Wednesday, February 22, 2006

You went to school where you were taught to fear and to obey, be cheerful, fit in, or someone might think you're weird. Life can be perfect. People ca

the perfect tortea du potata, learned from proper spanish, from spain

stuff:
eggs (5 or 6)
Olive oil (some)
an Onion
about 5 or 6 small potatoes or less if bigger


method:
chop tatties into small (>1cm/sq) cubes
there should be enough spud to 1/3 fill a frying pan
this should be put in a pre heated non stick frying pan (with enough olive oil to cover the tatties)
Fry the above for a bit
dice the onions and add to the frying pan

Whilst the above is cooking beat eggs in a bowl adding sea salt and ground black pepper as desired.

Once it looks like the onions are starting to cook (and the potatoes should be soft(ish))take the frying pan straight from the hob and add very hot contents to the egg

stir, cover and leave for 10 minutes

stir, cover and leave for 5 minutes

having already reheating the frying pan to a fairly hot temperature add the mixture

do various things to the pan whilst periodically remove from the heat for short periods
a slight twitch/shake/rotation action is good, with the odd stir

once it looks like the base is starting to set, we cheat a little (dont do this in front of the spanish as they freak) and stick the pan under a hot grill untill the top of the omlette starts to solidify

the tricky bit:
Place plate over the omlette in the pan (having removed it from the grill);
invert
slide the omlette back from the plate into the pan so the not so cooked side is now the base
place back on the heat

cook untill firm

Cut into pieces
serve with thin slices of chorizo after a night out on DF's at the west-end Subway

Monday, February 20, 2006

This is ace #2

http://www.mercurytheatre.info/

being a fan of aged radio drama, and this being by Orson Welles; you cant really go wrong, and you can bit=torrent everything

La lived me missed made

top actors:

Min-sik Choi
Tomisaburo Wakayama
Kenneth Williams
Harry Dean Stanton

Pipe organ FAQ

1. The longest Pipe ever is 128 foot long, you cant hear the note it produces
2. You would normally get 72 keys on a keyboard and 12 on the foot peddles
3.There can be over 3000 pipes per pipe organ
4.If you arranged all the pipes from 3 pipe organs in a line they would stretch from here to Monahan (Ireland) , THE LONG WAY AROUND
5.Be careful when using the term “pipe organ” in Arab states; it may be an awe-inspiring phrase in the West but in local Persian “Pipe Organ” translates as “Your Mother wears the Shoes of wounded Dog”
6.My old boss were so tight he would piss in a bottle rather than take 2 minutes to use the toilet
7.If you open some of the motors in Leeds Grammar Schools pipe organ you will see the above referred to as “A Twat”
8.The famous Magritte painting is in fact the introductory illustration to a 1917 children’s guide to Pipe Organs. The right hand portion with the missing “Organ” and page number 5 have been lost in time
9.The Japanese have invented a TOTALLY flat Pipe organ that you can fold and carry
10.Apple are working on a version of the above only you cant change the pipes, it has less keys but it looks so good you want to lick it
11.Cary Grant, Rock Hudson and James Whale were all big fans of Pipe Organs, John Wayne, however, was not.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

listy listy

Four jobs for my past selves:

1.Restorer, repairer, builder and tuner of pipe organs
2.Picture framer
3.Walking around a land fill site picking up all the stuff (normally pastic bags) that had blown off the land fill site and putting them into a bag which we then put back on the land fill site so it could then blow off it again (I refer to this as my Sisyphus period)
4.counting people at Waverley Station

Four little known facts about me:
1.up untill I moved to edinburgh every one used to call me mouse
2.I have met and appeared on TV with take-that (inc robbie williams); I still have this on video
3.i currently have a packet of filter tips and a shiney 2 pence piece in my left jean pocket
4.i have only voted once and it were for the Lib Dems

Four city airports i have been to:
1.Edinburgh
2.Dublin
3.Belfast
4.Leister

Four foods i hate to love:
1.blue cheese
2.tomatoe and vegatable cup a soup with crutons
3.Tequela
4.Very strong thick black coffee

Four websites i visit daily
1.google
2.bbc radio listen again
3.m*sp*ce (although 69.7% its not there, there comes a point when describing errors as unexpected becomes just plain dishonest)
4.IMdB

Four things i want to do before i die
1.Dream
2.Live
3.stop
4.listen to coltranes “Ascension” all the way through, straight

Four people i am tagging
1.Garys Fanny (who wont do it)
2.Palmer (whom seems to have disappeared to m*sp*ce)
3.Ms Z
4.Ceci

where this came from . . .

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

the idea that im posting this makes me laugh

alot

im oncall by the way, it does strange things to a man:


Part way through the evening
The lads were 'round in force
OF course they'd all been drinkin and thinking of woman and rutting
When one produced a card
Hard plastic for pleasure

Strutting their stuff their minds made up
Not stopping to think (Well maybe of pink)
Seeking, soon to be there
Treasure, Ladies spread bare
And only small care of which one to pick

Born was the grin of a groin and their faces
Tracing backwards and forwards
Between porn and the sweet shelf

Finally the climax of the rock hard mission; the decision
Not one
Not two
But 3 to see, here

Switch card the art with little time to sign darting out to the street not a beat missed in elated mood some difficulty walking and pictures that were rude

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

...working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need

but i do need this:

Cause they do this;

and thats ace

(The Telescopes recording of the above show no less)

**dances**

Friday, February 10, 2006

I posted a while back;

1. 1.a
And argued in favour of free speech over peoples sensibilities

2.

