What's on your mind today?

[G-Roll]

im thinking fuck my life. just fuck it. no lube or nothin..

im also thinking about chaging my avatar. but that requires energy and motivation. i have neither.

[philosoraptor]

A friend of mine just posted to her FB that she was in a car accident, but she's okay.  Someone responded that she ought not to forget to get on her knees and thank God for sparing her life, and all I could think was how fucked up it is that "get on your knees" is the same thing you might say to a prostitute or a person about to get executed.  I guess we're all prostitutes for God.

[Tom62]

Last evening I installed Windows 7 on my old PC. I still wonder why I did it  . OK most of my stuff is restored (manually), but there are still some issues to work on (like finding a suitable driver for my Canon scanner).

[Kylyssa]

I'm thinking about the Arizona immigration law created by people who associate with or are Neo-Nazis.  It's not a "Nazi card" when actual Nazis (or actual Nazi wannabees) are involved.

It blows me away that people are saying, it doesn't matter that the senator that put forward the law is a racist and possibly a Neo-Nazi, because the law isn't racist.

[Tank]

A friend of mine just posted to her FB that she was in a car accident, but she's okay.  Someone responded that she ought not to forget to get on her knees and thank God for sparing her life, and all I could think was how fucked up it is that "get on your knees" is the same thing you might say to a prostitute or a person about to get executed.  I guess we're all prostitutes for God.

I'd pass on letting God F*** me, thank you very much

[Tank]

Being in the UK I'm thinking about our election and if Gordon Brown will be shown the door!!  

[Tank]

im thinking fuck my life. just fuck it. no lube or nothin..

im also thinking about chaging my avatar. but that requires energy and motivation. i have neither.

step over to the couch and tell us all about it

[philosoraptor]

A friend of mine just posted to her FB that she was in a car accident, but she's okay.  Someone responded that she ought not to forget to get on her knees and thank God for sparing her life, and all I could think was how fucked up it is that "get on your knees" is the same thing you might say to a prostitute or a person about to get executed.  I guess we're all prostitutes for God.

I'd pass on letting God F*** me, thank you very much

On the real, me too.

[i_am_i]

I'm thinking about the recipe I invented last night, Cajun Steak and Mash.

See, I love to cook and my specialty is Cajun/Creole food. So here's what I did last night:

I boiled two large potatoes. Easy, right?

Now I always buy these inexpensive thin-cut New York strip steaks at the store, you can get three of them for eight or nine dollars. And I had an inspiration: Cajun Steak And Mash.

Cook the steak in a frying pan until it's seared on both sides, just for a couple of minutes at the most. It should be really rare, but it's going to be cooked some more. Put that steak somewhere so the cats can't get to it.

Then you make a roux using the same pan you cooked the steak in. Now making a roux is everything, it's the key. I use close to a half cup of vegetable oil and the same amount of flour. Put in the oil first and heat it until it's bloody hot, close to smoking. Then start adding the flour a little at a time, stirring it madly with a wisk and scraping the bottom of the pan to get all those little steak bits. Be careful not to burn the hell out of youself. You don't want the roux to splash on your hand. It burns like a bastard, seriously.

After all the flour is in and you've stirred and stirred you should have a dark-brown pasty sort of mixture. Take it right off the heat or you'll burn it.

If this was a real gumbo I would have added the holy trinity, which is about a half cup to a cup each of chopped onion, chopped green pepper and chopped celery. Traditionally those are added to stop the roux from cooking more. And, of course, they make the sauce taste much better. But all I had was onions so I just took my roux off the heat once it was the color I wanted. If you have those then definitely use them. I will next time.

You need some beef stock that you've already made. I just used a beef stock cube. Slowly, slowly pour in that stock a little at a time, stirring and stirring, mixing it together. It'll sizzle and act like it's going crazy but you have to hang in there, stirring all the time until you have what's essentially a thick gravy.

Some people like to add the roux to the stock, but I like my way because I only need one pan.

Now add your seasonings. I used a teaspoon each of cayenne pepper, white pepper, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, thyme, basil, dry mustard and salt and black pepper. Put your pan back on a medium heat and put all that in all at once and keep stirring like crazy. If it starts getting too thick you can add a little water, but you have to keep stirring. And there's your delicious sauce. Turn the heat down to low.

Mash your potatoes, I always use a hand mixer to get them just right. You want them to be thick yet fluffy. I put in some butter and a little milk while I'm mixing.

Then you slice that steak into strips. Take those strips and put them into the sauce and stir. Get it all together in there.

Put your mashed potatoes on a plate, put the steak strips over and around the potatoes and pour some of that bad-ass gravy all over the thing.

Get yourself a bottle of Tabasco sauce and dig in. Oh baby!

[elliebean]

Sounds good! Now I'll have to improvise a version of that my girlfriend's delicate system can handle, poor thing.  

[Tank]

Blasted election! They moved the coverage of the qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix by an hour! Is nothing sacred?  

[kelltrill]

I love elliebean's new avatar.

Also, I appear to have created a monster with the The Science of Aesthetics topic. The debate has gone far beyond me I'm afraid. Philosophical chitter chatter tends to shatter the remnants of my brain. Keep it scientific and logical (not in the philosophical sense of "logic") and I'm totally on board though.

Sigh.

Also, Kickass was a weird movie that really needed to pick a genre/tone.
Has Nicholas Cage officially sold out completely?

[pinkocommie]

I love elliebean's new avatar.

Also, I appear to have created a monster with the The Science of Aesthetics topic. The debate has gone far beyond me I'm afraid. Philosophical chitter chatter tends to shatter the remnants of my brain. Keep it scientific and logical (not in the philosophical sense of "logic") and I'm totally on board though.

Sigh.

Also, Kickass was a weird movie that really needed to pick a genre/tone.
Has Nicholas Cage officially sold out completely?

I think Cage was in danger of totally losing his ass since he spent way too much money (the man owns a damn giraffe!) back when he was making way too much money for horrible crap movies like National Treasure so now he is kind of taking whatever he can get to pay off the debt he created.  Which is a shame since he was so so good in Adaptation.  

[kelltrill]

I think Cage was in danger of totally losing his ass since he spent way too much money (the man owns a damn giraffe!) back when he was making way too much money for horrible crap movies like National Treasure so now he is kind of taking whatever he can get to pay off the debt he created.  Which is a shame since he was so so good in Adaptation.  

And City of Angels.
He used to be memorable. Now he's reduced to playing wannabe Batman characters and repeating the words "babydoll" over and over again.

A giraffe? seriously? I don't know whether to be dismayed or impressed.
Regardless, I hope he sorts his debt crisis out if that is the case, maybe by selling the giraffe, and starts making decent movies again. He has great acting skills, he just needs to use them properly.

[pinkocommie]

I can't honestly begrudge him the giraffe.  When I heard that, my instinctual response was 'cool!  I want a giraffe!'