Emchap's Shit from the Internet 12/25/19 🍠
I am writing this from my couch, where I have spent most of Christmas 2019 (the first that I've spent away from family). It has by and large been a restful, if weird-weathered, holiday; after a brief peek into the office I made bunches of good food and enjoyed assorted sundry company. I received a gift of knives, one of which I promptly stabbed myself on. At some point I assume I will eat a plant, but I am very honestly making no promises. (My diet today has mostly been some tremendous cheese straws and the pastry linked above.) At some point this week I plan to go outside, but again, no promises.
It is weird to look back at 2019 and realize that it's the first year in several that I have felt pretty good about! My personal life is going well; my professional life is fine; I love my town and my house. The world is actively on fire and it's hard not to feel like we'll all be dead in 20 years and I am happy and it's a weird set of feelings to hold all in one heart and one time.
I hope everyone who reads this has a wonderful holiday if they celebrate and a restful day if not. We've just got a week left! Maybe 2020 will be the year where things will get better.
Shit to read
Hey what the fuck.
A tremendous article and complete indictment of Los Angeles's racism.
Sam Irby is as always worth reading.
I thought this was a great look at the differences between mostly-female, mostly-transformative fandom and Marvel Dudes.
Frasier generates some new anxiety on rewatch.
Useful breakdown of why the UK is so fucking terfy.
I loved loved loved this piece on Path and needlecraft.
The most wonderful article of the year.
Shit to eat
Buy a frozen pizza. Put it in your freezer. On the same trip, buy a cauliflower and forget about it.
A week and a half later, glimpse the cauliflower and resolved to Do Something With It.
Look up how to cut it apart again, like you always do.
Peel the leaves off, cut it into quarters, and rip florets off the core like a little goblin. Keep the leaves, toss the core.
Toss the florets with oil and salt and pepper, and put them on oiled baking sheets at 400 for 25 minutes.
At the same time, take the leaves, toss them with oil and salt and pepper and dill, and put them on another baking sheet.
After the florets have been in there for 10 minutes, add the leaves in.
Take everything out, and while it's cooling, unbox your dope-ass pizza.
Put as much cauliflower and leaves on there as will fit.
Add pizza seasoning, if you have it. Drizzle some olive oil on there. Add some parm. It's not delivery, it's the fanciest bitch on the block.
Cook your pizza for however long you're supposed to.
When it's done, post a smug Twitter photo, cut it up, and congratulate your nearly-30-year-old self on eating an vegetable.
Shit to watch
Shit to buy
Misen is having a sale and cutting with their knives this morning has been a fucking delight.