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[blasword]

Its been a hard time in LJ land. People seem to update less (including yours truly), communities fall apart, etc. A lot of the appeal of posting to the internet i think has been usurped by instantly gratifying (and less effort-needing) status updates of Twitter and Facebook.  But surely they aren't better. I think there's something we're losing by

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[ludikar]

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...heh. I was thinking along the same lines yesterday. With most of the people I used to keep up with here on LJ having left it behind for the other options, I had less reason to come and check for updates. I realized that my desire to post was largely in response to others updating and me feeling the need to put something up as well.

I like hot sauce (or hot things, in general, really) in a lot of my foods. I don't recall having it on toast, but definitely with eggs, pizza, cornbread and countless other things too. I've thought about trying it with icecream before, but never taken the plunge.

[blasword]

Oh man, hot sauce and cornbread? Now you're talking.

With so many success stories related to the application of Hot Sauce to various foodstuffs, I just have to think that one couldn't be blamed (too much) for trying it on ice cream. I mean, heck, I've had vanilla ice cream with garlic mashed into it (at a garlic festival!)( and that wasn't bad. Then again, ice cream and hot sauce seem like they would be very conflicting flavors.

[anonymous]

I stopped posting on LJ for a number of reasons. I still dislike facebook and twitter, and I don't think many of my friends left LJ for them... I think it was just that I was one of the few regular posters, and other people just dropped out of laziness. After a while I felt like I was just posting to myself, and so I stopped. Not to mention being about 20x more busy now that I am post-college. :(

I also realized after a while just how difficult it is to present the same face to everyone I know, from friends who have known me all my life to people who know me just a little via the internet, to potentially random passers-by. I got frustrated with it all and just gave up. It's so easy to be misinterpreted or reveal too much or too little.

Anyway I might give it a go again. Who knows. It'd be nice to feel a bit more connection, and I'm certainly not going to get that on twitter...

[serienna]

Whoops, guess it's been so long I no longer get auto logged in... heh.

[leentigress]

I'm pretty much a non-entity on LJ at this point.

New blog project: http://ridiculousgreetingcards.wordpress.com
Also, I keep a personal blog at [myfirstandlastname].tumblr.com that fulfills a better function than my LJ ever did.

I do however still read other peoples' posts pretty religiously.

About the hot stuff

[driocanthe]

I rarely post anything anywhere but I do read semi-regularly.

If you like hot food in general and not just hot sauce, putting jalapenos in the batter of cornbread does some nice stuff for it (and hot sauce would probably work in nicely there, too). Also, cayenne and cinnamon in brownie batter can make for some of the tastiest brownies in the world (in my not so terribly humble opinion).

Just thought I'd throw that out there.