"Those who dislike eggplant aren't missing much, nutritionally. It's kind of a filler food."
But ratatouille makes perfect diet food. If you have a big bowl of ratatouille before dinner I can promise you won't over-eat. I suppose that would go double for all the eggplant haters.
I have a coworker who won't eat eggplant or any other "night shade" vegtable because she says it causes inflamation in her joints, does this sound plausible to y'all?
Although I seem to have a good nose for most spices and flavours I cannot tell the difference between things with malt in them and the unmalted version. (Like malted milk shakes, or ovaltine which just tastes like chocolate milk to me.) I've always wondered if this was like the soapy cilantro gene. I do love cilantro, and rarely find anything too bitter. Isn't there a bitter broccoli gene too?
The sauce sounds great. You should write a cook book. Or have a special page where you collect all of the recipes you have posted at least.
There must be something in the air, after reading a fair chunk of Persepolis I decided to rent Hand Maid's Tale tonight (you know, just in case I wasn't feeling bleak enough.) Is this how the women of Iran felt in the 70's? That surely everyone will see what maddness this is? That surely my fellow citizens will not fall for these lies? We are taught to view all change as forward progress, but will it all just turn out to be some later cultures' dark age?
Gosh TNH, seems like you've been sick for ages. Feel better.
Don't ever fall asleep with a Fisherman's Friend stuck to the roof of your mouth, nor zinc lozenges. It causes the taste buds to malfunction for days.
Bah, I do know how to spell something. Not everything mind you...
I would like a miniature Scottish cow, you know, the furry ones that look like teddy bears? (They are called somthing else but I am blanking on it just now.) I can't really think of any small things I would like bigger, chinchillas maybe, but not too big or they would eat houses and light poles and generally chew the world up.
I vote yes on the book Teresa, I really enjoyed Making Book. I'm not even a writer and I find this interesting.
Although I totally believe that the vast majority of editors, the vast majority of the time, write their rejection letters with the best of intentions my husband did once get a rejection letter that was actively mean. The editor in question has since passed away, I wish I could have asked her what she was thinking. Found out later it was a form letter.
I am so glad I am a visual artist. To some extent you just have to please one person enough to buy one work. Then do it again. (Yes, I know that there are a million caveats to that, critics, convincing gallery owners and so on, but painting with a broad brush, as it were...)
I couldn't do it, wah, I love stuff like this. Ben thank you for the gracefull out, it's all that martial arts training, yeah.
Dan, very funny!
You all know about the standing in the door one? Where you press your arms out for 30 seconds and when you step out of the doorway your arms involuntarily rise?
A teacher friend of mine was grading sketch-books on a car trip and they got in an accident. She was injured a bit, spent time in the hospital, and eventually another teacher picked up the sketch books and handed them back to the kids. When she returned to class the kids all stared with wide eyes: the brownish stains on their sketch books had frightened them into good behavior. She didn't get around to explaining that she had been drinking cocoa until the good behavior wore off.
I occasionally get a sketch book that smells like an ashtray, I can't stand it! You are much more understanding than I Teresa.
Ahh, I see. I think you are right Lydia. I have often thought that although rape is primarily about aggression and control, it doesn't make sense that there is no componant of desire/sex on the part of the rapist. I find in the light of day that I don't care to dwell on it, but I do see what you mean.
I agree with what you said about Koresh too, I think the "he was sleeping with the girls" was an attempt by the government to justify the fact that they got in a chest-bumping match that they couldn't back down from.
And I do think that a parents' lense can distort the real pain of a sexually abused child. We don't imagine someone who severly wounds a hand spending the rest of their life struggling with complex psychological issues related to their hand, but it would not startle us at all if a someone who had been raped had sexual dysfunctions. I think society is getting smarter about it all, but we have a long way to go. An older aquaintance of mine was a victim of insest and never told anyone because she blamed herself. I hope that that is less likely today.
Interesting isn't it? The severe instinctual urge to protect kids? When I helped teach self defense classes we told mothers to react as if their child was with them, that they were after all someones child and deserved to be as protected as their own children. Anyway, thanks for the reasoned explination, I do see what you mean.
