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| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
fridgemagnet
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9:02p |
For the culinary record
Sushi rolls made with tortillas because you have no seaweed have considerably greater structural strength than those made more traditionally. On the other hand it's surprising how much taste a tortilla has, and that taste is not all that appropriate to sushi rolls. The potential that this has raised for me now is for "mex-sushi", which is basically a tortilla wrap but with stickier rice and rolled like a sushi roll. Think of a standard roll, but with, say, strips of beef and pepper in the middle, and with sour cream and chilli sauce inside too. I think that avenue is definitely worth going down, or at least peering down while standing at the well-lit corner with Sensible Street. Here is a bad webcam picture of an over-exposed Instax picture of a cat called Piper wondering what the hell I am doing trying to make sushi with tortillas:  |
| Thursday, December 24th, 2009 |
fridgemagnet
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11:54p |
A Manhattan does need a cherry in it. Either that, or making it with dry vermouth is a slight mistake. This should be a surprisingly relaxing cocktail on the tongue. Still, not too bad. A proper Margarita next, and it is surprising how much better a proper one is compared to what is served in pitchers in faux-Mexican restaurants and urban meat-market chain bars. Well, probably not all that surprising, but it is a Good Drink. |
fridgemagnet
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9:24p |
Is "hello little fella" an Australian phrase? |
| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 |
fiesta831
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5:57p |
Therapy
My work decided to close early for the holiday and I was able to convince my boss to give me another hour off of that and with Lance being off all day he had the trailer hooked up and loaded ready to go on a much needed trail ride when I arrived home. It was a pleasant ride with nothing of event happening....exactly the way a trail ride should be. I was so proud of the horses because they have not been off the property since early October but they did not skip a beat. I know I am probably humanizing but I swear the horses like to get out there once in awhile. Tucker had an obsession with wanting to smell every pile of horse poop we came across. It was therapy for me. |
| Monday, December 21st, 2009 |
fiesta831
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7:59p |
Book Review
 South of Broad by Pat ConroyMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI really liked the first 3/4 of this book but felt like the last quarter dragged on a bit. The beginning of the book had me totally caught up in the colorful characters and the beauty and mystery of the low country. I love Charleston and getting immersed in this novel set in it's backdrop filled me with longing for a trip there. I fell in love with the main character and his quirkiness and wit. The booked ended a little too cleanly but the senses and the visuals in the beginning made it well worth the read. There were lots of subplots through the novel and twists and turns and the ending discovery was upsetting and revealing. This one was certainly worth time. View all my reviews >> |
| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 |
fridgemagnet
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10:19p |
Funny how PM today managed to carry a really pretty long interview with an anonymous BA cabin crew member who spent the entire time saying how shit the union were for "messing up the vote". (This would be despite it being accepted in court that it made no difference whatsoever to the turnout and was a technicality, that the union did make efforts to find out who was not eligible to vote and not have them in the ballot, and that management knew the leaving dates of everyone - including those taking voluntary redundancy - of course, but mysteriously failed to tell the union.) And, next item. |
fridgemagnet
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9:01p |
fuck snow
Honestly, though, it's just a big swirl of cold, wet not-at-all-fun-ness. |
oldtimeradio
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2:23a |
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| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 |
fridgemagnet
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11:23p |
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| Monday, December 14th, 2009 |
fridgemagnet
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10:59p |
I &heart; the BBC
After the announcement that BA cabin crews were going to go on strike over Christmas, Radio 4 has gone swiftly into Establishment Overdrive. First of all there was a long interview with somebody from the pilots' union - the one that didn't go on strike, you know, the _good_ union - who spent a long time saying how disappointed he was that the cabin crews would be ruining everyone's Christmas. Then there have been news bulletins all day that introduced the issue with "Millions of Britons' holiday plans will be disrupted this year by the decision by BA cabin staff to go on strike...". Just now, for instance, there were just two points made in the news piece: one, that BA cabin staff had voted overwhelmingly to go on strike, and two, that this would spoil the holidays of millions of people. Next item. Eddie Meyer on PM this afternoon was so utterly over the top I was amazed he could keep from laughing. He had, I think, Len McCluskey from the union on (not anyone from BA obviously) and was saying "cabin crews, they earn a lot don't they? don't you know there's a recession on? so where are you going on holiday then, and why do you want to ruin everyone else's Christmas?" etc etc. At the end McCluskey - if that was he - was taking the piss and saying "I'm spending the whole of Christmas sitting by the phone in case BA management want to try to sort this out" and that sort of thing. And that was the end of it. Next item. All day I have been expecting an illustration of how the dead will go unburied because people won't be able to ship back the bodies of people dying abroad, all due to selfish union bastards. I find it interesting by the way that earning a reasonable salary that you can live on apparently now means that you shouldn't go on strike when your working conditions are threatened. It's appealing to the sort of miserable little English attitude that makes me want to break things; "You won't be getting a rise this year and your Christmas party has been moved to the local Yates', so why should this lot get anything eh? They're not starving or nurses or something are they?" |
| Sunday, December 13th, 2009 |
fiesta831
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6:23p |
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fridgemagnet
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11:08p |
art failure
I didn't go to a gallery this weekend. On Wednesday I lost my coat, hat, scarf and my three favourite pens in post-Christmas-dinner bar/taxi events, and had to replace them yesterday. Today... I just didn't go anywhere. This is going against my unstated goal to visit at least one gallery or other Approved Cultural Improvement Facility every week. I suppose I will have to fill in during this week now. It's far too easy to just slip into the local routine, back and forward between home, market, shops, pub. I am actually a proper "local" now at my preferred pub; I know other regulars by name, I know all the staff by name, and this is me who is famously bad at names and has been known to forget "mojito". While going out to galleries might not be some sort of overwhelming transformative experience, I like it and it makes me think and I need to do it more, because it's part of keeping moving. You've got to keep moving, haven't you? If you're moving, the speed at which you're sinking seems relatively slower. A bullet fired might fall just as quickly as a pebble dropped, but people notice the bullet falling less. Keep moving, keep moving, new languages new places new thoughts, I'm not even doing 1% of what I could be there and it means lots in the end oh yes. though I have gathered a lot of data on what Guinness is like with various shots, recently |
oldtimeradio
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