KING'S GLOOP

As you would expect, well-known author Stephen King is not only America's most insightful political commentator, but also a gourmet. His recipe for what to feed your kids in the basement when the wife is away is, deservedly, a classic.


STEPHEN KING'S LUNCH GLOOP

CITE:
"My kids love this. I only make it when my wife, Tabby, isn't home, She won't eat it, in fact doesn't even like to look at it."

2 cans Franco American Spaghetti (without meatballs).
1 pound cheap, greasy hamburger.

Brown hamburger in a large skillet. Add Franco American spaghetti and cook till heated through. Do not drain hamburger, or it won't be properly greasy. Burn on pan if you want - that will only improve the flavor. Serve with buttered Wonder Bread."

This is Michelin level.

Yum yum. I can just hear the lipsmacking right now.


Mind you, I've never eaten Franco American spaghetti. So I need to purchase some specialty canned food. I wonder if they have that at Trader Joe's. Also, I would use ground pork, and some chopped garlic. Plus I think this would be really stupendous with Sriracha chili sauce. The only thing that's doubtful is the buttered Wonder Bread -- does that brand even still exist? -- but ghee-drenched naan would be an adequate substitute.

I shall feast like a king.



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RABBIT RABBIT, SEPTEMBER 2025

Rabbit rabbit. It's going to be low to mid seventies today, the rest of the week will turn out a little more reasonable. So heatwise this summer is not at all bad, unlike in forsaken hellholes like Sacramento and Texas. Where people without airconditioning die. Which keeps the rents down. "Boy, you want to live among all the Christians in the badlands? Go right ahead, and say your prayers." In Texas it will hit low nineties today, in Placerville (which is just chuck-full of slope-browed rightwing rear-ends) it's going to be mid to high nineties, and in Sacramento (California's very own gateway to hell) the temperature likely will cross one hundred.

Keep praying, boys. We shall be gamboling naked and worshipping idols.
As well as smoking tonnes of pot and protesting.
We're celebrating our mildness.

Despite the Autumn Festival theme in the illustration, the actual day will be in early October this year. But in SF we're celebrating at the end of September. The seal-script above has two words, the second of which is 秋 ('chau') meaning 'Autumn'. Note that the variant above shows a sun over the fire, suggesting the seasonal aspect. The usual variant has the grain radical (秋), with fire (火) on the right. But actually, the sun (日) is a remnant of the older representation of a cricket, as attested by jiandu 簡牘 ('gaan duk') script (the writing on strips of bamboo during the Warring States period).

The earliest character meaning 'Autumn' was just the cricket.

Cute little fellow, isn't he?
Rabbit rabbit.



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