A virtual hoard of the shiny things I find on the internet.

 

Smitten Kitchen's red wine chocolate cake

Blogging this for the recipe, of course, but also for the lovely story she tells that ends with this quote:

I never once, not for a single moment before I was kinda secretly hoping that the bars would close already so I could get back to sleep on Saturday night connected in my head that I do have a 9/11 story, but it came later, and it is a happy one. I’d never considered that pretty much everything awesome that’s happened in the last eight years spun off from the axis of something awful.