Pasta with roasted red bell pepper sauce. Holy smokes, this is delicious. I would make this often even if I could eat tomato sauce.

Pizza topped with caramelized onions, daiya cheese, or pumpkin sauce. Also, beer crust pizza. Daiya is a bit miraculous; their shredded "cheese" product doesn't contain a single thing I can't handle, although some of their other products contain carrageenan. (As you may have noticed, I can eat gluten, but a lot of items on this list don't involve wheat.)

Cannelini bean salad with green olives. You'd think a dude with a limited number of food choices would remember the ones he has. Nope, I keep forgetting about olives.

Coconut milk curry with grape must, sherry vinegar and other delicious things in place of soy sauce. Some variations: pumpkin and squash curries.

Amy's California Veggie Burgers. These are made with pea protein rather than soy protein. They are not as fake-meaty, but that's a plus in my book. Those who can't handle gluten should consider Amy's Sonoma Burger, which is made with quinoa instead and is also tasty.

Homemade ethiopian served on real injera. I can't touch most of what's served in an actual ethiopian restaurant because of my citrus allergy, but injera— the flat bread on which it is served— is fine. And I am blessed with a remarkable wife who's good at cooking up ethiopian.

Coconut lentil dhal. Homecooked Indian is another really good bet.

Coconut milk pumpkin pie. Omnivores love this stuff too. Another score on Roberta's part.

Mi-Del ginger snaps. Geddoudameway! Geddaway from me snaps!

Crow. Mmm-mmm, delicious crow. I am forced to eat it often.

Want an ego boost? Just take that beginner class... again... simultaneously with an intermediate class.

Nothing like it for feeling better about yourself. And oh yeah, it's also good for getting the fundamentals right this time around and all that practical stuff.

On another subject: OPW just got RSS feeds for public posts. Click on me to view my posts, and you'll see an RSS icon next to my name.

Now you can export your fine quality OPW creations to folks who use [insert names of six different programs that have taken up the slack since Google Reader went away]. Or Livejournal syndicated feeds, even.

If you're reading this, we have a posting queue now!

Here's how it works:

OLD THOUGHT PATTERN: "I would post this skydiving kitten pic but I might write War and Peace later and then I wouldn't be able to post it today, which would be very sad."

NEW THOUGHT PATTERN: "I'll just click 'queue' instead of 'post now' and it'll be posted for me, just before midnight, if I haven't posted something else that day. Oooo, handy!"

Yes, it says your post will appear tonight. But no worries: if you post something better by then, it'll automatically wait for tomorrow night.

In addition, you can have multiple posts still in "draft" form. Your current post-in-progress has always been automatically saved for you as a draft. Now you can click the "drats" button, click "New Draft" and start a second post-in-progress. Start as many drafts as you need.

Sean and I think we've done this in such a way that some will value and benefit from it, and others will cheerfully ignore it, and everyone will be happy. Your feedback on the reality is welcome.

Matt Casarino lays down the law on film, music and general cultural awesome.

Shelle Klein Houser has been calling attention to worthy newcomers in her posts. My, aren't I meta.

Lindsay Harris observes the odd moments of life with good humor.

Jill "xtingu" Knapp shares the ongoing saga of Hot Breakfast, the band that proved it only takes two to rock.

And L. M. Lopez asks the eternal question we all struggle with daily: are our neighbors getting jiggy right now? And do we really want to know?

Also killin' it: every single person who is posting about their life or whatever the hell they want to post about. With or without seriousness or premeditation or humor or pictures or video or verbs. I am glad you are here and I am glad you are sharing with your friends and, when you feel like it, with the rest of us.

I spent my evening teaching One Post Wonder to just Do The Right Thing when you paste a giphy link, or a youtube link, or a link to more or less anything that's meant to be embedded on the interwebs.

But now I'm going to shut off my computer. Because in our house, that's what happens at 9pm these days.

It's an adjustment!

Hey peeps: fellow OPW developer Sean Puckett has kicked off a good discussion of OPW's future, and specifically the future of its signature feature. Your thoughts would be welcome.

In not unrelated news, a crazy amount of stuff got improved on OPW this week:

• "About Us," "The Rules" and "Your Privacy" published
• Timestamps for posts and comments
• "Mention" button in the editor to add a link to a friend's OPW blog (blame me for the terrible temporary icon)
• Confirmation prompt for deleting comments
• Media buttons work properly on iPhones, iPads
• Sharing your public posts on Facebook works much better
• Notices for posts with titles in Japanese work properly
• Click anywhere or press Escape to dismiss the lightbox (seen when you click a photo)
• Fixed many other bugs
• Add/remove your friend from various locks while looking at their profile
• User bio (on your profile page / personal blog)

For those just tuning in, I requested songwriting challenges, and I got a lot of them.

Where's your song? I'm working on it!

It seems that when you haven't picked up your guitar in five and a half years, you forget stuff! Who wouldathunkit?

Also, I'm finding my own standards are a little higher.

So I'm picking up the guitar every day, and having a bash, and trying new things, and waiting for the songs to start crystallizing.

One thing I've figured out is that I'm not going to just start at the top of the list and blast my way down this time. Nope, I gotta start with some of the more accessible requests and rebuild my groove.

Thanks for engaging my brain!

Oddly beautiful.

Years ago, when I was getting almost tolerable on the guitar, I threw down the gauntlet and asked for songwriting challenges. The result was the most interesting stuff I ever did, musically. And then I got distracted by dance. Which I do not regret in the least. But I'm ready to try music again.

So! Here's how this goes.

Please reply with:

An object ("a toaster")

A character ("a flying piano teacher")

A catchphrase ("that's GOTTA hurt")

A rock/pop musical subgenre ("emo punk," "new wave," etc - if you think it's obscure, just cite an example I have some hope of knowing or finding, links help)

... And I'll compose and record a song featuring these items. It may take me a while, but I will eventually get to an album's worth of requests.

BRING IT!