this is taken from gode cookery…

A Goose roasted alive – from Magia Naturalis:

A Goose roasted alive. A little before our times, a Goose was wont to be brought to the table of the King of Arragon, that was roasted alive, as I have heard by old men of credit. And when I went to try it, my company were so hasty, that we ate him up before he was quite roasted. He was alive, and the upper part of him, on the outside, was excellent well roasted. The rule to do it is thus. Take a Duck, or a Goose, or some such lusty creature, but he Goose is best for this purpose. Pull all the Feathers from his body, leaving his head and his neck. Then make a fire round about him, not too narrow, lest the smoke choke him, or the fire should roast him too soon. Not too wide, lest he escape unroasted. Inside set everywhere little pots full of water, and put Salt and Meum to them. Let the Goose be smeared all over with Suet, and well Larded, that he may be the better meat, and roast the better. Put the fire about, but make not too much haste. When he begins to roast, he will walk about, and cannot get forth, for the fire stops him. When he is weary, he quenches his thirst by drinking the water, by cooling his heart, and the rest of his internal parts. The force of the Medicament loosens and cleans his belly, so that he grows empty. And when he his very hot, it roasts his inner parts. Continually moisten his head and heart with a Sponge. But when you see him run mad up and down, and to stumble (his heart then wants moisture), wherefore you take him away, and set him on the table to your guests, who will cry as you pull off his parts. And you shall eat him up before he is dead.

yummy…

buying a house and all, i have about 100 billion things going on in my head. it’s been crazy and i can’t wait for the place to finally close at the end of this month so this can all be done with. i know we’ll make it, but man does it ever feel hard right now. anyway, on a lighter note, here’s a question for everyone… which is better, mr noodles or kraft dinner?

but i’m sure w’ll make it through… i hope… this next month ought to be fun…

this should be interesting… here ya go!

pretend it’s 1992 and you’re 11 years old. now pretend you’re a hardcore nintendo fan with a nes, a snes, and two gameboys. now pretend you’re watching the disney afternoon. suddenly you’re madder than anything, so mad you just have to go complain to your mom about how stupid it is and how they’re making things up and how it’s not true. you start frothing at the mouth and raging like a democrat when george bush got re-elected. what makes you do this? sega commercials! especially the one with that stupid racecar and the crummy old icecream truck with mariokart straped to the back of it, or the one where the dog is sniffing the game boy and the game gear. that kind of stuff scars you for life as a kid. one thing’s for sure, it made me never want to buy a sega system for as long as i live. i had someone offer me a genesis for $5 once and i turned them down because i don’t want that trash in my house. you know it’s bad when 10 years later sega announces they’re leaving the console race and becoming a developer and inside you start laughing like a retarded clown thinking “muahahahahaha! up yours sega!” there’s one thing about that old sega advertising though, it sure was memorable. i can hardly remember any nintendo commercials from that period. anything between “now you’re playing with power” and “play it loud!” is like a blur. there’s only one problem with a memorable commercial though, when it’s so in-your-face and irritating that it rallies people to the competition. i mean sure sega had mortal kombat with blood in it, but there really wasn’t a whole lot else. take away that and sonic and you’ve hardly got anything. i remember seeing chuchu rocket as a gba launch title and telling people “SEGA’S MAKING GAMEBOY GAMES NOW IMAGINE THAT 10 YEARS AGO BAHAHAHAHAHA!” most of the time they’d give me a polite nod and walk slowly across the road, but still, my point came across. anyway, that’s my nostalgia rant for the day, just wanted to share.

bush basically swept it, staying ahead by a fairly healthy margin all night, but of course all the media outlets had to pretend it was closer than it was. sure it was close, but it wasn’t *THAT* close. so bush won, no surprise, i’m pleased with that. i’m not american anyway, so who cares.

so to all you americans out there, have fun voting!

between the red sox winning the world series and yasser arafat getting ready to croak i’d say it’s been a pretty funny week so far. lots of laughs and fun for all! to all those involved in both events i have only one thing to say…

IT SURE TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH!

here’s a mystery. why is it that the thing of honey you get at mcdonald’s with your chicken nuggets is half the size of the ones they make for bbq sauce and sweet & sour and crap like that? all you sweet & sour lovers are fine, you have these massive tubs of sauce to dip nuggets in, but us honey people get this stupid little thing the size of a sugar packet. are people who eat honey not as good as the rest of you? what makes it worse is that they pretend there’s enough honey in that tiny little package to use for a whole 6 pack of nuggets. i mean really, you’d be lucky to get 3 good nuggets from one of those little things. every once in a while you get a smart person who just grabs a handful of 3 or 4 packets, but usually they give you 1 for a 6 pack or 2 for a 10 pack. then you gotta bug them for more and half the time they only give you one more packet. it’s even worse for me, cuz i’m one of those freaks that dips my french fries in honey and i need a pack for that too. so really, i need at least 4 of them for a 10 pack meal. sometimes people get it but usually they don’t. and it’s even worse when you go to burger king, because they have bigger nuggets (tenders… wooooooo…) and they don’t even give you real honey! at least mcdonald’s gives you real honey! at burger king you get this lighter runnier “honey flavored sauce” crap. is there some sort of corporate honey shortage out there somewhere? why do these companies always skimp on the honey? the answer may never be known…

so today i popped all the keys off my keyboard and rearranged them into the dvorak layout. this lasted all of 15 minutes before i got sick of looking at my keyboard and moved them all back. i do, however, think that doing this to someone would make a great practical joke.

in further news, yesterday i got an early birthday present from my perfect new wife and i’m really happy with it. it’s a reissue stepper and i’m really happy with it. my wife is better than your wife! hahahahaha!