Okay,

[kasche]

so this is mostly to let you know that I am knees deep in the weeds here*. In other words, thank you so much for all your comments! Both here and on DA! Thank you! But I'll probably get around to answer you all sometime next year.

And I'm not even taking into account my flist. I'm not even. I'm not even checking it either, really, because then I really would spend the whole day doing nothing but.

BUT THANK YOU. ♥ ♥ ♥

(And sorry!!!)



*_ Yes. That's kitchen-lingo. And there is probably about one (1) person who caught it. Or maybe two? Del, can I start pestering you about have you read Liquor yet? And Hannah! You have read it! Oh, I knew there was something important to talk about that I was forgetting! :D

(Yes, the Liquor series is something important to talk about. Oh shut up. :P)

Comments

[ourmutualfiend.livejournal.com]

Poor Bruni :)

Ahaha, you said "in the weeds". Where did you pick that up?

Love you!

[kasche.livejournal.com]

;P I'm more amazed that I received all those comments to begin with, really! :D (http://photobucket.com)


Where I picked it up? Somewhere between this (http://www.amazon.com/Value-X-Poppy-Z-Brite/dp/1931081670/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-5862196-5855936?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188050765&sr=8-1), this (http://www.amazon.com/Liquor-Novel-Poppy-Z-Brite/dp/1400050073/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/104-5862196-5855936?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188050690&sr=8-3), this (http://www.amazon.com/Prime-Novel-Poppy-Z-Brite/dp/1400050081/ref=sr_1_1/104-5862196-5855936?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188050723&sr=8-1) and this (http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Kitchen-Poppy-Z-Brite/dp/0307237656/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5862196-5855936?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188050742&sr=8-1), I think. ;) Not to be obnoxious advertise or anything, you understand...

LOTS OF LOVE! :D

[ourmutualfiend.livejournal.com]

I know it from the reality show Top Chef which is like Project Runway except for chefs. They all say it all the time :)

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Hehe! I've been reading Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential lately, and in one of the chapters he makes several more examples of kitchen-lingo, explaining them, and I was all "check, check, check, check and check". ;P

And just a year ago I didn't know the first thing about kitchens. (Well, not that I'm an expert now. I've got a vague idea of what it might be like. Which I didn't have at all before. ;P)

[ourmutualfiend.livejournal.com]

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! Oh god, what is that?

[ourmutualfiend.livejournal.com]

It's an axolotl. It's a kind of newt. But doesn't it look like a cartoon character? So does this guy:

[kasche.livejournal.com]

So that wasn't some kind of photomanipulation! And oh my god. This little guy! How cute is he?

[ourmutualfiend.livejournal.com]

I know! And Ni was all "eww!"

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Aw, the girl has got no heart. ;D

[ourmutualfiend.livejournal.com]

Did you know I love pandas? Like love love? I even still sometimes sleep with a stuffed panda I have had since I was 7? He is very strange for a stuffed toy. he came dressed in a hooded parka and fur pants. I've since lost the parka and now he's just a panda in fur pants and a red striped sailor's shirt.

[croupier.livejournal.com]

I may or may not have finished Liquor, Prime, and Soul Kitchen already.

Also, as someone who lives in Dallas, the city where a fair chunk of Prime takes place, whoo boy do I have a lot to say about that book. Brite was spot-on about the part of Dallas food culture she focused on; I'd have liked to see more of the psychotic dieting Dallasites engage in, but that's probably a more feminine thing (even the gay men here aren't as body-conscious as the women). The sad thing is that most of the best parts of Dallas food culture are entirely underground and/or home-based and therefore hard for a visitor to encounter, let alone write about. I wrote a brief dossier on Dallas food culture here (http://croupier.livejournal.com/248618.html); it's worth a read if you want some native insight into the backdrop against which Prime takes place. Most of the gold in that entry is in my comments to stickykeys633, although the blog I wrote about (DallasFood.org) is definitely worth checking out. I reread DallasFood.org's Noka series at least once every six months or so.

(And man, when Rickey was hating Dallas and wanting to be in New Orleans where things made sense, I've been feeling that way since 1996.)

[kasche.livejournal.com]

My heart gave a little happy thump at that. (And that is how sad I get when I'm obsessed.) You're only lacking The Value of X and D*u*c*k now! ♥

You know some of the best things those books have done for me? They've made me curious about food. I've enjoyed your comment, I'm checking out the links you gave me, and more than once, when I've been in restaurants lately, I kind of wanted to go and sneak a peek in the kitchens, see for myself what it's really like.

(Aw. I can't really relate, but that was one of my favorite passages.)

[penhaligonblue.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee! Yes, I caught it! And I'm ready and willing to talk about the Liquor series, whenever you extricate yourself from said weeds. And good luck with that, by the way.

(This is the closest I have to a foodie icon.)

[kasche.livejournal.com]

One bit at a time, I'll manage to answer them all ;) Well, I hope. I sure will try. :D

Sooooo so so so so so! You've only read Liquor so far, haven't you? Impressions? :D

(I do not have a foodie icon, but I do have a buttpaste one. Sadly, it will only make complete sense having reading Prime before. :P)

[penhaligonblue.livejournal.com]

Blech, sorry for the delay. Moving across the continent can be time-consuming.

Yes, Liquor's all I've gotten through so far, but I'll definitely be reading the others sooner or later. Plainly put, I loved it. I completely devoured it. So many great characters, and I admired the fact that she didn't try to tack on any glamour to the restaurant business - it was gritty and delightfully corrupt. And so, so funny! Did you get hit by an inspiration to cook after reading it? To the regret of everyone living with me, I certainly did.

Normally, I stick to the classics and "Great Literature" for free reading, but this was a good reminder that other stuff can be worthwhile, too.

[crooked.livejournal.com]

... i thought when you said in the weeds you meant you were, like, gardening a lot. i clearly am not into the kitchen lingo. XD

it is good to just get word that you're alive so yay :D

♥

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Hehehe! That's what happens when you get hooked up big time (and I do mean big time) on novels about young gay cooks. ;D

Aw, I'm sorry :( Lately, it's only on weekends that I get a chance to be online for any length of time. And on weekends more often than not you're going out with friends (what with it being, well, the weekend), and so I'm suffering from bad internet-withdrawals. :(

That and, er, I've been drawing a bit. But it will all be unlashed on you in one go. Hopefully?