tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55415002024-03-29T08:00:32.063+09:00BigHominid's Hairy Chasms"Oh beauty, who dost betwixt thy fever'd buttocks my beleaguer'd skull embrace..."Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger21036125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-85420589446656232312024-03-29T08:00:00.017+09:002024-03-29T08:00:00.350+09:00he sucks at all of his jobs; it's why he's always getting fired<p>Don Lemon interviews Elon Musk—his host and patron—for his new show... and ends up getting fired. Probably for asking aggressively stupid questions, then turning around all wide-eyed while lamely claiming "Freedom of speech!" Idiot.</p>
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<p>Things have gotten worse since this video.</p><br><br>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-28328342766293067212024-03-28T13:00:00.028+09:002024-03-28T13:00:00.145+09:00woke thinking and unhappiness revisited<p>I did a truncated version of this <a href="https://bighominid.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-power-of-aggrieved-thinking.html">before</a>. Here's the longer version.</p>
<p>PJW with the quick coverage:</p>
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<p>Matt Walsh on wokeness and unhappiness:</p>
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Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-23424422090141783852024-03-28T11:03:00.001+09:002024-03-28T11:03:27.116+09:00ululate!<a href="https://youtu.be/FjcWiKzWZ3Y?si=_uMqycsTzVnWfncx">Senator Joe Lieberman is dead</a> at 82, reportedly due to complications from a fall. I didn't follow the latter part of his political career, but there was one election where I wrote in my own presidential ticket, with Rudy Giuliani for president and ol' Joe for VP. So, some years ago at least, there was a time when I liked the guy, or at least hated him less than the other guys. His pairing-up with Al Gore always struck me as weird and awkward, but politics is nothing if not strangely recombinant. RIP, Joe.<br><br><br><br>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-36711452785075562192024-03-28T10:17:00.008+09:002024-03-28T10:17:46.418+09:00oof<center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Biden and Trump are both flying to New York tomorrow. Spot the difference. <a href="https://t.co/l7Hfc8xgyS">pic.twitter.com/l7Hfc8xgyS</a></p>— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1773081723934228490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center>
<br><br><br><br>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-59072519837078872262024-03-28T08:00:00.021+09:002024-03-28T08:00:00.242+09:00Hollywood nonsense<p>Is the woke nightmare finally ending?</p>
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<p>The <b>Criticial Drinker</b> on whether Hollywod has been humbled:</p>
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<p>Hollywood elites, obsessed with Trump, can't stop talking about him:</p>
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<p>I won't be seeing "The American Society of Magical Negroes":</p>
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<p>What happens when you suck the woke out of modern movies? You get <i>nothing!</i></p>
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<p>Michael Rapaport—the leftie—excoriates the left. Has he been red-pilled?</p>
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<p>I'm starting to like Jess of the Shire more and more. I might subscribe.</p>
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<p>Veritasium: the oldest unsolved problem in math:</p>
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<p>Funny testimony (this is a subgenre, I think):</p>
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<p>The best handmade bagel in NYC (I showed this to my boss):</p>
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<p>Why Matt Walsh is now <i>against</i> tipping:</p>
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<p>Matt Walsh on the "bloodbath" comment:</p>
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<p>Chris Chappell weighs in:</p>
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<p>PJW on how Google quietly changed its definition of "bloodbath" to make Trump look bad:</p>
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<p>If you call this media treatment of Trump <i>fair</i>, in which his words are deliberately taken out of context and wrongly amplified again and again, then you are not a serious person, and we have nothing to say to each other. There is no moral equivalence here. The alt-media and the rightie media don't act anywhere near this badly toward lefties and Democrat politicians, and if you can't see that, then you are blinded by your derangement.</p><br><br>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-79274090061866851312024-03-27T21:33:00.000+09:002024-03-27T21:33:10.443+09:00Baltimore/Dali update<p style="text-align: left;">The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/8-people-were-on-baltimore-bridge-at-time-of-collapse-ship-issued-a-mayday-before-collision-authorities">an article</a> that says:</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>At least 8 people were on the bridge at the time of collapse.