Awful Food: Creamed Eggs On Fried Noodles
Super Buffet Mmmm, sautéed celery and mushrooms in butter. Bubbly milk and cream of chicken soup. Eggs with almonds folded in and served on fried Chinese noodles. It’s awfully good! Bon Appétit!
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Thanks Aluminum!
Rude Boy Aluminum (or, Aluminium) is a chemical element in the boron group with symbol Al and atomic number 13. It is a silvery white, soft, ductile metal. Aluminum is the third most abundant element (after oxygen and silicon), and the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust. It makes up about…
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A Chemical Is A Chemical Is A Chemical
Lumbergh The interwebs tell us that, in chemistry, a chemical substance is a form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Chemicals cannot be separated into components by physical separation methods. Chemical substances are often called ‘pure’ to set them apart from mixtures. Uhhh … well … anyway,…
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Junkie
Dirque du Soleil Junkie is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs. First published in 1953 (Ace Books), it was Burroughs’ first published novel and has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s. The book has also been published under the name Junky.…
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The Unwild One: Eric Von Zipper
Beach movies. Those goofy attempts during the 1960s to portray a fantasy teenage lifestyle on film and then sell it back to the teenagers viewing the movie in a theater. Goofy yes, but what was even goofier was Hollywood’s caricature of the 1960s biker and their motorcycle gangs. Point in…
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Awful Food: Tuna-Cheese-Macaroni Loaf
There’s a couple of problems here. First, this dish is a casserole, a conglomeration of ingredients slowly cooked in a deep dish and presented as an odd-looking loaf. Casseroles are generally pretty awful as we all know. Then, we have the pairing of fish and seafood, which in the culinary…
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A Sailor’s Tour Of The Liquor Cabinet
Gin Finger Sailor Martin, as described by his creator and “handler”, is an unspeakably vile tattooed and pierced sailor (ventriloquist dummy) who stars in some very funny video mash-ups of vintage songs and public domain films. In this hilarious short film, Sailor Martin gives us what could only be described as a…
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Buying And Caring For Your Chucks
For over 50 years, the Chuck Taylor All-Stars made by Converse have outperformed and outsold any other type of basketball shoe – or athletic shoe for that matter. Known on the streets as “Chucks,” this shoe is the most popular and successful shoe in history. As trends toward the retro…
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Prophet And Loss
The Artist Prophet And Loss is a very unique and creative cartoon by Jonathan Bairstow from the MTV series Liquid Television. The music is by Steve Naive & The Love Band. The video itself is from a longer piece which apparently is a very stylized retelling of Orpheus in the Underworld. This…
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