| Someone Always Needs A Policeman |
[May. 20th, 2009|12:37 pm] |
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My friend Katherine is a kindergarten teacher. She called me, laughing her ass off, after reading this book to her kids the other day.
Okay, seems reasonable enough so far, I suppose.
( Or SOMETIMES... ) |
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| Bacondoodles!!! |
[Apr. 18th, 2009|02:25 pm] |
So there's this other boy, see. Once again, all my best cooking stories involve feeding boys.
Dan came up to visit me yesterday from San Francisco. I'm on a baking kick, and he was excited about the bacon peanut butter cookie stories. I'd saved him some, but he deserved his very own batch of tasty goodness.
After the peanut butter experiment, there were a few things I wanted to differently with the next batch. The peanut butter was pretty overpowering; the next try needed more bacon and a less strong base cookie dough for an earthier-tasting cookie.
I spent the afternoon looking at snickerdoodle recipes and finally settled on this one, specifically because it called for a good amount of both shortening and butter. I replaced the shortening with bacon fat so that the bacon flavor would carry through the whole cookie and give it a nice earthy flavor, while the butter gave it that rich snickerdoodle trademark.
( Bacondoodles: Death Seduction Cookies, Round II! ) |
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| Bacon Peanut Butter Death Cookies (AKA seduction cookies) |
[Apr. 16th, 2009|10:41 am] |
There's this boy, see. Isn't that how all the best cooking stories start?
Anyway, he's terribly nice and I'm moving away in two weeks. I knew we wouldn't have another date for awhile, so I decided last night's date should include a special treat. And really, what better way to say 'please give me six hundred kisses this evening' than peanut butter cookies chock full of bacon?
While on the phone with my mom yesterday morning, I mentioned the cookies. "Wait... you're making these... things... for a boy you actually like? And want to see again?"
"Yes, mom. I actually like him and want to see him again."
Her advice: "Perhaps you should just bake him a nice chicken instead. Those cookies sound revolting. At least make sure you brush up on your CPR before you give them to him."
We moved on to other topics, but at the end of the call, she said, "Okay honey, I love you, talk to you soon. I hope he likes your DEATH COOKIES."
( Death cookies, a saga in pictures ) |
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| Whole Foods predatory business tactics |
[Dec. 2nd, 2008|06:38 pm] |
I posted this to the damnportlanders community yesterday, but nonlocals should be aware as well. Whole Foods has subpoenaed New Seasons, a Portland natural foods grocery chain of just nine stores, for highly detailed financials, market plans, and other business data that should never be released to a competitor.
It's being done in the name of supporting Whole Foods' defense against the FTC antitrust investigation with a promise not to misuse the data, but as the New Seasons CEO points out, this is a bit like trusting the fox with the henhouse.
Please do read the blog post and review the subpoena at the link above, and please consider whether Whole Foods merits your business while engaging in predatory business practices.
To help increase awareness, you can Digg the original article or upvote it on Reddit. There's also a lot of activity about the topic on Twitter, and retweets seem to be getting some attention. Whole Foods does have a fairly well-monitored Twitter account and seems to be paying attention to the noise; in fact, Paige, the marketing person responsible for their Twitter feed, has already responded with a well-written (if insubstantial) comment on the New Seasons blog.
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[Nov. 8th, 2008|12:07 pm] |
“The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease.
The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all conventional AIDS medication.”
WSJ Online - Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS. |
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[Aug. 16th, 2008|11:17 am] |
Who, me? Would I really try to push your laptop off the desk while you're in the bathroom?
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