Then I referenced this, saying I was glad they got off but would found humour in them being buggered)

But then this happens

3.

And my first reaction is im glad; it feels like justice has been done.

And this

4.

Which I don’t think is particularly nice

Thinking about it, it did seem a bit inconsistent.

So why my original reaction to 3 and 4?
I’m white; protestant background
In the media every time we hear Islam or Muslim it’s followed by a death count.
Compare the picture of the BNP to the picture of Abu Hanza.
Agencies in Britain were aware of the nature of his speeches for years; it was only when the US started getting involved that he was arrested.
An idiot would have been able to work out that if you publish cartoons like above then its going to piss Muslims off.

Any one noticed that at the time there is increasing bad press in the wider media regarding Islam, troupes in Afghanistan are increasing and a case is slowly being developed for action against Iran.

Shits complicated int it

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Mrs Beaton

this rocks:

chick pea and corriander salad

Ingredients:
Chick peas; 2 cans or equivelent from dried (soak and cook them first), dried recommended
A lemon
A lime
Some garlic (couple of cloves ull do the trick)
3 birdstype chilli peppers (2 red, one green, or less if you're a bit Lib-Dem) theyre the small ones
Olive oil (some)
Mushrooms (large handfull)
one red onion
Fresh corriander (about a small fist full, depends on taste and size of fists)


Method:

In a sealable jar add:
The garlic this should be chopped finely, salt added and then crushed under the flat blade of a knife
The chillis chopped very finely
Most of the juice from the lime
Most of the juice of the lemon
About 2/3rds the equivalent amount of the lime/lemon juice; of olive oil
Salt, ground pepper and a touch of sugar to taste

Shake jar (having sealed)

Chop the remaining ingredients (apart from chick peas) as desired

Put in a bowl, add the yellowy looking stuff from the jar to the bowl, stir and leave for 90 minutes

Serve with a light green leaf salad, lidls lager and Cannonball Adderleys "Somethin' Else"


As requested

The rest room just before cleaning



**nospoons is researching the legalitys of a rat toilet action shot**

Monday, February 06, 2006

Rats deux

So i get a litter tray for norman and tink; cause you can train rats to use them. And i was right impressed that they seemed to have taken to it. However it would seem, after further inspection that normans got his head 'round it, however tink seems to be using the adjasent corner.

So it would seem that i need to creat a female lavatory for Ms Tink, does that mean i have to find another ladie rat to accompany her to powder her noise, should i get vases full of pot porri and what is this thing about ladies bathrooms and shells?.

This is one of the many stress's of being a house keeper for rodents


**pictures available on request**

...and here's one i made earlyer

I went with you
'Cause I thought you were me
But really you are what I'd become

I went with you
'Cause you talked with me
The need to be some mothers son

I went with you
Down on my knee's?
Consider it done

But really Babe

I went with you
because you were
Something warm with which to come


that'll be '96 then, my how time flys when your jaiked oot yer box

Thursday, February 02, 2006

the kittens are safe

Right then, first up, we got to line 16 (well 16 submissions anyway), its seems to have a wee bit of a teenangst lost love feel to it. Alright so i dont think its going to make Radio4's poetry please, but it does give me i warm fuzzy feeling that people took time to add to this; so as promised heres what we got so far, should we continue? should we start another?

I remember the other day as we spoke how our hearts get broken
Too many feelings, words left unspoken;
Everytime we talk, playing again and again the memory of
The day you left and got back and left;
The tinny sound of that cheap japanese tape recorder that was your (16 year
old) world
Whirled back and then left
Its never the same taping it off the radio
Its never gonna be the same
How can i begin, to unravel the past?
Passing fast for-ever looping the games exchanging differant places; faces
of a familier cast
An understudy hatching wicked plans from the wings
But your face is the face that keeps coming back

And left
And forth
And right
Stuck in my mind's eye
Like some long lost, new found stranger injecting that sense of danger
Infected, its strange that we are
I slept
You bore
We wept
You say 'case they're shy
Paid too high a cost, left with nothing but the anger
Drawn over and over broke
Fuck it, fuck it all on the last race at Lingfield
Cover the lost face that replaced our laughter
Breathe life into the death mask of tomorrow


With thanks to:
Sasha, Gary , Emma, Ceci

myspace;

reasons that it sucks

4. It is impossible to make your main page look like anything other than a shitey 1997 home page programmed by a hyperactive teenager (¬/^o^\-) etc
z. Tom is not my friend, i have very little to say to the man, infact we have never met
22. Independent research shows that 88.76% of the time all you get when you go to myspace is pacman

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Satire


and for his next trick nospoons requires a copy of photoshop and a picture of G.W bush