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[cyrano]

After finishing Christopher Moore's "Dirty Job", of course, I want to run an RPG based on it.
I also want to turn my short story (you know, the one I never actually finished writing) into the first chapter of a novel.
Because I'm insane.
I have another new phone, and maybe this one will last longer than a week. Number's still the same. I have all the makings for curry pineapple chicken. I have new BPRD.
I want a Coke. Really badly.

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Mama says

[bamma.livejournal.com]

I would like the receipe for the curry pineapple chicken. And boy do I know what you mean about a coke. Much love. Mom

Re: Mama says

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Ummm. I just made it, therefore it is the best time for me to remember what I did.
Boil two cups of brown rice and two cups of diced turnips, yams and butternut squash in a saucepan for about twenty minutes. Throw it into the crockpot.
Bake six chicken thighs for twenty minutes at 450o, remove from the oven and dice. Put chicken in saucepan with diced sweet onion and diced garlic to taste. (I used a lot of both--half a big onion and six cloves of garlic.) Once the onions are translucent, throw that whole mess in the crockpot as well.
Put three cups of diced pineapple in the pan used to bake the chicken. Bake the pineapple for five to ten minutes at 450o and then throw that in the crockpot as well.
Add one bottle of Trader Joe's yellow curry, a third to a half of a cup of coconut milk, salt and black pepper, and a healthy squeeze of lemon juice. (I'm also adding in some sliced mushrooms that I have left over in about an hour or two.)

I'll let you know how it turned out.

Re: Mama says

[drivingblind.livejournal.com]

Trader Joe's Yellow Curry is the bomb.

Re: Mama says

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Mama is right, as usual.
I also love the simmer sauces in a jar--punjab spinach and korma and masala... I love the mojito sauce, but the bitter cilantro taste means I'm not likely to use it. I should make the effort to learn to do it myself.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Does this Christopher Moore do dark humor? I think he might be speaking at the LA Times Festival of Books, and I think I might be going to hear/see him there.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Um.
I didn't think of it as 'dark'. I'd be happy to loan you some of his stuff (Agh. Somebody has my signed copy of Blood Sucking Fiends and I don't remember who), but I'd classify it more as absurd than dark. Even though he writes about vampires, demons, essential-valkyries, gods of death and war and all sorts of other goth-worthy subjects, he writes with a very 'average joe' angle on most of them.
Oh! And he also wrote about Coyote, which is oddly enough not how I discovered him.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

The panel with Christopher Moore is called "Dark Humor" and also has: Seth Greenland, Tara Ison, and Diana Wagman. Do you know these people?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hunh. None of these other names rings a bell at all. And checking Amazon I don't recognize the titles either. ...You're on your own. (: Although from what I hear, Mr. Moore is a charming fellow and I would go to a panel he was a part of.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Chris Moore is a funny, funny guy.

He'd probably be tickled to know that you want to run an RPG based on it, whether you actually ever do or not.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

When I wrote him and told him that he'd made me want to turn my unfinished short story into a novel now, and I'd probably end up in a cheap ratty apartment with stained walls and crumpled paper everywhere, he said he'd probably be my roommate.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

That sounds like him, all right. Too bad all his fans can't hang out with him at some point, 'cause I bet he'd be as fun IRL as he is on the page, which not all authors are.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Miss Friday says he'll be at the LA Festival of Books, so that'll give at least a few people the chance. (: