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See, even when yer boyfriend, who you quite like, suddenly picks up and goes on a 6 month epic Indiana Jones journey to exciting bomb-riddled sub-emailable countries like India and Pakistan and Iran and beyond, there’s half a packet of fun, bite-sized reasons why you should be pleased:

1. Nellie’s coming!! 
Finally.

2. The new Eels album. 
It’s so pretty and lo-fi.

3. Pale green peppermint ice-cream studded through with mini m&ms. 
Sure, it’s got that non-creamy, skim milk texture… but it shore is funny though.

4. Orange fur-covered bookshelf. 
It’s orange. It’s furry. You don’t even need books.

5. That scab on your knee from when you fell over unassisted in the street has grown crusty and ripe for the picking. 
Meanwhile the tiny cut you got while hoicking yourself out of the swimming pool, has become mildly infected – not helped at all by the fact that your big metal watch keeps chafing. You’d think it would have taken a far shorter time to arrive at the idea to switch wrists. But, no. Really.

And so on. And so forth.

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before i had a “blog”, i used to write a sporadically updated letter on the front page of my website. this is one of them. i am consolidating it into these archives, because i can.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 30 April 2000 at 10:24 pm
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It took months of consideration and reflection, but finally the decision was made.

I’d been in the market for a jaffle maker from as far back as a year and a half ago, and then just as I was about to finally buy some silver space-age double-barrelled thing, they released a machine in the shape of a cow. White with black cow splodges, vacant bovine face, a pink udder underneath. And it really threw me.

Do you understand? That whole inner turmoil that designers sometimes experience (not to be confused with indigestion from eating a malcalculated combination of sugary snacks) over form versus function was achingly clear – the ache coming mainly, I suspect, from my stomach panging at the prospect of a further delay in the arrival of a crunchy golden jaffle.

Part of this debate (just between all my inner voices) was the “productivity/value for money question”: do you pay $40 for a machine that makes you 2 sandwiches at a time, or $50 that makes you one but looks like a cow?

And then just as I decided that it had to be the cow… it stopped being sold. Now everywhere I looked, there were jaffle makers in the shape of zany brown dogs. Feh. The jaffle dream ground to a halt, and I ate marinated artichokes on toast for a while.

But not two weeks ago, I stumbled upon a stack of the cow-shaped jaffle makers in one of those happy homemaker-type megastores. All the crunchy golden feelings were rekindled, and soon I was walking home with a box that said “Moo” under my arm.

This morning I made my inaugural jaffle. It was filled with creamed corn, which was damn tasty, but at that temperature, also damn lethal. Note to self: steaming creamed corn shooting out of a jaffle makes a brilliant projectile weapon. Just try to keep the pale yellow arc aiming *away* from your mouth.
 
I got the best fanmail ever the other day, from Sweden no less, and dammit, it makes my slack mutha lifestyle all worthwhile:

“hi nice stuff on your page there 
i was looking for some porn (hehe) 
but somehow i stumbled over your exelent page.. 
just wanned to say that.. 
id would had bought some of it, but im broke.. 
my spelling sucks mayor…”

It’s gonna be wonderful.

Yay.

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before i had a “blog”, i used to write a sporadically updated letter on the front page of my website. this is one of them. i am consolidating it into these archives, because i can.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 30 April 2000 at 10:12 pm
permalink | filed under shoping, snacks
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