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I went down to the Mall of America with the Conways last night to see Rachael Ray give a cooking demonstration and do a book signing. She was in the big rotunda place where all the uberfamous mall guests do their events. The mall had set up a little fake kitchen on the stage and she cooked some stuff while she talked about her new book, which I didn't buy.

I was excited to go see her, but for some reason it turned out to be pretty dumb. First, I was kind of grumpy after work. Second, before she came on, KC and I went over to Krispy Kreme to get a snack and I got a donut and a frozen coffee thing and the total came to $5. That's criminal. And then the frozen coffee thing was hella bad even though it had a small mountain of whipped cream on top of it. It was one of those blender drinks and the ice chips were so big you could hardly pull them through the straw. I almost sucked my eyeballs into my head. Ahh boo Krispy Kreme Krappy Koffee Koolers.

There was more stuff, too. The crowd was bigger than I expected - though still not huge - and you had to buy a book to get an autograph, which I wasn't going to do because I don't really like the food she makes on her show. Or at her demonstrations, for that matter, as last night she wowed us with her ability to make a kicked-up frozen pizza and a bowl of popcorn. Blah blah blah, whatever, who cares.

There were some highlights, though. We saw this one huge guy walking around in a heavy metal t-shirt talking on his cell phone who had a really high voice. That was pretty funny. And I only made Zach cry once, which I think may be a new personal best. Yip yip.