Today i learned that the ingredient Asafoetida is known by different names such as devil’s dung, stinking gum, asant and hing. Silphium, the predecessor of asafoetida (also known as silphion or lasar), was an ancient spice from the region of Cyrene (now in modern Libya).
Daily Archives: April 21, 2025
I would like Neil Gaiman to get a visit from JD Vance.
The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.
– Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
“I need no axe to be a dwarf. Nor do need to hate trolls. What kind of creature defines itself by hatred?
” -Grag Bashfullsson.
This is a very timely quote.
It’s a shame that Bruce Boxleitner is not in the new Tron: Ares movie, but a bigger shame that Jared Leto is.
I enjoyed Tron: Legacy and have a great love for the first film.
It’s a shame there seems to be no mention of Flynn’s son, Sam, either.
https://www.accountabilitynews.org/post/multiple-women-accuse-jared-leto-of-sexual-misconduct
Starbucks barista: Order for Cathy Lou.
Cthulhu: (visibly incensed) I guess that’s me.