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[clevermanka]

If, like me, you're stymied by how to donate blood now that all of Lawrence's blood banks have closed, fret no more. Here is a website that allows you to search for local blood drives.

This girl makes a lot of things I wouldn't consider great food, but her tutorial on rendering lard in the slow-cooker and re-seasoning cast iron are fantastic.

For those of you who were disappointed in the quality of Best of Bootie 2009, let me assure you that Best of Bootie 2010 does not disappoint. The Nirvana vs. Jackson 5 mash-up is amazing. Check out Smells like Rockin' Robin.

Rob and Kelly, of It Starts With Murder fame, have established a Kickstarter account for their next project, The Galactic Jungle. Consider shooting a couple bucks of your tax return their way.

Check out this fucking amazing band from Beirut. I'm beyond irritated that I can't buy the MP3 album because I can't install the Amazon download software to my work computer, and I don't know (yet) how my little HP netbook would handle the software. It's pretty limited in its capabilities--the netbook, that is. And why should I have to download software just to get a MP3 album anyway? Fuck you Amazon. I hate you.

Scott Sonnon gives a very nice lesson on learning from your failures. He sums it up with the words How harshly we judge failures in the present, only to realize later the blessed gift they had been. I would change that to say they can only be a gift if we make an effort to learn from them. It's easy to wallow in failure--and it's fine to wallow for a little while. But if you want to enjoy those potential "blessed gifts," you've got to make the effort to learn from and use the experience in a positive way. Nothing just magically happens.

It appears I was wrong about my healthful eating ways. Check out this enlightening video on how processed food is better for everybody, in every way.

Comments

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Wow, doll, you have a lot of good sharing today!
Music... I know your opinion, but I did find this:
Also available here (http://piratebeirut.com/mashrou3-leila-album) along with some interesting discussion.
As the band says on their site, you can freely toss them some money, (paypal?) and they'll probably get more of it that way than through iTunes (don't get me started) or Amazon.
The Amazon downloader is teeny. My netbook had no issue with it.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Oooo! Good find on that sending them money directly through PayPal! I'm off to find that. Thank you.

I have no problem downloading from a pirate site if I can still give the artist some moolah and leave the middleman completely out of the picture.

Edit: Well, dang. That download doesn't appear to be functional anymore.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Damn.

All the others I found require proprietary software as well.

I can get it from amazon for you, maybe?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

If you buy it from Amazon, please burn me a copy and I'll shoot the band ten bucks on Paypal.

Thanks!

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Deal.
I need a new something to listen to, I'm waiting for the new Foghat (well, last year is new to me) CD (http://www.foghat.net/) to arrive that I ordered for J, but maybe Blues is not the genre I should be listening to right now, :)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Everybody wins!

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Is this it? (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_srch_drd_B003JWDGPM?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-music&field-keywords=Aziz%20Maraka%2C%20Mashrou3%20Leila%2C%20Ressala)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's this one (http://www.amazon.com/Mashrou-Leila-Explicit/dp/B004C2A714/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298395845&sr=301-1). That other one is sort of a jazz-sounding thing that I didn't too much care for.

Wait wait! It's this one (http://www.amazon.com/Mashrou-Leila-Explicit/dp/B004BSHGTA/ref=sr_shvl_album_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1298395845&sr=301-3)! Released a month later with longer tracks.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

shit.
Oh, we'll have them both, haha!

[fairgoldberry.livejournal.com]

*snort*

I love that video. It makes me giggle.

Much love,
Rowan

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

It only hurts when you laugh ;-)

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[hippie-mamabear.livejournal.com]

Yay! I've been looking for good instructions for lard rendering.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Me, too. Now I need to talk to some local butchers about getting fat in bulk from them.

[hippie-mamabear.livejournal.com]

Ours said to come by and ask in the afternoon. Which is cool, but kind of sucks because we're only in town first thing in the morning or late at night. Oh well, guess we can grab a lot on the odd occasion that we're out in the middle of the day.

[tama-grey.livejournal.com]

That video about killed me. At first, I thought it was real; one of those short films that the MST3K group is so fond of! [LMAO]

[shrijani.livejournal.com]

Ha! Love the video. Which reminds me... I was wrong. HFCS is made with sulfuric acid.

Here's an interview with one of the kids who made King Corn. If you want to skip the trailer for the movie, go to 1:20.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yfIMbv_f0Q

Part 2 starts with no wait:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dukOVHLcrk0

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

OOH, no wonder Bootie is great this year.. I luvs me some DJ Tripp !