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Sep. 7th, 2008 @ 11:07 am The Omnivore's Hundred
Instead of commenting on Sugar Rashad, I give you The Omnivore's Hundred. I meant to do this foodie meme back when PZB posted it and was just reminded again by the Haphazard Gourmet Girls. Here's the deal:

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart (Note: I was traumatized as a child by living near where the hot-dog carts went at night. …the..horror…)
16. Epoisses (I’ll never be a stinky cheese girl)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I might try the cognac but don’t smoke)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (Just no.)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky  (Men's)!
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Because I don’t drink and while I might taste some of the above mentioned alcoholic beverages out of curiosity, I can’t say I’d really actually consume them, here are 8 more unusual items that I have actually consumed.

101. kangaroo (sorry Skippy!)
102. dried cuttlefish
103. prahok
104. squaw candy
105. bacon chocolate bar
106. dragonfruit
107. Calpis (The Taste of First Love!)
108. mystery meat taco from a street vendor in Mexico City

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Sep. 7th, 2008 @ 07:09 am KTFO!
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Sep. 7th, 2008 @ 07:40 am Summer Field Notes from Heidi Ruby Miller
The special tri-issue of my newsletter, Field Notes, went out this weekend with its new online format. The theme for summer is, of course, road tripping. Here's an excerpt:

Despite the rise in gas prices, Jason and I managed to drive or ride over four thousand miles during these past three months. In Florida, we saw Storm Troopers and Jedis, celebrated our ten year wedding anniversary, and became lost in the magic of Disney World. In Maryland, I reunited with family members and basked in the nostalgia of my childhood. And, in the Outer Banks, we discovered the beauty and renewal of the shore and just why the Wright brothers spent so much time there.

A little closer to home, we attended the 7th Annual WPF alumni retreat and writing conference at beloved Seton Hill University, where we reconnected with author pals, made many new acquaintances, and received our anticipated dose of motivation and inspiration.

We are always lucky to share these experiences with friends and family, and the memories and photos often keep us warm when the trees are bare and the wind chill makes our breath freeze once again.


If you would like to subscribe to Field Notes from Heidi Ruby Miller, please email heidirubymiller AT gmail DOT com.

~Heidi


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Sep. 6th, 2008 @ 01:39 pm German SF/F site Fantastyguide on "New books by SF master Philip José Farmer!"
Current Mood: pleased

The German SF/F site Fantastyguide has picked up on the news, announced at Farmercon 90 in late July, about the new Philip José Farmer novels and stories. Here is the imperfect but more than adequate Google translation.

Nice to see the word is starting to spread on this. The Evil in Pemberley House will be excerpted in issue 14 of Farmerphile, coming out next month.
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Sep. 6th, 2008 @ 11:32 am Yesterday in the Trinity Universe: she's so mean but I don't care
Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: The Escape Club, "Wild Wild West"
Sorry I'm late.

September 5
[Aberrant] Mark Anthony Green attempts to arrange a sex scandal involving Randel Portman and nova Raphaela Moore.


Moore lives in San Francisco; Portman was in town to give a speech. A hacker on Green's payroll spoofed the hotel switchboard, then called Moore (with a Fireman-themed voice-masker) inviting her to "his" (Portman's) hotel room. Whether it worked or not is up to the players and the Storyteller.

Either way, Raphaela Moore's interest in the political process has been piqued. She later modifies her appearance and attaches herself to Bernard Morrison's campaign.


This could lead to excellence or serious injury, given that Moore is a Mega-Social maniac who has to make an effort to interact with people in a genuine way, rather than through her "social jujitsu" abilities.
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Sep. 6th, 2008 @ 11:12 am (no subject)
Here is a mashup for you.
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Sep. 5th, 2008 @ 01:56 pm Impossible Territories giveaway. Sorta.
Current Location: home office
Current Mood: exhausted
You may or may not know that my book Impossible Territories is out now. Impossible Territories is the book version of the annotations to Alan Moore's Black Dossier, the third League of Extraordinary Gentlemen text. Impossible Territories has my revised annotations to the series, Kevin O'Neill's corrections of my mistakes, and a long interview with Alan Moore.

