art night out

Went to see the Kiki Smith exhibit at the SF MOMA, then to Jon Sims for peterpanzy's opening. Art, art art! Tasty, chewy art!

I will probably be going back to the Kiki Smith exhibit before it closes. I also might need the catalog. I love her preoccupation with the body and its processes (and how they can go wrong), and the incorporation of domestic arts into sculpture. Although after Midori's installation, it was so *hard* to mind the "Do Not Touch" signs...

I think my favorite piece might be "Lilith," for quirky personal reasons. (She's dark! She's naked! She's crawling down the wall! Very eerie.) But there were many, many runners-up.

easy food #2: potatoes in duck fat and salad

I used to have a big tub of duck fat in my freezer for the purposes of experimenting with confit making. Now I have a smaller tub of duck fat in my freezer for things like making these potatoes. If, like a more normal person, you don't have any duck fat, go ahead and use olive oil.

Slice thinly a lot of small, dense potatoes (i.e. not russets).

Heat up your fat of choice in a skillet. I like the iron skillet for this.

Add the potatoes, and stir occasionally until the potatoes start to brown. Add salt and pepper. Sometimes I add charnoushka (aka nigella, aka not something most people are likely to have in their pantry unless they're from India, Central Asia, or are just weird like me). You could add whole cumin seeds, chopped herbs of various sorts (fresh or dry), or any other seasoning that appealed at the time.

Meanwhile, wash and dry a bunch of mixed salad greens. Place in a salad bowl. Grate a small carrot on top of the salad greens.

Make a simple vinaigrette: I usually mix olive oil and one of various types of vinegar (red wine is nice here, so is balsamic) by eye in a clear juice glass, along with salt and pepper and a crushed garlic clove or some chopped shallots if I have them around. Then I whisk it up until it thickens.

Pour the vinaigrette over the salad bowl and toss the contents.

Eat.

cranky gender thoughts

(don't take this personally, because I'd call you out if I meant you to. I'm pretty good that way.)

1. It's been said before, but the problem that I have with the discussion of the "dilemma" women have in regards to career versus children etc. is a class one. It presumes a *career*, duh, the opportunity to pursue power via position in the workplace, and oh woe, to have to give it up! Well, I'm sorry, but a lot of us out here, we just have jobs, and we aren't in that particular rat race in the first place. We'd just like to be able to afford day care, thanks much.

2. Don't fucking ever tell me my body is built for anything (even goddamn childbearing, and I'll tattoo my hip to waist ratio on your ass to prove it if I'm pushed) just b/c of my biological sex, 'K? We'll all get along so much better that way.

curse my brain!

Thanks (inadvertently) to babalon_it, I am now plagued with thoughts of tit smothering and urethral sounds. I'll show *you* gendered dominance!



(note to self: I need a kink icon.)

(and a tit smothering pic for the art project. Definitely.)

(sounds will probably have to wait.)

crankiness update

1. When I am cranky, apparently I crave chocolate. I am not on my period, I am not PMSing, but man do I want some chocolate! (You have to understand, on most occasions, I am pretty indifferent to chocolate.)

2. I am, however, much less cranky, b/c somebody just bought me a gift certificate to Snares of Venus. Thank you, thank you, thank you!