Favorite Year
There isn’t really a bad song on the Dixie Chicks’ 2006 album, “Taking the Long Way.” Its most frequently played track is “Not Ready to Make Nice” and rightly so. But I really really like this one, and it finally turned up on YouTube.
Archive of entries posted on November 2010
Can’t anyone play this game?
Sure, let’s freeze federal pay for two years. It’s anti-stimulative, since federal workers buy things as much as everyone else, and there’s sure as hell no chance of getting any new fiscal stimulus out of Congress, but what the heck. Then let’s announce it without getting any quid pro quo from the Republicans, like extending …
On Wikileaks
Disclaimer: I haven’t read any of the disclosed documents in detail. I have an opinion about the material I’ve seen excerpted, though: why is the world in an uproar about some of these thoughts? I mean, any casual observer could agree that Nikolas Sarkozy is a vainglorious guy, that Vladimir Putin is a bully of …
Classmate photos
Back in June I mentioned I was keeping a gallery of photos from my high school classmates as they hit the magic (or infernal, depending on your point of view) 60th birthday. This has been amazing. I’ve received 139 pictures. Granted about half of them are from the party I mentioned in that post, a …
Here’s a new source for cooks
New to me, anyway. Yesterday’s mail brought us a catalog from Pendery’s, an outfit which specializes in chile peppers, spices and seasonings. It’s located in Fort Worth, it’s been around since 1870, and it’s a real treat to look at and drool over. It’s got more chile and chile blend powders than you can imagine, …
Store avoidance
It’s very kind of the NCAA (and I rarely have anything good to say about that outfit) to have lots of football on so I don’t even have to go out of my house today. There’s a major shopping center at the intersection at the bottom of my hill, so I might could be caught …
Gobble, he said, and gobbled he was
“Greater love hath no bird than this, that a bird lay down his life for those higher up the food chain.” From Events My brother-in-law carves up the ritual bird, Thanksgiving 2010.
If it’s Thanksgiving, it must be Arlo
Book recommendations
I mentioned here that I had Connie Willis’s All Clear and couldn’t wait to read it. Well, I have. I re-read Blackout, the first half of the two-volume story, just to get up to speed before starting All Clear, so I didn’t finish it until 2:00am Monday morning. If you’re interested in the perils of …
Turkey Day prep
Got my whole olives, got my celery, got the prepped turkey dinner from Safeway on order for pickup Thursday morning, and got my decorative gourds. Did you know there’s a place in the business of providing those dried baby pumpkins and miniature Indian corn to supermarkets all over the country? It’s true.