Cookbook Classics

Anthony Bourdain's Holiday Special

Sandwiches You Will Like

Human Population Growth, Economy and Technology: The "Necessity" of Cloned Meat

There were moments of dreams I was offered to save
I lived less like a workhorse, more like a slave
I thought that one quick moment that was noble or brave
Would be worth the most of my life.

So I pointed my fingers, and shouted a few quotes I knew
As if something that's written should be taken as true
But every path I have taken and conclusion I drew
Would put truth back under the knife.

And now the only piece of advice that continues to help:
Is anyone that's making anything new only breaks something else.

So I took what I wanted and put it out of my reach
I wanted to pay for my successes with all my defeats,
And if heaven was all that was promised to me
Why don't I pray for death?

And now it seems like the unraveling has started too soon,
Now I'm sleeping in hallways and I'm drinking perfume
And I'm speaking to mirrors and I'm howling at moons
While the worse and the worse that it gets.

Oh you can judge all the world on the sparkle that you think it lacks.
Yes you can stare into the abyss, but it's staring right back.


Dawes,
When My Time Comes


If You Let Me Be Your Anchor
Take Me out of the City

Senate passes Food Bill, but sadly fails to read the constitutional fine print.

Mario Batali and the Future of Food.

Culture Wars and Foodie Elitism.

The Myth of Organic labels.

The Innocent Non-Browning Apple

South Park spoofs Food Porn and it's distributors.

"I'd take some red wine, and a wooden spoon, and I'd deglaze the fuck out of that pan..."

Creme Fraiche
Tags: SOUTH
PARKRandy Marsh,Sharon Marsh,more...

NASA Press Conference announcement ignites speculation.

New Comic Day

Elvis and Captain Marvel (Jr.)

Comics and Mythology, Our Gods Wear Spandex

Media, Culture, Vigilante Identities

"Damn You Batman!"

“For my next album I’d like it to be about meat and I want to be wearing a bacon bikini. Also I want my records to smell of sausages or pork.”
-Lady Gaga

The raw meat dress will reportedly be dried out, turned into beef jerky, and eaten by the highest bidder.

It's been there for some time, but today it says something different; something awful, something true.

Grinnin in yo face, Son House
Tomorrow Night, Lavern Baker

You don't know me, Ray Charles

You don't know me
Whispering Pines, Richard Manuel

wedding feast

It was a great wedding.

Much love and deepest gratitude to everyone who came and who made it all possible...

"All Better!"

The Federal Government last estimated that only 26% of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon Disaster remained in the Gulf. It had all just naturally disappeared, they reckoned. Shucks, the experts said, it just cleaned itself right up, and took all that toxic dispersant with it.
Well, maybe. They didn't actually test for it so much as poke around briefly, throw up their hands, and announce whatever their handlers wanted them too, namely that it was "all better", regardless of actual evidence or science.

Indeed.

"..it has "already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm...There’s absolutely no evidence that there’s any significant concentration of oil that’s out there that we haven’t accounted for,” said Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the lead agency in producing the new report.

Anyway, some actual scientists have concluded actual studies, rather than issue press releases from oil lobbyists, and announced that the numbers may be slightly different: more like as much as 79% of the oil and its toxic byproducts still remain in the subsurface waters of the Gulf. They found a evidence of a significant concentration of oil out there that was not accounted for.

"One major misconception is that oil that has dissolved into water is gone and, therefore, harmless," said UGA marine scientist Charles Hopkinson, the senior investigator in the effort. "The oil is still out there, and it will likely take years to completely degrade."

Federal researchers involved in preparing the earlier estimate couldn't be reached for comment late Monday. Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington and New Orleans also couldn't be reached for comment.

“We were the Meat poets, baby. We got down
to the bone."

Henry Charles Bukowski, (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994)

Happy Birthday, Hank

a race of lost children

A dramatic rise in the percentages of seven-year old girls hitting puberty. Sometimes it even happens much, much earlier...

