I'm feelin' justified!
Late night sifting paid off! Woke up and three of the songs I posted were Sifted! Very rewarding to find I'm not the only one who likes those songs.
Thanks for this chance, Anon. It's very appreciated and if I knew who you were, why, I'd make you some cookies. I make really good cookies. Just ask my boyfriend who complains that I don't make him enough cookies.
Speaking of cookies, I was feeling slightly creative two nights ago and made brownie batter, put it in the pan, then made cookie dough and dropped it on top of the brownie batter and LO AND BEHOLD, BROWNIE COOKIES WERE HAD BY ALL! The cookies on top crisped and the brownies underneat stayed fudgey and wonderous. If you don't care to make cookie dough from scratch, I'm sure the premade stuff would be just fine.
I wish I could hand out cookies or baked goods to the trick or treat kids, but I know the parents would just make the kids toss 'em. I remember my mom trying to make me toss an elderly neighbor's hand-made popcorn balls. That shit didn't fly. If that old lady was trying to kill us, we probably deserved it for being all up on her lawn. And boy, were those popcorn balls good. I'd punch a dolphin just to have some of them right now..
I reserve the right to ramble in this blog. 
4 Comments
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
mmmm popcorn balls.
Farhad2000You had good music picks. Especially Nas, Boards of Canada and especially Rasputina (more people should listen to them).
MrFiskI'll eat your cookies.
winkler1It's totally bogus that Halloween is about giving corn syrup wrapped in plastic. Meh. Home cookin' is always better.
By the way--
Who Spoiled Halloween?
In the 1960s and 1970s, the tradition of Halloween trick-or-treating came under attack. Rumors circulated about Halloween sadists who put razor blades in apples and booby-trapped pieces of candy. The rumors affected the Halloween tradition nationwide. Parents carefully examined their children's candy bags. Schools opened their doors at night so that kids could trick-or-treat in a safe environment. Hospitals volunteered to X-ray candy bags.
In 1985, an ABC News poll showed that 60 percent of parents worried that their children might be victimized. To this day, many parents warn their children not to eat any snacks that aren't prepackaged. This is a sad story: a family holiday sullied by bad people who, inexplicably, wish to harm children. But in 1985 the story took a strange twist. Researchers discovered something shocking about the candy-tampering epidemic: It was a myth.
The researchers, sociologists Joel Best and Gerald Horiuchi, studied every reported Halloween incident since 1958. They found no instances where strangers caused children life-threatening harm on Halloween by tampering with their candy.
Two children did die on Halloween, but their deaths weren't caused by strangers. A five-year-old boy found his uncle's heroin stash and overdosed. His relatives initially tried to cover their tracks by sprinkling heroin on his candy. In another case, a father, hoping to collect on an insurance settlement, caused the death of his own son by contaminating his candy with cyanide.
In other words, the best social science evidence reveals that taking candy from strangers is perfectly okay. It's your family you should worry about.
The candy-tampering story has changed the behavior of millions of parents over the past thirty years. Sadly, it has made neighbors suspicious of neighbors. It has even changed the laws of this country: Both California and New Jersey passed laws that carry special penalties for candy-tamperers. Why was this idea so successful?
http://www.madetostick.com/excerpts/
Discuss...
Enable JavaScript to submit a comment.