Lydia, although my gut was saying no, you almost had my head, but you lost me with the argument about sex and aggression. Sex is not about agression for me!
Is our society wierd about sex and youth? Probably. But I was that sixteen year old girl who thought I was in control and I was wrong. You can be sure my daughter will not have the freedom I did to be in relationships with men twice her age. Does that mean that I think the sexual / sensual / romantic feelings of youth are invalid? No, it means that I know that you can be in emotionally destructive relationships even when you think you are giving consent. What kind of message is it for a teenage girl to internalize that she has social value, attractiveness or worth because she is sexually available or desirable? I think that belief is inevitable when you are sexually active too young. Adults make those mistakes too, but adults have power from other sources than their sexuality, and adults have social networks and emotional resources that children do not. Adults have experiances to put their relationships in context.
You are right that there is a different kind of horror involved in sexual abuse as opposed to other kinds of physical abuse. Perhaps it's because something like one in four women has been raped (I see that statistic everywhere, no idea if it's valid) but how many people do you know who have been beaten? Or, perhaps sexuality is so precious and fragile that it seems more vulnerable than our physical bodies? Because sex can touch the body and the mind together in a way that so few other things can? I suspect the answer is more individual than general.
Anyway, I know you were arguing about the culture at large and not specific individuals, and it is certainly true that American culture has a love-hate relationship with the sexuality of children. (Image of Jon Benet in her lipstick and airbrushed dewy makeup flashing in my head.) I think this case is extra disturbing because of the violation of trust and protection by parents, who should fight to keep something like this from happening, not serve their children up on a platter. I feel the same level of shock about the boy whose mom duct taped him like a mummy and left him to choke on his own vomit. Or the adoptive mom who smothered her daughter in pillows as part of some rebirthing psychobabble. It is the betrayal of childish trust and faith in parents that makes it so horrible to me.
I don't have compassion at all for people who mistreat children. I can't even start to think of something like that happening to my babies, it raises my inner mother-bear. I would willing rend with my bare hands anyone who hurt my babies.
"I’m jealous of Doyle and Macdonald. They have an ermine living underneath the bookshelf in their kitchen. "
It is the very strangest thing, I am sitting at my computer listening to odd and quite distressed sounding squeeky animals in my walls and then I read that there are ermine in someones kitchen. I suspect my squeeks are nothing so interesting, mice probably. But really loud angry sounding mice.
Stalctites hang tight, stalagmites stand mighty on the ground.
What was the one for the planets? My Very Eager? Earnest? Mother? One of my fourth graders is making the coolest solar system pop-up book using the indicators of depth as if the solar system is a landscape. I could remember the planet order but not the mnemonic, how silly is that? (Scale is, of course, a bit of a problem in his book, but he made a lovely Jupiter!)
Sigh, like I said last April, we never get the really interesting fruit here. (In Minneapolis)
It is odd to me that there are so many new things out there, one gets to feeling jaded and that the whole world has been McBurgered to death. I still remember when kiwis became available, and the cherry tomatoes as someone said. Kind of gives you hope, no?
Citrus lust would make a fine theme for a vacation, make your way from New Zealand through micronesia and end up in Asia, hitting all the interesting citrus spots on the way.
Although perhaps I put my foot on my keyboard, since I don't seem to be able to type my own name. Must be bed time.
That said, I don't think I put my foot in my mouth, thank you very much. (Tone = very slight asperity.)
Jonathon, I wasn't trying to be snarky, I was startled. I don't by any means think poorly of romance, I just don't follow that field and I had no idea at all that there were inspirational romance novels. I will follow your links and read about them, (but I haven't yet) I still can't imagine what that would mean. What might inspirational science fiction mean? I am boggled.
I think I might have to start using that guy's colored text or wierd fonts to communicate tone in my posts. I appear to be unusually bad at it.
Buckaroo Banzai was a brilliant dumb movie! Ahh, I think I still have a crush on Perfect Tommy. I had a chance to buy the perfect Penny Pretty dress only in bottle green (!) and I thought it was too expensive. Two days later when I came to my senses it was gone. Sigh. By golly, I'm going to go watch Buckaroo Banzai right now. (Whatever happened to Peter Weller after robo-cop?)
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