March 31, 2022
Something for the Anime Fans
For anyone still recovering from Netflix’s offensive adaptation of Cowboy BeBop, just remember that the original masterpiece is also available to stream. While we binge the show, let us indulge ourselves in a popular dish from the first episode: bell peppers and beef. It’s delicious, simple, and open to interpretation, so here’s my version.Bell Peppers and Beef
- top sirloin steak
- 1 green bell pepper
- mushrooms
- 1 orange
- salt
- onion powder
- garlic powder
- ground ginger
- olive oil
Slice your steak into thin strips and place into a container. Slice your orange into eighths so you can squeeze half into the beef and the rest for a quick beverage. Close the container of beef and OJ and let sit in the fridge overnight. When you pull out your beef, drain some but not all of the juice and season it with salt, onion powder, garlic powder, and ground ginger. Place a large pan onto a stove over medium-high heat and leave it to get the pan really hot. While that’s warming up, rinse and slice your bell pepper and mushrooms into thin slices. When everything’s ready, put some olive oil onto the pan so you can throw your beef in after. After the vegetables are good, place the beef to the side and drop your pepper and mushrooms into the pan with the meat juice and some more olive oil and keep stirring. After a while, throw the beef back into the pan and cook until the bell peppers are soft.
—Jake Puestow, Cooking Editor
As winter dies, and as the sacred sun becomes common, the season of Spring brings forth its bold, amiable appearance. She shares her gospel of warmth and abundance of greenery. Snow becomes water, water becomes mud, and muddy water becomes part of the Earth, residing deep within the groundwater catacombs. The moist Earth which was once water, which was once snow, nurtures and gives birth to ground flowers of all colors, grass of great green, and insects rising from hibernation. Soon, the trees will no longer be gray skeletons of their former selves, soon the sun will no longer hide itself in shyness, and soon the summer birds will return to take residency in the north once again. When Spring arrives, she will turn the air into a warm and delightful scent, as prior to her arrival,the air was crisp and empty like a vacuum. The Sun will shine brighter and share his vitamin D, and the waves on the beach will roar once again. Grass will be able to be walked on again, and the sound of the leaves will be heard. Oh, Spring…please come sooner.
With spring break occurring last week, spring itself is due to finally come at last. The following travel story includes my spring-break travel experience.
Robert Downey Jr. has had one rollercoaster of a career, from an immensely popular and critical youth to a struggle with drugs and bad run-ins with the law. His life did improve at the same time as he started to take on one of his more prominent roles: Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man.
Sometimes we get those classes where the instructor is less-than thrilling. Something about their lecture needs a little oomph every so often. As a guest lecturer and teaching assistant for his professor in graduate school, Professor Kallgren added just this to a class of nearly seventy-five students. Nervous but sure he wanted to do it, he entered with the announcement that he was not the professor they were expecting. A little bit of humor went a long way.