Of course, there's also the rise of the seven-year old self-obsessed anarcho-conservative speed freak-worshiping hypocrites:

...Since the day Johanna was born, we've worked to indoctrinate her into the truth of Objectivism. Every night we read to her from the illustrated, unabridged edition of Atlas Shrugged—glossing over all the hardcore sex parts, mind you, but dwelling pretty thoroughly on the stuff about being proud of what you've earned and not letting James Taggart-types bring you down. For a long time we were convinced that our efforts to free her mind were for naught, but recently, as we've started socializing her a little bit, we've been delighted to find that she is completely antipathetic to the concept of sharing. As parents, we couldn't have asked for a better daughter.
That's why, when Johanna then began berating your son, accusing him of trying to coerce from her a moral sanction of his theft of the fruit of her labor, in as many words, I kind of egged her on. Even when Aiden started crying.
-Eric Hauge, McSweenys

On one hand, I respect his willingness to engage in the experiment. On the other,
I can easily imagine her growing into this maladjusted woman, who clearly felt Morally Entitled to some damn McNuggets.

Which brings us back to the breast-endowed, menstruating children, which seems to be (like autism) a byproduct of genetic mutation with myriad causes; two of the biggest perhaps being the consumption of bio-engineered, antibiotic, hormone and industrial-chemical saturated foodstuffs, and a World Ecosystem now choking on the molecular level with plastic molecules and their derivative compounds.
These two overlap pretty heavily these days, since the Petro-Chemical and the Pharmaceutic Sydicates share the same profit interests...


Welcome to Rapture, Children...tell it to the Little Sisters.

________________________

third helpings of discontent

Decadence:

The finest tinned meat products.

A cookbook for Exotic Meats

Cooperate Espionage and Secret Muffin Recipe.

The high price of Strange Delicacies.

The growing popularity of the Ladies Brunch Burger, now with chocolate-covered bacon.

3-D Porn
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Rottenness:

Gulf Spill all better? Don't fucking kid yourself...

Sick soldiers and toxic smoldering trash fires.

Chinese "carrier-killer" missiles.

NJ closes Public Libraries, and thoughts on the American Dark Age.

Christopher Hitchens discusses cancer diagnosis.
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Bittersweet:

Space, Alien Life, Human Evolution and Potential Destiny:

"Since we don’t know how our own life emerged and haven’t discovered any elsewhere, we still have no idea whether life is common in the universe or if we are unique. We can be certain that we are not the culmination of life forms here, because we are less than halfway through the Sun’s lifespan. In the six billion years to come, there are likely to be creatures as far beyond humans as we are beyond microbes, and science as far beyond our present understanding as quantum theory is remote to a chimpanzee."

-Seminars on Long-Term Thinking Series

it will get weirder still...

The Excellent Meat Hook

New Cosmological Model proposed.
Fermi Paradox Odds
Tesseract 101
Robot surgeons and short-order cooks.

101 Bacon Flavored Products
Teens turning to shamanism.

Biggest Book in the world.
Oldest University restored.

Will Wal-Mart, not Whole Foods, save organic farming?

rays of black sunshine

Gulf Dead Zone biggest in the world.
Scientists "aren't sure if the development has anything to do with the Gulf oil spill."
Of course it's no big deal, since the oil spill is already magically all better!
If you only count what you can see on the surface and not all the stuff soaking into the beaches and wildlife.

“50% to 75% of the material that came out of the well is still in the water,” said John Kessler of Texas A&M University, who led an on-site study. “It’s just in a dissolved or dispersed form,”... It may be everywhere, infused, inculcated, in the ecosystem blood stream, but it is otherwise, apparently, not in evidence.

In any case the Oceans are dying...


Racism and Hypocrisy:
Even as the United States is caught up in a pile of rhetoric concerning the children of immigrants, Israel does precisely the awful and deports children to "preserve the country’s Jewish identity."

“We all feel and understand the hearts of children,” said Benjamin Netanyahu. “But on the other hand, there are Zionist considerations and ensuring the Jewish character of the state of Israel.”

The Oregon Health Dept shuts down a child's lemonade stand because she did not acquire the proper business license and threaten to fine her $500.

Also, an outbreak of bubonic plague.


Price of Bread to rise further.

Witch stories of Mexico.

new comic day

Alan Moore Interview

Superman comic saves family from greedy villains.

Fables Covers

The Evil Overlord Checklist

a little solar weather...

"Solar Tsunami" Plasma Wave hits earth sometime today...
Depending on who you listen to it could cause either a wave of communications blackouts and other unforeseen electromagnetic interference or just some pretty lights in the sky...
Either way, it's probably a bad time to be going on a space-walk to fix the failed cooling system on a rickety space station.

