sinking in the quicksand

[freckles_and_doubt]

Actual time to post! Owing, mostly, to waking up ungodly early and wandering up to campus at 6.45am. The rest of the day is solid curriculum advice and wrangling academics, the new sport.

This made my morning. Teh Internets unleash random anarchic meme-activity on Scientology. In V-masks!

Also, because you're all very sweet and supportive of my narcissistic maunderings:

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BUBBLING CHOCOLATE TAR-PIT DEATH!

Cake:
250ml flour
2 tsp baking powder
pinch salt
2 heaped tsp ground ginger
1 tsp chopped fresh ginger
180ml brown sugar
2 heaped tblsp cocoa
200ml milk
2 tblsp oil
100g chopped pecans or walnuts
100g chopped dark chocolate

Sauce:
250ml brown sugar
60 ml cocoa
350 ml boiling water
100 ml sherry or rum

Sift flour, baking powder, salt, ginger, cocoa; stir in sugar. Mix in milk, oil, fresh ginger, nuts, chocolate. Spread cake mix in oven-proof dish (I use a large, flat, squarish pyrex about 25cm across). Mix the brown sugar and cocoa for sauce, and sprinkle over the top of the cake mix. Pour sherry or rum over, and then boiling water. Bake at 350^o for about 45 mins, or until it resembles a chunk of cake floating in a pit of bubbling black chocolate tar. Eat, cautiously, in smallish servings, with cream or ice-cream.

You can also mess quite nicely with this recipe - for example, it works rather well to substitute grated orange peel for the ginger/ginger, and substitute orange juice and/or cointreau for some of the boiling water/booze.

Last Night I Dreamed: I was having a baby, by caesarian section, in a beautiful bedroom in a mansion somewhere, with the assistance of a nice doctor. No pain or anything, but halfway through I had the sudden thought that hell, I was going to have to share my bedroom with the baby, I really hadn't thought this through at all. Then I thought, no, wait, there's no way I'd randomly have a baby on my own given my circumstances, this is clearly a dream, upon which I woke up in considerable relief.

Comments

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Re the anon protests: I have mixed feelings. While it looks like the London protest was a triumph, huge success and I wish them all the best; I stand inspired by the creativity and power of the internets. But the CoS has never done anything to me personally except provide some cheap laughs, and attacking them feels just a little bit vindictive.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I really don't like the DOS attacks or the tone of threat, but I really like the tone of ridicule that most of those gatherings seemed to have generated. Scientology makes arbitrary attacks on things like psychiatry, it seems only fair that Teh Internets should pitch up to rickroll them and accuse Tom Cruise of hating pandas.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

I'm not a 4chan-ite, and I had too look up "rickroll"
Are in-jokes an effective protest?

[rumint.livejournal.com]

re: anon protests - fantastic! I'm sorry I missed them. It seemed a bit sad that some of the crowd belonged to a rival cult (anti-abortionists, and hence probable theists...), but the reach of interweb memes made flesh was inspiring. CoS have lots of nasty lawyers, but lack the military wings of some other religious groups, and hence are a safer target of abuse ;)

Abortions

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

From the signs I saw, they were protesting _forced_ abortions, not abortions in general.

I'm frightened at the idea of militant Scientologists: breaking into your house, doing their "audits" on you and jumping on your furniture!

[pumeza.livejournal.com]

Um, I'm having trouble reconciling "cautiously" and "small servings" with this recipe. The dark chocolate! The rum! I suspect in my house it would be more like "eat with a large spoon and the pyrex dish balanced on your lap".

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

No, seriously, eat cautiously. Eating in quantities straight from the dish is likely to cause (a) sudden tipping over sideways owing to the lead weight in your stomach completely relocating your centre of balance, (b) exhaustion from the sugar crash while you're still halfway through the portion, and (c) throwing up. It's very rich. Really.