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Long distance driving sucks. Driving in general sucks. But it sucks so much more when you drive long distance
ThorSon's milkshake brings all the PF girls to the yard - Volcaniclastic
RIP
I have never been across the way
Seen the desert and the birds
You cut your hair short
Like a shush to an insult
The world had been yelling
Since the day you were born
Revolting with anger
While it smiled like it was cute
That everything was shit.
- J. Wylder
Hoping that the whole "blackmail the love interest" scheme that has popped up in a new show ends with the would be blackmailer summarily outmaneuvered and smashed at an opportune moment instead of the long drawn out angstfest that I'm expecting to see from it. Yes, extortion is a common and believable ploy but can we break formula for once and make it fail utterly? Please!
Life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
"But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."
John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper
"You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."
I'm up at almost 1am wondering if there are any traditions anywhere where, instead of trying to attract the attention of divine beings, the entire point was to pass through life with no notice taken. Not even deflecting wrath, impurities, whatever....just be as invisible as possible to whatever forces that be you believe in.
Also, happy news: after two weeks, we found our cat. And he was not a kitty splat. We still need to take him to the vet tomorrow, though. Two weeks on the street was not kind to an elderly cat.
I'm up at almost 1am wondering if there are any traditions anywhere where, instead of trying to attract the attention of divine beings, the entire point was to pass through life with no notice taken. Not even deflecting wrath, impurities, whatever....just be as invisible as possible to whatever forces that be you believe in.
See, that's kind of the opposite of the way I learned. Chopsticks for things like chicken balls, dim sum, sushi, potstickers, tonkatsu, teriyaki chicken. Just grab one or two things and eat them. Pretty much the only thing that's like you say is noodles.
I bust out the fork for non-sticky rice, and stuff like chow mein where it's all small pieces. Chop sticks just feel like they take twice the effort to get half the results of a fork, they just feel like the wrong tool for the job. Every bit as much as eating most soups with a fork would feel like..
Huh. I wonder why the difference. I've always felt chopsticks were about shoveling. Maybe it's that I haven't been around too much of the other meals, like dim sum or sushi, that is larger or mouthful-size. Most foods I've had were small morsels, even like that tonkatsu (katsudon, actually) and the teriyaki chicken were diced fairly small.
I always thought the point of chopsticks was the versatility... that they could be used for picking up AND shoveling. Have you ever seen an Asian person eat rice or slippery noodles with chopsticks? They definitely shovel, usually with the bowl held in their hands close to their mouth. I've also seen Asian people do some pretty amazing delicate pick ups with chopsticks.
I was taught to use chopsticks by a first generation Australian-Chinese (ie her parents immigrated from China, but she was born here) friend in high school. Her family pretty much never used forks... just chopsticks or those ceramic soup spoons for broth.
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Also... as far as I'm aware, the 'proper' way to eat dim sum, wanton or sushi is to shove the whole thing in your mouth without biting it. As far as I can tell, the really big style sushi and dim sum is a Westernised thing.
I'm up at almost 1am wondering if there are any traditions anywhere where, instead of trying to attract the attention of divine beings, the entire point was to pass through life with no notice taken. Not even deflecting wrath, impurities, whatever....just be as invisible as possible to whatever forces that be you believe in.
I wear an aluminum foil hat.
It's a little known fact, but aluminum foil is impenetrable to omniscient beings.
I know this is true because I read it in an old book.
Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
We've been moved into the new place for a couple of days now. I absolutely love it! My room isn't fully unpacked yet, but it's so cozy The chin is adjusting well and my roommates love him. We don't have internet yet, but when we do get I'll post some pics for you guys. Take care, everyone!
The rant thread has been locked? Normally isn't it just pruned?
They moaned and squealed, and pressed their snouts to the earth. We are sorry, we are sorry.
Sorry you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak, but you were wrong.
-Madeline Miller, Circe
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