"A blast of violent space weather could hit the Earth tomorrow following two massive explosions on the Sun. NASA astronomers witnessed a huge flare above a giant sunspot the size of our planet and linked to an even larger eruption across the surface of Sun.
By chance, the explosions were aligned towards Earth, sending a solar tsunami racing millions of miles across space.
Experts estimate a wave of supercharged gas called plasma will reach us this Tuesday when it will buffet the natural magnetic shield protecting Earth.
It could trigger spectacular displays of the aurora or northern and southern lights."

...but then again:

"This eruption is directed right at us," said Leon Golub, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
"It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time."

Scientists have warned that a really big solar eruption could destroy satellites and wreck power and communications grids around the globe if it happened today.
Nasa recently warned that Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”.
The Daily Telegraph disclosed in June that senior space agency scientists believed the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013.

It remains unclear, however, how much damage this latest eruption will cause the world’s communication tools."

The rational part of me knows that the nature of these sort of cosmic events is almost wholly unexplained, even the structure of the sun itself a mystery, every theory being displaced by something more complex and bizarre before the old math is even finished being worked out, and no expert can really estimate or predict fuck-all any more than a psychic octopus or a coin toss.

But I am a gambler, and for the other part of me those odds are good enough, and has readied the bug-out bags.

Seeing the Lights...

Cuts of Pork

Know Your Meat!

Radioactive Wild Boar!

Meat-eating fueled human evolution, making us smarter.


"The belly is the giver of genius."
- Perseus

meat media

-Interview, MeatPaper issues #1, #0

Photography from Seamus Mullen.

Mark Twain's Feast

Inside the Taco.



Genius Menu of Note:

"...Last night, we served 2 seatings of investors and their concubines/concududes at the new spot. Menu items included: Buddha Sex Cabbage, Princeton Review Bean Paste Noodles, Tarofongo, Dumpling Face Killahs, Country Fried Steak the Legend Continues, General Tso's Head on Prawns, and of course Everything but the Dog Meat Platter."
-Eddie Huang of Baohaus.

Top Secret America.
Tracking Chips in your underwear...
Investors move to corner Cocoa, and eventually all Food Markets.

Darth Vader Robs Bank.
Beer in taxidermy bottles.

Prehistoric life beneath great barrier reef.
Antarctic Octopus.
Life inside a Black Hole.
Plants think and remember.

"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile—and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep."
—The Great Shark Hunt, 1979

"There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die."
—Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s, 1988

Happy Birthday
Hunter S. Thompson (1937-07-18 – 2005-02-20)

just so you know...

National Pork Board Annoyed by the Selling of Canned Unicorn Meat.

Frenchman slays cellmate, then "cooked them up with garlic, shallots and left over rice."

Gulf Oil Cap-Uncapped.

Lady Gaga brings dead bodies on tour as stage props.

An amusing poll gives estimates on Americans views on the future.

Music of the Spheres: The soundwaves emitted by quantum particles and solar storms.

Queen knighting Patrick Stewart with a Bat'leth...

Bilderberg Group goes public, begins friendly PR.
Blacker than Black: Radiation-soaking metamaterial.
The Sound of a Little Bang.
Strange Military experiments.
Japanese asteroid probe recovered.
Extinction by asteroid: inevitable.
The Oceans of Mars.
Dolphin Diplomacy.
The Ahab Parallax.
The iPhone credit system and the banned materials list.

Self-assembling, flying robot drones and self-aware internet.
Documentaries on Existence and Meaning.

Faith in Science: A new religion, a new priesthood. Where Cosmic Awe comes with it's own new set of apologetics; Magic Black Energy, Cosmic Quintessence, and the Sleeper Field. Of course, these theories could be mathematically extrapolated from base models themselves built from faulty readings and false assumptions.
The Essential tenant of Man-Machine Integration.
Some within the ranks rankle, point to short-sighed track record of the species and limitation of the human brain itself. (All the more reason to start augmenting it with better hardware.)

"The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died."
-Revelations 16:3

Estimates of oil leak doubles. Again. Some experts think even this is far too low, so don't be surprised when the numbers continue to rise.
Estimates will quadruple if they ever start counting the "magic plumes,"which appear from nowhere and continue into forever.

And cleaning the little birds off won't do any good. They are poisoned and insane inside. Just like us.
The filth of our arrogance is so thick now, sudden and visible in it's horrible effect.

One hundred years after his death, Mark Twain's final and complete autobiography to be published.
Quest For Whiskey!
Surprise: Sunscreen causes cancer. And most herbal supplements are toxic and contaminated.
Cults, Conspiracy, Enemy of Governments: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Heroin Therapy.
Cybernetics researcher infects himself with computer virus.
Biometrics and Thought Crime.
Columbia graduate steals speech from comedian.

