tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33982692024-03-23T13:24:30.580-05:00Peking DorkUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3881125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-33491798135728981212016-04-27T23:51:00.001-05:002018-01-17T18:22:55.048-06:00The story about Napoleon & Josephine is apparently true"Ne
te lave pas, j'accours et dans huit jours je suis là. " (Don't wash,
I'm rushing back and I'll be there in a week.) according to
http://www.lemonde.fr/vous/article/2013/02/14/l-odeur-de-l-autre-est-propice-a-l-eclosion-du-desir_1831025_3238.html,
it's from Napoleon's love letters to Josephine (Lettres d'amour à
Joséphine, Fayard, p. 155)
Or not. See the comment below. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-29938765233730751792016-03-14T05:16:00.000-05:002018-12-19T10:11:19.703-06:00Chinese noodle sauce (炸酱面) 300 gr. ground pork (10 oz.)
hot peppers, finely chopped
4 shiitake mushrooms, minced
1 chopped onion
1 chopped tomato
4 (?) finely chopped celery stalks
4 pieces extra firm "dry tofu" (豆干) sliced into 1/3 thickness, then tiny cubes
sweet bean sauce 甜麵醬
sesame oil
Heat pan until very hot, add 3-4 Tablespoons oil, drop in peppers to sizzle, turn off heat and fry until fragrant (“爆香”: “sauté Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-14047308114515978712015-11-01T16:08:00.000-06:002015-11-01T16:08:25.661-06:00You know the good years when you're in themYou know the good years when you're in them, or you just wait for them until you get ass cancer and realize that the good years came and went.
True Detective S01E05 "The Secret Fate of All Life"
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-63944930843574571452015-09-12T18:09:00.001-05:002015-09-12T18:09:26.406-05:00The imperialist and patriarchical hierarchy between author and reader. Rich Smith writes,Conceptual poetry, like conceptual art, privileges a reader’s thoughts about the text over the author’s rhetorical devices within the text. . . These writers imagine the text not as a thing that should absorb you, but as a reflecting pool into which you can look and see and think whatever you want to see. Conceptualists claim this dissolves the imperialist and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-25342500950323409802015-07-05T21:27:00.003-05:002015-07-05T21:27:51.736-05:00Chicken stewed in soy sauce and spices (滷味; lǔwèi)Quantities and types of meats vary. I like:
chicken legs
chicken gizzards
hard-boiled chicken eggs
First parboil the meats a couple of minutes. Drain, then prepare:
1" length cassia bark (桂皮; guìpí)
6-7 pieces rock candy sugar
1/2 teaspoon black pepper corns
1/2 teaspoon coarse sea salt
smashed ginger root the size a large thumb
¼-½ cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice wine
Put in the legs and add:Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-72135548457305447882015-06-09T12:37:00.000-05:002015-06-09T12:37:40.328-05:00Oatmeal cookiesPreheat oven to 350
Bake 1½ cups walnuts or pecans 5 min.
Beat together:
1 cup crisco
2 T water
1¼ cup dark brown sugar
2 eggs
2 t vanilla extract
Sift:
1 ½ cups white flour or ¾ cup white flour and ¾ cup white whole wheat flour
1 t baking powder
1 t (kosher) salt
Add:
1 t cinnamon
3 cups Old Fashioned Oats
Mix all these ingredients, then add the 1½ cups walnuts
and if you want, 1½ Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-42435600057797533342015-06-09T09:43:00.001-05:002015-06-09T09:49:06.335-05:00Sweet-sour cabbageRip the leaves of about half a green cabbage head into 1-2" pieces.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-74328181692767550752015-06-09T09:27:00.004-05:002016-04-23T19:47:43.774-05:00Stuffed JalapeñosSelect about a dozen jalapeños that are fairly large and straight (easier to stuff ).
To ground pork (enough to stuff: about ½ lb.), add about ¼ teaspoon minced ginger and one minced scallion, a teaspoon of soy sauce and a teaspoon of rice wine (米酒), and a teaspoon (?) of salt. Mix together and add a splash of water to make the mixture a little pasty and easier to manipulate.
It's best to wearUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-62032560911440501592015-06-04T21:36:00.005-05:002015-06-04T21:42:47.985-05:00Spaghetti with zucchini and garlic.
Grate zucchini.
Cook pasta
Fry minced garlic in olive oil.
Add grateed zucchini.
Season with salt and pepper.
Saute 7 to 10 minutes.
Toss hot, drained spaghetti with zucchini and garlic oil.
Serve with Steamed shrimp.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-29840515378864106422015-06-04T21:27:00.000-05:002015-06-04T21:41:05.546-05:00Steamed shrimpDefrost shrimp (if not fresh).
Steam on plate in top of double boiler; flipping over when pink.
Serve with Spaghetti with zucchini and garlic.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-56650013227052436822015-05-27T23:55:00.002-05:002015-05-27T23:55:35.029-05:00Am I playing a chess game of my own?Elias: "I think you know something you don't even know you know, which means you're playinga chess game of your own, Detective.You just don't realize it yet."
