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Feb 29 2012
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Savage Death Island Motto
Take it or fucking leave it and get the hell away from me.
37 comments
yttik
February 29, 2012 at 8:27 am (UTC -6)
I can feel my arteries clogging as we speak.
Ginjoint
February 29, 2012 at 8:31 am (UTC -6)
I’m calmed just knowing that the Times New Roman isn’t going to stay.
Comradde PhysioProffe
February 29, 2012 at 10:27 am (UTC -6)
Whatte the fucken fucke is thatte gruesome shitte in the fucken banner!?!?!?!?
Allhellsloose
February 29, 2012 at 11:20 am (UTC -6)
mmm….fooood.
Why does no one like TNR anymore? What IS the default type? One that kicks the patriarchy while blaming at the same time?
I think it’s Comic Sans myself. Come on now, no more cognative dissonance on this one. I jestte!
TriciaMilitia
February 29, 2012 at 11:22 am (UTC -6)
Chicken fried…something. With a side of butter!
You’ll have to eat, like, 75 Activias to get that movin’ out of your gut.
Twisty
February 29, 2012 at 11:41 am (UTC -6)
It’s chicken-fried steak from the Hill Country Cupboard in Johnson City, Texas. It’s just temporary while I sort out the blog, so don’t panic.
quixote
February 29, 2012 at 11:44 am (UTC -6)
The gruesome shitte is The Patriarchy! (Honestly. How could you not know that after reading this Blogge?) It looks like a gooey bad-for-you indulgence from the outside, and before you know it, it’s coated your arteries.
Times New Roman gets slagged off for being hard(er) to read on a screen because of all the serifs and close spacing that make it rather good in print. Opinions vary. Read some typography blogs. You wouldn’t believe how much opinions vary.
Twisty
February 29, 2012 at 11:52 am (UTC -6)
Nobody asked me, but I like Times New Roman on a screen. In fact …
zibber
February 29, 2012 at 11:55 am (UTC -6)
Thank you for that entry. I was panicking :).
Discombobulated
February 29, 2012 at 12:35 pm (UTC -6)
I remember that chicken-fried steak and gravy banner! Ah, the good old days. Like, two years ago or something. Then the dead frog….
I have too much time on my hands.
someonered
February 29, 2012 at 12:38 pm (UTC -6)
At least the lime-green text color is no more. That shade of blue is much nicer.
Also, chicken fried steak (IMO) is very, very good.
Twisty
February 29, 2012 at 12:43 pm (UTC -6)
That wasn’t a dead frog, it was a live toad.
Katherine
February 29, 2012 at 12:54 pm (UTC -6)
Seriously, what the hell is “chicken-fried steak”? Steak fried in chicken, chicken fried in steak, chicken steak fried in something else? With some kind of melted cheese involved?
quixote
February 29, 2012 at 2:42 pm (UTC -6)
Chicken fried steak, in my book, is down there with deep-fried Mars bars in the deepest circle of food hell. It is a thin and rather crappy piece of beef, breaded and fried in the style of fried chicken. And then, to add injury to injury, it’s smothered in something euphemistically called a white sauce. (Well, it is whitish. I have to give it that.) In case that’s not enough of a fat depth bomb for you, you can dollop butter on it, too.
Appalling stuff. There’s a reason I compare it to the P.
tinfoil hattie
February 29, 2012 at 3:09 pm (UTC -6)
Now, quixote, don’t forget that there’s SAUSAGE in that there white gravy.
At least at IHOP, there is.
Kea
February 29, 2012 at 3:53 pm (UTC -6)
Want cake.
Sarah
February 29, 2012 at 4:17 pm (UTC -6)
PANIC! Now I’m hungry. I require breakfast foods.
Friend of Snakes
February 29, 2012 at 4:21 pm (UTC -6)
I’m not exactly sure what that photo depicts, but it reminds me that once you start making your own mayonnaise, you’ll never want to go back to the store-bought glop.
What’s so bad about this format anyway?
Embedded secret message: that salt kicks ass.
Comradde PhysioProffe
February 29, 2012 at 4:34 pm (UTC -6)
I am happily reading all these comments in Verdana, because I have my browser set to flip the big motherfucken bird to whatever shitteasse fonts Webdouches try to shove down my fucken throat.
Twisty
February 29, 2012 at 4:39 pm (UTC -6)
Fuck Verdana.
Friend of Snakes
February 29, 2012 at 5:14 pm (UTC -6)
Apropos of nothing much: I really miss Molly Ivins when the primary season rolls around. Don’t you know she would have had some great one-liners (and more) to lay down on all the Republican clown car occupants, but particularly, Mulluh Rick.
