february is self-portrait dedicated to leon trotsky month
A couple weeks ago I fell completely down the rabbit hole listening to Jeffrey R. Derego's Union Dues short stories on the Escape Pod sci-fi short fiction podcast. Amazing, gritty, dystopic super hero stories. More superlatives and a list of all stories published to date here.
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I'm doing some consulting for a farm cooperative in Haiti, so one of the phrases I've been writing over and over and has subsequently been rattling around in my head is "sustainable food economy." This weekend, I made chili to bring for this week's lunches and the hodge-podge of ingredients made me feel really pleased with a) my ability to throw together a week's worth of meals using pantry and freezer staples and b) my contribution to the sustainable food economy:
- frozen ground beef sparkymonster buys as part of a local farm share
- frozen homemade chicken stock
- pumpkin puree, roasted and frozen from the excess of last year's farm share
- parsnips from the dregs of this week's local farm box
- tomatoes roasted with pomegranate molasses, canned by J & I this past summer (tomatoes were sourced from our garden, our farm share and also from boxes of tomato seconds bought at the farmer's market)
- soaked dried beans from Rancho Gordo, a company that specializes in selling heirloom bean varieties.
I've also been making my own cornbread mix by blending coarse corn meal, wheat bran and flax seeds and it's really good, a lot lighter that you'd expect.
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I have a new employee (so I now have a staff of FIVE JESUS CHRIST OMG) and she super-earnest and non-ironically says "tight" when another person might just say "yeah, okay." I'm really worried I'm going to pick up this verbal tic. I don't think I can pull it off the way she can.
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I saw Empires at the Middle East last week! They were very charming. I stood in line for the bathroom being Sean Van Vleet but didn't realize who he was until he went onstage. smartlikejustin came with me, and it felt like it was 2003.
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I'm doing some consulting for a farm cooperative in Haiti, so one of the phrases I've been writing over and over and has subsequently been rattling around in my head is "sustainable food economy." This weekend, I made chili to bring for this week's lunches and the hodge-podge of ingredients made me feel really pleased with a) my ability to throw together a week's worth of meals using pantry and freezer staples and b) my contribution to the sustainable food economy:
- frozen ground beef sparkymonster buys as part of a local farm share
- frozen homemade chicken stock
- pumpkin puree, roasted and frozen from the excess of last year's farm share
- parsnips from the dregs of this week's local farm box
- tomatoes roasted with pomegranate molasses, canned by J & I this past summer (tomatoes were sourced from our garden, our farm share and also from boxes of tomato seconds bought at the farmer's market)
- soaked dried beans from Rancho Gordo, a company that specializes in selling heirloom bean varieties.
I've also been making my own cornbread mix by blending coarse corn meal, wheat bran and flax seeds and it's really good, a lot lighter that you'd expect.
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I have a new employee (so I now have a staff of FIVE JESUS CHRIST OMG) and she super-earnest and non-ironically says "tight" when another person might just say "yeah, okay." I'm really worried I'm going to pick up this verbal tic. I don't think I can pull it off the way she can.
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I saw Empires at the Middle East last week! They were very charming. I stood in line for the bathroom being Sean Van Vleet but didn't realize who he was until he went onstage. smartlikejustin came with me, and it felt like it was 2003.