Fat Tuesday

February 25, 2009

Happy Mardi Gras, folks!I finally exhausted the vast supply of jambalaya I made a couple weeks ago, but in honor of the season I made chicken margaux, very much a creole recipe.Didn’t get a chance to parade, though.

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Mean-Spirited Amusements

February 20, 2009

I’ve had a busy week, with little time to think, let alone blog in a thoughtful fashion. I’m not able to be entertaining right now, and I’m feeling really grumpy, so I’m providing links to a whole raft of mean-spirited amusements found elsewhere on the net.Why is Richard Pryor laughing in heaven? Because he’s viewed […]

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Adios, the Televisor

February 19, 2009

Bruce Sterling’s eulogy for television.

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Reviews Too Late: Haibane Renmei

February 19, 2009

People kept recommending this series to me, so I went looking for it on Netflix. The series concept and characters were created by Yoshitoshi ABe (that’s how he spells it), and was produced by yasuyuki ueda (also sic), both of whom worked together on Serial Experiments: Lain. What Lain and Haibane Renmei together seem to […]

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Former USA

February 18, 2009

From the Long Now Foundation: Dmitri Orlov foresees collapse.The idea that the USA will go the way of the USSR seemed preposterous at the time. It doesn’t seem so preposterous any more. I take it some of you are still hedging your bets. How is that hedge fund doing, by the way? . . . […]

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Jambalaya!

February 13, 2009

When I was getting over my surgery I cooked a ham, just so I wouldn’t have to think about what I was going to eat for my next meal. But I got sick of the ham well before it ran out. So then I decided to make ham and sausage jambalaya with Creole sauce from […]

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England— Home of Jujutsu

February 13, 2009

There’s nothing like learning jujutsu from a chirrupy-voiced upperclass English lady, as seen in this classic video from 1931. I doubt that her partner’s groans are at all feigned, as he doesn’t seem very good at falling down.

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Darwin Day

February 12, 2009

Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Darwin! You don’t look a day over 187.

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Schadenfreude

February 12, 2009

So this morning I was drawing a bath and left the room and when I came back Charlie was looking like this. After I finished laughing and loudly mocking his clumsiness and dancing around with joy I ran for the camera, but he wouldn’t sit still for a photo, so I stole this pic from […]

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tlhaQ

February 12, 2009

It’s time for Klingons in the News!Hot on the heels of the revelation that some mope was using a Klingon bat’leth to rob convenience stores in Colorado, we now find this moving short film about Klingon Night School. Note that the film is brought to us by Chili’s. Perhaps a visit to Chili Headquarters with […]

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