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SAW THIS STUFF ONCE on one of those travel cooking shows. Based on the quick description given on the show and consulting several online recipes, I set about making a holiday side dish.

“Charquican”

1/2 lb potatoes peeled and cut into chunks
1/2 lb pumpkin de-seeded, peeled and cut into chunks
1 good sized carrot peeled and cut into chunks
chicken broth

1 cup of meat (omit for side-dish)
1 onion chopped
1/2 bell pepper chopped
1 or 2 Serrano peppers chopped small, practically minced
spinach
1/2 cup corn
1 clove garlic minced
olive oil

parsley
cumin
pepper
oregano
salt

Boil potatoes, pumpkin and carrot in broth until tender, drain broth and mash.
Saute the remaining ingredients in oil, season to taste and simmer.
Combine the two parts together and mix.

WE’VE GOT a couple irons in the fire in terms of posts for this here blog. However, lazy.

Here is a song for Thursday night and into Friday.

Fifty Foot Hose, Red the Sign Post

Is it true what they say about fortune cookie fortunes? Yep.

DJ Signify — 1993:

Man, FUCK the Beatles.

Yoko Ono is a fucking hero.

Play Revolver the new Beatles, first person shooter video game! Now in stores!

Or listen to Revolver by Rage Against the Machine:

OBAMA is a bad man:

“I am extremely concerned about Obama specifically because I was born in Soviet Union, so I can tell that he is extremely dangerous. I believe he is the most dangerous thing one can imagine, in that he represents radical communism and radical Islam: He was born and raised in radical Islam, all of his associations are with radical Islam, and he was groomed in the environment of the dirty Chicago mafia. Can there be anything scarier than that?” [Orly Taitz]

I am interested to know more about the Chicago Mafia’s ties to radical Islam.

[What is the protocol around here for burying two posts that only just appeared at the top of the page in the time since I started composing this post? With apologies, be sure to see Agi's All Your Carbon Are Belong To Us and Mike's If A Senator Switched Parties And No One Cared Would It Make A Difference? below.]

This is probably going to blow any street cred I may have had with this crowd, but I went to a Ben Folds concert last night. Went with my dad, who I had put on to Ben Folds Five 11 or 12 years ago. He’s been following Folds since, though I have not. But he asked me to go. So I went. It was good. Dude can fucking shred on the piano. And the band was tight. Piano — bass — drums — one guy who played synthesizers, horns, xylophone and other percussion instruments — and another percussionist who was the best tambourine player I have ever witnessed, and could kick Will Ferrell’s ass at cowbell any day. (Folds actually had him take a cowbell solo at one point.)

A highlight for me was a song introduced as one of a group of intentionally shitty tracks leaked on the internet as a gag prior to the release of one of their albums.

The Bitch Went Nuts

Even more highlighty, here is what can happen when you jam a couple of Altoids tins in a grand piano and play it through a distortion pedal.

Free Coffee

They didn’t do a whole lot of Ben Folds Five stuff, so aside from two covers of fake doctors (Dr. Dre and Dr. Hook,) I was hearing most of the songs cold, without having heard them before, and it was still a great show.

“footage from roller boogie— music by of Montreal”

of Montreal — Gallery Piece:

Deep Burn

Rhapsody in Pain

PS: Down the page a piece is a post that went up just before that ugly technical difficulty shut us down. A post I demand request not be ignored. The Middle Class of Whatever. Whatever.

Elvis is Dead & Cult of Personality (live):

Apropos of nothing, here is the video version of Cult of Personality for which embedding has been disabled.

Fracture:

Fledermaus Can’t Get It:

Fly:

Handlebars: