so good that we ended up not using any at all. I’ve of course had fried bacon lots of times, but grilled bacon is something entirely different. Is there anything that bacon can’t improve?

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i dunno why i registered for this. i haven’t drawn in years and don’t have a camera to document anything with. maybe i will just write 29 haikus about bacon.