A few important things:
- Phronk.com is a real web site now! All the URLs around here now start with “phronk.com” rather than “phronko.blogspot.com”, which never really made sense, and nobody took me seriously, and I cried about it a lot. NO MORE.
- However, this has caused a bunch of comments to be lost. I guess this is a known issue and hopefully not permanent.
- There’s a new header image. I wish I had more time to work on it, but it’s fine for now I guess. And it’s not huge any more, so the blog should load faster if you‘re on dialup.
- I wandered into a different grocery store than my usual one a few days ago. I saw something called “frozen cassava” in the freezer, and I had no idea what cassava was, so I bought it.
- It is cheap enough that I could probably eat it exclusively for a few weeks, in order to save money.
- This is cassava:
- It looks kinda like a hairy … let’s say … finger.
- When I researched the vegetable, this is what Wikipedia told me:
Konzo is an epidemic paralytic disease. The outbreaks are associated with several weeks of almost exclusive consumption of insufficiently processed bitter cassava.
- If you don’t see me for a while, please call a doctor, and tell her that I am paralyzed in my apartment, sick with konzo.
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38 responses to “Konzo”
alkfjasdlkf is this working?
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alkfjasdlkf is this working?
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Just because you asked, and because you eat scary hairy looking things so that the rest of us don't have to.
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Just because you asked, and because you eat scary hairy looking things so that the rest of us don't have to.
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Hi. I don't think it 's working.
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Hi. I don't think it 's working.
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Definitely true, you shouldn't put hairy …..fingers in your mouth unless you know what diseases they cause…
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Definitely true, you shouldn't put hairy …..fingers in your mouth unless you know what diseases they cause…
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That is the most disgusting….uhhhh vegetable?… That I have ever seen
Love all the new stuffs! This better work or else Ima punch your blog in the face 😉
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That is the most disgusting….uhhhh vegetable?… That I have ever seen
Love all the new stuffs! This better work or else Ima punch your blog in the face 😉
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Comments seem to be working fine, and I fully expect to see you grinding up this hairy phallic object in your silver bullet and putting it in your coffee.
Do you cook this before eating it like a potato? Or is it more like jicama?
I like the “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” picture, btw. I have that book on my bedside table.
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Comments seem to be working fine, and I fully expect to see you grinding up this hairy phallic object in your silver bullet and putting it in your coffee. Do you cook this before eating it like a potato? Or is it more like jicama? I like the “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” picture, btw. I have that book on my bedside table.
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It seems to be working kind of! Dunno where all the old comments went though.
Eww Hey Lady! I don't grind with hairy phallic objects.
Never heard of a jicama (will have to look for those too), but I think you cook these. Less chance of konzo that way.
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It seems to be working kind of! Dunno where all the old comments went though.Eww Hey Lady! I don't grind with hairy phallic objects.Never heard of a jicama (will have to look for those too), but I think you cook these. Less chance of konzo that way.
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I'm gonna start a band and call it “Sick With Konzo”. Your new official-looking website is nothing short of fucking inspirational.
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I'm gonna start a band and call it “Sick With Konzo”. Your new official-looking website is nothing short of fucking inspirational.
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New look is awesome! I'm so jealous that you are officially a “dot-com”.
As for that disgustingly hairy, diseased looking thing, all I can say is that if they (you know who “they” are) ever get ahold of that photo I'm sure it's going to be used as part of a promoting abstinence program…I'm just sayin'
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New look is awesome! I'm so jealous that you are officially a “dot-com”.As for that disgustingly hairy, diseased looking thing, all I can say is that if they (you know who “they” are) ever get ahold of that photo I'm sure it's going to be used as part of a promoting abstinence program…I'm just sayin'
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So, this is how the new blog will look permanently? It's sorta “vanilla” I must say. By looking at it I wouldn't know it wasn't a girl's blog, from the fancy spiraling iron staircase to the antique books. Even the “zombie” Elizabeth Bennett is debatable. BUT it does look better then mine, so I shouldn't really talk.
Jicama is a vegetable that is very popular in California with vegetarians. It's good though, you'll probably like it. My roommate recommends adding lemon juice and cayenne pepper.
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So, this is how the new blog will look permanently? It's sorta “vanilla” I must say. By looking at it I wouldn't know it wasn't a girl's blog, from the fancy spiraling iron staircase to the antique books. Even the “zombie” Elizabeth Bennett is debatable. BUT it does look better then mine, so I shouldn't really talk.Jicama is a vegetable that is very popular in California with vegetarians. It's good though, you'll probably like it. My roommate recommends adding lemon juice and cayenne pepper.
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Kat: That's so nice of you!
Sick With Konzo is already my favourite band.
FCF: Haha ew. Switching from Blogger to a real dot-com wasn't too expensive or difficult (except for screwing up a lot and continuing to screw up, but hopefully it'll fix itself). If you want advice on how to do it just email me!
Hey Lady! I'm fine with vanilla. I only have two goals: 1) Having a recognizable look when you first load the site; 2) After that, being able to read the content without hurting your eyes. I hope this does that. And if feminine is synonymous with beautiful, I'm fine with that too. 🙂
Mmm, I'll pick up jicama if I ever see it.
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Kat: That's so nice of you! Sick With Konzo is already my favourite band.FCF: Haha ew. Switching from Blogger to a real dot-com wasn't too expensive or difficult (except for screwing up a lot and continuing to screw up, but hopefully it'll fix itself). If you want advice on how to do it just email me!Hey Lady! I'm fine with vanilla. I only have two goals: 1) Having a recognizable look when you first load the site; 2) After that, being able to read the content without hurting your eyes. I hope this does that. And if feminine is synonymous with beautiful, I'm fine with that too. :)Mmm, I'll pick up jicama if I ever see it.
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About the jicama, if you know of any Mexican-centric stores, get yourself a jar of Tojo spice. I think I'm spelling it wrong but after you douse it with lemon juice, slather that crap on it.
PS: your page loaded so fast my eyes got digital cuts.
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About the jicama, if you know of any Mexican-centric stores, get yourself a jar of Tojo spice. I think I'm spelling it wrong but after you douse it with lemon juice, slather that crap on it.PS: your page loaded so fast my eyes got digital cuts.
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Looks like casava is more harmful than the H1N1 shot.
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Looks like casava is more harmful than the H1N1 shot.
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deeeeericious…
I like the new header. Very nice 🙂
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deeeeericious…I like the new header. Very nice 🙂
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So… when's the blog post on dipping cassava in coffee? 🙂
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So… when's the blog post on dipping cassava in coffee? 🙂
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Oh… and congrats on the domain name! Blog's all grown up now!
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Oh… and congrats on the domain name! Blog's all grown up now!
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Cassava in coffee:
http://puttingweirdthingsincoffee.com/2010/04/18/cassava-coffee/
🙂
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Cassava in coffee:http://puttingweirdthingsincoffee.com/2010/04/18/cassava-coffee/🙂
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