Michael Kindt's Blog, page 437
December 9, 2011
So,
I got the mead all squared away in my one gallon glass jug and my camera died. Recharging and will post the final picture. Also, I went out and bought some beer because I am excited and happy and it's Friday and so on. Yay!. You probably don't know this about me, but I sometimes get kinda hypomanical. I'm sure it's a mental illness requiring medication, right Pharmaceutical Companies?
trivialkim replied to your photo: Here's a picture of my Christmas tree. It doesn't…
Laughing...
Laughing at the tag, and no thank you.
Just kidding. I can't take a picture of my cock.
Here's a picture of my Christmas tree. It doesn't...
Here's a picture of my Christmas tree. It doesn't have anything to do with mead, but it's RIGHT THERE and I had the camera in my hand. By the way, Merry Christmas everybody :)
December 8, 2011
cannothearthefalconer replied to your post: I enlighten the masses.
All youth should read Voltaire's...
All youth should read Voltaire's Candide. Or maybe Swift. Yeah, Swift. How do you like your baby? Poached or braised?
Aborted! Hahahaha. Loljk. I'm a vegetarian.
Seriously, though. I give that a resounding Fuckin' A.
I enlighten the masses.
See this? This is a gif taken from Rick Perry's homophobic political ad. The ad was groudbreaking in that it has become the most disliked video ever to appear on YouTube. Like all gifs, it is robotic and annoying, the visual version of a skipping record. You kids and your gifs. Generally, I'm a big supporter of the younger generation, but on the whole obsession with gifs thing I am forced to remain silent.
You people are on your own on that one.
The reason I bring this up is the quote there. See it? It has quotation marks and everything, and is clearly attributed to Rick Perry. That's what we in the trade call satire. Also parody. It is legal. It is free speech. And it is a lie. Rick Perry never said that.
We all know that it's a lie, however. Why? Well, this is also what we in the trade call clunky, obvious satire. It's amusing but not challenging or dark.
In June, I wrote an article called "Our Abortion Was Different: When the Anti-Choice Choose," about how several years ago the Santorum family induced labor before the fetus was viable in order to save Mrs. Santorum's life. Labor was induced before the fetus was viable and the Santorums knew this and did it anyway to save the life of the mother. Fine—also tragic—but Mr. Santorum to this day fights tooth and nail to get ALL abortions banned. ALL of them for WHATEVER reason. He's a ginormous hypocrite.
So, pissed off, I wrote my article, and at the end attributed a dark, ridiculous comment to Mr. Santorum. Actions speak louder than words, they say, but sometimes it is the satirist's role to give those actions words equally loud. That's what I attempted to do. Whether it was successful or not is not for me to determine.
I got a lot of hate for that quote, which essentially boiled down to me being TOO subtle. There were arguments about free speech. There was some pretty serious analysis of it on Religion Dispatches magazine. A very liberal blogger associated with Dan Savage (so she said) even yelled at me about going too far (this from the frothy mixture people. Please).
My response to all of them, essentially, was "Blow me."
Look, sometimes satire is clunky and obvious, but sometimes it comes like a ninja in the night. A writer should not be forced to write to the lowest common denominator for the benefit of a handful of dumbass readers.
Free speech is in real danger and the fact that things like satire and parody are points of debate at all is very unsettling. Also, blow me.
The Rick Santorum Diet for Poor PeopleOf the two ridiculous...
The Rick Santorum Diet for Poor People
Of the two ridiculous Ricks running for the presidency, I can't decide which is ridiculous-er, Rick Perry, with his odd Marlboro Man looks and faux Christianity, or Rick Santorum, who thinks abortion is wrong in every case except for his wife's. After a great deal of Herman Cain-like prayer and soul-searching, I have opted for Rick Santorum because the coin I flipped was tails.
In Le Mars, Iowa on Monday, Santorum said he would greatly reduce funding for food stamps because lots of people are fat. "If hunger is a problem in America, then why do we have an obesity problem among the people who we say have a hunger problem?" Rick wondered.
Later on, Rick also said that his crowds in Iowa "were getting a little bigger," but he probably meant in numbers. In Le Mars that day, some 30 people showed up to hear him speak, several of them completely sober.
They were there for Rick's Marie Antoinette moment, but instead of "Let them eat cake," they heard "Let them eat nothing."
People in America are fat for a number of reasons, none of which is wealth. In fact, studies show that obesity rates are much lower among the wealthy, probably because they can afford real food.
Cheap food is not real food and the less expensive it is, the more likely it is to be high-calorie, high-fat, and high-crap all around. American peasant food is a manufactured product that has been engineered within an inch of its life to be more like a drug, with the perfect balance of fat, salt, and sugar to cause cravings. Americans are for the most part very ignorant about their food, learning about it as they do from advertising, which, of course, is all lies. The less money you spend on food, the more likely you're getting screwed. It's actually pretty brilliant capitalism if you think about it: the cheaper the product you make, the more you rip people off.
