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eRiC

I'm on time in a way you'll never understand.

About Me

I'm trying to get paid for studying trees, so far its working...

My Interests

probing things: trees, dirt, the air...wild flowers...bird watching....knitting...loose leaf tea...walks in the woods...euchre and cribbage...mom 'n' pop diners...thrift stores...oh yeah, plus drinking & punk rock...I'm a tough guy.....really, I am...

I'd like to meet:

A unicorn, an orca and a dolphin...all riding the same wave...
....nah, on second thought, that's kinda creepy...but I would like to see that dolphin and unicorn battle to the death....that'd be awesome...

Music:

QUIRKY PRETTY STUFF: silver jews, will oldham, weddoes, joanna newsom, jens lekman etc.
SKRONKY LOUD STUFF: botch, refused, the assailant, arab on radar, an albatross, lightning bolt, tyrades, dc snipers, etc.
CLASSICS: misfits, crass, roxy music, sparks, gary wilson, joy division, the fall, etc.
LOCAL STUFF: cantwell gomez & jordan, des ark, street sharks, pleasant, eyes to space, black strap, midtown dickens, eberhardt
YACHT ROCK

Movies:

troll 2, a boy and his dog, suspiria, the cook the thief his wife and her lover, plastic utopia, eraserhead, twilight of the ice nymphs...

Television:

the young ones, arrested development, mr. show, kids in the hall...on DVD.

Books:

James Howard Kunstler, Cormac McCarthy, Alton Brown, William S. Burroughs, Richard Dawkins, Franz Kafka, Michael Pollan

Heroes:

MT Liggett
You scored as Steven Morrissey. You're Morrissey, that's pathetic.

Steven Morrissey


92%

Stephen Hawking


75%

Elvis Presley


75%

Jesus Christ


67%

Friedrich Nietzsche


67%

Charles Manson


58%

Miyamoto Musashi


58%

Hugh Hefner


50%

Adolf Hitler


50%

O.J. Simpson


42%

C.G. Jung


33%

Dante Alighieri


33%

Sigmund Freud


17%

Mother Teresa


17%
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My Blog

Myriad Pasta Sauces and the Wonders of Reductions

So, this is what I do when I'm home alone and need a quick, but satisfying meal that can be made in tandem with a little email writing, data managing, or code writing: I make pasta sauces. This works...
Posted by eRiC on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:32:00 PST

Cheap vodka and overpriced organic tomatoes belong together..

A coupla entries ago, I wrote about mole and how it was one of my favorite recipes 'cos I could mess with the recipe every time I made it. The same goes for many of the things I make, e.g. I can read...
Posted by eRiC on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:00:00 PST

Jambalaya? Well, kinda...

I don't usually go in for 'quick meal' type recipes where most of the seasoning is provided by a packaged product, but I whipped this up today after perusing shelves of my local supermarket and was qu...
Posted by eRiC on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:53:00 PST

YSTRDG!!!

So, yr drunk in Eastown, GRap, Mich and the bar lights come up and you hear the bartender yell, "Time to go!"After yr eyes adjust to the change in illumination, you look around and see that nobody has...
Posted by eRiC on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:29:00 PST

Xmess mole

So, by popular vote (curiously in my absence) my family decided (read: conspired) that I would make mole for Xmess dinner. The interesting thing about making mole is that I never make it the same way...
Posted by eRiC on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:41:00 PST

fondue, global warming and gingerbread

Fondue was great fun and as a result of recent discussions, I realize that within one degree of separation, I have access to at least 5 fondue pots. The mind boggles. I've good recipes for gruyere &...
Posted by eRiC on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:28:00 PST

sammich nite 06-12-13

sammich: everything bagel, peppered tofurky, dubliner cheese, just a drizzle of honey, mixed baby greens and herbs.verdict: pretty good, but the peppered tofurky was a bit too peppery for my liking. ...
Posted by eRiC on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:00:00 PST

Saganaki not Nagasaki

NOTE, if you try this at home, don't go blaming me if your kitchen ends up looking like this. You should always have a friendly fire marshall at ready with an extinguisher. Roommates are good for t...
Posted by eRiC on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:34:00 PST