X is Known

One of my favorite quotes from the Autobiography of Malcolm X so far is, "I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. I haven't done it now as though I might be proud of how bad, how evil, I was. But people are always speculating- why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that has ever happened to us is an ingredient."
Since I couldn't possibly know of every detail of Malcolm X's life, there is no way he could be fully known to me by this standard. I know the things he has deemed important enough to be included, and therefore I know which types of experiences he thinks most shape a person's personality, however.

X Marks the Spot

This blog entry has a double meaning; it may be referring to the X that typically shows the location of treasure on a map, or it may be referring to Malcolm X's favorite hobby. You see, Malcolm X very much enjoyed marking spots. Wherever he went, he liked to leave a playing card with an X on it. While these two meanings may seem separate, they are much more related than they may seem on the surface. They are interrelated in that those X's on the treasure maps were in fact drawn by Malcolm X! Malcolm X realized the impending pirate takeover of the world, and in a heroic effort to prevent another ninja-pirate war he created thousands of treasure maps to distract the pirates. If not for "X marking the spot," the world would be a very different place today; we would all be pirates.

2/11 ​Album/Track Review

The album I've been listening to most recently has been First Temple by Closure in Moscow. My favorite track so far is probably Sweet#hart. I think the vocals are really nice, and the song transitions very well from really different sounding parts. It's a pretty good album overall... That's all I have to say.

I Know This Means Something

I'm not sure what "this" is, so I can't be sure it actually does mean something. In addition to that, I'm not sure what it would be to "mean something" in this context. Because of the vagueness of this title, I'm going to assume the only possible conclusion: "the word 'this' has a definition." "This" is a demonstrative pronoun that deontes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned. As an adjective, "this" has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun. There are clear definitions for "this," and as such certainly means something. I know it does...




Source for definitions: brainyquote.com

Ultimate Recipe

The TurBaconEpic (a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig)
Ingredients:
20 lb pig
8 lb turkey
6 lb duck
4 lb chicken
Cornish hen
quail
10 lbs of bacon
1.5 lbs of veal / pork sausage meat
12 croissants
2 L Dr. Pepper
6 lbs of butter

Get the 5 birds (turkey, duck, chicken, Cornish hen, quail) and take the bones out of them. Mix bacon and croissants to make stuffing. Create meat glue from bacon and veal / pork sausage meat. Add in the following order:
Turkey then meat glue, then seared duck, then meat glue, and bacon strips and bacon strips and bacon strips and bacon strips and bacon strips. layer chicken on top, then stuffing and Cornish hen then meat glue and quail.
Roll it all together then sew it shut. Wrap it in bacon strips. Bacon strips. Season the pig with dry rub, then put the 5 birds inside of it and fill the cavities with bacon stuffing. Sew it shut. Tenderize (important) then smoke the pig. Cover it in a glaze made from Dr. Pepper and butter, then wrap it in bacon strips and garnish it with baconators. Then serve.

Credit for this recipe goes to Epicmealtime.

Good Food Review

To review “good food” it would probably be helpful to pick a food in specific that is good, as a review of good food overall would be pretty much limited to the sentence “good food is good.” I dislike spicy things, so that helps to narrow the search for what “good food” is in my opinion. Beyond that, there are some ingredients that I dislike (onions, zucchini, etc) that also limit out a significant number of dishes. My favorite foods usually involve seafood in some capacity, and I also like rice very much, so it seems the natural assumption that sushi is good food. Sushi is great because there’s little that can be done wrong. Sushi is such a simple food; the most basic pieces are just rice and fish wrapped in seaweed. Because of its simplicity it can be very easily made at home with few supplies (it’s also a lot of fun to do). There’s a lot that can be done with sushi such as some pieces containing cream cheese and other unusual ingredients. Wasabi is much too spicy for me, however, so I usually stick to soy sauce as my only addition. Sushi is good, I’m not really sure what else to say about it.

King Still King?

I'm not really sure what this prompt is supposed to mean. It's too vague for me to write anything meaningful that wouldn't feel hopelessly contrived. I'm going to take it as a question of whether or not leaders still function as monarchs. There are monarchies in the world I suppose, so some leaders must be monarchs. In other systems a case-by-case analysis is necessary. More charismatic leaders tend to achieve power akin to that of a monarch while others obviously do not.