Curry Recipe, Iranian Protests, and Incubus?
First, CURRY
This might be something like the prawn curry we made yesterday, but I'm not actually sure where Tellis got the recipe from. I do know that we had fresh diced tomatoes in ours, which made the sauce red then, but otherwise all the ingredients look right. (Though I guess I don't really know what creamed coconut IS - we used coconut milk. ...and we put in a fair amount of cumin with the other spices....and possibly not tumeric. There were also a couple cardamom seeds. Oh, and supposedly there was some garam masala thrown in at the end.) We were pretty imprecise with the amounts, though.
BUT IT CAME OUT REALLY TASTY! So I would totally recommend it. And make it again...if only I had the real recipe, since apparently this one is quite different. Bah, will keep looking.
Second, IRANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PROTESTS
All I know is that it hasn't been getting a whole lot of coverage in Austria (what about the States?) and so I've been following protest coverage via Twitter all day.
For background on the election itself, here's the wiki page on the election and one on the protests that have been going on since the early Saturday morning.
Obviously Wikipedia isn't the best source out there, but it has links at the bottom to more in-depth analyses.
In addition, there are photo collections popping up all over. This is a good one with contextual captions. This one just seems to be a collection of images from all over the web, with some repeats and basically no context.
If you're on Twitter, it's a trending topic, #IranElection, with posts from people IN Iran tagged with #azIran. They might be trying to switch tags soon (possibly #GR88 - Green Revolution 1388), but those are still the most widely used as far as I can tell. (Edit: #IranElection is now blocked within Iran, so #Iran9 is the new one? Who knows how long it will stay that way.)
Here is a link to a Washington Post article on how to follow the events through social media on the web (like Twitter/Facebook/blogs). Could be helpful if you don't know where to start. This site follows the same idea but has some different sources/suggestions.
Anyway, I just wanted to get this out there in case some of you weren't aware.
ALSO I think all the critique of Obama for not getting the US involved in this is total crap. US interventions in Iranian politics generally haven't gone too well, what with the Shah and all, so I think he's doing the right thing by not playing Mr. World Police and telling them what to do with their own country. That's what the UN is for. I think we learned over the past 8 years that unilateral decisions aren't necessarily the best, did we not?
Added: Video of Obama's statement on the current situation. Good, good, good.
Superfluous Third Point: Incubus
I just saw a video for Black Heart Inertia and recognized Brandon Boyd's voice but couldn't figure out who the nasty hipster in the flannel shirt was. AND THEN I REALIZED IT WAS HIM. What happened to the kind of greasy chin-length hair that I loved 4-5 years ago? WHEN did he become a dirty hipster? WHYYY? I used to have a poster of him in my dorm room. I feel so betrayed. *sniffle* Oh well, it's not like I ever spent money on any of their albums - I got them all from Grant :)
This might be something like the prawn curry we made yesterday, but I'm not actually sure where Tellis got the recipe from. I do know that we had fresh diced tomatoes in ours, which made the sauce red then, but otherwise all the ingredients look right. (Though I guess I don't really know what creamed coconut IS - we used coconut milk. ...and we put in a fair amount of cumin with the other spices....and possibly not tumeric. There were also a couple cardamom seeds. Oh, and supposedly there was some garam masala thrown in at the end.) We were pretty imprecise with the amounts, though.
BUT IT CAME OUT REALLY TASTY! So I would totally recommend it. And make it again...if only I had the real recipe, since apparently this one is quite different. Bah, will keep looking.
Second, IRANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PROTESTS
All I know is that it hasn't been getting a whole lot of coverage in Austria (what about the States?) and so I've been following protest coverage via Twitter all day.
For background on the election itself, here's the wiki page on the election and one on the protests that have been going on since the early Saturday morning.
Obviously Wikipedia isn't the best source out there, but it has links at the bottom to more in-depth analyses.
In addition, there are photo collections popping up all over. This is a good one with contextual captions. This one just seems to be a collection of images from all over the web, with some repeats and basically no context.
If you're on Twitter, it's a trending topic, #IranElection, with posts from people IN Iran tagged with #azIran. They might be trying to switch tags soon (possibly #GR88 - Green Revolution 1388), but those are still the most widely used as far as I can tell. (Edit: #IranElection is now blocked within Iran, so #Iran9 is the new one? Who knows how long it will stay that way.)
Here is a link to a Washington Post article on how to follow the events through social media on the web (like Twitter/Facebook/blogs). Could be helpful if you don't know where to start. This site follows the same idea but has some different sources/suggestions.
Anyway, I just wanted to get this out there in case some of you weren't aware.
ALSO I think all the critique of Obama for not getting the US involved in this is total crap. US interventions in Iranian politics generally haven't gone too well, what with the Shah and all, so I think he's doing the right thing by not playing Mr. World Police and telling them what to do with their own country. That's what the UN is for. I think we learned over the past 8 years that unilateral decisions aren't necessarily the best, did we not?
Added: Video of Obama's statement on the current situation. Good, good, good.
Superfluous Third Point: Incubus
I just saw a video for Black Heart Inertia and recognized Brandon Boyd's voice but couldn't figure out who the nasty hipster in the flannel shirt was. AND THEN I REALIZED IT WAS HIM. What happened to the kind of greasy chin-length hair that I loved 4-5 years ago? WHEN did he become a dirty hipster? WHYYY? I used to have a poster of him in my dorm room. I feel so betrayed. *sniffle* Oh well, it's not like I ever spent money on any of their albums - I got them all from Grant :)
