Echologorrhea

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[redinkpress]

a look at my diabetes communication cards! availble now for just £2!

thiz is not all of the cards there is so much more to help you along

[havinghorns]

Someone has been slowly over the last few months making an avant garde art installation out of an abandoned Boston Market/Checkers. Their signboard messages keep getting torn down so their latest move was to make a flag of a photo of their previous masterpiece "PENIS WIGS FOR SAL" and run it up the flag pole

[silly-signs]

Official silly sign(s)

[publicdomainreview]

“Thackerayana” — a remarkable compendium of nearly 600 doodles made by Vanity Fair author William Makepeace Thackeray, who was born #onthisday in 1811: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/thackerayana-1875 #OTD

[cheaphalloweencostume]

I love it when I click on a recipe link because it sounds yummy and instead of a recipe I get a several page dissertation on a food blogger’s boredom with her marriage and lies she was told in childhood

[cheaphalloweencostume]

10 years of crème brûlée brownies and wondering where it all went wrong

[cheaphalloweencostume]

idk how you’re getting Content from “i fee like i dont know how to be a person properly and i dont know how or what to talk to my husband about almost ever” but she’s now happily divorced so she was in fact Not Content

[liobits]

Scrolled through the reblogs and couldn’t find anyone actually posting the recipe HERE, so I dug it up on the Wayback Machine. Behold! Kristan’s lost brownies recipe:

Créme Bruleé Brownies

Prep Time: 40 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes Yield: 15 servings

Ingredients

Brownies:

1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter, melted

1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 cups granulated sugar

4 large eggs

1 TBS vanilla extract

1 1/3 cups flour

12 oz (ish) jar hot fudge sauce

Créme Bruleé Topping:

¼ cup cornstarch

1 cup white sugar

6 Tablespoons butter, melted

3 ¼ cups half and half cream

2 teaspoons vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste

¼ cup granulated sugar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350. Line a 9x13 pan with foil and spray thoroughly with nonstick spray; set aside.

In a large bowl, whisk together the cocoa and melted butter. Stir in sugar until combined. Stir in eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each. Stir in vanilla. Fold in flour JUST until you no longer see flour streaks in the batter. Gently fold in hot fudge sauce.

Spread batter in prepared pan and bake for about 20 minutes, until raw batter no longer appears when a toothpick is inserted in the center. Remove from oven and place pan on a cooling rack.

Prepare topping: In a medium-sized heavy saucepan, whisk together cornstarch and sugar. Whisk in the melted butter and half and half. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is the consistency of a thick pudding. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.

Pour custard over the brownies, spreading to cover. Sprinkle surface with granulated sugar, then place under the broiler for several minutes until top is golden (may be dark brown is some spots). Alternately, a kitchen torch can be used.

Let brownies cool to room temperature, then refrigerate until chilled. Remove foil, cut into bars and serve.

Enjoy and have a great day!

[dynamicsbitch]

I dont know where op got the info that this baker divorced her husband. I went looking, before i disagreed w the reasoning of op, bc what do i know, maybe Kristan explained how she felt on a post. On the wayback machine, last post of the webpage is dated 2020, and the latest recipe i found mentioning her family is saying she was on a holiday and pregnant (here). But maybe this is a new relationship, i didnt check further.

Not having things to talk about with your spouse sounds off to me, but i also dont see this discontent op speaks of. And “feeling like i dont know how to be a person” is just relatable tbh. Independent of a relationship. It is also echoed in other posts on her page, saying she “speaks like a robot sometimes”. Idk how one gets “discontent with relationship” from those.

But yea recipe sounds awesome (and i recommend checking out other recipes by Kristan, she gives good baking tips and shares her sources)

[cheaphalloweencostume]

here ya go

[dynamicsbitch]

well ill be damned

[schlock-luster-video]

On June 30, 2008, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released on DVD by Republic Pictures.

[schlock-luster-video]

On July 1, 1994, Chopping Mall and Shocker were screened as a double-feature on USA Up All Night.

[jstor]

The Genderless Eighteenth-Century Prophet - JSTOR Daily

In 1776, a 24-year-old Quaker woman named Jemima Wilkinson died of fever, and came back to life as a prophet known as the Publick Universal

Signing off for the weekend with this story about a gender pioneer with the bad-ass name of Publick Universal Friend.

[jstor]

Here's another unusual print we found while perusing through the more than 500 free images by José Guadalupe Posada on JSTOR. It depicts a party in 1901 in which men in drag danced with men in suits. While this was surely not intended as a celebratory image originally, we're making it one now because we love knowing that these parties were happening in Mexico more than 100 years ago!

