2 videos about eggs//

ONE i know will be relevant to you. that is if you eat hard-boiled eggs:

1:06 by YouTube channel CrazyRussianHacker . Everything that I've seen from this guy is highly amusing yet useful.

THIS ONE is exactly 5:54 minutes longer than that (^) one:

5:54 minutes longer

^^if you watch this even though it's considered long these days you might find this information useful, but not quite amusing:

a celebration of eggs, light, myself, people nearby, Lady Lamb (who makes the music you hear), and something that connects everything 

for optimal viewing, watch with good headphones or speakers, not too loud, with little light in the room and your keyboard completely black.

"Atlas" by Lady Lamb:

Funny how a good thing opens your eyes, makes you feel the branches, leads you to the pines. Funny still how infatuation shuts you all up as it makes you a dead beat son of a gun. Honey, but I do know where I come from; I got a key to this chest. Honey but I do know where I end up; I got a body for this bed and I undress like eyes upon an atlas. Shotgun orchestra, the needle bends as it spins. And we got skin like we were born to swim past our scalps in it. And I do, I want to swim the length of this with you. I want to swim the length of,  swim the length of, swim the length of this life with you. I'll undress like eyes upon an atlas. I'll make you a map to me, I'll be there in your sights. I won't make me hard to find. I'll be made into a mark  with a heart steadied and strong; a readied aim for your arrow, my darlin. I know where I come from.

i told you this was a food blog//egg in an avo\\cado

Adapted from Why You Should Bake Your Eggs Inside an Avocado

I like when recipes have authoritative titles: You should make this. At first I'm perturbed by the casual disrespect of my individuality, my agency, my own ability to make decisions and determine what I "should" do. Then I say whatever, this is someone else's perception of what "should" be done anyway.

and I make my recipe vernacular a bit authoritative too. all-caps helps.

INGREDIENTS (serve 2; prep time 5 mins; cook time 10-12 mins)

ONE avocado

TWO eggs

SALT AND PEPPER

SOME hot sauce (if u want)

DIRECTIONS/INSTRUCTIONS (which one sounds more like it's chuckling from the ribs of a despot? That one.)

PREHEAT oven to 450 F.

CUT that avo in half (I like to follow the circumference of the ellipse with a sharp knife, cutting deep to the seed all along, put the knife down, and grab each half to wiggle them free)

REMOVE to seed (swymf trick: whack your sharp knife into the seed, move the handle back and forth, and, like you did with the avocado halves, wiggle the object of desire free)

***I've decided to use "swymf" to references the title of this blog. 

i love the acronym's absurdity.

here is a demonstrative video if my DIRECTIONS/INSTRUCTIONS don't suffice: 

How to Cut an Avocado

***tip: pour hot sauce in the avo hole before you plop in the egg. The original recipe calls this a "Pro tip," which, after being directly told what one "should" do this whole time, is painfully indirect and all the more despotic...

...

this is the hot sauce I used.

Katy Perry calls it liquid gold.

Told you.

STARE into your avo holes. You may need to make the holes larger/deeper to accommodate the entire egg. 

CRACK egg in avo hole. Again, you have have needed to make the avo holes deeper. But, if the whites spill out, that's okay; they'll cook like canopies, hanging from the green.

because.

ADD salt, pepper, and spices, if you'd like.

that's my effort to avoid despotism. on my own blog. a place that is literally all mine.

but thats why i share it with you <33333333334#

so excited at this point as to channel it to the hand holding the phone.

BAKE for 10-12 minutes at 450 F.

this was in the beginning.

***dedicated to Kate Dowd, who brought the sauce and told me Katy Perry liked it.

inside/out/food

NOTE: This post about Disney-Pixar's Inside Out contains spoilers.

About a week ago, I traveled to Nebraska to visit family. As a tradition, we always go to the movies together. 

catch the flicks

see the sights

Even the twenty-five-year-old in our cousin bunch was set on Disney/Pixar’s latest production, Inside Out; even the twenty-five-year-old pleaded for tissues by the end, a popcorn bag becoming ersatz Kleenex. 

As the studio conglomerate’s first psychology-conscious film, Inside Out embraces the complexity of everyday emotions—especially those experienced by a pre-teen unaware of impending puberty. The movie’s psychoanalysis—sans a Freudian couch—begins with a zooming in on the characters’ head-quarters, or brain. Inside, five key emotions hover over a control board, waiting for a turn to govern it. In Riley Andersen, the eleven-year-old protagonist, Joy is often at the helm. 

she's the blue-haired pixie-lookin thang up above, but if you don't recognize that, I suggest watching the freakin film

Throughout Riley’s mid-pre-life crisis, she experiences a whirlwind of emotions, to be expected. Her coming-of-age is nonetheless heartwarming, but what my own analysis of psychoanalysis centered on was the portrayal of Joy; she’s yellow and glowing, donning a summery green dress. She’s often jumping about and smiling, marveling at Riley’s experiences, playing Dr. Pangloss at the unfortunate ones. But she has blue hair. In fact, her pixie do is the same shade of Sadness’ hair, who is completely blue. The very tip of Joy is Sadness.

