Other than discovering at the last second that we were out of garlic and doubling the recipe, I made this without modification. Delicious– especially with bread and butter.
Tag: reblogs
REBLOG: I Hated Snowpiercer: An Unpopular Opinion
I hated this movie too, but this reviewer doesn’t say “fuck” nearly as often as I did. Still a good piece.
I finally watched Snowpiercer a few of weeks ago in the comfort of my living room after failing to gather a company into the movie theatres or live in another country where the film had already been released in 2013. I made popcorn. I piled up all blankets and pillows within arm’s reach to amplify my mind’s zone and also to make the couch extra cozy. I had watched the trailer several times, read excellent, spoiler-free reviews, and had been waiting for this moment all summer.
We began as four (my mother, my sister, my father, and I), then three, then two, then… one and a half? Only my dad and I survived through the end, and then with only part of our once-livid interest still intact.
We decided immediately that the film was a terrible, terrible letdown. I didn’t understand—this movie was supposed to be the film to watch…
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REBLOG: Think That Employee Harassment Complaint Is Too Stupid To Take Seriously? Just Write Your Check To Me Now.
My wife, a regular Jezebel reader, first alerted me to this situation a couple of days ago. This response from PopeHat is well worth reading:
Last week some writers at Jezebel made a public complaint about its parent, Gawker Media:
For months, an individual or individuals has been using anonymous, untraceable burner accounts to post gifs of violent pornography in the discussion section of stories on Jezebel. The images arrive in a barrage, and the only way to get rid of them from the website is if a staffer individually dismisses the comments and manually bans the commenter. But because IP addresses aren’t recorded on burner accounts, literally nothing is stopping this individual or individuals from immediately signing up for another, and posting another wave of violent images (and then bragging about it on 4chan in conversations staffers here have followed, which we’re not linking to here because fuck that garbage). This weekend, the user or users have escalated to gory images of bloody injuries emblazoned with the Jezebel logo. It’s like playing whack-a-mole with a sociopathic Hydra.
The writers further complained that they had repeatedly informed Gawker Media of the problem, but higher-ups failed or refused to do anything about it. A couple of days later, the writers announced that Gawker Media had responded and was taking steps to deal with trolls barraging them with rape porn.
This complaint was ridiculed in some circles. No, I won’t link them. The ridicule seemed to be based on the propositions that (1) it’s silly to think that Gawker should be responsible for what some third-party troll is doing to its employees, and (2) it’s silly to be upset by that sort of thing….
Go check the rest of the article out.
REBLOG: What Makes People Buy Self-Published Books?
This post has been burning up the internet for the last couple of days, and for good reason. Give it a look, if you’re an indie author.
In this post, I discussed the findings of a scientifically incontrovertible study (of myself) on the factors which influenced me when buying a self-published book.
The findings surprised me (which surprised me, because I was surveying myself). I found that I knew what made me buy a self-published book when it was in front of me, but not what put that book in front of me, unless I was browsing by genre (e.g. today I feel like reading a romance set in Ulaanbaatar: therefore I will now search specifically for such a story).
It was still hard to know what put those books in front of my eyes in order to buy them; to quote one of the commenters on that post – this is the thorny issue of “discoverability”. How will we find these books in the first place?
So I did the unthinkable, and asked some other people…
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Not quite a reblog
This article from IO9, 21 Books that Changed Science Fiction and Fantasy Forever, is well worth a read. Well enough that I’m recommending it here and not on Twitter, where no one will notice. I’m not sure I agree with every single pick, but that’s what makes these fun.
I own Dhalgren. Sooner or later, I will read it.
REBLOG: Self-Publishing is Reactionary? How about Transformative?
(Note that technically I’m reblogging this without permission. I don’t think Emery will mind, but if I’m wrong and the post goes away that’s why. I’ve been spending a fair amount of time lately thinking about these sorts of things, and there’s probably a post of my own coming in the near future. For now, read this:)
From demerybunn.com:
At lunch I was checking Twitter and came across this tweet:
I have some issues with #selfpublishing, but I can’t find a single relevant point in here: http://t.co/MlwBXVxfJT Thoughts, #IndieAuthors?
— Eliza James Writing (@EJsWriting) June 24, 2014
I read the article, and couldn’t disagree more. But simply disagreeing is something internet trolls do. I want to lay out why I disagree.
(Again, read the rest here.)
Refusing to Educate Other People’s Children: Woes Continue in Philadelphia
Whaddya know, I guess it could be worse.
What does it mean when, in June, the leaders of a school district that serves over 131,000 students are working with city and state governments to locate enough money to open school in August? In the United States—where provision of K-12 education has for nearly two centuries been provided publicly, where it has been believed essential for the formation of an informed democracy, where all have taken for granted the provision of schooling that is free and universally available—what does Pennsylvania’s seeming incapacity to provide adequately staffed schools for Philadelphia’s children mean?
On June 18, the Associated Press reported that school superintendent William Hite remained alarmed about a gaping hole in next year’s school budget. Still needed was “at least an additional $96 million to offer students even a ‘wholly inadequate’ education next year.”
Pennsylvania lacks a working formula to distribute funds to local school districts. At the same time the…
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Yes, this
Chuck Wendig appears to have disabled “official” reblogging, so I’ll do it unofficially with an excerpt and a link:
I understand that as a man your initial response to women talking about misogyny, sexism, rape culture and sexual violence is to wave your hands in the air like a drowning man and cry, “Not all men! Not all men!” as if to signal yourself as someone who is not an entitled, presumptive fuck-whistle, but please believe me that interjecting yourself in that way confirms that you are. Because forcing yourself into safe spaces and unwelcome conversations makes you exactly that.
Thing is, it is all men. We’ve all pulled some bullshit of some variety or another at some point in our lives, and we’re all enmeshed in the sickness of our society. No fucker is innocent, and I include myself in that. It’s all of us. And it needs to fucking stop.
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