Zuckersüß 485: Lana del Rey’s Schwager, Victoria’s Secret, 6 Stunden Florence Gaub

die neueste Schnitzerei von meinem Vater vor verblichener 80er-Jahre Sahara

…mit einigem Gebackenem, drei Lokalen (Elvis Pizza, Knödelwerferin, O’Sfizio), einem fertiggestricktem Pulli – und wie immer, den besten Links der letzten Wochen.

Seit dem letzten Zuckersüß habe ich Walnuss-Korinthen-Scones (nach den Cranberry-Walnuss-Scones von 2021), Bananen-Muffins mit Walnüssen (ganz lose nach den Bananen-Pecan-Muffins von vor vier Wochen), Apple-Pie mit Pudding-Füllung, Käsewindbeutel mit Steinpilzfüllung und Apfel-Kirsch-Mini-Pies gebacken.

Walnuss-Korinthen-Scones und Bananen-Muffins mit Walnüssen

Außerdem habe ich Schlehen für Gelee gesammelt und gerade am Herd stehen, Essigbaum-Früchte am Trocknen (Vorschläge, was ich damit anstellen könnte?) und Oliven zum Einsalzen im Kühlschrank.

Gegessen

Eine Pizza bei Elvis in Amstetten (3300), das nun auch gscheite neapolitanische Pizza in der Stadt hat. Schupfnudeln mit Rosenkohl und Zwetschgenchutney bei der Knödelwerferin in Deggendorf (DE 94469), ein paar super scharfe Debreziner in irgendeiner Wanderhütte im Bayerischen Wald, bayrische Brezen, Arancine bei O’Sfizio (1170).

Außerdem Steinpilzrisotto (mit selbstgesammelten Schwammerln!), Schwefelporling aka Chicken of the Woods paniert und frittiert, Austernseitlinge in Weißwein, Pasta e ceci mit Gochujang.

Gestrickt

Endlich mein Rumble Raglan nach Lydia Morrow fertig (vor ziemlich genau einem Jahr angeschlagen, s. Zuckersüß 460)! Die Fäden muss ich noch vernähen, und evtl. muss ich den Pulli weiterschenken, mir ist er nämlich super eng (Maschenprobe-Fail, schade). Die Haube – Simple Pleasures Hat von Purl Soho (ravelry) – von neulich habe ich auch nochmal aufgemacht und länger gestrickt, damit sie dem Beschenkten (hoffentlich) besser passt.

Veröffentlicht

Im Blog: Kirsch-Vanille-Pavlovas und 15 Jahre Zuckerbäckerei, English Muffins mit Sauerteigstarter

Anderswo: nix.

Hier folgen meine liebsten Links der letzten Woche:

Rezepte

Pumpkin-Peanut Rice Balls With Maafé Recipe – NYT Cooking
Spannende Fusion.

Tatli Kabak – Effilee
Eine Kürbis-Süßspeise mit Knoblauch???

Ravneet Gill’s recipe for portokalopita | Cake | The Guardian
Quasi Pudding mit Filoteig und Orangenaroma.

Tahini Blondies — Sami Tamimi
Blondies find ich üblicherweise VIEL zu süß, mit Tahini kann ich mirs schon viel besser vorstellen.

Ice Cream Peda Recipe – NYT Cooking
Geschmolzenes Eis mit Milchpulver, sehr interessantes Konzept.

Kalakand -NYT Cooking
Eine Süßigkeit aus Paneer.

Texte

The Manifesto – Lunch Ticket (via Web Curios)
Sehr cute Kurzgeschichte.

Grant had sent her several long text messages before school about revolutionary leaders she hadn’t had time to Google yet. She wasn’t sure she could research at all tonight; she had a math test at the end of the week to study for, and the presentation for AP Spanish was coming up.
She saw him in the hallway. That three-to-six-minute window. She came up to him, shyly, and said hi.
“Hey,” he said, a benevolent smile on his face. “I was just wondering—what do you think about God?”
She blinked. “I don’t know. I guess I’m Lutheran.”
He said, “Have you read Thus Spoke Zarathustra?”
“Is that by Marx?”
“Nietzsche.”
“Ah,” she said, faintly, the press of exhaustion at her sternum.

The Dangers of Forensic Architecture’s Investigative Art – Artnews
Kritik zur Methodik der Forschungs-/Kunst-Gruppe am Londoner Goldsmith College. Das erwähnte Klang-Projekt zu einem Foltergefängnis in Syrien ist mir schon mehrmals untergekommen, ich war sicher, es schon mal im Zuckersüß erwähnt zu haben – und finds nimmer.