I got my comp copies of the book today. And while I'm going to be giving a few copies to various libraries, I'm still going to have a lot of extras. So here's what I'm going to do with them:

Impossible Territories has a cover price of $15.95. If you give a donation of $15 (in cash or useful products) to a local charity, I will mail you a free copy of the book. (You can buy used copies for cheaper than the cover price, but the cost of postage will bring it up to around $15).

My only restriction is this: it has to be a non-profit or charity helping women or animals--donations to "men's rights" charities will get you only my scorn. And the non-profit or charity has to be a local one. Folks like the Humane Society and NARAL need your money, but your local animal shelter or battered women's shelter need your money a lot more. (The locals are always worse off than the national organizations).

I won't ask for a receipt, but I will ask you to provide the name of the charity you donated to.

I have no idea how this will go. I've only got twenty-five copies to give away. They may be gone by the end of the day today, or this offer will pass unnoticed and nobody will respond. But I'm hoping that I can turn the extra copies of my book into some cash for worthy charities.
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Sep. 5th, 2008 @ 10:59 am Sex.com and the Gisch Report
OK, I suck. I forgot to post a reminder that my sex.com radio broadcast played last night at 7pm on XM radio channel 154. However all is not lost because you can still hear the rebroadcast on Tuesday the 9th at 4pm (PST). I still don’t know when the show will be available as a streaming video online on sex.com, but I promise you’ll know as soon as I do.

In other news Victor Gicshler has finally checked in with a report on the post-Gustav state of Baton Rouge. It’s not good.
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Sep. 5th, 2008 @ 11:10 am (no subject)
This cannot possibly actually be the case. And yet, there it is.
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Sep. 5th, 2008 @ 08:53 am The (New) Labors of Herakles
Mattias Adolfsson shares a modern interpretation of the Labors of Herakles. As he says, "Slaying animals and cleaning out barns are so passe."

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Sep. 5th, 2008 @ 08:50 am New Beanworld
There is a new Beanworld story online. (And longtime readers of the Ramble may remember how much I love Beanworld.)



Well what are you waiting for?! Go read it, already!
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Sep. 5th, 2008 @ 08:42 am Cartoon College
Over on Lucy Knisley's Livejournal (which is completely full of awesome, and is highly recommended to all) I found a link to this trailer for a forthcoming documentary about the Center for Cartoon Studies, Cartoon College.

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Sep. 5th, 2008 @ 07:40 am (no subject)
Current Mood: chummy
Current Music: Wang Chung, "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"
Happy launchday, [info]voyagerprobe!
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Sep. 5th, 2008 @ 03:16 pm Republican National Convention 08
Current Mood: angry
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )
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Sep. 4th, 2008 @ 10:18 pm Smells like a crab died in yogurt. (Fixed... I think)
Current Mood: Just a little buzzed
Current Music: Guess
So Gustav was a bit of a disappointment. No breaking levees. No random luting. Not even a fucking political fiasco. Damn.



Well all that shit aside, I am awesome. A Cadillac of men, if you will. Young and stupid. Just the way it should be.


I've taken to writing down my thoughts and views on paper during lunch. It seems I fancy myself a writer, but a horrible speller, and if I can only get in the habit of pouring my every thought onto page I can piece it all together to make something... mediocre. Because thats what I do.


Over the last... period of time I posted about what music I listen to I've since started listening to The Decemberist. Folk-Altenapunk at its finest. Specifically a song by the title "The Tain". I came across the album of the same name by accident and bought it thinking I was gonna get more than one song. WRONG! A near 19 minutes of gold... in my opinion.


Well, like an episode of Space Ghost C2C, I'm going to abruptly end this post in a cop out with the lyrics to the aforementioned song.

"The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)"

[PART I]

[crone:] here upon this pillow
made of reed and willow
you're a fickle little twister
are you sweet on your sister?
your fallow won't leave you alone.

and granted for their pleasure
possesions laid to measure
she's a salty little pisser
with your cock in her kisser
but now she's a will of her own.

[PART II]

[husband:] damn your ankles and eyes wide
from you fingernails to your ponytails too.
king of the insects and the m-5
over charlemagne in a motorcade too.

and baby needs a new prize
baby needs a new and shiny prize.

[captain:] in this place called heavenly
you were born here.
this place called heavenly
you were born here.
you were born here.