This particular example comes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, which features more than 1/2 million open access images.

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

i don’t think we give historical centenarians enough credit.

were records sparse back then? yes. were most of them actually centenarians? probably not.

but a while ago, i came across a record of a black trans man living in cincinnati in like, 1880 who was described as a centenarian

imagine having lived such a long full life in those circumstances that you tell people “i think i might legitimately be over a hundred years old”

[explicitlyrics]

This is by a patient of mine with early late stage dementia, who was a poet for most of her life. Her new poems are dictated to me during writing workshops I run at my hospice job. She hadn't written since her diagnosis. This is one of seventeen poems I've written with her so far.

posted with permission from herself and her family.

[theinternetarchive]

She died early this morning.

I’ve been doing poetry since I could write but I do think she was my only teacher.

Working with her was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I mean it when I say you all are so lucky to get even this glimpse at the majesty of her work.

In her words from another poem (not posted):

I am not the only creature watching

All of this,

Drinking it in.

I have a companion,

The cat who sleeps in the backyard

Is watching, too,

And there is so much to be.

[amnhnyc]

It’s Fossil Friday, so soar into the weekend with Archaeopteryx! When this dinosaur was first described in 1861, it caused a sensation. Discovered shortly after Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution by means of natural selection, Archaeopteryx provided an example of evolution in action—a fossil that showed the transition between reptiles and birds. The first Archaeopteryx fossils ever found included exquisitely preserved skeletons with clear imprints of wings and feathers, but also teeth and a bony tail. Today, scientists think Archaeopteryx wasn’t able to fly very well, but the species still represents a turning point in paleontologists’ understanding of the relationship between ancient dinosaurs and modern birds in the design of both its body and brain. You can spot Archaeopteryx, and so much more, at the Museum! Plan your visit.

Photo: © AMNH

[y2areyouok]

Feel free to check us out on the web-this zine is going to cyberspace in the year 2000! Join us! Link in bio to submit your art/writing!

[jstor]

Happy Pride! JSTOR Daily has a round up of LGBTQ+ articles happening this month - check them out: https://daily.jstor.org/lgbtq-pride-month-editors-picks/

[knucklecurve]

filthy, filthy read

[greenofrain]

Kill Your Inner Lore Master

On Pokémon, Sontag, and how the answers hold us back

This is related and worth reading I think

[knucklecurve]

filthy, filthy read

[artrefineries]

OPs addition in the notes that I wanted to add because the posts' comments are-

[knucklecurve]

filthy, filthy read

[nogaynolife]

[talos-4]

I think Ebert's kind of a dick, but he's close to the very interesting way fandom overlaps with religion. I'll say this, too, conversations with fans get way less boring if you know how to ask pointed questions.

Hollow people fill themselves with meaning by falling into the embrace of Luke Skywalker or Jesus Christ in much the same way. A pointy question might be "why do you believe in god?" or "what makes you think Star Wars is worth paying attention to?" We often sketch these types of questions as rude, but they really don't have to be.

In deep fandom as in deep religion, you become an "expert," you buy the merch, you debate canon over trivia you've already made up your mind about, you master the lane and then stay in it. It's a parallel social process, turning towards a known cultural institution for comfort in the face of a cruel & unfair world, and I think it's facinating.

We can meet these folk with more compassion than Roger manages to muster up here, but I also think we need to be aware of when someone's so wounded it's not the time to pull their covers back, or whether we even can or should. Sometimes you just leave these circles because you're a bigger, healthier person than those who stay in them. You can criticize fandom like this and not be wrong, but Ebert's only scratching at the surface level of a really interesting phenomenon.

It's actual insane how much fandom and religion overlap. For example, "canon" is a term that's originally about which interpretation of scripture is correct. Fandom & religion even become similar in terms of their insular cultures and exclusion of others. Look back on the history of church schisms and tell me they aren't showcasing the same kind of drama that plays out in fan communities today.

For me, a really neat piece of this is how fandom and religion both attempt to define culture within certain lines, and those definitions are ultimately destined to fail if you read too literally. You can learn from Jesus as much as you can from Yoda, but if you treat anything they have to say as literal, gospel truth, you're putting too much authority in the hands of one fake guy. I think embracing the mystery & the ambiguity is empowering, but it's not without some peril of its own.

A literal interpretation of a text is certain, it's rock solid, it's well defined and safe. But we very much lack the tools to be that literal about anything, and scientists will be the first people to confirm that for you. Our condition is inevitably one of ambiguity, and it's quite telling how uncomfortable that makes us.

[haaretz]

Iranian Jews celebrate the holiday of Hanukkah in Tehran