Issue: April 16, 2026

When ya render pork fat – i.e., purify it by gettin rid of as much of the non-fat stuff as possible – ya get lard. Likewise, rendered chicken fat becomes schmaltz & rendered butter becomes ghee. But what does rendered suet (the fat from around sheep or cattle kidneys) become?

Who directed & starred in the movie Buffalo ’66?

This writer-actor-director-musician also one time got into a kinda famous I guess ya’d call it a feud with Roger Ebert. It was concernin his movie The Brown Bunny, which after it screened at Cannes Mr. Ebert said it was the worst movie in the history of the festival!

Harsh words from a critic, I get it. But then this fella went kinda outta pocket & called Ebert “a fat pig with the physique of a slave trader” – yikes! – but Ebert had a good comeback, he said: “although I am fat, one day I will be thin, but Mr. [REDACTED] will still be the director of The Brown Bunny.” Zing!

Anyways, I guess he re-cut The Brown Bunny & Ebert thought the new edit was a lot better & gave it a three-star review. So, uh— well, I guess if there’s a lesson to be learned here, it’s that ... editing is important?

But so who even is this guy? That’s what I wanna know!