Oatmeal, peanut butter, and honey cookies

I cannot resist a good cookie and I love to eat all kinds of cookies.  I also like to baked cookies.  I usually go to the store and buy the cookie dough in a roll or a flat sheet with pre-cut squares. Buying the already made cookies makes it the whole process easier.

I consider myself a novice when it comes to cooking in variation.  There are many variations of chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, bar cookies, and so on.  For example, there are chocolate chip cookie recipes which add nuts or fruit to the standard recipe.  I have tasted sugar cookies with coconut shreds and bar cookies with granola and dried fruit too. YUM!

I can follow a cookie recipe, most of the time, and the cookies comes out looking and tasting alright.  I have never made an oatmeal cookie from scratched and this will was my first attempt at making my own variation of an oatmeal cookie.  I used Betty Crocker's cookbook to find a basic oatmeal cookie recipe.  I then gave the recipe a new spin.

• I used 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 peanut butter instead of 1 cup of butter.  
• I replaced 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavor extract and allspice powder for maple extract and 1/2 teaspoon of pumpkin spice powder.
• I also used 1 cup of sugar and 1/2 cup of honey instead of 2 cups of sugar.
• I stirred in shreds of coconut before baking the cookies.  

I think the cookies came out looking hearty and tasted pretty good.  The addition of honey instead of using only sugar gave the cookies a sweet taste without going overboard.  This is a good variation of a classic cookie.  Next time, I will try stirring in two items before baking the cookies instead of altering most of the original al recipe.

The Meatrix Trilogy is jamming up the food industry

After reading Kalle Lasn's book, Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge, I was hooked on culture jamming. Ever since I read the last page of Lasn's work, I began searching for culture jamming examples that match my own ideological view of the world.

Culture jamming is a form of activism which allows someone to respond back to any dominant views/messages through popular forms of media.  I think the Meatrix trilogy is a rebellious and critical account of factory farming and the effects it has on the environment and everyday people.  The video refers to the Matrix trilogy and the popularity of the franchise to draw in and keep viewers watching and listening.  The combination of activism and re-appropriation of a popular movie trilogy is what makes the Meatrix, Meatrix II, and Meatrix II 1/2 such a good examples of culture jamming.