vegan green arrow chili

Ingredients:

1 lb (one package)of morningstar crumbles (or other vegan meat substitute)
2 handfulls of large chunk TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein)
2 tblsp of cumin
2 tblsp of paprika
1 tblsp of cayenne
1 small (or half of a large) onion minced
1 to 1 ½ cup of chopped red or green pepper (optional)
2 tblsp minced garlic
1 tblsp fresh ground black pepper
1 ½ tsp of salt
½ of dried basil, crushed
1 tblsp chili powder A (i use private selction chili powder)
1 tblsp chili powder B (some generic mexican chili poweder)
1 tblsp chili powder C (again some generic caijun seasoning)
1 16 oz. can of crushed tomatoes
2 8 oz. cans of tomato sauce
1 16 oz. can of black beans
1 16 oz. can of red beans
1 tsp of brown sugar
Franks Red Hot sauce to taste
½ cup water

Garnish:
Grated Cheese (cheddar)
Oyster crackers or saltines

Directions:

In a large saucepan, cook crumbles and TVP keep moist with water and/or olive oil. add spices (cumin, paprika, cayenne) until flavor blends well.

Add onion, green pepper and garlic and cook until soft.

Stir in undrained tomatoes, seasonings, tomato sauce and water into a large pan.

Let simmer for several hour. Occasionally stir.

Ten minutes before serving, add brown sugar, franks red hot sauce, and beans.

+1up - to have a ohio/kentucky flare to it serve over spaghetti noodles. i personally just crush up a bunch of crackers and pour it over that making it very thick.

+1up - i have always wanted to serve this over plain white or brown rice, if you try this let me know how it goes.

+1up - serve with a peanut butter (no jelly) sandwich. it might sound weird but a peanut butter sandwich goes with chili like grilled cheese goes with tomato soup.

+1up - use your own blend of chili powders or your prefered hot sauce to give it your own personal flavor.

anecdote... i used to help run a venue/youth center and a lot of the bands that came through would end up staying at my house. before they got "big" coheed and cambria came through and i made this chili for them. the next time they came through they tracked me down to see if i would make it for them again.

the newest in new

the new band has me pumped.
for anyone that is curious what it sounds like when i scream into a mic. it's goes a little something like this

and it looks a little like:

shuffle for today

"letting go" - earthmover
"positive contact" - deltron
"i will survive" - cake
"moby dick" - led zeppelin
"redemption" - johnny cash
"deththeme" - dethklok
"gigantic" - the pixies
"5th and hill" - batmobile
"ready teddy" - buddy holly
"jammin'" - bob marley & the wailers
"break in-city" - tenacious d
"the sick bed of cuchuliann" - the pogues
"nobody's fool but yours" - buck owens
"myxomatosis" - radiohead
"down home girl" - old crow medicine show
"blue moon of kentucky" - bill monroe & his bluegrass boys
"A" - forthright
"tent in your pants" - peaches
"graveyard blues" - roscoe holcomb

i work for initech

now i kinda wish i had set the screen at something funny. like i dunno... some website i like to look at. oh well. the world will never know what hilarity could have been.

so i sit here all day for 10 to 11 hours. answering phones talking to some of the dumbest people in the world. thier brains don't travel on logic bus.

fun times.

DAY 43

i know it has been a while since i have updated the beard progress pictures. well here it is day 43. it is actually day 45 right now. but most days that i miss are the days were one of my room mates are on the computer when i wake up. i managed to get this pic on my computer last night when i got home from work and a quick visit with kalen. i also got some pictures of my work station. you can see how offices space it is over here. you can also see the clutter on my desk.

pain and ice

so these past few days have been filled with pain. my left knee feels like it has a migrain in the middle of it. it hurts a lot. my left sholder fills like the ball joint has a crack in it and no matter how i move it it hurts. i can barely sleep at night. when i lay on my back i have to put something under it so that it is even with my body. when i lay on my right sholder cause laying on my left is out of the equation. i have to lay it over something so it doesn't just hang. ice and ibuprofen have been in regular circulation for me. after about an hour of ice on the knee it feels good like new almost. after an hour of ice on my shoulder. it just feels a little numb. it still hurts. i will see a doctor soon.
ps i'm reading "the gunslinger" by stephen king. it's pretty good so far.

what i have been listening to

"cop an attitude" - poison idea
"mother frockers & cork soakers" redd foxx
"hey sailor" - murder city devils
"i get wet" andrew w.k.
"dancing machine" - jackson 5
"a satisfied mind" - johnny cash
"good fashion" - sage francis
"vkhc" black cross
"M1 A1" - the gorillaz
"great whitelight" - lords
"slow down baby" - xtian aguilera
"lost highway" - jerry lee lewis
"out of the picture" - poison idea
"istanbul (not constantinople)" - they might be giants
"hope" - descendents
"lay down and die" - kinghorse
"only the good die young" - me first and the gimmie gimmies
"young (at heart)" - kill your idols
"only in dream" - weezer
"luke's nocturnal visitor" - john williams (emprie strikes back)
"mind your own business" - hank williams

