Michael Kindt's Blog, page 406

Where is the Kindle book man?! Love your writing style, keep it up!

Thanks :) Kindle and all other e-versions are available here.

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Well, they look pretty and smell great. Haven't tried...

Well, they look pretty and smell great. Haven't tried them. I'll let em cool a bit. Obviously, I didn't have quite enough batter :)

Dry mix:
1 cup 100% whole wheat flour
1 cup AP flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
pinch of salt

Wet mix:
1 cup cooked quinoa
1/2 cup apple sauce
1/2 cup turbinado sugar
1/2 cup skim milk
1/4 cup canola oil
1 egg, beaten
splash of lemon extract

Mix the dry stuff together and make a well in the center. Pour the (mixed) wet stuff in it and add about a half a cup blueberries. Mix together just until the dry stuff is pretty much moist. Don't mix too much. To make this vegan, skip the egg and use rice milk in place of skim. I guess you could use soy milk, but I think that stuff is raunchy.

Spoon into muffin pan. Bake on 375 American for about 25 mins. Test doneness with a toothpick.

Baking some quinoa blueberry muffins. Never baked with quinoa before. I wonder how they'll turn out.

Anyone ever baked with quinoa before?

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum eating an ice cream cone he...

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum eating an ice cream cone he named, for some reason, "Jamal".

Jerry Jeff Walker ~ I Feel Like Hank Williams TonightOne of my...

Jerry Jeff Walker ~ I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight

One of my favorite songs, and when you're drunk, you have to post your favorite songs on the internet. It's the rules.

There are now, according to my math, about 10 people from South Dakota on Tumblr.

That's, like, almost a quarter of the state's population!

"It's easy to do things. It's not easy to think about what to do."

"It's easy to do things. It's not easy to think about what to do."

- Jamie Hyneman

Reviews

I hate giving reviews. I don't know how to do it, really. More importantly, I don't know why. Especially when it comes to writing. It may sound funny (or perhaps obvious) to you, but I know nothing about writing. I never studied it, per se. In college, I studied English—the language—and business, plus a dollop of education and biology (I was a major major switcher).

All I know is what I like. People have asked me to take a look at their writing and I just can't. I can't do it. I mean, I can LOOK at it, but I can't say anything about it. What if I don't like it? I can't say it. Never. I could never do that.

When it comes to BIG writers, I can criticize, though. I have made it known here more than a few times how I'm unimpressed I am with Stephen King, with Dan Brown, etc. I figure if you got a million bucks, even I can say I don't like your shit.

Being a writer is a terribly naked thing to do. Everyone's looking at your bare ass. Personally, criticism only bothers me when it's grounded in complete misunderstanding. Not to say that it doesn't prick, but if you're gonna show your bare ass, the simple fact is some people aren't gonna like how hairy it is. I can handle that part. But if someone mistakes it for a pair of tits? Yeah, that really bugs me.

Generally, I seem to receive positive reviews, like on Amazon and Goodreads and shit. A few people on Goodreads didn't much care for my writing, but so it goes. One guy said he thought the stories weren't developed enough, and he's correct. I write stories, I don't development them. I'm not a photographer, fer christ sake :) I know my writing is extremely weird and will not be for everyone.

Most writing today sounds like writing to me. In my internal ear, it sounds like I'm reading writing. Personally, I want to avoid that. That's my goal in writing, to make it sound like a campfire tale or something. I also like to fuck around with the narrator. What if the person telling you the story was lying? Such questions fascinate me.

Anyway. I can't look at your work, sorry. I wouldn't know what to say about it, except "Keep on keepin' on!"

Take care and thanks for listening to me ramble. I'm getting a little drunk, so I'll probably ramble about something else in a while…or post a bunch of songs on Facebook. You know how it goes :)

Been reading your blog for a while now. Really like it. Almost makes me want to start a tumbler blog. I notice a few pages back you said you're a Republican? I was wtf? Haha. Were you joking?

Don't get a Tumblr. This shit is like heroin.

Yeah, I'm a Republican. Have been since my 18th birthday and will be till I die. My grandmother was a die-hard Republican and she insisted I register as one. I was living with her at the time (and got the distinct impression I wouldn't be if I registered independent). So I did.

Now, I think it's hilarious that I'm a Republican. I'm a spy, working deep cover. Plus, I get to vote against the craziest one in the primary. A small victory, I admit. Do I want the one who wants to impose his faux Christianity on everyone else or the one who hates women and the poor? Hmm, decisions, decisions.

I'm being a bit of a smartass. The Republican party used to be a real party before it had it its nipples twisted off by evangelical fanatics. Now it won't be able to win a national election without the help of the Supreme Court or by changing local election laws to make it harder for poor people and minorities to vote, which it is currently working on feverishly.