Comradde PhysioProffe
February 29, 2012 at 5:15 pm (UTC -6)
No, wai! Matthew Carter, FTMFW!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Triste
February 29, 2012 at 5:55 pm (UTC -6)
That shit is a steak?
I thought it was fucking pudding or something, christ.
quixote
February 29, 2012 at 6:05 pm (UTC -6)
Sausage? Sausage! Oh my God. And I thought I was joking about the P.
eilish
February 29, 2012 at 7:12 pm (UTC -6)
In non-US parts of the world, we call it beef schnitzel.
Pinko Punko
February 29, 2012 at 8:16 pm (UTC -6)
Other El Classico Banners that are beloved:
1) Kiddo jumping on the chair
2) Was there also a Mr. T? I think that was the first post I ever read at this casa.
When you fix the old one, I might ask about your style sheet. I have a super old K2 and I am afraid to update it because I forgot all the bailing wire and gum HTML that I put in there to make it my particular shade of ugly.
caol
February 29, 2012 at 8:26 pm (UTC -6)
I’m think i’m ok with this format. It’s not THAT bad. I think it’s easier to read.
Kathy McCarty
February 29, 2012 at 8:41 pm (UTC -6)
HEY! HATERS!
I just wanna say that CHICKEN FRIED STEAK is DELISH!
Oh, and also, I think it is really great at THE SILVER K diner in Johnson City, and, how does the chicken-fried steak at the Silver K compare to the Chicken-Fried steak at the Hill Country Cupboard? I have the general impression that THE SILVER K is the finer establishment.
Also, the Chicken-Fried steak is marvelous at THE HOTEL LIMPIA in Fort Davis, TX. In fact, I highly recommend THE LIMPIA but be sure to stay in the ANNEX, it is normal price and just as historic, and in the ANNEX you can have YOUR DOG(S).
Friend of Snakes
February 29, 2012 at 9:34 pm (UTC -6)
I’ve always liked the JUDICIOUS use of ALL CAPS myself.
alamo
February 29, 2012 at 9:34 pm (UTC -6)
There is no evidence that animal-derived fats and proteins cause heart disease. There is evidence that carbs cause heart disease.
” . . . N.I.H. spent several hundred million dollars trying to demonstrate a connection between eating fat and getting heart disease and, despite what we might think, it failed. Five major studies revealed no such link.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Katherine
March 1, 2012 at 5:00 am (UTC -6)
Well, thank you for all the chicken fried steak education. Wonderful to know that Blamers will help me out when I can’t be arsed to Google.
I think it sounds repulsive. But given that I like pineapple fritters I’m on shaky ground here.
procrastinatrix
March 1, 2012 at 5:27 am (UTC -6)
Content trumps format every time. I couldn’t care less about fonts as long as I can read them. Sorry you’re having trouble with the blog, Twisty. Too bad operant conditioning doesn’t work on tech.
I miss chicken fried chicken (same as steak but with a pounded-thin chicken breast), sausage gravy and biscuits, and midwestern pork tenderloin sandwiches since becoming a veggie a few years back. The banner inspired me to search for some veggie and vegan sawmill gravy recipes which I’ll try this weekend.
speedbudget
March 1, 2012 at 6:37 am (UTC -6)
Every now and again, I get a hankering for chicken fried steak and eggs. It’s the southern in me.
PS – How do I make that picture happen?
buttercup
March 1, 2012 at 8:05 am (UTC -6)
No sausage in chicken fried steak gravy. It’s a white gravy, roux made with bacon fat or lard if you’re a purist. Salt and pepper only. If you want to get fancy, you can use some of that highfalutin’ smoked chardonnay fleur de sel.
Also, Texas truck stop standards declare that the CFS should not be deep fried, but grill fried. Battered as you’d expect but placed on the grill and browned well on both sides until cooked. That makes up for the lard in the gravy and it also makes the meat come out more tender.
Working at truck stops in Snyder has apparently made me the foremost expert in chicken fried steak or something.
buttercup
March 1, 2012 at 8:05 am (UTC -6)
Oh, and HEVETICA FOREVAH!
quixote
March 1, 2012 at 12:06 pm (UTC -6)
Ooh, I like the horse! I hope that’s a permanent replacement for the well-some-people-like-it glop.
speedbudget
March 1, 2012 at 1:39 pm (UTC -6)
Having previously worked with special-needs students, I cannot express my love for Arial enough, which has been proven to be one of most easily read fonts.
PS – I have to keep logging in in order to comment, which is adversely affecting my spam rate.