After mulling over emotional complexity in a cavernous G-rated theater, I went home and searched Reddit.

As usual, the a forum pushed me even further:

Question: “Since Joy has blue hair, does that mean that there is a little bit of sadness in joy?”

The user with the greatest evidence of family movie-brooding is rewarded to SunshineAndGoldfish: 

I think you might be on to something. If we take it a step further...

Joy's Colors: Yellow body- Joy Blue Hair/Eyes/Eyebrows/Flowers on Dress- Sadness Green dress- Disgust Red Tongue- Anger Purple Lips- Fear

For extra credit:

Disgust has Purple lips, scarf and shoes. I am having a hard time telling if her tongue is Purple too or Pink/Red.

Anger has Yellow flames, Purpleish pants and it looks like the zig-zag of his tie has a Blue tint to it (possible Green).

Fear has Blue stripes on his sleeves and a Red tongue

Sadness has Purple glasses and a Red Tongue

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pixar/comments/3bpm2c/since_joy_has_blue_hair_does_that_mean_that_there/

Self-titled Disney/Pixar Fans deserve some sort of credibility, and so do their own answers:

I would also argue that the blue hair symbolizes that the two share a special connection. A huge theme in the movie is that emotions are not single shades but rather a mixture. This is most notable in that without Sadness, we cannot properly appreciate Joy.... Both as characters and as emotions.

Source: http://www.quora.com/Inside-Out-2015-movie/Why-did-both-Joy-and-Sadness-have-blue-hair

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman expands on the question, relating it to Jewish philosophy: There is no such thing as “pure joy.” Happiness is borne by sadness.

(click on the photo for a debate on the subject)

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-geoffrey-a-mitelman/why-are-joys-eyes-blue_b_7688406.html

Rabbi Mitelman includes a snippet of a New York Times review:

"The movie suggests that the bittersweet is a step up from untarnished joy and shows how frantic cheerfulness can stand in the way of genuine connection."

With that said, Joy would look terrifying without a little sadness anyway:

as for food, make an egg. poached

i didn't know what glass was made of//eating half an egg

I'm watching How It's Made: Blown Glass right now, to refresh the memories from earlier today. Your patience is duly noted.

Glass: Made from silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO 2), which is derived from sand. According to How It's Made's intoxicatingly calm narrator, other materials--such as potassium and limestone--which function as "thinners and stabilizers," are added to the silica in the glass-making process.

(To help cultivate memorable identities for these beloved minerals~~~

potassium is your friend, the banana. rather, bananas have a lot of it. Of its many benefits for the human body, potassium facilitates muscle function and the synthesis of proteins.

limestone is a sedimentary rock (which forms when particles are transported by wind or water and eventually solidify) chiefly composed of calcium carbonate, and used in cement.)

As our narrator says, it's hard to believe that beautiful, sculpted glass pieces can come from this "lumpy stuff."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nheDVHSUoG0


After about 12 hours in a 2200 degree (F) furnace, the "lumpy stuff" turns to translucent liquid. The glass blower uses a blowpipe to gather some of the liquid and shape it.

(One of the materials used in shaping glass; seen today at a glass-making factory in the Czech Republic):

Why is a blowpipe called a "blowpipe"? Good question!

At the end of the handle is a little hole through which glassmakers blow in order to form a bulge in the molten hot material. They blow very gently~~

Blowpipe.
this is a cool graphic.
Thanks WikiHow.




I get my advice from a lot of things with "How" in the name.

(Oh my goodness--the video at 3:50---wow)

The end product is usually cooled in an electric kiln for 12 hours to prevent cracking.

There are only two vocational schools in the Czech Republic, despite the popularity and demand of the glass-making industry. There may be a deficit in Czech glass-makers in the immediate future, due to waning interest in the profession among younger populations.

Matriculation usually lasts 3 years; our tour guide, however, commented that in order to become or be considered a master glass-maker, 10+ years of experience is required.

(The decoration at the end--around 5:05--wow)

Until today, I didn't really know what glass was made of--

--even though glass is found in most environments I frequent.


Like the one I inhabit now, watching "How It's Made": in a cafe.

eating half an egg.

time-lapses, taken at 2 Czech glass-making factories. watch with this song playing in the background:

Shamir - I Know It's A Good Thing - YouTube

LEFTOVERS ave//bran\\bibimbap?

Marlon Brando:shaving??

Photo by Richard Avedon

(more of Avedon's work: http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=248 )

and the man: http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/482361/Marlon-Brando-s-troubled-childhood-shaped-his-life

need to use up leftovers? 

grimly staring at undignified rice/noodles?

plop in an oiled wok/pan~~add spices, vegetables, 

(i recommend cumin, curry powder, ginger, black pepper, etc., and spinach or really any veggies i love them all...except beets. are they vegetables?)

and top with a good ol' fried egg.

trick for cooking eggs: top the pan with a lid. doing so settles the egg white (otherwise known as the albumen lol) faster, and still produces a yolk of poached-like runniness

and this is my creation

close-up uh huh

i apologize if yolks disgust you