Made some jambalaya. This recipe called for three teaspoons of cajun spice. The previous recipe called for only one tablespoon. As a result, the previous recipe tasted like nothing.

Now it tastes like painful nothing. Part of the problem is that I also added like six scotch bonnet and the like peppers.

I'm calling the jambalaya experiment a failure. I tried numerous times. I enjoy making it. It's easy, it's cheap, and you get a lot of it. But it just doesn't taste good. I'll eat it when I get hungry enough but is that how you want to live? Forcing yourself to eat barely edible food for like a week? Oh man, I really hope this doesn't last a week but I fear it will. There's a big pot of this shit.

Maybe some sort of cabbage dish would be good. Slow cooker cabbage soup. This just looks like vegetables and chicken stock. The only spice is pepper.

Maybe this is what people are eating. Bland shit. I'm all about the spices myself.

Remember the Spice Channel? I don't think it was available in the UK, sadly. But it was huge in the US in the 1990s. All nude porn. They didn't show penetration, though. They took actual porn movies and edited out the penetration. How weird is that?

Anyway, it was all pay-per-view. But if you didn't pay for it, you would see a distorted, wavy picture. You could sort of make out a boob if you looked hard enough. That was enough for us.

One kid at school was so into the Spice Channel that we called him "Spice Mike" (not his real name). He was cool with it at first but then tried to get people to stop calling him that because he was afraid that his parents would find out. "Why are your friends calling you Spice Mike?"

So much unique content was lost. I can't believe people weren't recording it. It was pay-per-view, after all.

The movies of course still exist and you can watch them un-edited. But in between the movies they would show weird shit. They'd show some weird strip club footage. I remember a good mud wrestling one, for example.

Another one I remember is some kind of "porn auditions". They had several nude women wearing Creature of the Black Lagoon masks and they'd jump into a pool and "attack" a guy and their line was "now you're all mine." The woman at the end reall nailed it by putting the guy's head between her tits and giving a shake while saying the line.

And there was just random softcore stuff. I remember one where a woman was lying on a beach or something and rubbing her tits and there were huge scars under them. This was in the early days of breast augmentation surgery.