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  • No-crap jerky recipe

    Since Pat started hunting, we’ve had pretty ample supplies of various cuts of meat. When you’ve got meat, you gotta make jerky. Smoky, salty, chewy, all-around delicious little morsels that store well, and make for easy lunch additions. Finding the right recipe was actually easier than finding a store-bought mix without the ingredients that are crap. ingredients that are crap: -MSG -Nitrates -preservatives -mystery chemicals -glutenous fillers. 

    Here is a simple recipe for the yummiest no-crap jerky using stuff you’ve probably already got at home. (more…)

  • Meat Bearer

    Meat Bearer

    Patrick had the honour of bearing the canine nuptial meat at the only dog wedding i’ve ever attended. Beautiful ceremony indeed.  Graham would have been so proud. 

    Photo cred: Jess Woodrow

  • Where the hell was my computer going?

    Last week, it came out in the news that the American National Security Agency  has been intercepting computers purchased from big companies like HP and Dell on route to the customer, and installing spyware for the purpose of spying on these customers. The tactic is called “interdiction”. Unluckily, this news came out 2 days after we ordered our brand new laptop from Dell. (more…)

  • I didn’t think anyone could convince me that voting wasn’t a good idea- until Russell Brand did. A few weeks ago on the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour I featured the comedian/actor/temporary magazine editor and his philosphies. I’ll be updating my podcasts soon. In the meantime, the following is from RB’s opening editorial in The New Statesman last October.

    I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites. Billy Connolly said: “Don’t vote, it encourages them,” and, “The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.”

    I don’t vote because to me it seems like a tacit act of compliance; I know, I know my grandparents fought in two world wars (and one World Cup) so that I’d have the right to vote. Well, they were conned. As far as I’m concerned there is nothing to vote for. I feel it is a far more potent political act to completely renounce the current paradigm than to participate in even the most trivial and tokenistic manner, by obediently X-ing a little box.

    Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that’s not on the ballot. Is utopian revolution possible? The freethinking social architect Buckminster Fuller said humanity now faces a choice: oblivion or utopia. We’re inertly ambling towards oblivion, is utopia really an option?

  • My Week

    Imagine working your ass off for days. (more…)

  • The Language Called “English”

    Since when has metaphor become a suitable replacement for all reasonable explanation? Isn’t it important to use words that are accurate and true?  Isn’t that really the only thing we have to go on…when it comes to understanding each other? (more…)

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