Michael Kindt's Blog, page 438
December 6, 2011
I am obsessed with making the perfect black bean burger.
I try it again and again, but can't get it firm enough. Flavor's good, but it's still mushy. This is driving me crazy. Any ideas?
December 5, 2011
Wild Thing ~ The TroggsDedicated to every drunk girl ever.
Wild Thing ~ The Troggs
Dedicated to every drunk girl ever.
The 2nd Movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony. Done at the...
The 2nd Movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony. Done at the perfect tempo by conductor Carlo Maria Guilini who was leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Ludwig van wrote this shortly after learning he would go deaf. Best played very loud. It's full of rage and sadness, like all the best art of Western Civilization since the death of God at the beginning of the Industrial Age. If you listen closely, you can clearly hear all five stages of grief, except for acceptance, which I believe he only touches on then, correctly, rejects. Remember: LOUD. Turn it up to 11. Symphonic music was the first metal and is intended to be blasted.
killingcharlemagne replied to your quote: So I march with my fellow veterans, and my...
Thank you for this, Brother.
No problem. I really liked it. A lot. It made feel and understand (to a certain degree) something I couldn't even imagine. I know nothing about good writing, but I'd wager that's the definition of it.
"The English language
is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane: each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of 'franglais' and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore." —Stephen Fry
By far the coolest, most correct, and noblest thing said of the sacred Mother Tongue.
"So I march with my fellow veterans, and my body hurts with the effort."
- Matthew Mellina (killingcharlemagne), from Cadence. Go read it.
Gathering of Narcissists Turns DeadlyAn outing of luxury sports...
Gathering of Narcissists Turns Deadly
An outing of luxury sports car enthusiasts ended in an expensive freeway pileup Monday morning, smashing eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini, two Mercedes, and three other yet to be identified sports cars. More than 1 million dollars in vehicular awesomeness was lost in the gruesome carnage.
The drivers, ranging in age from 37 to 60, were all very rich men and will not suffer financially from the accident, which occurred in Japan. The mental anguish, however, could linger.
"First the earthquake and tsunami, now this," said one of the the enthusiasts as he sobbed uncontrollably alongside the road.
Unlike the majority of First World residents, who suffer from depression and anxiety, very rich men have their own unique set of mental problems, believing, for example, that they are more valuable as human beings than they actually are. They also experience a haunting interior vacuum due to the soullessness created by extreme wealth and many material possessions. Owners of expensive sports cars in particular suffer from TDS (Tiny Dick Syndrome) at more than five times the rate of the rest of the male population. Despite this, scoring women is not one of their problems because, as Lawrence pointed out in the classic film Office Space, "Chicks dig dudes with money."
None of the men were seriously injured, unfortunately.
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Reporter throws script away, spews truth. Colleagues look on in...
Reporter throws script away, spews truth. Colleagues look on in horror. (Complete with scary music).
Since people have pretty much stopped yelling at me in my ask...
Since people have pretty much stopped yelling at me in my ask (for now), I have taken down the surly, black-and-white photo of me trying to look mean and replaced it with this one, where I'm laying on the floor upside down.
It seems more appropriate.
