Michael Kindt's Blog, page 412
February 7, 2012
"A kitchen is the only place in the world that makes complete sense."
- Michael Kindt
Bill O'Reilly, blasted on bourbon, defends Ellen DeGeneres...
Bill O'Reilly, blasted on bourbon, defends Ellen DeGeneres and J.C. Penny, rips an anti-gay organization a new one, and even begins making sense.
He was immediately fired.
FDA Warns Pets Being Poisoned by Treats: Manufacturers Refusing Recall
The question many are asking is how many dogs will have to die before the products are recalled? It is already estimated that the dead and dying are numbered at more than 500. This number does not count all of the cases that have not made the connection yet between a pet's illness and the treats. The treats are causing kidney failure and Fanconi syndrome, with some cases resulting in death; others, in chronic kidney disease.
Four months has passed since the FDA warning yet the treats are still being sold, and pets are still dying.
At a news conference today in Cleveland, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich both petitioned the FDA to step up their investigation. They both called for the Food and Drug Administration to take immediate action to put a stop to their policy that allows dangerous pet treats and pet foods to remain on the market and to put an immediate stop to its continued sale.
So far, the list of brands with treats made in China that are linked to pet illness and deaths are:
Waggin Train
Canyon Creek Ranch
Dogswell
Booda Bones – Aspen Pet
Milo's Kitchen
American Kennel Club
Hartz
Dingos
Beefeaters
Kirkland
Cadet
Sargents
Ever Pet ($$ General)
Home Pet 360
Walgreen's new brand – Simple
TheKingdomPets
If your pet has eaten tainted treats, symptoms may include:
Decreased appetite
Decreased activity
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Increased water consumption
Increased urination
If your pet is sick and you have been feeding it these treats please report it to the FDA. FULL ARTICLE
LATE NIGHT BREAD2 1/2 cups bread flour1 cup AP flour1/2 cup...
LATE NIGHT BREAD
2 1/2 cups bread flour
1 cup AP flour
1/2 cup stone ground wheat flour
2 teaspoons sea salt
2 teaspoons yeast
1 teaspoon turbinado sugar
1/2 cup warm water
(organic everything)
Mix well the yeast, water, and sugar in a cup. Warm water means that when you put it on your wrist, it feels neither hot nor cold. Allow to fester fifteen or thirty minutes, until nice n' frothy.
Mix the flours and salt in a large bowl with the yeast mixture and an additional cup of water. Mix, mix, mix some more. You want the dough to not stick to the sides of the bowl or to your hands, but still be a little tacky. A little bit more water may be needed or a little bit more flour. Fuck around with it until it is awesome.
Knead and knead some more until soft and elastic.
Shape into a ball and coat with a touch of oil so it doesn't dry out. I use e.v.o.o., also organic. Put into a bowl to rise. In a half hour or so, it should be a lot bigger. Normal recipes say it should be double in size, but who the hell measures?
Take the ball out and smash it and knead it again a few times. Shape once more into a ball and coat lightly with oil. Put back into the bowl and allow to rise again, again for another half hour or so.
Take the ball out and flatten it into a rectangle about the length of your bread pan. Roll into a loaf shape and put into the pan. Slice the top three times with a razor blade you get from the bathroom. Be sure to use a new blade and not the one with tiny, pepper-like black hairs on it or the remnants of Musgo Real shaving cream (which all male bakers should use for the perfect loaf).
Allow the bread to rise until it is sticking about an inch above the pan. At this point, your oven should be heated to 425 degrees American. Do not pre-heat your oven. It is impossible. What, are you going to heat it before you heat it? No, you're not. Just heat it.
Put the bread in for 35 minutes. You can coat the top with a little oil, or with some egg white mixed with water. If you do that, you can sprinkle on sesame seeds, which stick. Tonight, I skipped this very last step, but know that if you choose to do it your bread will be 10-15% awesomer.
French toast in the morning. Yer all invited.
February 6, 2012
Fifty Hot & New Sex Tips
I am excited that my Cosmo came today, and I had a dandy ol' time reading it on the toilet.
I admit it. I am a toilet reader. It has gotten to the point where I am unable to even use the facilities without something to read. Sometimes, I will sit there on the throne reading for so long that my legs go numb and I am forced to crawl forth from the bathroom with my pants around my ankles like some sort of primordial slug.
This is especially problematic at, like, Pizza Hut or something.
Cosmo cracks me up. The target audience is some sort of cartoon character, clearly. Is there really a woman out there that vain, that obsessed with sex AND works in a generic 'office"? I have my doubts.
Without question, I am the oddest subscriber Cosmo has. When their marketing people look at their demographics for advertising targeting, I'm sure they don't take into account a 75 year old man whose balls hang below his knees.
One of this month's headlines is YOUR ORGASM GUARANTEED: THE NEW TRICK EXPERTS SWEAR BY. I read that first, not because I have trouble cumming, but because I wanted to learn how an orgasm expert cums into being. Was there a major I missed back in college?
"So what's your major?"
"The money shot."
*high five*
Invariably, there is something in every issue about the woman "taking charge in the bedroom". I like those because I am a submissive when it come to sex. Well, I like to be anyway. I am dominant everywhere else in my life, so is it cool if I just lie here and say 'Yes, ma'am'?
Usually, no, it isn't. I have to grab HER, seduce HER, throw HER up against the dumpster. Sucks kinda.
As far as I can make out, Cosmo Girl is in her 20s, very sexually active, and has a boyfriend with six pack abs who goes by the name of "Your Guy". She works in the the above-mentioned generic office, doing, no doubt, very generic office-type things. She's always on the lookout for new make-up tips and will need a glossy, perfume-smelling magazine to tell her how to put the fire back into her relationship, should it last an astronomical three months.
Cosmo is great. I see it as unintentional satire and am shocked, shocked I tell you, every time it doesn't win a Pulitzer.
"The white man that landed here, he came with two great weapons. One is the Bible and the other is..."
- Black Bookstore Owner - The Black Power Mixtape (via eyesofadiaspora)
February 5, 2012
Did yoga. First time ever.
I'm all stretched out and feeling good. Had to keep stopping to look at the pictures in the book, such a neophyte am I. Gonna keep at it, though. It was fun.
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Your logic turns me on. That is all.
I thought it was my pointy Vulcan ears?
