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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Oh fuck right off with that bullshit.
    The US is a big fucking country. Full of a diverse range of cultures. If you go to some American supermarket and buy some lump of mass-produced pseudo-cheese, and sure, It’s gonna suck. But that’s true of most anywhere in the world.

    But you go to a local market or a co-op or a mom & pop shop or a neighborhood bodega or a farmers market or any place with a cheese selection that isn’t dropped off by a truck from some faceless corporation, and you’re going to find some great cheeses. Are you in a rural area? Look for an Amish community. They can make some incredible cheeses.

    I’m sick of you fuckers going to McDonald’s and then exclaiming “American food sucks.” -while ignoring all of the hardworking humble family owned restaurants who put out great food.

    These broad generalized statements about Americans fucking cheese me off. Probably bought some cheese made by a Unilever subsidiary (a British company, btw) and then decided all American cheese sucks.








  • Well if you’re comparing 333 Commerce St building (topped out in 1993) with Barad-dûr, as depicted in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy (released in 2001-2003), then you maybe should ask why Peter Jackson’s art inspiration (specifically illustrator Alan Lee) based their depiction of Sauron’s tower on the AT&T building (although maybe the architect of the building in Nashville did also draw their inspiration from Alan Lee’s art, timeline become muddled here).

    I could find no other depiction of Barad-dûr prior to Jackson’s which had that same forked design, most artists drew a sinister-looking but traditionally spired tower design, with the eye peering through a window in the clouds to some effect.

    Tolkien’s book describes the tower like this:

    “Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. All hope left him…

    …and then he saw, rising black, blacker and darker than the vast shades amid which it stood, the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad-dûr. One moment only it stared out, but as from some great window immeasurably high there stabbed northward a flame of red, the flicker of a piercing Eye”

    No mention of the two-prong fork design that I could find.