Young Earth Creationists (YECs) believe the whole world and the entire Universe was created by God less than 10,000 years ago.
Yes, you’re right: free from the ravages of reality.
10,000 years is somewhat less than the time it takes light to travel from the centre of our Milky Way galaxy to here. Yet astronomers can see galaxies more than 13 billion light years away. That is, the light took over 13 billion years to travel here.
As a silly service to truth and understanding I present an unbiased timeline history of the Universe. I leave out a few trillion events, but waddaya gunna do?
And oh, yeah: each vertical pixel below is equal to over 2 million years…
Young Earth Creationists really need to get a sense of perspective.
Quick! Fetch the Total Perspective Vortex…
In a few days, a good friend turns 64.
Back in 1983 I directed a production of the political black comedy Accidental Death of an Anarchist and before starting production I had a very vivid image in my mind of what I wanted on the poster – the anarchist (who is not a character in the play) making a last gesture of defiance at the persons who had just pushed him out of a 6th story window.
The only person I could imagine for the image was my long suffering good friend, who on a hot summer day violently threw himself backwards onto a levee bank 36 times until I got the image I desired…
I plastered this all over town and the play was actually a great success. (click to enbiggen)
My reasonably private friend never did tell me (at the time) that he was less than comfortable about having such an image of himself spread far and wide… so true to form, at the celebration of my friend’s 60th birthday, I pulled out an oversize copy of this poster for the appreciation of the gathered crowd. What are good friends for…
PS. (waving own flag here) For the heck of it, I Googled a bunch of other posters for this play that are kicking around the interwebs. As far as I’m concerned, we won 
!
All right – kind of basic, but we love it. Caramelising the tomatoes makes all the difference.
Serves 2 – 4.
Ingredients in metric. Sorry Yanks – the rest of the world left Imperial measurements behind years ago… As a small concession I have counted the tomatoes in non-metric units.
INGREDIENTS
- 8-10 good very ripe tomatoes
- Good Splash or 3 (or 5) of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Freshly Ground salt and Black Pepper
- 1 or 2 anchovies, or Worcestershire Sauce (optional)
- A bulb of Garlic
- A handful of fresh Basil Leaves chopped or shredded
- Balsamic Vinegar (optional)
- 125g – 150g thin spaghetti per person
- Fresh parmesan cheese or similar
METHOD
- Preheat oven 200 degrees celsius.
- Cut the stalk core out of the tomatoes and cut a deep cut into each tomato. Stuff the cut with the basil and place in a suitable baking tray.
- Slice the top off the bulb of garlic, leaving the skin on and showing a cross-section of all the cloves within. Place in baking tray with tomatoes.
- Break up the anchovies into tiny pieces and place them on the tomatoes. If you don’t like anchovies, you can substitute a sprinkle of Worcestershire Sauce (or omit it).
- Splash on the olive oil.
- Grind on the salt and pepper in amounts that suit you.
- Place tray in oven and cook till tomatoes are collapsed and caramelised. The browner the better – the richer the flavour. Don’t go to black…
- If you wish, pluck the skins off the collapsed tomatoes. I am in two minds about this – the skins do provide flavour but the bits of skin may be undesirable to some.
- Pull out the garlic. Separate out some of the cloves from the garlic bulb – as many or as few as you like. The cloves should be mushy if you squeeze them. Mash the cloves and add back into the tomatoes.
- While the pasta is cooking, pour a little balsamic vinegar (if you like it) over the tomatoes and mash it all up. It should look runny and very rustic.
- Spoon as much as you like over the cooked pasta and grate on some fresh parmesan cheese.
EAT IT
With a glass of good red – a blessing from the FSM.
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