Bacon Articles by Lefty

Myles Nye ("Lefty") lives, writes, and does comedy in Los Angeles. He is a company member in ComedySportz, LA's longest running show, he creates scavenger hunts for Wise Guys Events, and his 2 favorite places to eat bacon are Anne's Cafe in Oakland CA and El Gato Negro in San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua. He enjoys sharing bacon with his wife Laurel and can also be found at Twitter.com/MylesNye and MinisterMyles.com (he also performs weddings).

GREAT MOMENTS IN BACON DRAMA

Hello, culture lovers. Please cease the rattling of your programs, and if you’d like to enjoy a cough drop or lozenge, why not unwrap it now?

STARRING: BACON! WITH: SOME VEGETABLES OR SOMETHING

I was in the mood for something healthful and mentioned aloud that I was considering ordering the veggie stack, a sandwich made with grilled eggplant, among other things. “You know what’s great with that?” the helpful server proffered. “Bacon!”

Bacon The Musical

Musicals have always been my passion. When I was a kid, I eschewed Transformers and even Smurfs to watch “The Music Man” and “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” over and over again. I have written several musicals including “Survivor: The Musical” and others.

OTHER WAYS TO PREPARE BACON

Jim Gaffigan, the bard of Bacon, said that there aren’t many ways to prepare bacon: “You can fry it, or you can get trichinosis.” This is one of many reasons bacon is such a suitable food for non-chefs. As it turns out, however, there are other options out there if your frying pan is in the repair shop.

IT’S ALWAYS BACON O’CLOCK

Man has been keeping track of time for as long as- well, we actually don’t know when man started keeping track of time, because before that there was no time, so there was no way to keep track, right? But suffice to say it’s been a long time.

BACON COSTUMES: TOP 10 PHOTOS

With Halloween just around a month-long corner, it’s time to start laying the foundation for your bacon-themed Halloween costumes. That means seeing what’s out there, what’s already been done, what’s available off the shelf, and what missteps to avoid. After all, you don’t want to simultaneously ruin Halloween and bacon, thus bringing disgrace to sweet and savory in one fell swoop, now do you?

IRRATIONAL

Depending on whom you ask, pigs travel either in droves, herds, litters, farrows (for piglets) or sounders (for wild pigs). But anyone who’s ever ordered of the Sides section of a breakfast menu knows that bacon comes in rashers.

TOP 10 CURED MEATS THAT AREN’T BACON

Just as when you’re sure you’ve met that special someone it’s important to meet the parents, so too should you be familiar with bacon’s extended family, just in case you’re at a Denny’s and someone tries to serve you serrano ham, you can storm out in outrage.

BROTHERHOOD OF BACON

How can the same meat yield so generously and yet conceal so much? Sometimes it seems bacon, like “Lost,” begs as many questions as it satisfies. Maybe in the future instead of “You’re begging the question!” we’ll say, “You’re bacon the question!”

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