deep fried is boring. brine and then a long slow tea smoke is the only way to go

i cooked a goose once- cost me near 100 bucks for the goose itself (admittedly an organic christmas goose from an organic farmer in a fancy farmers market area on the east coast of the US, so i was probably paying about as much as one could feasibly pay.)

I followed a classic english recipe, invited some friends over…

well, remember you’re talking about kevin pang, who has the taste buds of a 70 year old Mennonite. i’ve yet to see a hot take he didn’t prefer as a cold take that he would prefer done by papa johns

twiced baked potatos-

cook 5lbs of peeled whole potatoes (most any kind) for 20-25 minutes (or until nice and cooked) and then drain

add

8oz sour cream
1 packet of cream cheese

if you’re going to make a nutcracker movie and Tchaikovsky’s music is only ‘borrowed pieces’ you dun fucked up. i’m not sure i want to see another narrative straight repeat of the nutcracker ballet (its been done, extremely well and in multiple ways and its best as an actual ballet) but i sure as shit don’t want to…

i have actually had friends who were killed due to crashing into deer. i had a friend who only barely survived a horrific car crash with one. i’ve been in an accident where we struck a deer and it heavily damaged the vehicle. i had a friend who was jogging and was struck by a deer that had been thrown through the air…

just wait a few days, tell the kids the candy has gone bad and chuck it. thats what my mom always did and it made sense to a kid- everything that wasn’t canned or frozen went bad within a few days, so why wouldn’t candy? we tossed bits of leftovers that sat too long from time to time so it was seen the same way…

brains are good- the flavor is like a very delicate liver and the consistency is creamy like a pate (although i’ve never tried them fried, which i assume changes that.) its a shame you can’t get them easily in the states.

although i will admit, most of my chinese colleagues thought i was crazy for liking them and…

I saw someone said they should Brian William’s her- MSNBC, 2am live report on dog shows from small towns across this great nation. 2 hour show and she can quit anytime or sit out her year and a half talking about very good dogs to insomniacs and cocaine fiends

isn’t ‘the ballad of donkey doug’ what kavanaugh claimed he was doing that week in highschool? i’m pretty sure squee backed him up

what doesn’t track for me is the difference in these people’s positions-in the days of the gilded age, if you were a poor immigrant with no education or skills, you worked at the factory or in the mine because your options were inherently limited. the same exists today for the working poor, the lower middle class and…

well, its not really hunters that wiped out the major predators so much as farmers who were destroying them (typically by trapping and not hunting.) but we also have to consider the strange ways in which our transition to suburbs allowed certain animals to explode- deer and turkey are the obvious ones in the north…

‘it becomes immediately clear why one firearm isn’t enough for most gun owners. No matter how much heat they’re packing, men will forever feel inadequately armed’

or maybe because different guns serve different purposes. as a life long hunter, i wouldn’t take a 12 gauge to hunt a squirrel. i’ve never been much of a…

well, it took several minutes of awkward fumbling, a couple of false starts and near misses and then it was knocked over when the lander took off anyway. so yeah, that sounds like a first sexual encounter in a nutshell

given that the planting of the flag (in reality) was so ridiculous that audiences would either not believe it happened, or would be baffled by the sudden injection of near slapstick humor into an otherwise very serious movie, i have no idea how you would do it without making up an entirely different story.

it turns out…

chancellor puddinghead explains it above, but in short the original doesn’t have a kiss. in a far more hilarious twist, they just drop her apparent corpse on the ground, which knocks the apple loose and she randomly wakes up

you can take very young kids. its just a series of barely connected vignettes so if one bit doesn’t land the next will. on top of that, it has interesting staging and costuming and nothing scary, gross or inappropriate.

well even if this movie is only so-so, Amy Nicholson’s limited podcast ‘Halloween Unmasked’ has been quite interesting- lots of interviews and fun anecdotes with cast and crew

He looks like he would smell bad. But teenagers are known for making snap judgements and not thinking their ideas all the way through, so I believe it

it actually always had pretty decent numbers- the issue wasn’t ever really ratings for that show. the problem was that it was expensive, the network showing it didn’t produce it, so they had to split the proceeds and the demographic watching it generally isn’t one heavily desired by advertisers so they weren’t…