New Take on Old Sol
Root*Center*Son made this for his housemates, over Christmas weekend.
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Root*Center*Son made this for his housemates, over Christmas weekend.
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Howard would be first, if I'm not mistaken.
ReplyDeleteSorry to be running late. My screen reader is on the fritz, which materially slowed down the entire afternoon and evening.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the birthday wishes!
Renee, so glad you and D got to go out and have some fun for your birthday♥
Bill, wow indeed! I flew First Class once, a bump up. Don't remember the food but the seats were wonderful.Of course, this was something like forty years ago. Even First Class has probably changed for the worse since then. Still, nice going!
Listener, I sure hope you get better soon! Sending healing vibes.
Puddle, best wishes for phone lines!
Gotta hit the hay. Night, all.
First Class is good, but clear scans are even firstier! Karaoke and a new job for one's birthday is pretty great too!! How's the eating going, puddle?
ReplyDeleteI've been on Alaska Airlines to Alaska a couple of times in recent years; their food had a great reputation at one time, but now one is well advised to carry on granola bars. The steamed beef sandwich they served was hardly edible.
I have to run up to the Bay Area Sunday afternoon for court early Monday. Miyoko will have guests over on Monday, so can't come along, but has given me a shopping list. If we can contact Naomi I will ask if I can crash with her, otherwise stay at the Rose Garden Inn in Berkeley. It's a pleasantly funky place, and breakfast is included.
In Seattle the hotel I liked the best was the Pioneer Square Best Western--a completely refurbished and well-built old hotel in an interesting neighborhood, with lots to see within walking distance. In the lobby there's a big photo of the original owner, a local lumber magnate. I got to looking at the street in front, where it ran, put two and two together, and realized it could very well be the original Skid Road (where they skidded logs down to the mill, later one of the roughest, most dangerous, and most thoroughly infamous places on the west coast--which lent its name to Skid Rows all over the country). So it was. Entertainment venues are still common in the area, albeit much tamer.
ReplyDeleteAlan, eating is so good, I have to remind myself to nevertheless take it slow, and don't push the envelope, lol!
ReplyDeleteEating is so much more than nourishment in this culture (and every culture, as far as I'm able to determine). I think historically over thousands of years it's always been a huge uncertainty whether or not there will ever be a *next* meal, that we've developed our major celebratory behavior around food. To be ousted from that takes a bigger toll on the soul than one might have expected. . . . To rejoin the fellowship, a greater gift than one knew. . . .
One doesn't normally think about things like that, but it rings true. I remember someone making the observation that the most common enduring contribution of various immigrant groups to US culture is their food.
ReplyDeleteNice, lazy (if foggy) Saturday morning.
ReplyDeleteCheapskate solution to a problem: I needed a mailing tube for a poster, and the ones available at the stores were both too large and (I felt) too expensive. I hit on the idea of making a triangular one of cardboard (one piece including the ends, secured with clear packaging tape) and it is not only serviceable but stronger than a regular mailing tube.
One afternoon in China, us ExPats sitting around longing for American Food: like pizza, chili reannos, spaghetti, goulash. . . . And then someone started laughing.
ReplyDeleteSomething very much like chili rellenos *is* traditionally American. Although typical of that part of America south of what is now the United States. ;)
ReplyDeleteHi guys.
ReplyDeleteHad a problem with the mouse, so no computer for a while today. I was very pleased to get here on my phone, but couldn't open the comments page.
Patty and Sara came over to spend the afternoon with me, which was lovely!
Let's hear it for good ol' Yankee ingenuity!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of such things, Patty brought me a lemon meringue pie, bless her, and insisted that I eat two pieces.
ReplyDeleteAnd, listener, yesterday I had some cake, a Pepperage Farm one, white cake with lemon frosting. Elsewhen during t he day I had B&J's New York Super Fudge Chunk.
ReplyDeleteMy job to clean the kitchen window and the hood/exhaust fan today or tomorrow morning. I didn't do the latter last year, so can't complain. It's easy enough.
ReplyDeleteGot a shipment of Darkover books today. Currently working on Zenna Henderson's short story anthology Holding Wonder which has some dandy stories; my favorite so far is The Closest School(1960). It reminds me of another story I read about the same time, both of them tongue-in-cheek blowups of racial prejudice that wouldn't be written today because of positive changes in our society. (Not that there aren't people who are trying to turn back the clock.)
Catreona ~ Excellent B&J's choice! :-) I'm delighted to hear that you got both pie and cake! Yum!
ReplyDeletepuddle ~ Your food reflection is very poignant and moving, and resonates with me too. I'm glad you're in the Fellowship again, heartily glad!
Bill ~ When do you take your first class ride?
Alan ~ Loved your Skid Row story!
Let us know which reading selections you find toothsome!
Went to work, which was again so busy that we STILL have not processed the new books that came in last week. Nor did we get any books covered that need covering. Heck, we didn't even have time to open the mail! It's plain that Christmas vacation is over! Ha!
About food: found this when I was looking for a picture to go with the post which I decided to put up at baby. . . .
ReplyDeletehttp://davidswanson.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/babettes-feast/
First class flight is Sunday, July 15.
ReplyDeleteIllustrating Puddle's point about the importance of food to human relations and emotions, has anybody here read Julia Child's autobiography, My Life in France? I'm sure Julia would have agreed with Puddle's point. Food is, for many of us, about so much more than eating, about simple physical nutriment. It's also about emotional well being, fellowship, interpersonal relationships. That's why the central act in Christianity is the sharing of a meal, the fundamental meal of bread and wine.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've seen that film. Have you? I like Babette and the premise, but the filming was really poor and a little hard to follow. You really wanted them to be able to travel back in time and get a do-over. Nothing was lost? Only the sons and daughters they never had, the generations that would never follow...? But I loved the concept of someone giving all to get them to experience Abundance for once in their lives.
ReplyDeleteFood is the primary medicine of humankind--body and spirit as well, because the two are not separate. A package deal, it is.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the stories dealing with racism, there are also some post-apocalyptic stories. But we are talking about the period from about 1950 to 1970, when those things were very much on our minds. I shall make a note to get back to you when I finish the anthology.
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