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Jun. 10th, 2018
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Eerie Indiana Food Fest
Jun. 10th, 2018 12:13 amfroodleEerie has it’s fair share of great places to eat. There’s the Eerie Baitshop and Sushi Bar, the Eerie Bus Terminal and Supper Club, Everything Corn, Grandma’s Kitchen, the Dragon of the Black Pool Restaurant and, of course, the ice-cream counter at the World o’ Stuff.
If you’re more of a homebody, maybe you prefer twenty-year-old bologna sandwiches or buckwheat pancakes made from a ForeverWare recipe. Perhaps a celebrity couple called off their wedding a few days before your birthday and you bought their cake on sale, or you just like adding the prefix “Swedish” to everything you cook, Marilyn Teller-style.
Maybe you really enjoy toast made in a haunted toaster, or maybe you hate it whether or not it comes with bank-robbing ghosts. You could be a member of a corn-worshipping cult whose banquets consist of Cornade (or Cornade Lite), huge bowls of fresh-made popcorn and, of course, hot buttered corn on the cob.
Is your favourite snack a jumbo-sized bag of chocolate milk balls (“the balls that go moo!”) or just a carton of the Eerie Dairy’s finest scavenged from the site of another fatal milk-truck accident? Do you feast on a giant plate of ribs the night before a human sacrifice or serve up a portion of space noodles and moon sauce while you search for UFOs?
Whatever your preferences, it’s the tenth of the month, and that means it’s time for our Foods of Eerie Fest. Are you enjoying a refreshing Black Cow after a long day investigating haunted structures, or baking cupcakes decorated with ravens and eyeballs? Share your recipes, post your pics, get out those Eerie-themed travel mugs and head off for a picnic in some ill-advised supernatural hotspot. Eat something spookily delicious and tell us all about it!
If you’re more of a homebody, maybe you prefer twenty-year-old bologna sandwiches or buckwheat pancakes made from a ForeverWare recipe. Perhaps a celebrity couple called off their wedding a few days before your birthday and you bought their cake on sale, or you just like adding the prefix “Swedish” to everything you cook, Marilyn Teller-style.
Maybe you really enjoy toast made in a haunted toaster, or maybe you hate it whether or not it comes with bank-robbing ghosts. You could be a member of a corn-worshipping cult whose banquets consist of Cornade (or Cornade Lite), huge bowls of fresh-made popcorn and, of course, hot buttered corn on the cob.
Is your favourite snack a jumbo-sized bag of chocolate milk balls (“the balls that go moo!”) or just a carton of the Eerie Dairy’s finest scavenged from the site of another fatal milk-truck accident? Do you feast on a giant plate of ribs the night before a human sacrifice or serve up a portion of space noodles and moon sauce while you search for UFOs?
Whatever your preferences, it’s the tenth of the month, and that means it’s time for our Foods of Eerie Fest. Are you enjoying a refreshing Black Cow after a long day investigating haunted structures, or baking cupcakes decorated with ravens and eyeballs? Share your recipes, post your pics, get out those Eerie-themed travel mugs and head off for a picnic in some ill-advised supernatural hotspot. Eat something spookily delicious and tell us all about it!
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froodleThere’s plenty of places on TV you wouldn’t want to find yourself: the pre-credit sequence of Law & Order; on a date with any of the characters from Seinfeld; pretty much anywhere in Westeros. But if there’s one setting that should be avoided at all cost, it’s a small town.
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But if you live in the middle of America, mothers-in-law and murderers are the least of your worries. Bates Motel, Smallville, Under The Dome, The Prisoner’s The Village, American Gothic’s Trinity; dude, these places are supernaturally screwed. There was even a short lived show from the early ‘90s called Eerie, Indiana, located in a small town where, of course, nothing was as it seemed (although when your town’s called Eerie you can hardly be blamed for misleading wandering strangers).
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But if you live in the middle of America, mothers-in-law and murderers are the least of your worries. Bates Motel, Smallville, Under The Dome, The Prisoner’s The Village, American Gothic’s Trinity; dude, these places are supernaturally screwed. There was even a short lived show from the early ‘90s called Eerie, Indiana, located in a small town where, of course, nothing was as it seemed (although when your town’s called Eerie you can hardly be blamed for misleading wandering strangers).
