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American Guy’s Oxfam Trivia Night
My team, Custard of Lump, performed badly. For my part I was still a fair bit hungover from the previous evening.
But I did come away with this candelabra that looks a bit like the Fiat NOX octopus:
The bidding got kind of silly, but I still paid $1 less than its market value ($25). I needed a centrepiece for my mantle.
Adam Got Hacked!
Cunts messed with his template and his archives – and deleted Hagakure 419. Cunts!
Life just keeps dropping the bombs this week. First there was that whole freakish untimely death of Steve Irwin thing.. now this.
Harira
Another culinary adventure inspired by the house of Rorsch & Semi (see also).
You will need:
- 500g of lamb
- Olive oil
- 2 chopped onions
- 4 cloves of crushed garlic
- 1.5 teaspoons of cumin & 2 teaspoons of paprika
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tablespoons of tomato puree
- 1 cup of soup stock (Rorsch recommends VeCon if you can’t be bothered making your own stock. I recommend Bovril.)
- 500g of washed, soaked and cooked chickpeas
- 2 cans of chopped tomatoes
3 tablespoons of fresh, chopped coriander36 tablespoons of fresh, chopped flat-leaf parsley- Turkish bread
- Saute onion and garlic until soft.
- Add meat, and brown.
- Add cumin, paprika & bayleaf, and cook “until the fragrance makes your eyes start to water”.
- Add tomato paste and cook for a couple more minutes, stirring continuously.
- Add stock & chopped tomatoes, stir and bring to boil (“by now you should be able to feel the spice on the back of your pharynx”).
- Add chickpeas
corianderand parsley.
- Bring to boil.
- Simmer for 1 1/2-2 hours or until lamb is tender.
- Serve, garnished with extra
coriander andparsley, and warm turkish bread.
Cactus Postscript
The cactus suggested, amongst other things, that I should return to life and start blogging here again, although it’s simultaneously rendered me kind of speechless. In a good way.
Perverse. I blame myself for eating a psychoactive cactus during a Mercury Retrograde cycle. Heh.
Actually I don’t.
I have no regrets. It was ace.
Anyway, we’ll see what happens.
What have you been up to lately?
Seriously! Go read Hagakure 419!
If you have enjoyed this (possibly now defunct) weblog, you will have multiple orgasms over the ‘Kure.
It’s filled with bloggy goodness the likes of which you ain’t been seeing round these parts for ages. It’s a depraved new world! And quite frankly, you owe it to yourself to get into it. Any way you can.
What are you, scared?
I reckon you’re just scared.
Our resident Enlightenment Officer, Calumny Pointsettia, sent out a promotional email which was a bit over the top. Perhaps it frightened everyone off. I tried to tell her to tone it down a little, but she wouldn’t listen. She gets a bit carried away sometimes. But that’s just because she loves our little house blog so much.
Go on – we’ve got Chesh and everything.
What more could you possibly want?
Nothing!
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Ever Onward [*]
My archives will be going offline soon. They’re under review.
Like I said, there are going to be changes.
They’ll take as long as they take.
Thanks for your patience.
[*] Whilst we’re in disavowal mode, please note that contrary to rumour I am also emphatically not affiliated with the Church of Satan.
Happy
Yay!
I’ve finally compiled my “Stuff I Did Last Year” post, which had become the object of increasingly dire procrastinatory enmirement over these past two weeks. It involved conducting a larger review of the year which I’d been dreading.
That was stupid of me. (Hindsight’s a wonderful thing.)
It may seem like I’ve been neglecting this blog – but the truth is I’ve been going half-demented thinking about what to do with it.
*sigh*
The only fly in my ointment today, however, is that I’ve accidentally deleted the audio file – which I really, really wanted to post – of a conversation conducted between myself and my neighbour on Thursday night.
We were discussing the most efficient way of killing everyone in our building. In the end we decided to get two pistols with a silencers and then just knock on each person’s door one by one. I would do upstairs, he would do downstairs. Simple, effective, no muss, no fuss.
The talks broke down, however, when it became apparent that my neighbour thought we should give ourselves up once the job was complete.
That seemed ridiculous to me. What kind of milksop goes on a merciless killing spree and then surrenders? “Gee, sorry about that. Here, let me spend the rest of my life in jail”? Fuck that.
I’m going to Sydney tonight, for the birthday of an old friend and to hang with baby sis, who is going backpacking overseas next month for a long time. I shall return on Tuesday evening. There will be pictures.
But then, once I get home, I’ll be working like a trojan through to Sunday. So don’t be anticipating too much action round these parts over the next week or so.
There are going to be changes. Good changes. Still not sure exactly what form they’ll take yet. But they’ll be good.
Finally, word up as always to all the good people I’ve been woefully neglecting in various ways of late (specifically: Agent Blabber, Alexis, Clover, Desci, Hits, Li, Nada, Reanimator, Simon Blackmoore and the mysterious, oracular Mr Simon Moon.. although somehow I feel sure that he, at least, is not offended).
Please be assured of my regard and that communques are pending as applicable.
From: Trysting Fields Central Communications
To: Bentendo
Date: 13 December 2005 9:50:46 PM
Subject: Re: I have a new personal blog
On 13/12/2005, at 5:19 PM, Bentendo wrote:
>hey,
>
>hows it going,
Ah aight. I had all this cleaning I wanted to do and I’ve only done the kitchen so far. And it’s really bugging me.
Also what will I wear to the wedding? I’ve just got nothing at all to wear. It’s really bugging me also.
I’m okay. Destruction continues apace.
>so i’m doing this blog thing but i’m really not sure what to do,
>it seems really impersonal, like um i cant really explain, but
>i’m finding very hard to write anything particularly good on the
>thing.
>
>tips? help?
>
>i’m not after feedback or anything, just maybe something i dunno
Hmm.
Having a theme helps.
Also a bit of an audience to give you feedback.
I’ve found the best blogs (apart from ones that started from an absolutely shit hot idea to begin with) are the ones that have evolved their own style by trial and error over time. Just keep posting shit and see what sticks, kind of thing.
I started my old one in January entirely for the purposes of documenting my involvement in Neurocam, as was the style at the time. I just wrote about Neurocam to all the other Neurocam people. That was pretty straightforward. But eventually I got frustrated because other things kept creeping in that I wanted to write about. So eventually I started my other blog and just wrote what I wanted and was happy.
You get into a habit of thinking “oh, that would be a good thing to put in the blog” and soon enough ideas start occurring to you all the time. Many of those ideas will probably be crap, but there you go.
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Library Punk Is Dead
He’s post-punk now, doncha know. And he’s moving to Melbourne!!! Smart.
More to the point, he now has a blog, which promises to develop into a prime source of quality rantage which will help keep us all amused as the twilight era of late stage western capitalism skids merrily towards its inevitable cataclysmic meltdown.
It’s good! I would definitely check it out if I were you.
Beltaine In “Not Wrong” Shock
Toots really is Chesh in drag.
Don’t tell anyone I told you; bitch’ll have my spinal fluid.
UPDATE – Community Service Announcement: This is Beltaine spoofing Toots, and not the real Toots.
Alexis & Avery
Alexis is back, again.
And the legendary Avery Cardoza was back for about five minutes but now appears to be gone.
Grimsby, shakes fist etc