[husband:] and now all the marchers descend from high
i will dedicate all of my awakenings to this.

and damn all the angles that opress my sight
i will bleed your heart through a samovar soon.

[captain:] in this place called heavenly
you were born here.
this place called heavenly
you were born here.
you were born here.

[PART III]

[soldier:] they settled dust in your hair
to watch you shake and shout it out.
with our armaments bared
we shed our bags and travel alls.

from the lee of the wall
he comes in the chang and the chariot
and all his eunuchs in thrall
can scarce lift his line and lariat.

here com loose his hounds
to blow me down.

[chorus of waifs:] blow me down.

[soldier:] on this stretch of ground
i'll lay me down.

[chorus of waifs:] lay me down.

[soldier:] to sleep.

[chaplain:] and now stricken with pangs
that tear at our backs like thistle down
the mirror's soft silver tain
reflects our last and birthing hour

[soldier:] here com loose his hounds
to blow me down.

[chorus of waifs:] blow me down.

[soldier:] on this stretch of ground
i'll lay me down.

[chorus of waifs:] lay me down.

[soldier:] to sleep.

[PART IV]

[evening]

[widow:] o the wind is blowing, it hurts your skin
as you climb up hillside, forest and fen.

your arms full of lullabies, orchids and wine
your memories wrapped within paper and twine.

the room that you lie in is dusty and hard
sleeping soft babies on piles of yards
of gingham, taffeta, cotton and silk
your dry hungry mouths cry for your mother's milk.

when the dawn commes to greet you, you'll rise with clothes on
and advance with the others, singing old songs
of cattle and maidens and withered old queens.
let the music carry you on.

the room that you lie in is dusty and hard
sleeping soft babies on piles of yards
of gingham, taffeta, cotton and silk
your dry hungry mouths cry for your mother's milk.

[PART V] (The Best Part BTW)

[woman:] darling dear what have you done?
your clothes are town, your make-up runs.

[daughter:] i ran through brambles, blooming thistle
i washed my face in the river when you whistled me on.

[woman:] darling dear, what hav eyou done?
your hands and face are smeared with blood.

[daughter:] the chaplain came and called me out
to beat and to butcher his mother's sow

[woman:] but darling dear, they found him dead
this morning on the riverbed.




but hush now darling, don't you cry.
your reward's in the sweet by-and -by.
hush now baby, don't you cry.
your reward's in the sweet by-and-by.

[crone:] and now we've seen your powers
softly stretch the hours
you're a fickle little twister
are you sweet on your sister?
as now you go wandering home.
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Sep. 4th, 2008 @ 05:43 pm Something Weird Video Promo - Shock Stock

In preparation for a major blog project I'm starting in a couple weeks I've been going through Youtube links and found this. One of the many cool montages Something Weird Video assembled to promote themselves, usually by putting these at the beginning and ending of their old VHS tapes of regional horror films, Italian gladiator films, sleazy 1960s soft-porn and occasional trailer compilations mixing them altogether and more.

In the golden age of people buying anything that came out on DVD Something Weird struck a deal with Tower Records to promote their wares. However as time went on and Something Weird lost licenses to films featuring Mexican wrestler and monster hunter El Santo, South American horror kingpin Coffin Joe and others to competing DVD labels they stuck with the products that proved to be their biggest sellers at Tower: drive-in porno that veered towards the hardcore side of things.

I don't begrudge them this as it's the price of doing business, but I do miss their somewhat less sleazy and more genuinely weird era that this clip is from.

Anyways, enjoy it, if only for all the cool tunes used in the clip. (Honestly, that country song that kicks in at 3'41"? If that was sung by Johnny Cash it'd be the most terrifying country song ever recorded).
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Sep. 4th, 2008 @ 06:20 pm Gathering Clouds
Current Location: Waiting For The Toy Store's Last Day Land
Current Mood: devious
Current Music: Various riffs from *Centennial*
PROGRESS REPORT


New Words: 1700 on chapter 4 ("The Iron Masters, 1774") of Shenandoah. The Shenandoah veterans of "Dunmore's War" are going home victorious but also angry and bitter and ready to pull down their muskets for more feuding, fussing, and fighting.

