Saturday, December 13, 2008

Greatest Roast Ever 2 [chat]

Ingredients:
2 Pound Rump Roast
2 15 oz Cans Whole New Potatoes
3 8 oz Cans Whole Water Chestnuts
1/2 Pack of Baby Carrots
8 oz. Pack of Baby Portobello Mushroom
Full Garlic Bulb worth of Garlic Cloves
2 32 oz. Boxes of Beef Broth

Preparation: Rub Rump Roast with blend of Crushed Red Pepper, Crushed Black Pepper, and Garlic Powder daily for 3 days prior to cooking. Refridgerate between rubbings.

Cooking: Place garlic gloves in the center of the Crock Pot in a circular pattern to create a "bed" for the Roast. Surround Garlic Cloves with water chestnuts and carrots until bottom of Crock Pot is covered. Place roast upon bed of vegetables centering it over cluster of garlic cloves (for flavors). Add any desired spices at this point. Then, fill in space around and above roast with remaining vegetables. Pour in Broth to rim under top of Crock Pot. Finally, place Mushrooms in broth and allow to float. Cook for 8 hours in Crock Pot on low.

It has Flavors.

48 comments:

Andrew said...

its nearly 5am and i just learned that in Acts in the New Testament Drusilla is the wife of Felix.

Caleb said...

Yeah. My Harper Collins has footnotes for Buffy characters too.

_J_ said...

Don't they all?

_J_ said...

Obama was on Meet the Press today.

It's worth a watch.

_J_ said...

I want to know why I can't write my fucking papers.

They're right there. And they aren't being written.

Andrew said...

I seem to be having the same problem
one paper is nearly done, yet it isnt finished. why isnt it finished?

_J_ said...

I'm almost 1/4 done with my 20 page paper.

I hate this paper. I hate it SO MUCH.

I don't want to write it. It is not interesting to me. The only person who will ever read it is the professor.

So why bother? To get a grade?

I need to find a way to make it seem like i'm accomplishing something by writing this shitty shitty shit shit.

_J_ said...

Hate Hate Hate my paper.

Mike Lewis said...

Stay Classy Japanese Porn Industry!

Caleb said...

So, I'm sitting in my room after a lovely evening of watching Wonderfalls with Jane and Kevin, and below me a hear a bunch of shit, presumably, falling off of something in the kitchen and, presumably, onto the floor of the kitchen. It could be a burglar or a swarm of albino brain chiggers, but, I imagine, rather, that my roommate simply impressed herself somewhat earlier this evening with her natural skill at stacking terracotta cookware on the edge of the kitchen counter. I'd better go sweep it up before I get shards embedded in my feet after I forget about this after a long, peaceful night's sleep.

_J_ said...

Ok.

So.

I mostly hate my Buddhism paper. And I don't want to write it anymore. But I am still many pages short. The paper is about how this woman's interpretation of Buddhism is stupid. And for a long time it was just me saying "In this section she says A. In this section she says ~A." over and over again.

So, then I got the bright idea of writing a section about how to fix the problem.

And I think what this new section is turning into, or rather, IS, is an articulation of why scholarship is stupid...and everyone needs to stop doing scholarship.

And I really like it.

Because I really fucking hate scholarship. So I'm writing shit like this:

"But one cannot deny a passage to say what a passage says. If, at bare minimum, one grants the premise of an external world and assumes a correspondence theory of truth then were Gross to provide a passage from a Buddhist text which said “According to the teachings of the Buddha, the idea of self is an imaginary, false belief which has no corresponding to reality” then one would have to accept that the passage says what the passage says."

And...yeah. Not really sure where this will end up. But I like it a whole fucking lot more than simply writing about how crazy bitch is a crazy bitch.

Andrew said...

Umm caleb.. umm. im done with all my papers and whatnot on the 17th. you should come to louisville to hangout

_J_ said...

I'm going to make a fort in my living room once i finish my papers.

It will be best.

_J_ said...

Also? Speaker Pelosi is not an attractive woman.

Caleb said...

That sounds like a breakthrough, my friend.

I am sure that your professor will enjoy this key change (or maybe I should think up percussion analogy). Regardless, a fresh mortified horse to pummel will lessen the cramping of your bludgeon-swinging muscles for a time. Bravo.

Caleb said...

Andrew said...
Umm caleb.. umm. im done with all my papers and whatnot on the 17th. you should come to louisville to hangout

_J_ said...
I'm going to make a fort in my living room once i finish my papers.

Andrew, it sounds like we should go to Jay's the 17th.

_J_ said...

"That sounds like a breakthrough, my friend."

The paper thing or the fort?

I think I'm arguing for something which is quite asinine. Well, not "asinine" so much as "Sensible" and "true".

But when I talked to my Spinoza professor about this idea (the paper, not the fort) he mostly said that if I got my way he would lose his job, because he does Spinoza scholarship.

And that's kind of my point.

Fuck Scholarship. Write something new or get the fuck out. I don't want to read fan fiction.

Write something new.
Or.
Get.
The.
Fuck.
Out.

_J_ said...

"Andrew, it sounds like we should go to Jay's the 17th."

