Or, as I recently read, the activity can be described as "lactosing the intolerant"!
Image by Happy Toast
Milkshake brings RoboCop to my blog
Or, as I recently read, the activity can be described as "lactosing the intolerant"!
Image by Happy Toast
Milkshakes as a statement
Entertained by the trend for throwing milkshakes at right-wing politicians
Gives me an idea for a story about a radical scientist who uses time-travel to throw a chocolate thickshake at a certain younger Liberal in Engadine Maccas during 1997.
Image by HappyToast
Image by HappyToast
Democracy sausage at stake
This Federal election has seen a record number of pre-poll votes
Currently around 10% of the population has cast their ballot ahead of polling day this Saturday.
The trend threatens an Australian institution: the democracy sausage.
Barbecues at school hall-based polling stations have been a method for P&C committees to raise funds.
If electorates aren't visiting the schools to vote, then they won't be buying snags.
Currently around 10% of the population has cast their ballot ahead of polling day this Saturday.
Barbecues at school hall-based polling stations have been a method for P&C committees to raise funds.
If electorates aren't visiting the schools to vote, then they won't be buying snags.
This Yellow Box rocks
Short video about a magnificent Eucalyptus melliodora outside Wagga
It's surprising what you can learn climbing a tree.
This Yellow Box offers a fun climb and a great view of the landscape.
Addressing Leeton's doctor shortage
The Leeton-based Campaigners for Regional Equality is using the Federal election to spark conversation around the issue of the town's shortage of doctors.
Breaking news
Narrandera's newspaper wrote a story about the project I'll be launching next month
My aim is to make Australia's largest playable guitar the most-played guitar in the country by offering a free sample set of the instrument for use in productions.
Read more about the recording session with Narrandera's big guitar here.
Read more about the recording session with Narrandera's big guitar here.
Long arm of the law
Now wondering should I have thought about a start-up company?
Baking with spinach
In the last week I've tried a baking spinach in a couple of doughs
The bread almost collapsed, in part because the spinach has a lot of moisture.
Last night I tried pizza dough, which is forgiving and my kids seem to like it soggier.
I also like it soggier, as it's easier to roll.
And it means that spinach is non-negotiable with pizza!
At present I'd guess that each cup of spinach requires around 30ml less water.
Both the bread and the pizza bases had around two cups of blended spinach, with their recipes calling for 3.5 cups and 3.25 cups of flour respectively.
The spinach was added and did not substitute for flour.
I also add a tablespoon of chia seed and two tablespoons of hemp seed, as well as a heaped teaspoon of dried oregano.
The bread almost collapsed, in part because the spinach has a lot of moisture.
I also like it soggier, as it's easier to roll.
And it means that spinach is non-negotiable with pizza!
At present I'd guess that each cup of spinach requires around 30ml less water.
Both the bread and the pizza bases had around two cups of blended spinach, with their recipes calling for 3.5 cups and 3.25 cups of flour respectively.
The spinach was added and did not substitute for flour.
I also add a tablespoon of chia seed and two tablespoons of hemp seed, as well as a heaped teaspoon of dried oregano.
Writing haiku
I've been writing haiku poetry for years and feel I've been improving
My interest in the short, constrained verse was sparked when I got a mobile phone.
Back in the day the limited number of characters that could be sent by SMS suggested the format would be good to send poems to my friends.
The title of this blog came from one of those haiku.
A few years ago I decided to challenge myself to write a poem each week.
The following year I began writing one each day, a practice I've largely maintained -- although there was a slip last year.
The little I know about haiku comes from following Naviar Records' haiku challenges and the poem shared today came with this insight from Masaoka Shiki:
It's an approach that makes sense to me, as I've been writing haiku in response to nature photographs more and more since late 2017.
That was when I collaborated with Naviar Records to develop the Crossing Streams exhibition.
For that Dr Greg Pritchard to run a writing workshop, as he had contributed to the Slow Book Haiku exhibition that I'd invited to fill the other room at the Narrandera Arts Centre.
In his workshop Greg introduced the term 'ekphrasis,' which is a creative response to an artwork.
I'm looking forward to exhibiting my haiku with the photographs the respond to, as well as music I've made, as part of an exhibition at the Griffith Regional Art Gallery later this year.
My interest in the short, constrained verse was sparked when I got a mobile phone.
Back in the day the limited number of characters that could be sent by SMS suggested the format would be good to send poems to my friends.
The title of this blog came from one of those haiku.
The following year I began writing one each day, a practice I've largely maintained -- although there was a slip last year.
The little I know about haiku comes from following Naviar Records' haiku challenges and the poem shared today came with this insight from Masaoka Shiki:
He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”
It's an approach that makes sense to me, as I've been writing haiku in response to nature photographs more and more since late 2017.
That was when I collaborated with Naviar Records to develop the Crossing Streams exhibition.
For that Dr Greg Pritchard to run a writing workshop, as he had contributed to the Slow Book Haiku exhibition that I'd invited to fill the other room at the Narrandera Arts Centre.
In his workshop Greg introduced the term 'ekphrasis,' which is a creative response to an artwork.
Grizzly Beat from Yellowstone
Earlier this year I remixed a recording of a grizzly bear for Cities and Memory
There's this discussion of my track 'Grizzly Beat' on the Cities and Memory website.
I was interested to learn:
My track was made entirely from the recording, including repitching the growls but also shaping transients to create the percussion.
The dream I mentioned was discussed on this blog last year.
There's this discussion of my track 'Grizzly Beat' on the Cities and Memory website.
I was interested to learn:
These sounds were recorded with a cell phone by an experienced Bear Management Technician, Dan Bergum, during recent fieldwork involving capture. The bear was recorded during the few moments that it was contained inside a large, culvert-sized trap.
My track was made entirely from the recording, including repitching the growls but also shaping transients to create the percussion.
The dream I mentioned was discussed on this blog last year.
My first cerveza
Opened a cerveza extract that I'd bought heavily discounted and added lemongrass, as well as mugwort.
This one has 1kg dextrose, which is the first time I've tried it.
May the fourth
Facebook's community standards
Maybe I should be grateful they didn't ban me for a week like last time this happened, but I am surprised that the pic above was deleted.
At this time of year I share Easter-themed pics and memes, so I was a bit annoyed to break the run that I was curating on my News Feed.
Broccoli pizza
This might've resulted from my toasted sandwich videos, where I challenged him to add something he wouldn't normally consider.
You can see there's also spinach on there and the base contains chia and hemp seeds.
Mugwort porter
I've put on a new brew now the weather has cooled
This is a mugwort porter and the recipe is:
- 18 litres water
- 600g molasses
- 1kg brewing sugars
- a few inches of ginger
- about half a dozen small lemonbalm leaves
- one of those bags used for fruit and veg stuffed full of mugwort
I've submerged the mugwort in the wort, using a cotton bag weighed down with mugs.
The nettle porter last year worked well but had a bit much of alcohol for me.
Update: seems I've pushed my luck too far and the wort is infected. Guess it might've been the tea bag (an old flour sack) weighed down with three mugs.
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