# Lileks Gallery of Regrettable Food **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765 "2002-07-25T14:23:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/1 "2002-07-25T14:23:46Z")
Man, this is some funny stuff. Have a look-see here: [http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html](http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/2 "2002-07-25T14:24:55Z")
Oh, sorry… Click on “Bad Ads” and “Potpourri” for the good stuff… ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/3 "2002-07-25T14:41:52Z")
James Lileks is wonderful. Be sure and check out the Gobbler while you’re on his site. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/4 "2002-07-25T14:45:15Z")
**Stupendous Man** , he recently penned a book by the same name. Just like the Web site, but with more content. He’s also in the process of doing a book version of Interior Desecrators. The site was hysterical! I can’t wait for the book! ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/5 "2002-07-25T20:47:41Z")
Another Lileks fan signing in! Am going through Bleat (a [mostly] daily journal/blog kinda writing thing he does) withdrawal… reading the old stuff just isn’t the same. His newspaper column is almost as good, but only comes out a few times a week. I’m about due to drop another fiver in the tip jar… I already bought the dang book & am looking forward to Interior Desecrators. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/6 "2002-07-26T03:18:30Z")
What a great site! ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/7 "2002-07-26T08:12:54Z")
[hijack] What is a “blog”? 😕 I never get the memo on new things\. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/8 "2002-07-27T00:42:43Z")
I’ve recently gotten hooked on the Lileks site. I too am missing the daily bleat. Vacation? Who said he could take a break from the thing! Harrumph! “blog” = web log, which is kind of like a Live Journal where you ramble and say your piece out on the web. ---
**Author:** ![drpepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@drpepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drpepper)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/9 "2002-07-27T00:56:01Z")
Another lileks fan checking in. There are so many funny things on that site it kept me laughing for days and days and days. The guy has a gift. The more serious bit about the history of his father’s gas station really roped in my SO. I can’t get enough of the food, the funny old ads, and the interior desecrators part (is that even still there? I think he took down a big section of the site) ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/10 "2002-07-27T01:04:06Z")
I found Lileks through the Straight Dope. Someone posted a link to the Gallery of Regrettable Food in Weird Earls (I think). One of the things that always cracked me up was the [Dorcus Collection](http://www.lileks.com/institute/dorcus/index.html). He’s got Dave Barry beat by a mile in my book. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/11 "2002-07-27T01:05:24Z")
Without the bleat, I’m hard pressed lately to find something to read while eating breakfast. He better be back for real on Monday… ---
**Author:** ![Tsubaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Tsubaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tsubaki)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lileks-gallery-of-regrettable-food/120765/12 "2002-07-27T01:52:05Z")
You have to look at the cookbooks, particularly the house cakes. Too funny!