My fort will have a "No Fat Chicks" sign. Other than that, though, the only problem is parking.

Caleb said...

The sign will help with parking, though, right?

_J_ said...

Undoubtedly.

I'll also put up a sign which says "Dead Nigger Storage".

Though, that might get you/we/me shot.

_J_ said...

Rick Roll: The Literal Version

_J_ said...

This is what we call OVER-Acting

Caleb said...

Words be literal.

Andrew said...

J, have you ever read anything by Derrida?

_J_ said...

Words be literal indeed

_J_ said...

Ok. It's midnight. I'm going to bed.

I have 10 single spaced pages. I can add more tomorrow.

And then write my fucking feminism paper.

Andrew said...

my paper is teh turned in. 4 more to go.

Roscoe said...

... There's an entire meme of "Literal Version" videos..

and you pick what might be the worst of them?

I mean.. A-Ha's Take On Me is brilliant..

Under The Bridge works well..

Even Bollywood tracks work.

but.. that one.. doesn't.

_J_ said...

"... There's an entire meme of "Literal Version" videos.."

fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you

_J_ said...

Also, the thing I did not anticipate about doing Grad School in Illinois?

Political Corruption stories piss everyone off here. It's fantastic.

Roscoe said...

Is that because I gave you more things to seek out and kill your time watching and hating?

or because I used the word meme?

So...

Kent State Riots? Because.. if so, you could raise your Scornovoice to become a countercultural Icon.

We could get black shirts with you in bad graffito on them.

_J_ said...

You don't remember that time when I was a counter-culture icon? Man, the royalty checks were fucking awesome.

But then I blew it all on the Publication fees for my little black book, with black pages and black text.

But since "nobody could read it" they deemed it to be "unhelpful" and no one bought it.

And then Jesus came along with his black text on white pages and everyone thought that was just so cool.

_J_ said...

Poor Brian the Drummer

_J_ said...

I take it back. Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog is not terrible.

Mike Lewis said...

welcome to being right
Dr. Horrible is fucking amazing.

_J_ said...

Apparently Feminism is evil.

Good to know.

_J_ said...

I'M DONE, BITCHES!

Roscoe said...

congrats.

Now bring Webl back.

_J_ said...

"Dr. Horrible is fucking amazing."

I won't go that far.

I think it needs a much larger context unto itself to be effective. My guess is that your appreciation and my appreciation of Dr. Horrible comes from an understanding of Joss Whedon's larger catalog of work. So the appreciation comes from "Hey, it's kind of like 'Once More with Feeling'."

Someone estranged from that context probably understands it differently. By which I mean their appreciation will be wholly different given there lack of a greater understanding of the context of the work.

bla bla bla. bla bla. bullshit bullshit semester over.

Unknown said...

I didn't pay jack shit attention to anything else he did, and I fucking loved Dr. Horrible. I wish I could buy the songs to it in the form of a soundtrack... and on a whole, I tend to hate musicals.

Roscoe said...

Anecdotal Supposition REJECTED by Counter-Anecdotal Evidence!

Overtime Begins NOW!

Unknown said...

So i frequent this forum when I get bored and work and someone supplied a thread asking for best games of the 90s.

I swear to god half the people in the thread mentioned Goldeneye and I'm the only one to bring up Starcraft.

I always considered Goldeneye an inferior product compared to its contemporaries on the PC (UT and Q3) with clunky controls, poor graphics to a point in which you couldn't tell a wall from a floor, and a terrible weapon selection.

I always considered SC to be one of the finest pieces of software ever written hands down, that still stands on its own to this day.

Am i taking crazy pills?

_J_ said...

More people played GoldenEye. So more people will mention GoldenEye.

I'm guessing.

Mike Lewis said...

I hate Golden Eye. It was a shitty fucking game, but it was also the 1st mainstream 1st person shooter with multiplayer that worked. It came out the same year as Quake II, but who in those days 1) had internet fast enough to play on line or 2) had a LAN? It was 1997 so not a lot of people.

it still sucks.

Mike Lewis said...

does anyone know if we can modify the blogs HTML or whatever to make the main column wider?

_J_ said...

I didn't hate GoldenEye. I just did not understand why people liked it.

I was mostly ambivalent towards it.

_J_ said...

For the Kyle, who may be interested in this sort of thing:

Blizzard is thinking about adding a "Dual Spec" feature to WoW.

Since you hate speculation this thread contains a Blue Post vaguely discussing Dual Spec. Scroll down a bit to see it.

The general idea is that one would have two specs they could switch between. Some people have speculated that this involves having two armor sets "worn" which can be switched between depending on spec. Others have speculated that this is little more than WoW allowing players to save certain talent point distributions.

I don't know what it is.

But Blizzard appears to be working on something they call "Dual spec". And people seem to be excited.

If you google "WoW Dual Spec" a few pages in there is an Age of Conan forum talkinga bout how this means taht WoW is for stupid noobs who can't play real games. Which is funny.

Roscoe said...

Behold!

The ThorFormer!

http://io9.com/5101592/the-mightiest-transformer-of-all