True Synthetic Cellular Life

"It is a living species. It is self-replicating. Its only genetic code is what we built into it chemically. Every protein is dictated by that genetic code. This is a new, independent species whose origin was the computer, not some genetic relative."
- J. Craig Venter

May 21, 2010 it was announced that a form of wholly synthetic cellular life has been developed, and this seems to me a good a date as any to mark the beginning of a truly different time in the history of man. The ground has dropped from beneath our feet and we plunge deep into a new business entirely, a place where the old arguments and conceptions of 'life' and what is 'natural' are made wholly irreverent.
The question is not whether we should or should not do a thing, but only whether or not we are able to yet; a matter of technique. If we can do a thing, we must. Such is our 'nature.'


Grey Goo Scenario

"...Even so, some people argue that living goo, or even a combination of nanotechnology and biotechnology to create organic replicators, is a more realistic threat than grey goo. Arguing that bacteria are ubiquitous and extraordinarily powerful, Bill Bryson (2003) says that the Earth is “their planet” and that we only exist on it because “they allow us to”. Margulis and Sagan (1995) go further, arguing that all organisms, having descended from bacteria, are in a sense bacteria. Many kinds of bacteria are in fact essential for human life and are found in large quantities in the human digestive tract, in a symbiotic relationship.
Thus a living goo could be a multicellular organism that obtains its raw materials to grow through ecophagy, and then grows through a process of exponential assembly such as cell division.
A more literal biological analogy to grey goo are prions, which have been implicated in such diseases as kuru, Mad Cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and fatal familial insomnia. In all of these conditions, an abnormal protein possesses the ability to unfold and refold other normally functioning proteins into copies of itself. Prions are extraordinarily contagious and difficult to destroy, but their relatively sluggish rate of transformation has prevented them from successfully overrunning the biosphere.

Existential Risk

"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world...
I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."
- Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

The Incredible Reggie Watts

I Just Want to
Out of Control
Fuck Shit Stack
The Beginning is Near

Portland Chefs brawl and whine over Pig Dinner Winner.
Wendy's Customer requests mustard, brandishes stun gun.
Trail of blood leads to Fight Club.
String of Apple Factory workers commit suicide.
Class of 2010: Good fucking luck.
$635m in Masterpieces Stolen: Art Heist at museum of modern art.
Current estimate of worlds fish supply: 40 years.
Modern Moonshine.
Japan's Solar Sail craft to orbit Venus.

DIO Tribute

new comic day

Dino Buzzati

Sparta USA

Kabuki

Black Muthafuckers Vol. 1

J.B. Lenoir
Chuck Berry
Lonesome Jimmy Lee
The Gories
T-Bone Walker
Little Richard
Ike and Tina
The Wolf

Honorary B.M. 1 2

audio sausage

Die by the drop, the Dead Weather
Someone Something Jr, Sea Lion Goth Blues, The Growlers
Mykonos, Fleet Foxes
Birthday Boy, DBT

My Morning Jacket Covers

it's not blood, it's just corn syrup

Timecrowave!

The oil-siphon attempt dislodges.
Ignoring permits and the underestimated oil leak.

Homeless Paradise in Hawaii: Free food, shelter, and healthcare on the taxpayer dime.
Private intelligence contractors still working in Afghanistan.

there is a hook for everyone

Choke on it, hippies.
The sun does not shine on you.
The shit-wind blows ill across us all.

Richer than God, Trading for Free.
Massive Black Hole.
Convent Cocaine Ring.
Declassified Pentagon MK-Ultra Reports.
John Stewart explains the long number.

"Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted."
-John Ralston Saul

gulf-shore fish vinaigrette

The Magic Dome that was supposed to stop the spreading oil spill in the gulf of Mexico has failed, and the estimates getting thrown around about size of the slick keep getting smaller, while it's coverage tripled in two days...
And here's an idea that combines the thrill of the ecological damage caused by the existent oil leak with the aesthetic satisfaction of filling the ocean with shredded tires: plugging the oil spill with trash.


Meanwhile, in outer space, plans to for building the largest scientific apparatus are shaping up:The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

The mystery fatal fungal infection in the Northwest US linked to rouge microbiologist.

Organic Molecular Computer: True Neural-networking.
Battlefield Sutures with Light.
Withdrawal, Addiction, and Hangovers.
Ron Paul on Auditing the Fed.