</li><li>2 of the 8 have been found. One is uninjured; the other was taken to hospital.</li><li>Preliminary investigations point to an accident, not terrorism or other malicious action.</li><li>The ship's crew issued a mayday, re: power problems, before the crash.</li><li>The mayday probably saved lives as authorities were able to restrict bridge traffic.</li><li>There were contractors on the bridge, so the number of casualties may be higher.</li><li>The ship has the flag of Singapore, but is chartered by Maersk.</li><li>The ship was not being piloted by its own crew at the time of the crash.</li><li>It is customary for a local crew to pilot a ship out of local waters.</li><li>The ship had been heading for Sri Lanka.</li></ul><p style="text-align: left;">My takeaway from this is that things could have been a lot worse. The bridge's collapse is dramatic, but loss of life will, in the end, not be too high. That said, it's a tragedy for the people who <i>were</i> killed, not to mention for the families of all who were injured or killed.</p><p style="text-align: left;">This wasn't mentioned in the article, but I saw it as a rumor, if you will, in the comment threads at Instapundit: the ship had been experiencing power-related problems from the moment it left port. Curious.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p></p>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-80709888673870061652024-03-27T19:45:00.001+09:002024-03-27T19:46:27.436+09:00Ave, John Mac!<p style="text-align: left;">I've just stolen this meme from <a href="https://mccrarey.com/">John McCrarey's place</a>:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8m_kb_f_pn7Lach_s0xZvs6x2QBGqIwRqpylPH2feL3O484dCAMPGDAmN5wFQi-kfaqvV0zC5CNyWCz_GM-fE8J7PwH1wF0tX41_XqAZ1Q_Vo43VnvTRlhVcHh8pnveXwEf2S4wkC7IvSY7UbLTLF0vgyW5AHeHKWYJJ7CP3SZHKAChKWFf7x/s750/240327AnakinPadmeMEME.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8m_kb_f_pn7Lach_s0xZvs6x2QBGqIwRqpylPH2feL3O484dCAMPGDAmN5wFQi-kfaqvV0zC5CNyWCz_GM-fE8J7PwH1wF0tX41_XqAZ1Q_Vo43VnvTRlhVcHh8pnveXwEf2S4wkC7IvSY7UbLTLF0vgyW5AHeHKWYJJ7CP3SZHKAChKWFf7x/s16000/240327AnakinPadmeMEME.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Funniest Anakin/Padmé meme I've seen thus far.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-43650736968871243202024-03-27T18:00:00.070+09:002024-03-27T19:04:28.212+09:00catching up on court-case news<p>Jim Jordan vs. Fani Willis:</p>
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<p>Trump vs. Letitia James:</p>
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<p>Trump vs. Jack Smith:</p>
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<p>Kevin O'Leary on how the real-estate judgment is about so much more than Trump:</p>
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<p>Jack Smith vs. Judge Cannon:</p>
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<p>Trump vs. Stephanopoulos/ABC re: defamation:</p>
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<p>Stupid AOC vs. Bobulinski and "RICO is not a crime":</p>
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<p>A side story—more on the moron:</p>
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<p>How Trump will beat Letitia James and E. Jean Carroll:</p>
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<p>How bad is it for Trump vs. NYC?</p>
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<p>Vivek on Letitia:</p>
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<p>Mark Cuban, who hates Trump, is defending him in this context:</p>
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<p>Unethical Judge Engoron tries to get ahead of the Truth Social merger:</p>
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<p>CNN doesn't like the Truth Social merger... I wonder why.</p>
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<p>Case delayed!</p>
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<p>The appeals process has begun:</p>
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<p>Details about the merger that ought to give Trump a windfall:</p>
<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q9xrkxK312k?si=rxBoQv_1rUL5teTH" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center><p style="text-align: left;">See the latest update <a href="https://bighominid.blogspot.com/2024/03/fighting-tar-baby.html">here</a>.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-81663542852027093172024-03-27T17:31:00.002+09:002024-03-27T17:40:29.517+09:00fighting the tar baby<p style="text-align: left;">They never learn. The more you flail at Trump, the more you end up stuck in a mire of your own making. Not only did Trump have his bond amount reduced in the James/Engoron court case (with more time given to pay it), but he also made Truth Social a publicly traded company, immediately netting him personally <i>over six billion dollars</i>. Previously, Trump's net worth had been around $2.6 billion, but now, he is at around $9 billion in one fell swoop. This makes any penalty from the bogus real-estate case negligible to him at best.</p>