Marvel comics..... what's happening. (jared's notes)

a long time ago. wanda (the scarlet witch) had children with her husband , vision. but it turns out that she didn't have kids she created them with her chaos magic powers. she was forced to get rid of them, because they were not real, and is made to forget about the whole thing. a slightly tipsy wasp mentions wanda's children kicking off wanda's nervous breakdown. rewriting reality so she could have her kids back. wanda unwittingly is attacking the avengers killing hawkeye, the vision, ant-man and destroying the avengers mansion and in general causing the break up of the avengers. magneto arrives in the nik of time to rescue his daughter (quicksilver and wanda are both magneto's children) and takes her to genosha.

nick fury finds ou that latveria is funding supervillian terrorists. fury then goes to the president with this information and is told to stand down. not happy with this nick gathers a group of superheroes to go on a secret mission to overthrow the latverian goverment. to keep things secret, the heroes minds are wiped of this mission. one year later a small army of b-list supervillians make an attack on NYC. leaving the heroes wondering what is going on. fury via LMD (life model decoy) tells everyone "this will be the last time anyone will see me" and goes underground communicating only with captain america, the winter soldier (bucky) and sharon carter. maria hill is the new director of shield.

electro causes a major break out from the raft (the s.h.i.e.l.d. maximum security supervillian prison). nearly 90 prisoners get out all but 42 are detained by the intervention by a group of heros, several of them already there for a defferent reasons. captain america and iron man form the new avengers with this new group of heroes.

failing at fixing wanda's mental state. prof. x calls a meeting to decide the fate of the scarlet witch. quicksilver relizes that the only option anyone is coming up with is to kill wanda, runs to genosha and convinces his sister to take drastic measures. wanda creats what is known as house of m. everyone has thier heart's desire. peter parker is married to gwen stacy. mutants are the ruling class. however. wolverine's greatest wish is to get his memories straight/back. wolverine wakes up and for the first time in his life, he knows who he is. the downside is, he also knows how the world is supposed to be. in the final confrontation with wanda, everything is set right with one minor change. wanda casts what seems to be her last spell and says "no more mutants". and the mutant population drops to 200 world wide. officially making mutants an endangered species.

the illuminati (dr. strange, prof. x, black bolt, namor, iron man, mr fantastic) meet to finally come up with a solution for the hulk problem once and for all. a LMD nick fury makes contact with bruce banner. he is asked to destroy an AI satelite gone wrong. he is told he is the only one/thing that can stop it. banner accepts. after he is launched into orbit a message is transmited from the illuminati. pretty much apologizing for the subterfuge. "you have always claimed of wanting to just be left alone" so the send him off to a lush planet with no intelligent life where he can never hurt another person. as things go (rarely according to plan) the ship is knocked off course and the hulk is sent to a war torn planet ruled over by the evil red emperor. the weakened hulk is forced into gladitorial combat eventually winning (or taking rather) his freedom overthrows the emperor and becomes ruler of the land, takes a queen concieves a child and is loved by the people of this land. then the warp core on the ship that brought him here explodes causeing a shift in the techtonic plates and destroying most of the world including his wife and unborn child. the hulk and his surviving warbound start thier trek back to earth to kick illuminati ass.

meanwhile back on earth. the new warriors (on thier new reality superhero tv show) take on some bad guys and they are completely outmatched. provoking the bad guys into killing somewhere around 600 civilians 300 of them children. iron man leads a superhero registration act to congress. it becomes law and all superpowered individuals are illegal unless registered. captain american and seevral others are against the registration and fight iron man on this. questionable tactics are used by iron man and reed richards. in the end captain america realizes he is causing more harm than good by fighting this and surrenders. maria hill steps down as commander of shield, and tony stark is the new commander. on his way to trial captain america is assasinated by the red skull's henchman crossbones.
just in time for
the hulk comes barreling into our orbit and takes out the black bolt. then he collects the rest of the illuminati. finally the sentry get's off his backside and takes on the hulk. till there is just bruce banner and robert reynolds fighting each other. turns out it was one of hulk's warbound that was responsible for the ship blowing up and everything is set right.
the new avengers go on a mission to japan to find ronin (echo) she has been missing for a while. they find elektra leading the hand. elktra is killed and reverts back to her skrull form.... what? that's right elektra has been a skrull for who knows how long. and she was resting control of the japanese underworld as the leader of the hand. now we are looking a possible skrull invasion. major trust issues. because wolverine couldn't sniff her out, doc strange couldn't magic her out any conventional means of discovering a skrull have not been any use. spider-woman takes the skrulektra body to tony stark because he is the only one she can trust. tony takes it to the illuminati because.... back in the day after the kree/skrull war the illuminati went to the skrull homeworld, got captured and then broke out. tony brings the body to them and we find out... that the black skull is a skrull. probably for years and years since thier trip to the skrull homeworld.

that should have everyone up to date.

DAY 34 AND THE GODDAMN BATMAN.

i have been going slowly with my updating i got caught up in my online game called travian. so i present to you day 34.

and my thought's on all star batman and robin the boy wonder. if you have read frank miller and you like him.... and you don't like this. then you have never understood frank miller. there for a while i didn't get him. i didn't understand sin city. then someone explained it to me. frank miller writes over the top stories with over the top characters. anytime he has written batman before he has been held back at least just a little by editorial. with this, with asb&rtbw frank miller is writing batman the way he wants to write batman. gritty, unsure, CRAZY. doing his best (and failing) to intimidate a 12 year old boy. and dames. vicki vale isn't a leading lady or a love interest. she's a dame. all the nerds need to get over themselves. don't go into it expecting the batman you know and love. don't go into it expecting anything other than frank miller. this is batman. the goddamn batman