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call me nemo the way i be dripping

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Cheese farm.

Cheese in a farm,

Rolling through the fields

Bent back on green yarn

Spread out like cream cheese

On a toasted bagel

Smooth like butter

Trickling like lard

I wouldn't have to mutter

How much I love my cheese farm

Who wants more poetry baby?

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spent $20-something on subnautica for switch. spent half an hour trying to swim (ABOVE WATER) to the ship leaking radioactive shit. closed it out. haven’t picked it up since.

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Alien invasion is imminent.

Blessed are we to overstay on our cosmic

hostess without so much as an invite.

Drinks are poured in shaky celebration.

Even the skeptics say cheers.

Flashes of light fly down from above

to pierce graves into green, healthy backyards.

A choral hum leaks through our old

kitchen window, illuminating the pulse of

one last night.

Jam jars clink against each other

in confusion. Karma’s passed around

the room like a fat cigar; it appears we are

more than relieved to receive the same fate.

Night falls like knees to the floor,

oaks to the earth. Like pain to the

pit of my stomach. No one dares to question

what they look like, to risk predicting the

uncanny on such short notice.

The hum evolves into some terrifying

technological symphony, signaling

the arrival of humanity’s undertaker.

Take me with you, I say with a voice

belonging to vanity. Instead I am enemy,

expelled with force into the

throes of zero-gravity.

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🪤 me after landing da gig at a cheese shop

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Too Beautiful

A stream of tart cherry juice greets a spoonful of magnesium with a hug in my stomach.

The steam leaking under the shower door dances with each small puff from my pipe. 

Starlight stretches through the blinds and pools ‘round the wick of dying candles. 

It is too beautiful to sleep.

-by yours truly ***

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a good group of friends is like a fresh pack of gel pens u know

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starting a collection of sped up star trek gifs

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How to Shop at an Asian (or other ethnic) Grocery Store

Do you live in or near a city in the US?

Need to save some money on groceries?

Might I introduce you to... shopping at the local Asian grocery?

Asian grocery stores aimed at an Asian-American customer base almost always beat the prices of their western (or for-western) counterparts. Often by a significant amount, especially in categories like produce, meat, rice, and spices. Plus in addition to lower prices, you get the satisfaction of supporting a small, local business instead of a larger chain store.

(Note that a lot of this information applies to other ethnic grocery stores as well, but we're using Asian because they're common in many cities, and have particularly good prices on produce.)

But it can be a little bit of a learning curve when you first start to shop at them. This post will give you the information you need to navigate them.

So how do you find a good Asian grocery store?

First, go on google maps and search "grocery".

Note that you are NOT googling "Asian Grocery" or "Cheap Grocery". If you search "Asian Grocery" you will get results for Asian stores marketing toward a western audience, and because of this, will be neat, shiny, and very pricey. If you search "Cheap Grocery" you will get stores marketing themselves as cheap, which generally are only slightly less expensive than their "expensive" counterparts (think Aldi). Okay in a pinch, but you can do better.

Second, look at the pictures of all the stores you can easily get to.

Here's what you want: not a lot of printed ads, pictures of hand-written signs (especially in languages other than English), food in cardboard bins, and you want it to look kind of "junky". Bonus points if you can see prices listed in the pictures or the people shopping there are mostly older, ethnic women.

Third, If you couldn't find anything like this, go on your city's subreddit.

Search "cheap", "cheap grocery" and "expensive grocery". Why "expensive grocery"? Because you want to find people complaining about grocery prices, and you want to see the advice they get. Many times, that advice is Asian or ethnic grocery stores.

If you're still not getting anything, google "[city name] cheap grocery" and "[city name] expensive grocery" (see above). Scroll until you get to FORUMS discussing groceries in your city. You DO NOT want blogs or articles. Again, you're looking at the advice people are given when they complain about grocery prices.

One of the first questions people ask upon walking into an Asian grocery store of the type discussed in this post is:

"Is the food I'm getting here safe to eat?"

The answer is just as safe as anywhere else you might shop.

