Cookie Weekend!

byronius, December 2nd, 2006 

 Kitchen full of bags.  Clear the decks.  Clean out the fridge — two cubic feet of Horizon Organic European Style butter goin' in, ten cartons of Rock Island Vegetarian-Feed Brown Large Grade A's.  Still not quite the Vegan.  Just a Caveman Vegetarian.  Rarrr.  Fourty or so bags of Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips.  Ten pounds of organic Chandler walnuts.  Organic unbleached pure cane sugar.  Stone Buhr flour.

I always have to mix the walnuts and chips in to the dough with my hands, into these vast bowls I have.  My special chocolate chip cookies, my grandmother's snicker doodles, Ghirardelli brownies.  Billions.  My hands will be toast by Monday. 

Dogs have been playing with two rubber clown-mouth toys;  when they hold the nub between their teeth, they look like they have a big clown-smile — it's a total crackup.

Christmas lights go up this weekend.  Trying to keep it under 3000 watts. 

Ten rats caught and released by my Hav-A-Hart.  No further evidence.  Victory Declared.  Mission Accomplished.

Watching Barton Fink. And ten other films, by Monday.  In ten-minute increments.  Ding!  Watch.  Ding!  Watch.  Ding!

I'm goin' in. 

15 Comments »

  1. OReilly wrote,

    Oh Byronius,
    What fun!! I can even picture you doing this. For the past 10 year, my kids and I make cookies for the neighborhood, but I can’t do it in one weekend. It takes the whole month of Dec. For us, the cookie giving helps revive our sense of community out here.

    Have a great time!!

    Comment on December 2, 2006 @ 9:26 am

  2. Senrab wrote,

    Whether, Lasagna or cookies, you do execute in grand scale and compressed time.

    I think I can smell them from here!

    Comment on December 2, 2006 @ 11:13 am

  3. Senrab wrote,

    Post some cookie pictures!

    Comment on December 2, 2006 @ 7:36 pm

  4. raison detre wrote,

    we’ll hear from that kid, and i don’t mean a postcard.

    Comment on December 3, 2006 @ 12:00 am

  5. byronius wrote,

    Cookie Pictures forthcoming, then. At some odd moment. Ding.

    I look like a cookie.

    Raison, I know what you mean. Sorry.

    Comment on December 3, 2006 @ 12:41 am

  6. byronius wrote,

    How about just a tour-of-the-factory video.

    Any New Worlds-type that gives Max a mailing address gets a little box of these actual cookies, in the mail. It would be my pleasure.

    http://www.poetrywar.com/Music/cookie.mpg

    Comment on December 3, 2006 @ 1:44 am

  7. byronius wrote,

    That’s a really big file, but I can’t make it any smaller. Sorry.

    Comment on December 3, 2006 @ 1:58 am

  8. Max wrote,

    Video works fine- I showed it to JAM and I now have my first mailing address.

    Comment on December 3, 2006 @ 10:37 am

  9. raison detre wrote,

    sorry… i am a huge cohen brothers fan…
    that’s my favorite line from the movie.

    excerpt from the screenplay:

    We hear a door open and close, then approaching footsteps. A tall, dark
    sctor in a used tweed suit and carrying a beat-up valise passes in front of
    Barton:

    From offscreen stage:

    MAURY
    We’ll hear from that kid. And I don’t mean a postcard.

    The actor sets the valise down and then stands waiting int he shadows behind Barton.

    An older man in work clothes - not wardrobe - passes in front of Barton from the other direction, pauses at the edge of the stage and cups his hands to his mouth.

    Comment on December 3, 2006 @ 2:23 pm

  10. byronius wrote,

    Well, cryptic excellence, there. John Goodman, striding down the hallway, flames following him. Wow.

    I’m at the startin’ to hate cookies stage.

    Eight more hours, Probably.

    Comment on December 3, 2006 @ 7:35 pm

  11. byronius wrote,

    ‘An older man in work clothes - not wardrobe - passes in front of Barton from the other direction, pauses at the edge of the stage and cups his hands to his mouth.’

    ‘FISH! FRESH FISH!’

    A lot of Eraserhead in this film. The gooey substance sweating from the sagging wallpaper is, I think, a metaphor for swathed misery. Goodman’s crying offscreen is haunting.

    Comment on December 3, 2006 @ 8:52 pm

  12. byronius wrote,

    1:27 AM. This concludes our cookie-baking extravaganza. The last snicker doodle has been withdrawn from the oven.

    Thanks for commenting.

    See you next year.

    Comment on December 4, 2006 @ 1:28 am

  13. raison detre wrote,

    inspired. max may partake in some cookies. i made some too.

    Comment on December 4, 2006 @ 11:32 am

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