Mau Mau selected this story @ 07-01-2010 07:44:27

human flesh cookies
No one tracks down a miscreant as fast as China's online vigilantes.
The notorious kitten killer of Hangzhou was unmasked by hundreds of internet users who traced her through an eBay purchase of stilettos.She lost her job shortly afterwards, as the virtual anger spilled over into real life. A Tibetan living in the United States was deluged with abusive phone calls and emails after he was wrongly named as the man who tried to grab the Olympic flame from Paralympian Jin Jing in Paris. Yet even his lawyer Zhang Yanfeng is reluctant to condemn the phenomenon entirely.
Presumably he does not want to clutter up his site, but he also knows that commenters often have nothing meaningful to say.

In 2007, when Jiang Yan, the wife of Wang Fei, a Beijing resident, jumped to her death from her flat's window after finding out that her husband was having an affair, she left behind her blog.
Why, you ask? Because every time I would open up The Book (which is in horrendous shape now, if you were curious) during the month of December, it would fall open to page 270--and facing me would be a big color photo of these sparkly rum balls.
So yeah, I was rockin out, doin' my thang, whiskin' a little of this, mixin' a little of that.
Ah, with time I shall master you, dear Cuisinart Mixer, and then you'll know who's boss.But enough about me and my power struggles with kitchen appliances, let me tell you about this recipe.


Or Pirate cookies, because of the Rum. I was in the kitchen of my Nana and Poppy's house circa 1995, and my Aunt was sitting at the glass kitchen table, right beside the faux-colonial painted plates mounted on the wall and across from Sam (Nana's Parakeet with a nasty habit for screeching and a sweet tooth for human flesh) who was pacing inside her rattly cage. I think I tried it. It had a funny chewy texture unlike anything else I had eaten--unlike any real food at all--and it tasted like coconut (a long time foe during my childhood, and only recently a friend as of about 3 months ago).