"Person of Interest" (Season 2 Episode 19)
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-82939142624639995752015-05-17T11:25:00.001-05:002015-05-17T11:25:25.658-05:00The stupidity and cruelty of the earthThis ugly sunlit picture of the stupidity and cruelty of the earth sent the ascetic finally to his prayers for purification and new thoughts.That sounds very elevating. And yet as it turns out, the curate described here (in G.K. Chesterton's "The Hammer of God") doesn't behave very well.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-9731574730966074012015-05-17T11:20:00.000-05:002015-07-15T10:57:25.121-05:00Taro rootWearing gloves, slice the skin off a large taro root. Rinse, then cut into sections and cut the sections into slices roughly a quarter inch thick. Heat a little oil in a pot, briefly stir fry the slices, then add water (enough to cover at least halfway, but you're not making soup). Simmer, stirring occasionally until the taro softens, adding water if necessary, then season with salt and sprinkle Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-30035940567114112512015-05-17T11:07:00.001-05:002015-05-17T11:07:24.940-05:00FliesTime flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Les mouches du temps aiment une flèche.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-50244426939571713292015-05-16T23:02:00.000-05:002015-05-16T23:02:05.139-05:00SURS Loses Money On SalesmenIn Illinois, where Rauner is pushing retirement benefit cuts, the trend is illustrative. There, the $18.9 billion Illinois State Universities Retirement System (SURS) used placement agents for 15.6 percent of its private equity investments -- which then underperformed the pension fund’s other private equity investments by -9.2 percent. The underperformance may have cost the system hundreds ofUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-75407426364235998862015-05-03T20:37:00.000-05:002015-05-03T20:37:00.254-05:00SpanishMARISOL: Your mother's family is Spanish?
PILAR: Sure, they go back to Cortez. When he rode by, they were squatting in a hut cooking hamsters for dinner.
---"LONE STAR" by John Sayles
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-68391857056547994812015-05-01T23:26:00.000-05:002015-05-01T23:26:35.711-05:00Deliberate exercise or display of the body is a prostitution"I have wished myself to know that any deliberate exercise or display of the body is a prostitution; our created shapes being only our accidents until by taking pleasure or pains in them we make them our fault."
T. E. Lawrence, The Mint
That's a little extreme. And if you feel that way about your body, isn't your intellect also an accident?
Then on the other hand, what's wrong with prostitution? Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-65920002521452555882015-05-01T01:12:00.000-05:002015-05-01T01:12:02.924-05:00Foreign aid making governments weakerAnne Applebaum writes, In 2009, Ashraf Ghani, now the president of Afghanistan, co-authored a book with Clare Lockhart that argued international aid had drastically weakened the Afghan state: Instead of building Afghanistan’s capacity to deliver health care or education, foreign donors set up parallel structures. Charities hired the best people away from the government and took all the moneyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-7819073521525469442015-03-22T21:55:00.003-05:002015-03-22T21:55:50.267-05:00Rebar-bativeRebar generally isn't rebarbative.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-62428673626407188352015-03-06T18:11:00.000-06:002015-03-06T18:11:04.861-06:00Chikungunya is not the same thing as ChūshinguraChikungunya is not the same thing as Chūshingura.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-19162857255319296022015-02-17T11:21:00.000-06:002015-02-17T12:07:53.127-06:00 There is no "you"!Normally I like Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics. I really didn't like the awful Henry Hersch Hart translation of the Bái Juyì (Po Chü-i) poem used in this one (which is probably why I should agree that it's not great that every job requires a college degree).
Here's Hart's awful translation:
A Forsaken Garden
I enter the court
Through the middle gate—
And my sleeve is wet with tears.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-80848314755529484672015-01-14T23:01:00.001-06:002015-01-14T23:01:47.203-06:00How many balls you got dangling from your rearview mirrorShane is trying to help the daughter of an Armenian "businessman" who's lying in a coma. After he tells her that one Juneteenth Freeman has been ripping off her prostitutes, back at the police station he hears "African-American male, 20s, ID'd Juneteenth Freeman, out on parole, found unconscious in an alleyway with his testicles cut off."
Later talking to her, Shane says, "It's only a matter of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-27904168240647086732014-12-15T20:13:00.002-06:002014-12-15T20:13:55.896-06:00Oh, to work for the governmentFederal employees are generally overpaid and enjoy other advantages as well, such as higher job security.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-65740415926570687342014-09-25T20:09:00.001-05:002014-09-25T20:09:56.056-05:00What was the point again of all that nasty, life-negating crap I like?
--Carl Wilson
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398269.post-71563611218849158302014-08-22T19:30:00.000-05:002014-08-22T19:30:22.341-05:00Fear of disorderIn Environmentalism and the Fear of Disorder, Ronald Bailey writes...a lot of environmentalists experience many aspects of the modern world as chaotic and thus seek to compensate for their perceptions of disorder by engaging in ritual behaviors that make them feel like they are exerting more personal control. It is not much of a leap to conclude that by imposing those rituals on others, some Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0