Poor people don't have the financial means to eat healthy organic food made out of plants and other natural things, and because of this Rick Santorum wants to make them even poorer.
In one statement, Rick has demonstrated an ignorance both of poverty and nutrition, as well as the air-headed heartlessness characteristic of politicians in general and Republicans in particular.
Taking food stamps away from poor people is simply another mean thing politicians can do to the less fortunate to appease the wealthy interests they work for.
Aside from the obvious idiocy of Santorum's statement, you never hear these clowns talk about what rich people don't need. It's always what poor people don't need. You never hear them say "We should eliminate all the tax breaks because millionaire CEOs don't need $350 wine with dinner."
Obviously, you wouldn't hear that from a Republican, but you also wouldn't hear it from a Democrat, at least not earnestly. America is a plutarchy, more so now than ever, and it's always a bad idea to piss off the boss.
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December 7, 2011
This man is a douchebag. I was out running errands just now and...
This man is a douchebag. I was out running errands just now and was flipping around on the radio and came across his show.
"Christian talk radio!" I thought. "Yippee!"
The douchebag, Buster Wilson, was talking gay rights and since that's a point of passion with me, I hung out and listened.
Poor Buster is terrified, my friends. He is terrified of the coming Gay Marriage Apocalypse. He sees it as a free for all: man marrying man! Woman marrying woman! Man marrying men! Woman marrying women and some men! Two men marrying a cat! Cows and sheep mingling! Horse and donkey in the same pasture! Ahhhhhhh!
He says, and I quote, "There has to be restrictions or anything can and will happen."
Then, after this, he took calls from people who have been persecuted for being judgmental dipshits. "Oh, Buster, whenever I stand up for marriage 'purity', people are mean to me! They are discriminating against me! Boo fucking hoo!"
Hilarious.
He is part of the AFA, a group recently classified as a hate group for the fact that it hates homosexual people. It should be allowed to continue to spew its invective, though. Hate speech should be the most passionately defended form of speech, along with the speech that counters it.
What annoyed me the most was him saying that there is a "Christian reason" for opposition to homosexuality, which there isn't. Jesus didn't say a word about it and the other three references to it in the NT are dubious at best.
There's a passage in Romans many anti-gay people point to. It goes like this: "These men deliberately forfeited the truth of God and accepted a lie, paying homage and giving service to the creature instead of to the Creator, who alone is worthy to be worshiped for ever and ever, amen. God therefore handed them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged the normal practices of sexual intercourse for something which is abnormal and unnatural. Similarly the men, turning from natural intercourse with women, were swept into lustful passions for one another. Men with men performed these shameful horrors, receiving, of course, in their own personalities the consequences of sexual perversity."
The thing you need to know about this passage is that IT WAS NOT SAID BY JESUS, but Paul, who himself admits is simply a man. Second, a few lines later, Paul says this: "Now if you feel inclined to set yourself up as a judge of those who sin, let me assure you, whoever you are [including me, Paul], that you are in no position to do so. For at whatever point you condemn others you automatically condemn yourself, since you, the judge, commit the same sins."
Obviously, Paul is just a dude because on the one hand he is judging certain sexual practices and on another saying he shouldn't be doing that. Yeah, we can discount what he says here. Hell, he does so himself.
So this Buster guy is a real dick and doesn't even understand his own religion.
Nietzsche was right. God IS dead, and has been since the beginning of the Industrial Age. I contend that the most atheistic people currently around are in fact today's Christians. They have so completely lost their faith that they have replaced religion with political ideology. Pretty sad if you think about it.
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Good morning and I have a new job:
Doing an assignment for my friend Lindsay's college class. She reads this blog, so HELLO LINDSAY! (It freaks her out when I address her directly on here. Hahaha). She has given me a nickname: MIRL—Mike In Real Life. I don't know what she calls me when she reads this, but my guess is 'your Majesty'. 20 bucks, so I can finally buy that small tropical island I've had my eye on.
In other news, went to the punk rock show last night and watched the kids mosh. My moshing days are behind me, but I still have the scars on my head to prove that I did, in fact, have moshing days. Fun was had.
In betwixt bands I went out in the parking lot to suck down a beer since the place has no liquor license. Cops rolled by and I nearly got busted. Had to throw the beer in the bushes. I didn't mind—I was fucking freezing.
On a side note, the singer for the Dirty Rotten All-Stars kinda looks like a male version of Gerard Way.
I didn't stay through the whole thing because I got tired. So I went home, took some Geritol with prune juice, climbed into bed, and continued to get older.
December 6, 2011
Cool, thanks!
Lots of good ideas. Nope, I haven't tried broiling, just frying in a cast iron skillet with a little oil. I'm gonna try the egg and flour route today, making a sort of thick dough, since that's what I got here. Gotta get some panko.
Every week I make these and every week I wish they were firmer.
