Open letter to all World of Warcraft forum posters
Everything I have to say, I say through my art.
Edit: Moved the caption bubble since some people were IGNANT.
Dog!
Thanks to the internet, I now know that frozen dogs can explode during incineration. It’s against the law to show kids pictures of tits, but you can tell them things like that without even a warning label? If any eight-year-olds get their hands on that, it’ll scar them for life. Or, you know, they’ll burn down the house trying it. Depending on how awesome the kids in question are.
Humpin’ around
I’m glad to hear everybody appreciated the ninja link in the big food post. I’m pretty sure the only thing that prevents that song from being the new goatse.cx is that it doesn’t have the shock value properly frontloaded. It’s still great, though.
My new goal in life is to cause a major international incident by springing that song on some dudes at exactly the wrong time. Like maybe I’ll hack into the Irani government’s network and make the palace PA start blasting it in the middle of prayer at some point. Check it out!
Does the Irani government have a network? Or a PA? Or electricity? I honestly don’t know. For all I know they live in wigwams and eat ticks and chiggers to survive.
The composition of lunch
So when we last left the food post, I’d thrown three pictures at you and not told you what they were. I did leave a promise to revisit that, however, so here we are.
The one on top is hot shrimp and crab dip, served with toasted french bread. It’s shrimp, crab, cream, and monterey jack cheese, various herbs and spices, heated through to combine flavours and melt the cheese, and then rouxed to thick-city. I don’t personally care much for shrimp and crab, but I’m told by everyone else that it was fantastic. This was especially nice since it was the dish I had the least idea about, and wasn’t 100% sure it would come out edible, much less good. Yet it did!
In the middle is what we billed as the "New Year’s Good Luck Dinner." It’s blackened grilled pork loin chops, steamed greens with garlic and olive oil, and a spicy snai^H^H^H^H black-eyed pea concoction with peppers and onions and such. Oh, and cornbread. This is the Good Luck Dinner because, as I understand it, the especially superstitious and/or mystical folk tend to assume that kale and black-eyed peas represent like wealth and happiness and shit like that. I don’t really get it. All I know is the pork chops represent me thinking pork chops would be good with this dish, and the cornbread represents me looking at the plate and thinking it needed something yellow.
On the bottom is the Portobello Manicotti that I made (minus the salad it comes with). It’s fairly straightforward: manicotti stuffed with portobello mushrooms, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, eggs, herbs and spices, topped with a simple tomato sauce and more mozzarella. Comes with garlic bread and a salad. I think it’s a terriffic dish, and the consensus was that adding the mushrooms to the filling really rounded out the flavour nicely, since typical manicotti formaggio is a bit on the bland side. On the other hand, next time I do a filled pasta it will probably be stuffed shells; I’d forgotten what a colossal pain in the balls manicotti is to work with.
An hour before we opened, my kitchen was a giant disaster; there was half-finished this and that all over the place, empty containers of whatever and dirty pans scattered all around the room. I’m honestly surprised we were able to pull the kitchen back into usable shape by the beginning of service, much less finish the menu and get such a fond reception for it. But, hey, my first real test as acting chef was a success!
Happy Gote Jump Day!
It’s the new year, and that means one thing in particular: time for the official annual Muffin Hunters Parachute Gote Brigade ritual of jumping off of really tall places! Life was being weird this year, so I didn’t get to participate as much as I’d have liked. But still, we had some fun jumps and got a few keen shots.
– Germaine and Hamirack jumping to Menethil Harbor –
Liftoff!
Entering Town
Success!
– Random crap –
Did you know they let gnomes in the Stormpike Guard?
That’s all I have. If Hami gets his ready I’ll probably link those here, too. And I’ll probably dig up last year’s to show, since I didn’t have the blog then.
Edit: Last year’s pictures!
The grand idea
The Airport
Nice gates. I’d jump it.
Attention duelists! Watch for falling paladins!
The Tunnel of Doom!
Beyond the Doom Tunnel
Guys, we could, like, totally jump to town.
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a gote! A plane! No, it’s Hamirack!
Nice dam. I’d jump it.
Pretty dam tall.
Nice tree. I’d… never mind.
Landing too far north.
Incoming to Auberdine.
Success! Jump from Teldrassil to Auberdine accomplished!
Second edit: The Hamirack pictures!
They’re all here and stuff.
So imagine you’re a sous-chef…
… and your chef gets a heart infection and goes to the hospital for a long time. Suddenly you’re in charge of menu creation for the restaurant. What do you do?
If you’re anything like me, you do that. Tomorrow after I’ve recovered I’ll tell you what it all is and how I did it.
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