Thank the food gods for that, too. From Bread I’m not sure what happened here. I’m reasonably sure I used 2 1/2 teaspoons of yeast, not tablespoons. It’s the first time I used powdered buttermilk rather than liquid, and maybe that concentration blew the dough up higher than it should. Ah well. It’s still recognizably …
To Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. We have the newish autobiography on our shelves, and we’re dipping in and out of it. It’s too damned heavy to hold in one’s lap for too long. Google has a doodle tribute to the man, by the way.
Traffic starts to back up on the westbound freeway around 3:00pm along this stretch of roadway. I have a doctor’s appointment at the VA Pacific Islands Health Care System at Tripler Army Medical Center at 2:30pm today. Where is that? Just north of that section of the freeway. How do I best get from my …
I used to get on one of these every morning and get on another every afternoon for a 15-20 minute flight back and forth to Meck from Kwajalein. It was like using your own HOV lane every day. It’s a DeHavilland DHC-4 Caribou which could seat up to 30 passengers on every flight. From Kwajalein
About a year ago Red Box put one of its kiosks in the Safeway I regularly visit, so I started renting movies there. At the time the fee was $1.00 overnight. About six months ago the Red Box kiosk was replaced by a Blockbuster kiosk, no reason given by Safeway. It didn’t much matter to …
Have you ever gotten halfway through a book by a favorite author, put it down overnight and been reluctant to pick it up again? Not because it’s poorly written, but rather because you can feel where it’s going and you’re not going to like the way it turns out? I’m reading one like that right …
Much the more important aspect of the day after Thanksgiving is the first turkey sandwich of the holiday season. White bread (the only good non-toast use of the commercial variety), lettuce, turkey, mayo (Hellmanns/Best Foods only), butter/margarine, salt and pepper. Add a few potato chips. Bliss.
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without Arlo. And, via Jeralyn Merritt @ TalkLeft, here’s the backstory behind the song. Happy Thanksgiving, Everybody!
In Sunday’s 60 Minutes interview by Steve Kroft of Grover Norquist, Kroft missed an opportunity. He could have (and should have, in my view) asked a simple question: “Who the hell elected you to dictate American tax policy?” Of all the slimy things Norquist said in the course of that interview, this one gets my …
Tonight’s is number 11. Eleven! Something I’m wondering about, and I suspect a bunch of Republican strategists are also thinking about, is whether the huge number of debates before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary is going to skew the results of those two events. Both of them are places which put retail press-the-flesh …