Texas Prisons End Special Last Meals In Executions

via NPR 

A former inmate cook who made the last meals for prisoners at the Huntsville Unit, where Texas executions are carried out, wrote a cookbook several years ago after he was released. Among his recipes were Gallows Gravy, Rice Rigor Mortis and Old Sparky's Genuine Convict Chili, a nod to the electric chair that once served as the execution method. The book was called "Meals to Die For."

Taipei Exchanges

第36個故事
作詞：雷光夏
作曲：雷光夏

夏天的雨水飄落　寧靜公園
深夜的微風拂過　吹乾了樹
在街角的咖啡店　相遇的一刻
故事從頭　我對你依然心動

溫暖的太陽照著　冬天的花
你微笑著讓我　抹去眼淚
看這座城市　漫漫　被時光移動
若伸出手　還是渴望被你把握

給我　我想要的生活

面對　最坦白的眼眸
前方　是一片晴朗星空
答案　靜靜擁抱我

V: I am watching `Taipei Exchanges'. I am having a hard time watching this. They're just too rich. The city is too clean. I don't know about the vox pop sections, either.

me: Oh?

V: I understand how those HK movies can make the city seem so beautiful and romantic. This movie makes Taipei look like Austin. It very much is not.

me: What city does it closely resemble?

V: Detroit, haha

Sleepwalking towards the 1930s

"The problem is in large part to do with the application of an incorrect metaphor, the easy-to-understand idea that a household has to live within its income. But governments are not households, and the idea of cutting your way to prosperity cannot be read across from an individual’s finances to those of the state."

The Belgian Solution

Texas Smoke Barbecue

"...although the meat itself has been slaved over for hours by the pit master and refined to the nth degree, no one sees any contradiction in serving it with cheap saltines, industrial white bread or the world’s worst beans or corn bread. "

Texas Cult of Smoke Barbecue