Dinner musings
Linguica or Andouille? Scrambled or omelette? Frozen hash browns or home fries? Pepper strips or mushrooms or both? (Politics is depressing me this week.)
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
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Lost, Season 6, Episode 3
Oh boy. I thought this was billed as the season where answers began to come out. Hah. My questions in the extended entry. Meanwhile: Ryan’s take. Alan Sepinwall’s take. Entertainment Weekly’s take (not yet posted at 2115HST Tuesday night).
Down the drain
No, not the Democrats’ legislative agenda. Alcohol. We cleaned out the bottles and cans of material in our standalone bar. I watched as a dozen open half-empty bottles of wine, a bunch of jars of olives and onions (sell by date: 2005), and old canned sodas went down the kitchen sink. Memories could have been …
Heard on the radio
One of the local art house theaters is screening So Long at the Fair, probably because it stars Jean Simmons, who died recently. I’ve never seen the film, but the title made me think of this Bonnie Raitt song from 1976:
Oh When the Saints
Saints 31 – Colts 17. The crowd I was with decided that it wasn’t a really exciting game until the interception in the 4th quarter. The word we kept using was workmanlike. No big plays, no big turnovers, just solid play from both teams. Then Tracy Porter picked off a perhaps-ill-advised throw from Manning, took …
Super Bowl XLIV prediction
It will be a high-scoring affair. Head says Colts, heart says Saints.
Mmm, the tried and true
I’m taking my usual Super Bowl Crab Dip to the game tomorrow, and I’m taking along Ritz crackers. It occurred to me that if I really wanted to impress, I’d find some upscale crackers instead, but I guess I don’t care about impressions; I’m up for tasty. This may be why I occasionally like iceberg …
Roads I’d like to travel
The Karakoram Highway between Pakistan and China. There’s bus service! Map. Pictures taken by a Finnish tourist in 2005-2006. Google Images.
Shelby’s pork as payoff?
It sure looks that way. The unusual ?blanket hold? placed on Obama administration nominees by Senator Richard Shelby, represents an effort to support a firm that has contributed more than $100,000 to the Alabama Republican over the course of his long political career, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis. Shelby reportedly initiated the …