You're probably used to very clean, pretty, well-lit, well-organized stores. This will probably not be that, but it will be regulated by the same health department that regulates those stores. They are held to the same standards.

It's a lot of work to keep a store looking like a western consumer expects. It's a lot less work (and thus less money) to keep a store looking like an ethnic career housewife or grandmother expects. That is largely where the savings comes from.

What's a good deal at an Asian grocery?

Produce. You're probably used to things like onions and carrots being the cheapest per pound. Here it's going to be greens, apples, pears, radish, cabbage and maybe squash and sweet potatoes. Check unit prices and prepare to try some new things. Also a pound of greens is a LOT of greens. Keep that in mind. Also keep in mind that you might see a few pieces of produce that are bruised or have mold on them. That's okay. Just don't buy those pieces. The rest of the batch is probably fine. Wash produce when you get home if you're concerned, though you should be doing that anyway.

Rice and dry beans. If you like to buy in bulk, you're in luck. Don't expect to walk away with a pound or two of these. They come in 40lb packages. But if you tailor most of your meals around them, those meals will be cheap af. There are also lots of different types of specialty rice if you want to make your own sushi or mochi. Learn how to soak and sprout beans.

Tofu. Tofu is expensive when you buy it at a health food store. It is not when you buy it at an Asian grocery. It probably won't be in pretty packages, but again, cheap is not going to be super pretty.

Meat and fish. Meat is generally going to be cheaper here, though maybe not by as much as the produce is. Pork will probably be your cheapest option. You may also see cuts you don't normally see, like tongue, intestine, liver, kidneys, blood, etc... "Weird," however, does not automatically mean cheap in this context. Check unit prices and prepare to be adventurous. If you don't know what else to do with them, dried fish and animal organs make fantastic stock when boiled.

Spices. Again with the extremely large quantities here. But very inexpensive compared with their western counterparts.

Candy. This makes a great inexpensive gift if you need one, since the candy sold at these stores is fairly exotic for a western audience.

What isn't a good deal at an Asian grocery?

Dairy. This includes fresh milk, butter, cheese, etc... If they have it, it will be very expensive. Consider buying elsewhere.

Eggs. Again, this will probably be as expensive or more than the eggs you could get at a western supermarket.

Snacks. Pre-made items will be expensive in general, even though they may be tempting because they are different from what you are used to and you don't need to learn to cook a new thing. Do your best to avoid these and make your own if you can. If you can't, frozen pork or vegetable dumplings are probably your best bet for a quick meal.

Bread. It's pricey. A lot of Asian cuisines use rice, noodles, or buns for their starch instead of western-style bread. So if you can find it it will often be a novelty item.

What else do I need to know?

It's okay to be overwhelmed by new ingredients. Look up some YouTube videos on how to cook certain ingredients if you're not familiar with them.

These are not supermarkets. They sell food and sometimes the kitchenware (steamers, woks, chopsticks, etc...) needed to cook it. You will probably need to get your soap and household items somewhere else.

Pay in cash if you can. Most of these are very small businesses and paying them cash makes it so they don't need to pay credit card fees. At the very least, make the minimum purchase before paying with a card.

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Koudelka (PlayStation, 1999)

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grimes and elon musk's relationship was very "high priestess falls for dark magician" and no I will not elaborate

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just woke up from a dream about my friend asking if we could go see "the baby keem movie" together.

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Printers are the brats of the objectum world

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if someone tells you something just horrible immediately after you meet them and you feel like you didn't really ask for that information i think that's a genuine bright red flag and can't see any other way around it. traumadumping isn't even the right word for it. you'll know it when you see it. usually it's not even going to be something true btw the worse it sounds the less truer it probably is, if its something you're being told the first time you meet some guy. they are trying to weaken you psychologically. and they can also do this by asking you uncomfortably personal questions with the same urgent pace - either form of speedrunning emotional intimacy is the hallmark of a beast

and i don't mean like your coworker talking to you about their divorce or something. you know what i mean if it's ever happened to you. if words like "suicide" or "molestation" come up in the very first day of knowing someone, you're being mind fucked on purpose