Making Southern American Chicken Fried Steak and Gravy in Rural Thailand
This one requires a bit of an interlude or introduction. The video and transcript below are all about making the food—the chicken fried steak—but not much on how you do a proper gravy or sauce. That’s what I have to address here to fill in some blanks. You need a proper gravy or sauce, and…
Read MoreMen: No Such Thing as “Beer Belly”
Alcohol Doesn’t Become Fat. It Stops Fat Burning. This has been a pet peeve of mine forever, one I’ve heard since I was a kid. “He has a beer belly.” Nobody has ever had a beer belly. Zero people on the face of this planet have ever had a beer belly. You idiots always ignore…
Read MoreWhy I Sit and Watch While Everybody Else Works
Good morning, or mid-morning actually, from my perch here in northeast rural Thailand. I thought I might do a video post today. I transcribe the video and then put up a post at FreeTheAnimal.com if you’re interested in seeing both the video and the transcript, or either one, whatever you like. I use AI to…
Read MoreThe Day New York City Declared War on the Backyard Flame
In a move that landed with the subtlety of a dropped Weber lid on a concrete patio, Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood at a City Hall podium this week and announced that outdoor gas grills are now banned citywide for the purpose of cooking meat. The violation is a misdemeanor carrying a fine. Charcoal, however, is…
Read MoreNo Money No Honey
Copilot seems to be my go-to for images where it seems to discern my attitude and gets it right the first time. The prompt: There’s a well-known saying surrounding the SE Asia girl bar scenes: no money no honey. Make me a fun and fanciful image, wide landscape for a blog post header image envisioning…
Read MoreThe Criminal State of the State of California
Greetings, folks, from a crisp morning in rural Northeast Thailand. Quick explanation about that. Thailand up here in the Northeast has several seasons. Starting from January, it’s the cool season. Talking 60s, low 70s most of the time. And at night it dips down — sometimes low 60s, maybe even high 50s. Fahrenheit. In Celsius…
Read MoreThink back. How useful has Rubber been in your life? Think way back.
Little did I know—or care, frankly—but I’ve lived amongst rubber tree groves for years in various places, and I’m well acquainted with how the stuff is processed. Curiously enough, and I love curious people, the rubber tree sap flows out as that white goo you see in the title picture. It only flows in the…
Read MoreExterior Design: Crazy Fun or Rastafarian?
Well, my last post, arguing that what the world needs now is war—sweet war—in my judgment, fell on completely deaf ears. I got no signals whatsoever that it was well received. Just one stupid comment on it from some moron who thinks Catholicism is a cult. I know that kind of idiocy from way back…
Read MoreWhat The World Needs Now Is War, Sweet War
Western Christianity is the one that kept the Greeks. Islam met them earlier and then shut the door. Judaism produced brilliant synthesizers and never let them run the institution. OK, as a prelude to this particular post, I want to say upfront that I had significant help putting it together. I got up about 12…
Read MoreMen: Using the C-Word Will Positively Improve Your Life
Hey folks. Doing the near daily video as normal. If you’ve been following, I do them from my man cave perch, my patio overlooking the property here in rural Thailand. I’m doing it from my office this time, in front of my computer, because I need to reference something on my side monitor here. I’m…
Read MoreMen Building Stuff Undercuts Feminism and Males in Name Only (MINOs)
Males In Name Only = MINOs. Time for another video from me, with a subsequent blog post with the transcription of this video. I’m going to take you on a little tour. The theme is building. Build! Okay, let’s go. This is a property in northeastern Thailand, Mukdahan Province to be exact, and this is…
Read MoreI Say Again: Money Makes You Fat. Nothing Else.
I’ve had this notion ever since I moved to Thailand nearly seven years ago, in early 2020. I came here quite a lot in the late 1980s, spending months in the country over several different trips, and I can’t recall ever seeing a fat person. I’m sure they existed, but there weren’t enough of them…
Read MoreShould X Become a New Full-Fledged 24/7 Media Company?
Thinking Out Loud From Thailand: Another 30-Day X Block, Spanking Kids, and Why X Should Become a Real Media Company Good morning from Thailand. This is a thinking-out-loud post. Use your own judgment. Push back if you wish. I’m on day four of a 30-day block from X. Second one this year. The first, back…
Read MoreThe Funny Hate Mail I Get
I live in this funny space in my life where I’m really happy, really content, and really satisfied: 65 years old, living in rural northeastern Thailand with a really great gal. It’s been interesting to experience that unfold. I’ve always received some degree of hate mail or hate comments. On my blog, those are typically…
Read MoreElon Musk Banned Me for 30 Days Again. Why It’s Dishonest
Time for another episode. It may seem silly that I’m wearing sunglasses on an overcast, slightly rainy day up here in northeastern Thailand. I’m on the patio of my man-cave perch. This is probably where I’ll end up doing most of the talking videos, as opposed to the walk-around ones. What do I have today?…
Read MoreX is Neither a Truth nor Quality Seeking Platform
All right, here I am heading out again. Heading to a little market, get a few things in my truck. Thought it would be an okay time to do one of my videos. This is something that’s been on my mind for a while. Think back to when Elon bought Twitter. A lot of people…
Read MoreThe AI Doomsday. Be Scared. Very Scared.
So, been a while. Greetings from my as-yet-under-construction man cave here in rural Thailand. Plenty of videos detailing that process. What I wanted to discuss this morning is the laughable proliferation of the AI-doomsday thing. I’m gratified because I see huge numbers of people saying, “Oh, here comes the fear scam again.” Some even harkening…
Read MoreThey Lined Up in Pink for the Woman Who Strangled Her Babies
That was the watershed. Not Roe. Not “my body.” The day millions of women decided a born child was fair game, and the killer was her sister. Men say no. At least there was 1 man on that jury. He may have saved a lot. I don’t know. We do know that if a criminal…
Read MorePotato Breakthrough
This is a cooking-video post, which I haven’t done in quite a while. At just over 16 minutes, it may be a little long, but I made it that way for a reason. Recently, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make the potatoes Thailand produces—what I call Thai potatoes. They’re yellow-fleshed potatoes, but…
Read MoreWhat Will Women Do When They No Longer Have The Support of Men?
Good, nice little late morning. I just poured—let me see—three truckloads of concrete, about five cubic meters each. So that’s roughly eighteen yards in American terms, all for the front yard driveway and parking lot. I had the guys working it, and it was pretty cool. I have a separate video specifically about that. What…
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