Abandoned Haitian Children.
Seventeen year-old toddler.

Trust Us. We Are Professionals.

Research

Development

Experimentation

Analysis

Theory

Big Knives

Secret Meat of the Week #1

Cuban Burger Recipe Transmission:
"...there ain't much to the burgers, pretty much just:

1 pound sirloin, ground
1 pound chorizo, loose ground
add few dashes of pepper/salt/garlic powder or just about 1 clove minced fresh garlic...
mix thoroughly, let sit 5 minutes or in refrigerator for longer...
drizzle olive oil in the pan,
low heat...slow cook, about 10 minutes..
turn up to medium 3-5 minutes..
give em the occasional flip during the sear...
remove burger patties from rendered chorizo grease, let rest for a second.
toast yer bread with some muenster or manchego cheese on top..
add ham and/or sweet pickles and pickled peppers/onions...
no fucking sauce,but mustard if ya gotta..
certainly no goddamn ketchup....."

Food Porn, parts one and two.

embrace the radiation voices

Time to Belly up to the Harsh Fucking Truth: Cellphones DO CAUSE CANCER, just like Cigarettes, in fact.
We get to watch them play out the last scene in Thank You for Smoking.
Imagine the indignation at being asked to step outside of the bar in the rain to use your phone. At the wave of stickers and signs that blossom at the entrance to every building telling to to turn off your blackberries and iphones.
I know, the terrible inconvenience.
Too bad.

childe ov psyience

Entry from the journal of Dr (Name Delete):

"...the nanocarbon wires used to hold my eyes open for the duration of the procedure are uncomfortable, but necessary. An information-bacteria infection overstimulates the tear ducts, compensating somewhat for the dryness of the lens and rawness in the surrounding tissue.
The jaw was more difficult, but I used one of the smaller surgical lasers to cauterize many of the pain receptors in that part of my face before the implants were finalized, so the rest was easy, though I have to be cautious with the nervous system clamps; It is vital I retain full cognition and sensory input otherwise during the neural overload and integration process.
The primary conjunction points will deliver the DMT concentrate solution directly into the cerebrum and spinal tissue, while the secondary support systems pump adrenaline saturated blood into main arteries to stop shock induced heart failure.
...The towels, of course, will need to burned after cleaning up from entry into the third phase.
The Costs to my associates, my body, to my mind and very humanity have been great indeed. But any price is worth finding some way to reverse this damned retrogenetic virus. I'll have to build some sort of synthetic womb-tank for this little body if I am not successful soon.

Let the experiment begin..."

signal, noise, mincemeat

'When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war."
-General Stanley McChrystal, US and NATO force commander


“I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive... Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.”
-Steven Hawking

Giant Laser creates miniature Sun.
The Power of Lucky Charms.
Bullshit and Noise about WWII.
Hallucinogenic Drugs used to treat Depression, Anxiety.
Lethal Fungus Infection spreading through Pacififc Northwest.
Bigger Cages and Chicken Cannibalism
Malcolm X Assassin freed on bail.
Killer in Utah faces Firing Squad.
Secret sterilization program in Uzbekistan.

Prompt Global Strike: The mach 5 missile.
Robotic Space Plane X-37B. Reagan would be proud...
Tiny Map: Building Nanoscale Objects
"Ancestral Eve" Acid Crystal
Baluarte Bridge: The Largest Tunnel-Highway Project ever undertaken in North America.

Giant Corpse Flower ready to blossom with the scent of rotting meat.
Japanese social structure and blood type personalities.

Edward Gross, August 31, 1925- April 21, 2010

Go In Peace, you tough old bastard.
They don't make 'em like you anymore, and maybe that's just as well, but to me you were a Legendary Man's Man who made it through the world when it was much rougher for most folks, and in the final tally you did most of it with an ax and a gun and a sack of peaches handy.
You'll be missed by many and remembered strangely, often with laughter, and maybe none can leave any better thing.

Brahms, Bach Guitar
When You Awake, Rick Danko
I Shall Be Released, The Band
Wide River to Cross, Levon Helm
Sinkhole, Where the Devil Don't Stay, DBT
Long As I Can See The Light, CCR
Southern Anthem, Iron and Wine
I Am Weary, The Cox Family
Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, White Winter Hymnal, Fleet Foxes
King Cobra in the Guts of Valhalla, Pleasure Forever

Bardo Thodol

Heart of Christ, once in Agony
Have Mercy on Us, The Dying