FA seems to take this as permission to muddle index and inference. When one “fact” in their work is a guess and another is known, we are sometimes told as much in a voiceover, but often, both items are treated the same in the final timeline or model. In fact, the group has stated outright that “forensic aesthetics is about reducing the gap between what is certain and what is probable,” and there are countless places in their confident voiceovers that really ought to include a small hedge, words like probably or suggests. Though the group is transparent about its processes, it is seldom so when it comes to raw data.

To understand physics, we need to tell – and hear – stories | Aeon Essays
Dieses Essay ist ein bisschen all over the place (von Emanzipations-Memoir über Wissenschaftsstorytelling bis Missbrauchsvorwürfe ggü berühmten Physikern), aber die Haupt-Message ist ein guter reminder beim Schreiben von Texten aller Art:

Some textbook writers and teachers drive me bananas when they treat their physics characters on the page like a shell in the shell game: they shuffle quantities around as fast as possible, switching characters and perspectives without care. Certain physics quantities are renamed willy-nilly with the most squiggly Greek characters possible, which is as jarring as renaming the main character in your story without bothering to signal the change to the reader or explain why. Instead of illuminating the deeper connections between physical quantities, poor physics communicators obscure rather than explain what they’re doing, robbing the process of the intellectual and narrative clarity that makes physics so compelling. If you don’t explain what is happening, even briefly, or if you skip too far forward in your proof, your reader will quickly grow frustrated and lose interest in your narrative. If your reader is your teacher, you’ll lose points. If your reader is a grant-giver, you won’t get your grant.

PIN–UP | MEET THE ARTIST SISSEL TOLAAS, EXPERT ON SMELL (via Jeannes Varieté Newsletter)
Kunst/Wissenschaft/etc

Tolaas’s database, now comprising over 15,000 smells she’s recorded and reproduced, is housed in the artist’s chemistry lab, RE_searchLab, which she founded in Berlin in 2002. As a forensic chemist, Tolaas collects molecular samples to study a particular subject, whether it’s an archeological investigation of the ancient ruins of Pompeii (a project she’s currently working on with the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, the Ministero della Cultura, and the Pompeii Archaeological Park) or a garment in the Met Costume Institute’s archive. She determines what smell molecules are present, many of which are indicative of past environmental conditions. In the case of the Met exhibition, she explains, “I will analyze the dresses for hours and record molecules. Then these recordings are analyzed corresponding to my database,” says Tolaas. “You have a picture and you break it up into pixels. This is similar to what I do.”

Did You Know That There’s an Airboat Tour in Des Allemands, Louisiana – Never Hungover
Was für ein Reisebericht/Essay über die Alligator-Touren von Lana del Rey’s Schwiegereltern, ich habe mich sehr amüsiert.

The swirl of anxieties brewing within me was dispelled the moment captain Chad pushed us off, gave us a cursory safety lesson (in lieu of seatbelts, we had what he referred to as “oh shit” handles, which were available only to those sitting on the ends of the two benches), and began telling us about the history both of the company and the swamp we’d be exploring. Until that moment, I was at war with myself: were we being dicks? Had irony and celebrity intrigue so completely territorialized my mind that I had made the people nearest to me drive forty minutes so that we could say that we’d done this? Was I the personification of the paparazzi and Houma residents who flew drones over a humble Louisiana wedding to aggregate clicks? But the second we began cruising into the no wake zone, as captain Chad explained the physics behind airboat propulsion (you can drive over land, really, but not for too long, it’s a matter of friction, you need water to cool off the bottom of the boat is the long and short of it), the true purpose for our being there made itself clear. We were going to see some alligators.

If Icarus wore lingerie – Books and Bits (via Maybe Baby)
Über den Aufstieg und Fall von Victoria’s Secret und den bleibenden Schaden durch die Marke. WTF:

This was nothing on Brazilian model Adriana Lima’s revelations in 2020. Lima told The Telegraph that she stopped eating solids 9 days before a show and would forego liquid entirely for the 12 hours before. This is a body-builder hack: dehydration makes muscles pop, and, Lima noted, you could lose 8 pounds in a day, just from shedding water weight. The Brazilian model later apologised for her comments, noting that her approach was “intense”, like an “athlete” and that no-one should try and copy her.

Brat Summer and the Millennial Imagination – Never Hungover
Popkultur-Nerdlevel-Analyse:

Brat Summer died, per Pitchfork’s Arielle Gordon, the moment that Charli XCX tacitly endorsed Kamala Harris for president. With one tweet, the idea goes, the sovereign leader of Brat Summer granted mainstream political types explicit permission to lean into the low-concept, incoherent meme—campaign accounts updating headers, repulsive figures like Matt Yglesias tweeting lyrics about ketamine, Eric Adams doing his thing. In a split second, Brat was recontextualized from cheeky in-joke to reincarnation of “Pokemon Go to the polls.” In other words, Brat memes speed-ran their inevitable life cycle from in-group signifier to mainstream marketing tool. There’s nothing worth examining there other than the fact that it happened quite quickly, a speed that speaks more to the new architecture of the internet than anything inherent to the Bratzkrieg itself.Things start, people feel special for understanding them, too many people understand them, and then the early adopters pronounce them dead. These cycles happen. There are people—a lot of them—who have conditioned their notion of cool on little more than liking things their parents have never heard of.