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<p>Some perspective, though: Trump is still only a small-fry billionaire, but as Doug notes above, he is now among the 500 richest people in the world, a fairly exclusive club. (That's not the sort of thing that matters to me as much as it might matter to Trump, of course.)</p><p>I need to do more research on this, but I think people are also finding out that Attorney General Letitia James, like Fani Willis, has some dirty dealings she needs to explain. More on that when I have something.</p><p>ADDENDUM: for my non-American readers who don't know <a href="https://youtu.be/qpGL-mj-LEk?si=8dCB4KkUWKCgjCU_">the tar-baby reference</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-19892174999060442292024-03-27T13:00:00.003+09:002024-03-27T13:00:58.924+09:00nasty "bagel"<p style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I left this on my boss's desk yesterday. He didn't come in, so he's now got a day-old bagel sitting there. I hope he enjoys the nightmare.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguF6xmdJDLlmR73KlHBqQdSy6Sp0vc6YmkEq8WkovqXT9ktPtzYCkKpHGPNs7dk_OVSH7DGbbxazbZOJ8gdfys0DOJj9Y-5JsvoyWcTrxkFDgwLt6DRs5qaKAK830db5x-NJyyemZKrQMaPNo3BISD6h7tifOmvzW8vCZGFfZhkX7ta1zjk_gk/s2489/20240326_134807.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2489" data-original-width="2240" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguF6xmdJDLlmR73KlHBqQdSy6Sp0vc6YmkEq8WkovqXT9ktPtzYCkKpHGPNs7dk_OVSH7DGbbxazbZOJ8gdfys0DOJj9Y-5JsvoyWcTrxkFDgwLt6DRs5qaKAK830db5x-NJyyemZKrQMaPNo3BISD6h7tifOmvzW8vCZGFfZhkX7ta1zjk_gk/w576-h640/20240326_134807.jpg" width="576" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My boss is from New York, so he knows his bagels.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Something comes over from the West, and Koreans will generally try to reproduce it "their" way, which means making it smaller and less substantial. For cakes and cookies, that means being stingy with things like butter, sugar, and eggs, resulting in sawdust-like roll cakes and such. A Paris Baguette "bagel" might look like a bagel, but the texture is wrong, wrong, wrong. A true bagel has density and heft to it; no one describes a New York bagel as "light and fluffy." But you can squeeze a Paris Baguette "bagel" as if it were a sponge, and <i>it'll spring back</i>. Shudder. How can this huge bakery chain get so many Western breads and cakes and other confections so wrong?</p><p style="text-align: left;">To be fair, Paris Baguette isn't totally hopeless. They do have some good products. When I was doing the Newcastle diet in 2021, I survived on their salads, for example. They also sell a cakey muffin (vanilla and chocolate versions) that is just about perfect. So it's not as though they get everything wrong, but if you want something close to real Western bread, you should probably find a specialty bakery like Kim Young Mo (the founder, his sons, and some staff received their training in France). Overall, the bread situation in South Korea has improved radically over the past few decades, but Paris Baguette seems to have found the perfect formula for fairly consistent disappointment.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Speaking of specialty bakeries: a former coworker told me there's a spot in Seoul called Sweet Park that's full of bakeries, <i>chocolateries</i>, etc. Perhaps when I'm healthier, I'll have to swing by. I heard they're getting their own branch of Five Guys. I hope the portion sizes remain American (they won't), and I'd like for the prices to be reasonable (they won't be). I should just stick to making my own burgers, I think.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-65259889443529662042024-03-27T13:00:00.001+09:002024-03-27T13:00:00.245+09:00President Shambles: a detour<p>No transcript today—just a piece about Biden's obviously ersatz videoconference:</p>
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<p>Chinese women don't want to breed:</p>
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<p>China's gone "insane" about TikTok (and its possible ban in the US):</p>
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<p>The sea of unemployed people:</p>
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<p>Gross:</p>
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<p>The Dantean descent of Hong Kong continues:</p>
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<p>Xi Jinping's "breakthrough":</p>
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<p>Murder season in China—a heartfelt look at a social problem:</p>
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Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-48439405087139219132024-03-27T08:00:00.016+09:002024-03-27T08:00:00.241+09:00echoes of Laken Riley<p>Regarding Biden's lame apology for saying "illegal" about Laken Riley's murderer and Trump's contrastive and ballsy doubling-down on the term "illegal":</p>
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<p>Could Laken Riley ruin Joe Biden from the grave?</p>
