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Threadless T-Shirt up for Voting — Sea Fractal

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I spent some time last night voting on other people’s shirts and there are some deadly rad designs out there. Makes me wanna BUY MORE SHIRTS. I suppose that’s the point.

Harvey Dents

I make Batman-themed baked goods.

I don’t know why.

These are Harvey Dents:

They are half peanut-butter with chocolate chips, and half chocolate with peanut-butter chips, and all TOTALLY INSANE-O.

(Note that the chocolate cookie recipe rises a little higher than the peanut butter recipe, leaving the cookies nice and disfigured)

My recipe: let me show you it.

If your oven is normal, preheat it to 350 F. Mine is not normal so I set the dial to 300 F.

Generally cookie-batter mixing means creaming the sugar and wet ingredients first, and then mixing in the rest of the ingredients until the batter begs for mercy. These mixes are no exception:

CHOCOLATE SIDE

A)
1 C butter, softened (AKA 2 sticks, or 1/2 lb.), softened
3/4 C sugar
2/3 C brown sugar, packed
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs

B)
2 1/4 C all-purpose flour
2/3 C cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

C)
Peanut butter chips

Cream (A) in one bowl
Combine (B) in another
Add (B) to (A) gradually.
Add as much of (C) as you like.

Batter will be sticky. You may wish to refrigerate it while you make the peanut butter side.

PEANUT BUTTER SIDE

A)
1 C butter, softened (AKA 2 sticks, or 1/2 lb.), softened
1 C brown sugar, packed
1 C sugar
1 1/2 C creamy peanut butter
2 eggs

B)
2 1/2 C all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla

C)
Semi-sweet chocolate chips

- Mix (A)
- Add (B)
- Mix in as much of (C) as you like

Set batter aside. The peanut butter is so oily that it will be easy to work with even without refrigerating.

You will probably have more peanut butter batter than chocolate batter. That is OK.

Take about a tablespoon of each kind of batter and roll together into a ball. Place on cookie sheet with room to double in diameter.

Bake at 350 F for 8 – 10 min depending on how crispy you want them (I like them chewy, and thus pull them out of the oven right when they’re juuuuust firm around the edges.)

Let cool thoroughly and then FATTEN UP YOUR FRIENDS.

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Septopus

The SyFy channel’s forthcoming Sharktopus reminds me of Fenton’s idea in Home Movies:

I can only hope that it is this uncontrollably rad.

Leonel Rugama

My sister is doctoring in Nicaragua this week, including in Managua and Esteli. She reports that everywhere there are paintings of Leonel Rugama, a poet, revolutionary, and soldier of the Sandinista National Liberation Front who was killed in 1970 at the age of 20.

My sister sends along one of his poems:

THE EARTH IS A SATELLITE OF THE MOON

The people of Acahualinca are less hungry than the children
of the people there.
The children of the people of Acahualinca, because of hunger,
are not born
they hunger to be born, only to die of hunger.
Blessed are the poor for they shall inherit the moon.

The paintings persist forty years after his death.

When I was a kid I remember hearing “Sandinista” on the nightly news and understanding from the context that they must be the bad guys. Now I get that things are often a lot more complicated than the nightly news allows.

Food for thought.

Don’t worry — I’ll be back to sharing funny cat videos in no time.