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Duck Fat IV: RABBIT OFFAL06/06/09
If you're not a reader of my Twitter you may not know about my latent obsession with rabbit. I live in a neighborhood where there are a lot of rabbits. To say they are plentiful is an understatement. I've always wanted to nab one out of the yard and cook it up, but I'd stop myself. "It doesn't taste good," I would say, to myself, internally. "If it tasted good people would be constantly catching these motherfuckers, cooking them up, and wearing rabbit fur coats when they go down to the grocery store." I psyched myself out repeatedly, until one day, I was in a small restaurant, and they were serving rabbit.
I ordered the rabbit, and it was delicious. To say that rabbit tastes like chicken is like saying pork tastes like chicken. It's lean meat, it has a subtle flavor, and when I ate my first rabbit, I gnawed the remains until other diners started to stare. Every last bit of it was delicious.
The details are best left unspoken, but two days ago, I acquired a local rabbit. I'm cooking the bulk of it for dinner tonight, but as a sneak preview, I removed the heart, kidneys, and liver to cook separately.
Top-left: rabbit heart. Left: Two rabbit kidneys. Big red blob: Rabbit liver.
Not sure if this is entirely necessary, but I soaked 'em out in some salt water to remove any residual off-taste. Them kidneys had little peepee strings on em.
They were dredged in flour/salt/pepper and fried in a big puddle of duck fat. The liver went in first so I wouldn't overcook the tiny heart and kidneys.
They're done! The heart was like a piece of candy made of meat. The kidneys were tender and far more mild than I expected. The liver was milder than chicken liver and creamy in consistency. I ate it all with a piece of crusty bread and a small glass of port. Overall deliciousness of DUCK FAT IV RABBIT OFFAL: 9.5/10
Horsetown #2 / Guest Superpoop comic06/04/09
Tomorrow's Superpoop is a guest comic by Natalie. (The rest of the site is 100% mine. I mention this because people will write Natalie to tell her about Superpoop.)
Here's Horsetown #2. Click to enlarge.
Gotta copy some files and do some encoding so I can post the next beat. Check back next week for that.
Horsetown #1 / Beat of the Week05/29/09
Here is a multi-panel comic I made called Horsetown. I made a bunch of these back in the winter and they have been resting on my hard drive since, like a fine steak taken off the grill. Here's the first one. Click to enlarge.
(Your small buddy will soon be an oak tree. Click here to turn your pencil into a baseball bat. Pen fifteen growing techniques with blue pilule.)
Beat of the Week: I made this late at night, while battling the inability to sleep sometime in the summer of 2007. The next day I woke up to find it on my MPC. If I could be this productive every time I wake up sweating at 2am, in the depths of a dream about fighting my way out of a chain restaurant, I would. That's not how it works, though.
(MP3) Dog Traders: "Out Of Town"
Five Superpoop, The Rascal05/24/09
There will be five Superpoop comics this week. Monday thru Friday. Here's tomorrow's, ten hours early:
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There's a guy who drives around the neighborhood mowing peoples' lawns and he has one of those professional riding mowers. Every time he drives past, I'm like "Hey there's a guy out there on the street with a Rascal!" but it's a lawnmower. Not a Rascal. There is also a dude who walks down the street with his cat every day at about 7pm. Always the same cat. Always the same time.
Perhaps sensing the lack of novelty in my life, the Circulatory System is finally releasing their new album. There are rumbles about the Olivia Tremor Control starting back up, too, but I'll believe it when I see it. A reporter supposedly heard two new OTC tracks straight off Bill Doss' hard drive. Then again, on this big web, you'll also find people who claim to have seen Jeff Mangum at the Burger King near Graceland.
In hip-hop news you might want to check out Foul Mouth Cringe, the latest work by Roughneck Jihad. Play this album immediately before or after any other hip-hop album from 2008 and weep at what we could all be listening to if mainstream hip-hop hadn't disappeared up its own bling-encrusted butthole ten years ago.
(Had to chase that Olivia Tremor Control news with some rap, cause I was about to turn in this blog entry, and I had the sudden urge to put on a tight sweater and edit together a ten-minute musique concrete piece about trees becoming rainbows.)
Beat of the Week / Already Done05/22/09
This has probably already been done, but if not, here you go.
GWB and the original of this picture both went stale a long time ago, but maybe it's so stale that you can touch it without getting anything on yourself.
BEAT OF THE WEEK
(MP3) Dog Traders: "Swamped"