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<p>Oh, and Styx sees Biden as <i>not quitting</i> at the convention. He's all in.</p><br><br>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-84763356513879356002024-03-27T03:00:00.005+09:002024-03-27T03:00:00.262+09:00l'équitation<center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sgcEktkB2P4?si=LgF2lGqjVeTSwqZC" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br><br><br><br>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-75842335336823929472024-03-26T23:05:00.000+09:002024-03-26T23:05:13.560+09:00disaster at Key Bridge, Baltimore<p style="text-align: left;">A cargo ship named Dali, with a Singaporean flag, crashed into a supporting pylon of the Francis Scott Key Bridge (not to be confused with the Key Bridge connecting Rosslyn, VA and the Georgetown district of Washington, DC) in Baltimore, Maryland. The accident happened at around 1:30 a.m., and when I checked the news about two hours ago, reports said that at least seven vehicles had gone into the drink (the Patapsco River). Darkness had been hampering rescue efforts. This is an evolving situation, so watch the news for updates. There are many questions regarding how and why the huge seagoing vessel crashed into the bridge's pylon. Power loss? Drunkenness? Some other factor(s)? Video of the ensuing collapse is <a href="https://rumble.com/v4lku2e-mass-casualty-event-declared-after-cargo-ship-hits-francis-scott-key-bridge.html">pretty frightening</a>. The span was 1.6 miles long, and a large portion of it is now simply gone. As you might imagine, the loss of the bridge has severely disrupted local traffic patterns. Here's hoping the death toll is minimal.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-44148559583114509172024-03-26T23:00:00.028+09:002024-03-26T23:00:00.247+09:00the GOP and abortion<p>Styx's perspective on abortion is very close to my own:</p>
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<p>The GOP won the battle to make abortion a states'-rights issue, which is what the GOP had long fought for. Some GOPers, hungry for more, are now trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by pushing for a <i>federal</i> ban. This is ridiculous.</p><p>Leave the issue alone, guys. You won. Now, <i>back off</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-54087811170654005262024-03-26T21:10:00.000+09:002024-03-26T21:10:05.417+09:00banana cream pie<p style="clear: both; text-align: left;">From a week or so ago:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi89dM5b1xlzBE_KxSL52cNtI3E4DKPSzihp-C6TSN00UBrnbR3jQmdetdZ4i85Pk8lOqqShne6wB0GX9im3BamAjNqmlbeVgDIbq347qfGggxAQgsdvADdVGQpW7en7j09aZzZHy9r7H60S5mfd47WrErUe7kWZYXqqf1PJEHOfL0ZYKxB6N5W/s4032/20240320_142908.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi89dM5b1xlzBE_KxSL52cNtI3E4DKPSzihp-C6TSN00UBrnbR3jQmdetdZ4i85Pk8lOqqShne6wB0GX9im3BamAjNqmlbeVgDIbq347qfGggxAQgsdvADdVGQpW7en7j09aZzZHy9r7H60S5mfd47WrErUe7kWZYXqqf1PJEHOfL0ZYKxB6N5W/w360-h640/20240320_142908.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">The closest thing I could find to Nilla Wafers were these tiny, nickel-sized "egg cookies." Overall, the banana cream pie was awesome, but the hard, grainy turbinado (this was a cinnamon/sugar mix) was a mistake because of the gritty textural clash with the soft, smooth pie. I should have melted the turbinado into a syrup as if I were making Bananas Foster... in which case, I should've just used brown sugar.</p><p style="text-align: left;">But overall, the result was great. I had recaptured the taste and mouthfeel of a pie given to us by a congregation member when Mom was sick. I remember that pie being amazingly addictive, fluffy as a cloud, and even though I'm usually a chocolate guy, that pie was so good that I completely forgot about chocolate and didn't miss it at all. My pie wasn't quite up to that mythical level, but it was pretty damn good. At the office, it was gone in two days.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Oh, yeah: the reason the bananas are on top of the pie is that I, like an idiot, forgot to put the bananas into the pie as I was making it. I did add banana extract to the vanilla pudding, though, so the whole thing was infused with banana flavor. All we were missing were the tarantulas that hide in banana trees—the <i>banana spiders</i>.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-20845787057966576602024-03-26T18:00:00.013+09:002024-03-26T18:00:00.249+09:00changes in "Dune, Part II" will affect "Dune Messiah"<center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kiIzlRBgCJI?si=X7guYE7MKOSZa-RO" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></center>
<p>The biggest change was definitely Chani. She was much more loyal in the books, and she had no idea about how the Bene Gesserit's Missionaria Protectiva had sown messiah legends as a way to protect its own stranded members. In the movie, Chani somehow knows, maybe via her conversations with Paul. I'm not necessarily <i>against</i> the changes that Villeneuve made to Chani, but the director did make things harder for himself in doing so.</p><br><br>Kevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com0