I'm still worrying about the poor sweet little muskrats, unwilling immigrants, brought on slave ships to the east, to live lives of misery, cultivated only for the skins on their backs, having escaped their preordained fates, only to be classified as vermin, and to listed under dikes and paths, not under the more appropriate, the kinder, plants and animals. Who will speak for them?
"like someone being strangled while suffering from a catarrh-ravaged chest cold."
"and sounds rather like a man trying to gargle whilst fighting off a pack of wolves."
"it sounds like she is trying to get hork up a hairball."
"and mistake it for a revving motorbike on the road behind the house."
You have the beginnings of an excellent Dutch pronunciation guide here.
"You don’t start finding people who think GTMO is a good idea until you’re a couple of miles to the right of the center. " These days, we call those people socialist-appeasing liberals. You have to go a few more miles to the right to find the Centrists. The rightists are called real Americans.
It's the age of the new language!
Bruce @35 (if someone else answered this I didn't see, I scrolled from there fairly quickly) The New York Times map has a zoom to county feature for Pres., Senate, House and Governor giving vote breakdown as reported.
Nate Silver has projected Obama as the winner.
BWV 115,
Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit
Get thyself, my soul, prepared
As a young one, I loved Brahms, nowadays I'd as like pass entirely over the 19th C to explore more of the byways of the 20th and later C's, although my heart is tied firmly to the pre-19th, the further back often the better.
@#13 I am on a mighty quest for keyboard shortcuts. Many are available by a simple googling of "keyboard shortcuts" no matter the op sys.
Very nice. The one here reminds me of Paul Madonna's great All Over Coffee in the SF Chronicle
That sounds wonderful--I like the copy editor-recipe-detailing. You can make preserved lemons yourself and they are vastly better than the most of the commercial ones. Lemons+ lemon juice to cover, with the lemons quartered but not cut through - so that the quartered pieces remain in one whole piece. Put a stick of cinnamon, a few cloves and whatever else strikes your fancy - maybe some garlic, Kosher salt in a glass jar. It takes a few weeks to cure and they are to die for, with a great and sweet perfume. This is from memory but it came from Paula Wolfert's great Moroccan cooking book, Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco.
The trick may be to follow the advice in the (actual) recipes given above, but to start with unroasted cashews, so that you have some oil in the nuts to work with
make that Macdonald food item
I begin to be alarmed to see a third McDonald food item in just a few days. Don't give up your day job; very nice, thank you; can you say something about opening jars? Or how to be safe doing something or other - but thanks for the recipe
For the most English of English composers, I'd vote for Henry Purcell myself
I dunno if Peter Jackson's Gravity Rainbow trilogy will ever come up to the level of Ridley Scott's version.
4 jobs: press room killout boy, picture framer, religious studies instructor, electrician
4 movies: The Third Man, Children of Paradise, Wings of Desire, One Eyed Jacks
4 Places: Jerusalem, Stillwater, OK, San Francisco, Tucson
4 TV shows -no TV so add Apocalypse Now, The Grand Illusion, La Strada, The Sheltering Sky to movies (is this cheating?)
4 vacations: Turkish Mediterranean coast, 4 corners, Humboldt County Ca, Big Sur
4 websites: Crooked Timber, Hilzoy&Katherine, NYTimes, SFGate
4 foods: roast chicken, any lamb, dry salami w/olives; fresh local tomatoes
4 places: Istanbul, South Island New Zealand, British countryside, Tuscany
I did sort of wonder at what arrangements they might have made with the city for cleanup.
Leah- your anecdote probably refers to Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mostly self-taught Indian mathematician who I think worked in number theory. Before his 'discovery' by western mathematicians (to one of whom he had written) he reproved a number of well-known theorems which he did not know had already been settled. Biography easily found on web.
of course the verse may merely refer to the southern grasshopper mouse: "The Southern Grasshopper Mouse, like its relatives, is primarily nocturnal and is active throughout the year. The home range of the male extends up to 8 acres (3.2 ha), an unusually large area for a small rodent. Although this species eats small amounts of seeds, its diet consists almost entirely of animal material: scorpions, beetles, grasshoppers, and other small mammals, especially harvest and pocket mice. Like the large carnivores, grasshopper mice have developed efficient strategies for dispatching prey. When capturing certain beetles that produce a defensive secretion from the back of the abdomen, grasshopper mice hold the beetles in their forepaws and jam the abdomen into the sand to avoid the secretion. They kill small mammals with a bite through the back of the neck. Before killing scorpions, they immobilize the deadly tail. The Southern Grasshopper Mouse either digs its own burrow or appropriates the burrow of another small mammal. The social unit includes one pair and its offspring per burrow system. The male and female both actively care for the young, although the male is excluded from the nest by the female for the first three days after birth. The highly territorial male employs a high-pitched, wolf-like call to ward off other males."
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