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A healthy breakfast...
Jun. 10th, 2018 08:52 amfroodleIt's the end of the TT fornight here and as the beer tent and the fun fair and the various white paneled vans selling suspect foodstuffs pack up and prepare to ship out, there's heavily discounted sweet treats aplenty to be had. I like to think this is a menu option on the World o' Stuff's brunch specials. I bet the Bob brothers eat it a lot. It would explain a few things.
froodleNiki de Saint Phalle, Golem, 1972
City authorities initially rejected Golem, a fantastical playground design by French Pop artist de Saint Phalle, deeming it too frightening for children. “Scary things are good because they help children conquer their fears,” countered the artist, citing the Freudian psychologist Bruno Bettelheim’s theory that fairy tales prepare children to overcome their earliest existential crises. Nicknamed “the monster” by local residents, the looming black-and-white structure features three red tongues sliding into a sand-box, as well as a cavern underneath for braver children to explore.
This is 100% where Harley Holmes hangs out, along with the various Damiens, BEKs, Midwych Cuckoos and Shining twins.
But I think Jean Dubuffet's Jardin d’émail and Pierre Székely's La Dame du Lacmore are more Sara Sue's speed:
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Like most of his monumental public sculptures, Dubuffet created Jardin d’émail (the “garden of enamel”) without a specific location in mind. It ended up nestled within the Netherlands’s Kröller-Müller Sculpture Garden, its stark black and white design a playful contrast to the verdant surroundings. The whimsical landscape offers an escape from reality; in the words of the French artist, “an artificial garden in a garden of real trees and real lawns.” The work is at once a sculpture, a three-dimensional painting, and an opportunity to explore the iconic artist’s work from the inside out.
Évry, Courcouronnes, France
“The mountain will come to you,” said Székely in 1975, in anticipation of a project he had designed for the new urban development of Évry, outside of Paris. The mayor had commissioned the Hungarian sculptor to create a climbing wall, the first of its kind in France, inspired by the famous boulders of Fontainebleau. Easily accessible from the town’s shopping center, the resulting structure—a surrealist-inspired take on sailboats gliding across the neighboring pond—was intended to bring the thrill of mountain climbing to nature-seeking urbanites.
City authorities initially rejected Golem, a fantastical playground design by French Pop artist de Saint Phalle, deeming it too frightening for children. “Scary things are good because they help children conquer their fears,” countered the artist, citing the Freudian psychologist Bruno Bettelheim’s theory that fairy tales prepare children to overcome their earliest existential crises. Nicknamed “the monster” by local residents, the looming black-and-white structure features three red tongues sliding into a sand-box, as well as a cavern underneath for braver children to explore.
This is 100% where Harley Holmes hangs out, along with the various Damiens, BEKs, Midwych Cuckoos and Shining twins.
But I think Jean Dubuffet's Jardin d’émail and Pierre Székely's La Dame du Lacmore are more Sara Sue's speed:
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Like most of his monumental public sculptures, Dubuffet created Jardin d’émail (the “garden of enamel”) without a specific location in mind. It ended up nestled within the Netherlands’s Kröller-Müller Sculpture Garden, its stark black and white design a playful contrast to the verdant surroundings. The whimsical landscape offers an escape from reality; in the words of the French artist, “an artificial garden in a garden of real trees and real lawns.” The work is at once a sculpture, a three-dimensional painting, and an opportunity to explore the iconic artist’s work from the inside out.
Évry, Courcouronnes, France
“The mountain will come to you,” said Székely in 1975, in anticipation of a project he had designed for the new urban development of Évry, outside of Paris. The mayor had commissioned the Hungarian sculptor to create a climbing wall, the first of its kind in France, inspired by the famous boulders of Fontainebleau. Easily accessible from the town’s shopping center, the resulting structure—a surrealist-inspired take on sailboats gliding across the neighboring pond—was intended to bring the thrill of mountain climbing to nature-seeking urbanites.
froodleIt's unique but you can do what I do when I really like a thing - check out the things that informed and influenced it. TV/FILM: Adv. of Pete and Pete, Eerie Indiana, Sandlot, Stand by Me, ET. LIT: Dandelion Wine.
— David Anaxagoras (@davidanaxagoras) June 10, 2018