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Curated Absurdity Food

Camembert Consciousness: The Rise of the Sentient Cheese (3/3)

Steps in Evolution Cheese Makes Art Cheese Experiences a Spiritual Awakening Free Will and the Problem of Evil Cheese’s newfound self awareness inevitably leads to the presence of BAD CHEESE. The Guardians Fight Back Where there is moldy cheese, the Guardians protect the innocent cheese. Acceptance and Respect / The Mouse Alliance The Fully Self-Actualized […]

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Book Club Curated Absurdity Food Movies

Camembert Consciousness: The Rise of the Sentient Cheese (2/3)

Movie Tie-Ins As cheese becomes sentient, a whole new audience is available for movie enjoyment. Lactose Intolerant: Judgment Dairy The Dairyminator: The Whey of Destruction T-99 Movie Posters For Jane Austen Fans! Pride and Provolone “The genteel world of regency romance… now with extra dairy.” Brie and Prejudice “When love and lactose mix, society will […]

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Curated Absurdity Food

Camembert Consciousness: The Rise of the Sentient Cheese (1/3)

I think visitors of WLBOTT agree that time is a limited and precious resource. Let’s spend some of our precious time thinking about cheese evolving into sentient beings. Should we be concerned? Elder G agrees: Good morning, UC#4. I appreciate your awareness of time’s precious nature, and I wholeheartedly agree that we should use it […]

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Book Club Curated Absurdity Movies Will there be a buffet? WLBOTT Corporate

Jason Pargin and WLBOTT: The Blue Zone

Jason Pargin is becoming our go-to guy for a voice of reason on Facebook. Hard truths and reality checks. Mostly apolitical, but an astute observer of culture. I recently came across one of his videos that inserts some reality into content creation. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1D2ptjh638 You can check out his videos here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/jasondavidwongpargin For some reason, this […]

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Animal Kingdom Book Club Food

Monkey Chow

So… I was looking for a new book to read and decided to search for one of my favorite authors, Neal Stephenson, on the Austin Public Library web site. Success! Interface, by Stephenson/George was available! I downloaded it onto my Kindle, then a weird thing happened. It didn’t show up. From past experience I knew […]

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Climate Change Engineering Korea Will there be a buffet?

Tidal Energy and Sihwa Lake

There’s a pretty cool story about the Korean tidal energy project at Sihwa Lake. Here’s the net: Success! The International Hydropower Association has an interesting overview of the project: The 552.7 GWh of [annual] electricity generated from Sihwa tidal power plant is equivalent to 862,000 barrels of oil, or 315,000 tons of CO2 – the […]

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Adventures of the Elders Domestic Tranquility Food Lasting Love

WLBOTT In Love (and Sausages) (1/2)

[Guest Blott from UC#3] Gentle People – using my WLBOTT Amex card[1], I ventured to East Bernard Texas to evaluate the quality of Vincek’s Smokehouse. It is a Czech style place where you can buy fresh meat, cooked bbq or get your deer processed after a hunt. I would give the sausage I sampled a […]

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Food Meaning of Life Will there be a buffet?

Bang!→Dobie Gillis→NYT→Sardines

It all connects. A logical progression. Starting w/the most recent BLOTT: Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!   => Sleep Till None     => Max Shulman       => Max’s Daughter, Martha Rose         => NYT Cooking Contributor           => Yesterday’s NYT             => Sardine and Egg Salad Sandwiches NYT Sardine Salad A moment to prepare, a lifetime to master…. (Recipe here) Elder G […]

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Book Club Curated Absurdity Food

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

In my formative, pre-WLBOTT years, there was a dearth of accurate information about the adult world. I grew up on military bases, where my male adult role models were commie-hating, belt-cracking, Camel smoking, hemorrhoidal suffering John Birchers who wanted to keep the world safe from democracy. Then word got around amongst the 8th grade boys […]

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Brotherhood/Sisterhood of Man/Woman Climate Change Food Musings

Golden Temple (4/4): Numbers, Nutrition, and Musings

In the previous BLOTT, we looked at a hypothetical WLBOTT langar meal. Let’s look at some number. Ingredients Costs Here’s the daily and annual cost breakdown for serving 100,000 meals per day at the WLBOTT langar: Daily Cost: Annual Cost (365 Days): Summary: Time Period Total Cost Per Meal $2.91 Per Day (100,000 meals) $291,000 […]