Total Words: 101700.

Reason For Stopping: Lunch and work.

Mammalian Assistance: None.

Exercise: The backwards campus round trip. Plus a 20-minute-long Warning Note Round, which I also did yesterday but forgot to include when I posted my metrics.

Stimulants: A big honkin' orange snow cone.

Book Year: Still 1774.

Before I Forget This Again, Submissions Sent Out In August: 3.

Total Submissions Out Right Now: 3. Yikes! This doesn't include 2 that've been out for over a year at magazines where the editors didn't reply to my queries. Yank!

Today's Opening Passage(s): Alexander crossed the Ohio River—something even Burr and his father had never done—with the army. On a morning they were attacked by Indians and drove them off, another message came from Dunmore: The governor was concluding a peace with the Indians. A treaty.

The treaty the Indians mocked us for, Alexander realized. They thought Dunmore secretly sent us to war with the Shawnee while he was making peace with them. We were dying while he was writing the treaty.

Then another dark thought struck him: Maybe he did send us to die. A quick...an honorable...way to be rid of a thousand rebellious bumpkins.

Darling Du Jour: This doesn't make much sense out of context, but I like

“I know where we are,” Burr’s father said. Before Alexander could ask about the strange statement, David Cooper added, “In another mile you’ll come to a wooded path leading west. Take it. We’ll find shelter at the path’s end if we get there fast enough.”

“Where are we going?”

Cooper glanced down at the sleeping Burr, then finally said almost too quietly to hear, “Back to the place where my son was born.”


Non-Research / Review Books In Progress: Treason by Nevin.
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Sep. 4th, 2008 @ 05:11 pm SCHADENFREUDE UPDATE
Remember Lynn Westmoreland? The Georgia representative who wanted the Ten Commandments posted in public buildings, even though he couldn't remember half of them?

He's back at it again, that scamp. Seriously, you'd think he'd know better than to call the Obamas "uppity," but oops, there he goes! Can't wait to see how this one goes over.
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Sep. 4th, 2008 @ 05:22 pm I Want This Bad
Current Location: Lookity At All The Bookitys Land
Current Mood: mischievous
Current Music: Opening theme to *Thundarr the Barbarian*
It occurred to me earlier this week that when you combine Obama's Senatorial experience and Palin's Gubernatorial experience, they still have less years under their belts than my experience as a librarian. Therefore I am announcing my candidacy for Chief Bookmaster of the Library of Congress.

Vote for me! If my name doesn't appear on the ballot where you live, write me in. If you can't do a write in, especially if "Chief Bookmaster of the Library of Congress" doesn't appear on your ballot, just write my name and the position on a sticky note and leave it on the voting machine.

I will be a decisive Unitary Librarian, exercising the ability to judge whether or not something is literature, or art, or historically or scientifically accurate. No book will be taken off the table at least initially, though I reserve the right to make signing statements about whether or not they belong in the library regardless of official library policy. If any book needs to disappear to guarantee the safety of the library, I will take on this responsibility myself. I will purchase books through the free market and if the mixing of public and private collections causes a downturn in the stacks, I will reserve the right to beg money from the Federal Reserve to allocate more book funds.

When I will get to the LOC I will change things. I will change them in an incredibly changeful way that will bring hope for even more change. And I will change things in such a way that we will no longer need to send our soldiers to the Middle East to get books they want to read, especially those soldiers stationed on the Iranian-Pakistani border, no matter which of the fifty-seven states they're from.

My positions on the issues are...Well heck, nobody else is talking about the issues, so why should I? But I'll tell you about my children! I have five cats and two dogs. The dogs prefer to chase bad animals roaming around the neighborhood so that they won't have to chase them in their own yard. My liberal cats will tear down and break things to get outside and preserve their green space, and occasionally bring in mice they won't let us touch. My conservative cats hoard most of the cat food for themselves so that 10% of the animal population in our house controls 80% of the kibbles.

Please remember me in November! If you don't then the terrorists will win and all the icebergs will melt and the global mean temperature ten years from now will be 451 degrees Fahrenheit. And like those two old guys who looked at least 71 but were definitely born in the United States used to say, thank you for your support.
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Sep. 4th, 2008 @ 03:12 pm (no subject)
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