What Can You Learn from Photographing Your Life? – New Yorker (via Links I Would GChat You)
Meine Fotosammlung ist beträchtlich besser organisiert als die des Autors, aber ich habe eine ähnlich große Begeisterung für das alltägliche (die Schüssel! dieses eine paar Schuhe! der Strauch vorm Fenster…)

this morning, I took a picture of my kids in the back of the car as my wife drove them to school. In all likelihood, it will be lost in the torrent of other photos—but there’s a chance that, decades from now, one of us will enjoy recalling the exact appearance of the crumb-strewn interior of a Subaru Crosstrek in the year 2024. I feel connected to that future person; I’m idly curious about what they’ll find startling.

The cult of the founders – by Henry Farrell (via Personal Canon)
Der Text ist mir schon ein paar mal untergekommen, jetzt habe ich ihn endlich fertiggelesen. Hauptthese: Musk führt sich auf wie ein Prophet.

The problem with prophecy is that ecstatic cults don’t scale. If you want your divine revelation to do more than rage through the population like a rapid viral contagion and die out just as quickly, you need all the dull stuff. Organization. Rules. All the excitement – the arbitrariness; the sense that reality itself is yielding to your will – drains into abstruse theological debates, fights over who gets the bishopric, and endless, arid arguments over how best to raise the tithes that the organization needs to survive.

‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump – The Guardian
Ein anderer Blick auf die Fans-sind-so-mächtig-und-super-Diskurse der letzten Zeit.

And while the vulgar comic story was originally proffered solely to the working classes, soaring retail prices had precluded any audience save the more affluent; had gentrified a previously bustling and lively cultural slum neighbourhood. This boost in fandom’s age and status possibly explains its current sense of privilege, its tendency to carp and cavil rather than contribute or create. I speak only of comics fandom here, but have gained the impression that this reflexive belligerence – most usually from middle-aged white male conservatives – is now a part of many fan communities.

Ausgestorben: Donaustöre groß wie Haie – orf.at
Von Hausen hatte ich vor diesem Artikel noch nie gehört, meine Familie erzählte mir daraufhin, dass es auch in meiner niederbayerischen Heimat einen Ort an der Donau gibt, der nach dieser ausgestorbenen Fischart benannt ist.

Einst durchschwammen sie die Donau vom Schwarzen Meer bis nach Bayern. Über 2.000 Kilometer legten Hausen zurück. Eine „Mischung aus Hai und Drache“ nennt Stör-Experte Thomas Friedrich von der Universität für Bodenkultur (BOKU) Wien die Giganten wegen der markanten Schwanzflosse. Aber auch im Größenvergleich kann es der Hausen durchaus mit dem Weißen Hai aufnehmen. Mit bis zu sechs Meter Länge, 1,5 Tonnen Gewicht und einer Lebenserwartung von über 100 Jahren ist der Hausen der größte existierende Süßwasserfisch.

Audio/Video

Florence Gaub, wie denkt die Nato Frieden? | ZEIT ONLINE
Sechs Stunden Alles Gesagt, gerne gehört (und zwischenzeitlich ein bisschen in ihr neuestes Buch geblättert).

The virtuosity of Stevie Wonder — Switched On Pop
Ausführlicher Blick auf die lange Karriere Stevie Wonders.

Episodio 49: Il pomodoro è due – DOI – Denominazione di Origine Inventata
Ich mag diesen Podcast so gerne! Und habe zufällig erfahren, dass einer der beiden Hosts, Alberto Grandi am 22.11. auf der Buch Wien auftritt (leider habe ich keine Zeit hinzugehen).

ALEXA CHUNG — ARE WE ON AIR ?
So ein nettes Gespräch, „It-girl“ Alexa Chung wurde mir tatsächlich sympathisch!

#37 Monster, Spuk und Gänsehaut – mit Barbi Marković — OH WOW Podcasts
Die Klangwelt dieser Jeannes-Varieté-Folge ist mal wieder großartig – Kudos an meine ehem. Kollegin Anna Muhr.

Der Teepalast – Radio Bremen
Ich weiß noch nicht, ob ich diese historische Hörspielserie gut finden soll (oder cringe), die nächste Folge entscheidet.

Charlie Overman (via Hearing Things)
Neuer Country aus Kentucky.