Chilitoaxilitlo - Vegan Pumpkin Chili Recipe

A recent request was put to get my Pumpkin Chili recipe out there, so here it is in two parts (details on cooking in the first):

Part 1: Vegan Curried Pumpkin Chili, aka el Chilitoaxilitlo

Part 2: Huffman's Chili and the Upper Arlington Fall Fest

To really get part one knocked out of the park, follow the advice from part two;

• add refried beans with 45 minutes to go
• add pinto beans with 25 minutes to go

I truly hope you enjoy. The Lady Beth and I just hit our one year mark and this is the chili that bound us. I wanted to share on behalf of all for whom pumpkin is some kind of love-potion.

Tig Notaro

Honesty never hurt so purely.

If the basis for Right View is sustainable relation to one's suffering, this discussion, in each word and pause, is hope for even the most self-deceiving, shenpa-addled of us out there.

I had never really thought about talking about my life-issues to a bunch of people. Not that I have a some problem with telling random people all about things they don't care about.

I just mean that I don't think I'm very interesting, my way of seeing things isn't necessarily too universally interesting, my sense of humor sufficiently flat and dry to appear non-existent. There is no unique virtue in my story to validate its expression. But I guess that's what makes Tig Notaro's story so accessible; we all think that, it helps us distance ourselves from the pain of sharing and being vulnerable. She got up and got honest anyway and in every breath drawn each feeling of shock and hurt is right there.

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Bye-bye BY-NC; hello BY

For you copy geeks out there, I'm switching to a CC-BY license...I'm not sure it means much to many, but the -NC has been a bee in my bonnet for awhile. Granted, having the CC-BY- preceeding it kept it pollinated and relaxed. Still, that restriction seems so petty and limiting; seriously, if it is possible for someone to make money off my stuff, by all means, go on with your commercial self. Anyway, I'm very excited about this and should have done it sooner and I'm totally aware of the fact I may be the only person who cares about this.

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May have been a tough run, but EMusic slid me one last winner

Woods' new album, Bend Beyond, has already garnered some 248 plays in my last thirty-six hours. From the first listen to the first track it tears into you. A sparse album, it still has the jangly pop feel from the last few albums and the engineering of the first two. If anything, this album feels more like the first two albums in a way.

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So long emusic, its been a blast (since 2004)

Just cancelled me emusic account. I've been a member since 2004. For a while I had parallel accounts and dropped $40 a month on music. Now, not so much.

Here was my open-ended reply to their exit survey:

• Your pricing really went to hell. 
• Not supporting Linux out of the box with your downloader is another sad thing. 
• You guys seem to push crap box sets too much any more. 
• You used to deliver an amazing quality for the price paid; the deal where the big five labels or whatever really crushed your competitive edge in terms of pricing.
• I stuck with you for eight years, countless overdrafts when my account renewed but the value was there so I stuck with it anyway.

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Of some sort

Man, I should start a blog about not blogging.

Here's some pics I liked a bunch recently. Enjoy

The Bacon that Wasn't - @ActiveChild and cooking

When Your Love is Safe by Active Child was a bit more bittersweet last year for Bacon Camp. It had a nice big messy complicated bundle of feelings I only this morning remembered.

I didn't participate in this years BaconCamp. At first I couldn't at all explain why. I love competitive cooking, and pushing myself, but it hasn't been coming to me as readily lately. My posts are fewer, and (I would imagine) less helpful to the world at large.

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