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Prison Blog

In which Possum recounts his experiences as an offender in the system.

Possum Bones is autistic. He has identified as a dirty kid in the past, and he’s attended multiple rainbow gatherings. He has several years left to serve in the Washington Correctional system.

He has been making art since he could sit up. He communicates better in writing than speech. If you are interested in the experience of an autistic person doing prison time, check out his Prison Blog. If you are a fan of comic art, underground/outsider music, Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith, Murakami, Cixui Liu, etc.

Hot sauce recipe for prisoners

If you're in prison and like hot sauce the hot sauce you have is probably not as spicy as you like . But you can make hotter hot sauce. Take some hot peppers. Depending on if your prison has a garden or not ... You may or may not be allowed to have these. I'm in prison, so I'll say no more about the actual species of the peppers . Anyway. Cut them real small with nail clippers and latex gloves. Put them in a small disposable dish- I use a cleaned out kosher meal container. Add a small amount of parkay oil to the tray and microwave it until its melted. Now, add the peppers to the oil. I also add minced garlic . Now microwave them in the oil for 20 seconds at a time, not allowing the plastic to get too hot. This is actually a nonpolar extraction where the hot oil is the solvent and the terpene capsaicin in the pepper is the solute. Taste the oil. It should be spicy. Once it is, add a small amount of vinegar to the oil. I use pickle juice. I'm not a scientist but I think the acid will break the fat chains down and , then , maybe the capsaicin goes into the water portion of the diluted vinegar ? But capsaicin isn't an alkaloid, so I'm not sure . Anyway. Cook the vinegar oil and pepper mixture until the vinegar boils just a little. Now pour this into a bottle with your regular weak " Tabasco " type hot sauce. Shake it up and wait, or even heat it a little in the Tabasco ( Not in the bottle ). Now tpit should be much hotter. You can also do this with the chili garlic sauce they sell for a thicker hot sauce. The same principle works to get the heat from red pepper flakes. If you had a thickener you could make a hot sauce from just ingredients this way ... the main reason I add it to hot sauce is just so its the consistency of hot sauce.

Elisa Carlson