Sarah Et Cetera

Free for All Friday returns, bearing bacon!

• Mike Judge spoofs silly hippies in The Goode Family. Like Mr. Van Driessen from Beavis and Butthead got married, had 2.5 kids and tried to turn his dog in to a vegetarian. It won’t be The Middleman level cool, but I think this will be a fun summer show.
• 7(ish) things I’ve Always Wondered about Back to the Future. Chris makes a lot of good points. I hadn’t noticed most of them, but the one he points out that I did, was that Marty wakes up on a Saturday and both his siblings are going to work. That always bothered me. I’ve worked plenty of Saturdays, but as a little kid, that made me really uncomfortable.
• The Post-American Apocalypse:

  So-called “democracy” has always been a precarious stand-in, replacing the feud of armed men with the feud of words and ballots (i.e., unarmed men). Here a rule-based game has replaced the old power-and-violence game. It is logical to assume, that once the rule-based game effectively nullifies itself through its own progressive and steady derangement, there necessarily occurs a reversion to the power-and-violence game.

  Christopher likes to immitate John Derbyshire at me a lot, by bringing up political topics, then gesturing with his wineglass while intoning, “DOOOOOOMED.” That about sums things up.

• Adam Baldwin tells AGW Indoctrinators to Keep on Fucking Off, especially when it comes to telling people how they can reproduce.
• The Bacon Vodka is safe in the cupboard, steeping. It’s turning a pleasant sepia color and there’s a nice layer of fat on the top. Should Skittles vodka be our next experiment?

• Bacon Brownies
• From Apollo, who never stops rocking and I would say is rocking right now but he’s in Seattle and it’s 5 a.m. there, so he’s probably asleep and dreaming of rock and Bacones. These are pretty special. These are fancy special occasion foods. If you have a big event in your life, like a graduation or a wedding or a three day weekend, maybe, honor yourself with a Bacone.
• Candied Bacon Chocolates. Don’t want to spend your month’s pocket money on the Vosages? Make your own!
• Other Bacon Brownies. These have the best ingredients list. It calls for 1/2 cup of butter and bacon drippings. I like the idea that you’re trying to get your stuff together to make brownies and you realize you’ve just got a few tablespoons of butter. You think, “Wow, needs more fat. What have I got?” And maybe you’ve got Crisco, that would work. Maybe you’ve got vegetable oil, probably wouldn’t work, couldn’t aerate. You’ve got sour cream, but you don’t want a dense brownie. But there, in the door of your fridge, is a jar of bacon grease, loving saved from many weekend morning breakfasts. Hell yeah!
• These are merely bacon adjacent*, but check out Honey Baked Ham Cupcakes. It’s a honey-whiskey flavored cupcake, baked in a ham wrapper, topped with cinnamon cream cheese frosting and a slice of candied pineapple. It’s practically a complete meal. And so pretty! Do you think you could use a bacone-type system to make the wrapper out of bacon instead of ham? Like par bake the bacon in the tin, then add the cupcake batter and bake again? It might be a bit easier to eat, since the bacon wrapper would be crispy, where the ham wrapper was a bit chewy. Also, what other flavor combinations could you think of? Here we have honey-whiskey-cinnamon-pineapple. What about vanilla-chambord-frangipane-raspberry?

* You can beat me up in the parking lot after class, if you want.