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boooo hiss

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 05:26 (seventeen years ago) link

This is where Jessa is going, and I'm really, deeply envious:

http://www.idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.htm

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Eating steaks in Argentina feels like joining a cult. You find yourself leaning on friends to come visit, and writing YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND in all caps more often than feels comfortable. Argentine beef really is extraordinary. Almost all of this has to do with how the cows are raised. There are no factory feedlots in Argentina; the animals still eat pampas grass their whole lives, in open pasture, and not the chicken droppings and feathers mixed with corn that pass for animal feed in the United States. Since this is the way of life a cow was designed for, it is not necessary to pump the animal full of antibiotics. The meat is leaner, healthier and more flavorful than that of corn-fed cattle. It has fewer calories, contains less cholesterol, and tastes less mushy and waterlogged than American meat. And the cows spend their lives out grazing in the field, not locked into some small pen. You can taste the joy.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha: "Surely Solís was wearing one of those crucifixes that shows Jesus actually hanging from the cross. It must have been a simple mistake on the part of the natives, who saw him as a friendly gift from the visitors on the boat, complete with a serving suggestion suspended around his neck."

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Cheers for helping me stock my kitchen with (18-piece set (NOT 16!) of decent looking dishes (for $18)

I think I may have the exact same dishes.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 06:27 (seventeen years ago) link

1 Jeer for missing parts in their furniture.

Ditto. I was only able to put my bed together through the good graces of someone's well-stocked toolbox, because the parts sure as hell didn't fit.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 06:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello Chicago. I am out of cocoon.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 27 November 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/cycleanim.gif

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 27 November 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

my face has been leaking yellow-green snot all weekend chicago and i don't like it one bit. a thoroughly disappointing weekend all the way around (with the exception of the pats game yesterday).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 November 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

does this work? testing testing

― Sarah Johnson, Monday, 27 November 2006 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Now I have a name

― Calico (calico), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Job Title: ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Job Type: Full Time Regular
Primary Duties and Responsibilities: Proofreading; spelling Belmont correctly; remembering the existence of the Fullerton transfer; designing stickers to cheaply correct the last environmental graphic designers stupid mistakes.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

...possessive apostrophe skills...

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

My weekend was SO F'N LAZY. Let's see.. What the hell did I do? There was Thanksgiving... That was good stuff. Then there were a ton of leftovers. I spent most of the day after Thanksgiving napping. I tried to do some Christmas shopping, but didn't have much luck. I went to the gym a couple of times, had Indian food and drinks, and watched lots of Herzog and Kinski. I started watching Big Love. I got through most of my decoupage Christmas ornament making. I read some Christopher Moore bahhumbuggery. I put up fliers and then was sad when they were all ripped down basically 24 hours later. I played a championship boggle-trivial pursuit-scrabble game against Nick and won, so he has to treat me to a movie.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe I'm not so ready to be back at work yet... Where is everyone?

― Calico (calico), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

friday i saw a formerly great band play a really shitty set, you know if dan the fan stops dancing there is something seriously wrong with your band.

saturday i went to a party but was home by 1.

sunday i watched the pats turn the ball over 5 times and still beat the bears. that was great.

starting wednesday i will be house/dog/cat sitting for a friend out in berwyn.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, and at the party saturday night someone was telling a story about this dude who is working on the L O S T video game. apparently the dude's creative team needed to know what the outcome of the story was in order to create the game, if the ending is what i was told it will be color me disappointed.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it a nice place?

Nick told me he read in the Reader that dan the fan just turned 50. I had no idea he was so up there in age! I mean, he looks a bit older, but not 50.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a bungalow on a tree lined street, it's a great little house. has a small backyard, a garden, and a garage her husband tinkers around in since neither of them have cars. i am insanely jealous of that place.

yes, dan's birthday party was last saturday, c0c0c0ma played along with al3x white, the d1als, and magnetix from france who were the nicest people. the place was packed to past capacity and the brownie to person ratio was still around 5:1. that was a crazy night, that was the night before the morning i stood outside the church listening to gospel music.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

spelling Belmont correctly; remembering the existence of the Fullerton transfer; designing stickers to cheaply correct the last environmental graphic designers stupid mistakes

I think there are about 3 million people thinking that this is the job for them.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Four days without work OR ILX, wow.

Southern thxgiving was great, I got stuffed on shrimp + rice + veggies, okra, biscuits, and chocolate pecan pie. Then I ate like 10 biscuits for breakfast and gigged at a vast mall-city (weird).

Lots of going out and chillin out this week, I'm sad that it's over.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Also saw The Man with the Golden Arm (good, but they really stick it to Sophie in the movie, huh?) and read In Cold Blood (which turned out to be a good follow-up to MwtGA since apparently Algren was obsessed with it?).

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think I knew how much of a legend Dan the Fan was until I read that article -- but then I don't go to the same shows he does. I've only seen him two or three times. Once was when I was playing with Green, and then this summer he came to Cleveland to see the Dials.

My weekend was good. Yesterday Kr and I saw the new documentary about Jonestown, at the Siskel Film Center, which I definitely recommend, esp. if all you know about the event is "Kool-Aid laced with cyanide."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

This is where Jessa is going, and I'm really, deeply envious:

I'd love to go to Argentina but not to eat the steaks.

That writer writes like you, Kenan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I waited like a month for IKEA to deliver the missing parts for my sofa.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

ooh... Mass murder. Coolio.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it's a pretty standard PBS talking-heads documentary, but it's fascinating. I did not know that the People's Temple started out as a progressive Christian church that championed racial integration and equality, and that was how Jones was able to attract so many followers. He even had three non-white adopted kids.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but wasn't he kind of a creepy Koresh-kinda guy who claimed all the kids as his own?

What was the doc called?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

It's about time for a good steak in me. It's been too long.

Did anyone do any shopping on Black Friday? State Street was a mess. Surprisingly, Ikea was very tame.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, he was definitely creepy -- there are lots of allegations of him having sex with both male and female members of the church -- and he was undoubtedly controlling, but I don't think he literally thought of all children as his own.

The doc is called Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

...possessive apostrophe skills...

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

cleaninghunk.com

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not usually a big steak guy, but after reading that article I want to go to a (inferior American) steakhouse for lunch.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Surprisingly, Ikea was very tame.

The trick to Ikea, I found, was to arrive as soon as it opens, know exactly what you want, and get the fuck out of there by 11.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I had some uncooked steak for lunch the other day and it was delish. It was like a steak ceviche--raw, but "cooked" by a citrus marinade. Seems weird that this was at Catch, a seafood place.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope it gave me worms that will help me lose weight....

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Ikea opened at 10 and we got there at 11 and farted around until 2 and it never got that crazy. The 2 meals we ate there we were strangely fortunate in that there was no line for the cafe, but by the time we paid and sat down a line 20-deep had formed.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I would like to try that!

xpost, I mean steak ceviche.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I was a little upset that I was too stuffed from Tweet's to eat anything at Ikea, even a 50 cent hot dog.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

(xp) Was it different from steak tartare?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I think steak tartare is completely uncooked meat. This was a Thai sort of dish, I think.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Steak tartare is a meat dish made from finely chopped, or ground raw beef. It is often served with onions, capers and seasonings (the latter typically incorporating fresh ground pepper and Worcestershire sauce), and sometimes with a raw egg.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

The Mexican version of steak tartare typically marinates the meat in lime juice, in the manner of ceviche, which has the effect of disinfecting the meat to a certain extent.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm. I'm not up on my tartares.

http://idata.over-blog.com/0/02/55/31/recettes/steak-tartare2.jpg

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

That's just crying out to be mixed together and made into a meatloaf.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think I would like steak tartare. In fact I think I would hate it.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

After some intense Googling, I will direct your attention to this fascinating account of the potential consequences of enjoying a nice beef tartare: http://fray.com/drugs/worm/01.html

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Have you guys seen Yacht Rock? It is great and I think you would all love it.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

You're kidding, right?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I will direct your attention to this fascinating account of the potential consequences of enjoying a nice beef tartare

It's illustrated? That's not the editorial decision I would have made.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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