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Dan and I bought a thing called “long ziti” from the local Weird Bargain Store, largely as a joke, but…. I have never had a more unsettling pasta experience in my life. They wouldn’t bend enough to cook from top to bottom simultaneously, and while they were cooking boiling water kept spouting out from the tops of them out of the pot, like a boiling pipe organ. Then they were so long and floppy and hoselike that we couldn’t pick them up with anything other than tongs, and then they were so long and unwieldy that it was basically impossible to sauce them without them all slithering out of the bowl like wet snakes. They then proceeded to cool down almost completely within the the seconds it took to walk to the living room. Eating them was like eating a bowl full half melted drinking straws.

I found this kind of ziti in the Italian specialty store by my friend’s house, and bought it specifically because of this post: long ziti was going to be A Challenge.  Will found a recipe, so we cooked it in the big pot so that every zitus could lie flat, slathered it in tomato sauce with sausage meat, laid it lengthwise in a 9x13 dish, sprinkled with a blend of cheeses, and baked it.  It ended up with a sort of lasagna vibe.  More difficult to cut than lasagna, but it was a very delicious pile of pasta logs.  

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Illuminate the Mundane: Werner Reiterer’s Street Chandelier (2006-12)

STELLAR BLADE (2024) dev. SHIFT UP Corporation

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Cobaltoan Calcite on Malachite covered matrix - Kamoto Principal Mine, Kamoto, Kolwezi District, Katanga (Shaba), Congo

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025), dir Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans

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