Some Amanduh...

For some reason, I write a post about people being stoned stupid and then next thing I know I'm over at Pandagon reading Amanduh posts. Go figure...

Amanduh The Foodie...

This is already long, but I learned one more interesting thing about cooking seasonally, which is that it really helps with the cooking simply thing.

It's good to know that the most interesting thing about the cooking seasonally thing is that it makes the cooking simply thing a more attainable thing.

Cooking simply works best when you stick to ingredients that are flavorful themselves.

Someone needs to dial 4-1-1 and let Alton Brown in on this...

In case it’s not obvious from the recipes I cook, I’m a mostly-vegetarian who occasionally eats fish.

Isn't "mostly-vegetarian who occasionally eats fish" a rather long-winded way of saying you're not a vegetarian at all?

I’m a vegetarian for ethical reasons beyond animal welfare, though I’m a big animal person who believes routine cruelty to animals warms us up to violence amongst ourselves.

Err... I did I miss something, or didn't she just say she ate fish? So she's a "mostly-vegetarian" for ethical reasons? Or what? In other news, evidently fish don't need no steenking animal welfare...

I am suspicious of rigidity, because when you’re rigid and you fail your own rules, you often just give up completely.

You ain't suspicious of rigidity when you're male and 53, let me tell you. If you're rigid at 53, you certainly haven't failed and you're sure as shit not about to give up. Honest.

Amanduh The Critic...

I’ve been holding off on talking about “The Walking Dead” until after the season finale, because it’s a somewhat slow-moving show and I think it needs to be assessed in a bigger chunk than one episode at a time.

News Flash: Zombie shows got "chunks".

In fact, before things degraded into an too on-the-nose wife-beating scene, there was an interesting rewrite of the sexism of the books, at least early in the books.

"An too"? Bonus: We have your "of the books" thing combined with your "in the books" thing. Which, all things considered, should help with the viewing simply thing.

I’m sorry, but the entire area around Atlanta is filled to the brim with rural and suburban areas that would be less zombie-clogged than the city and far more full of supplies that you could ransack until the end of time.

I've always suspected that large metropolitan areas were where zombies tended to congregate... I know Westerville is relatively zombie-free at the moment.

Confession time: I’ve spent most of the past couple of decades hating “Dirty Dancing”. 

I thought you said you liked horror movies if they're scary... 

My conclusion is that it’s still a shit movie, but only in parts.  In other parts, it’s actually a pretty good movie.

Ah... So, other than the shitty parts, it was pretty good. Or is it that other than the good parts, it was pretty shitty?

Amanduh The Party Animal...

Lindsay Beyerstein took many fabulous photos of the event, and they’re all my favorites, but I have to admit a special fondness for this one of me yelling god only knows what into the microphone (actually, this is probably me encouraging the packed dance floor to sing along to George Michael’s “Freedom” during my DJ set).

 

I have to admit, it is one of her best...

Comments

[Eric Blair]

The uber-wannbe-hipsterness of Marcotte is beyond parody at this point.

[James]

I believe the Peasant is besotted with this siren of syntax.

[Dennis The Peasant]

Besotted? No. Transfixed? Yes.

Much in the way I am transfixed by the works of Edward D. Wood.

[James]

Their belief in their own sagacity is almost touching, if you can keep a straight face in front of them.(Pardon the puncuation, self taught you know.)

[reader]

The red font isn't working as a link for me. I demand and also respectfully request to see that pic of you yelling only god knows what, Dennis.

[The_Real_JeffS]

In other news, evidently fish don't need no steenking animal welfare...

Unless you're Sarah Palin beating the poor suckers to death. Then it's "Katie, bar the door!"

[Comanche Voter]

Looking at the woman in that pic? Unless she can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, I'm not interested.
And she has to be both able to do it, and willing to do it. I've got a Chevy Tahoe parked outside; you can go to work on that when she gets here.

[richard mcenroe]

"I’m a vegetarian for ethical reasons beyond animal welfare, though I’m a big animal person who believes routine cruelty to animals warms us up to violence amongst ourselves."

I think I can safely promise never to take a bite out of Amanda Marcotte. Who's with me?

[richard mcenroe]

" I demand and also respectfully request to see that pic of you yelling only god knows what, Dennis."

That would be pretty much any of them.

[Dennis The Peasant]

Amen on that.

[Mike C.]

You would think if she was planning on going out to a big party that evening, she would have remembered to put on her tits...

[mike]

I am suspicious of rigidity is a face-saving way of admitting you're a total hypocrite.

[richard mcenroe]

"I know Westerville is relatively zombie-free at the moment."

It's because of your blog, Dennis; it's like a roach motel for them. Never close your comments again. Humanity is depending on you.

[Christopher]

Wow. How much does she get paid?

Since she eats seasonally, in the winter, does she subsist on beans, grains and root vegetables? That's pretty much all that should be available to her from, oh, say, late October through April or May (depending on where she lives).

I wonder if she catches her own fish, and in a sustainable way?

But that might mean, ewww, getting her hands dirty. It's ironic that she talks a good feminist game, and comes across like a spoiled little girl, although, in the spirit of feminism, maybe she chooses to be one? Then it's ok.

[Daphne]

Since she eats seasonally, in the winter, does she subsist on beans, grains and root vegetables? That's pretty much all that should be available to her from, oh, say, late October through April or May (depending on where she lives).

She's my Austin neighbor, so I suspect she supplements her diet with large helpings of hipster beta male.

[Don]

"I know Westerville is relatively zombie-free at the moment."

They are all in New Albany. Trust me on that one.