Tried the nectarine salad. Haven't really had a chance to feed it to anyone but me. Love it, though.
Love it even more with a light splash of soy sauce.
What a wonderful thread! Thank you, thank you all - I may have to try out one of these recipes to bring to the BBQ Sunday afternoon!
Madeline:
I had a terrible time trying to hang a Sky chair once. A long line of 3/16 holes stitched the ceiling. Wires went up, twirled, hit nothing but studless lumps. Tapping demonstrated only that the plaster varied in density. Was it just that the ceiling floated, supported only by lath? Surely such a thing could not be!
Did you ever succeed at this endeavor? If so, how? I would very much like to hang my Sky Chair inside (rather than roll it up and stuff it in a closet) when the weather outside makes sitting on the balcony unpleasant. But so far I haven't dared, fearing results much as you mention. I'm living in a fairly recent (70s i think) condominium unit, so things ought to be to some sort of standard...
Mris:
I also had many that made reference to getting out of California. Go figure. I haven't noticed a similar trend for NY songs. It's just California people sing about fleeing, mostly.
I don't know if one song constitutes a trend, but there's always Jim Croce's "New York's Not My Home"...
"Although the streets are crowded
There's something strange about it
Lived here 'bout a year and I never once felt at home
Thought I'd make the big time,
I learned a lot of lessons awful quick, and now I'm telling you
That they were not the nice kind
It's been so long since I have felt fine
"That's the reason that I gotta get out of here
I'm so alone
Don't you know that I gotta get out of here
'cause New York's not my home"
Going from memory here, of course, so there may be some typos, inaccuracies, or just plain made-up shtuff.
And of course, on a related tangent, there's Neil Diamond's "I Am I Said": "L.A.'s fine, but it ain't home / New York's home but it ain't mine no more."
Oh, hey. RASFF related, maybe sorta kinda. Here's a story about something that ought to be science fiction, but increasingly turns out to be fact. I suppose I had better be careful which WIP that I take on my flight to Medford come August. Do we have this sort of trouble on trains now, too?
Congratulations! You were due some good news.
Xopher: Whul, yeah, I ackcherly knew that about the rum'n all really, but I was being sloppy. Sorry there. What I meant was, I feel more comfortable with the nature of Ganesha (as I understand Him) than I do with that of Legba, most the time.
xeger, re: St. Anthony v. St. Jude - depends on exactly how lost a cause getting that lost object back seems to be, I'd think...
Teresa, Patrick: much love and wishes for strong backs and no lost objects. I am four years past my last move, and am still recovering. I may, in fact, never recover until I finally discover what happened in that move to my box of adoption papers, including the actual notarized decree from the judge which Mom may never forgive me for misplacing, and my surplus stack of "Rush Is A Band, Dammit" bumper stickers.
Xopher et al: love the information about Ganesha. I'm not so sure I'd feel comfortable substituting Legba in that equation; he always feels a little tricksy to me. Perhaps I need a better sense of humor.
Rereading my first paragraph, I suppose St. Anthony would be a useful addition to the moving-house shrine.
Xopher et al, redux: I always thought "one" wasn't actually a pronoun, and therefore wasn't an exception to the rule... shows what *I* know, doesn't it?
Antukin, if I were drinking coffee at this moment, you'd owe me a keyboard for reckless presentation of hysterical links.
(Of course, for me, The Professor is the obvious choice for Gandalf. Mojo would have to be Saruman, especially during the temptation-from-the-tower scene after the Ents - played by The People Of Townsville, with the Mayor as Treebeard - open up their can of whoopass.)
((Gods, I hope I got all those names right. I'm a relative newcomer to LOTR.))
...when all hell breaks loose if a Republican breaks one of the so-called "laws", but the Dems get a free pass on everything from perjury to obstruction of justice.
*boggle* When did we get to Bizzaro World, and how much are the souvenir key rings?
Quoth Teresa,
If this guy who got evicted from your board left behind cronies who sang the "You're Repressing Me" anthem on his behalf, my estimate is that he should have been kicked out a lot earlier than he was.
Your estimate is 100% correct, but it should be said that the previous moderator acted from a saintly generosity with benefit of the doubt. I do admire her for that. Me, I'd have kicked him out too soon to be able to convincingly defend myself against the choiristers.
He was often heard to talk, laughingly, about the conversations that got him evicted elsewhere. He didn't seem able to recognize himself as the connecting thread between all of his getting-kicked-off-mailing-lists experiences. I suspect that's a common symptom too.
A belated thank you for your thoughtful expounding on this particular conversation-killer. I'm a bit erratic with my daily reading, and would hate to leave the impression of posting and then rudely disappearing. All the best to you!
If the movie had cared to spell out a justification of Harry's undercover Maxima Lumos spell (or whatever the faux Latin was), they might have made the distinction between practicing school lessons and practical joking. They didn't, but I pretended they had done for the sake of getting on with the rest of the movie. Go me.
I save most of my ire for this little issue: The movie entirely skipped the revelation, and significance thereof, of the names on the Marauder's Map! Sad, sad sad sad.
But that's my only serious objection. Otherwise, they made some stunningly gutsy decisions about what to cut and what to keep, and a lot of it, IMO, worked. And the little visual reminders of the importance of time (pendulum and clocks), and the lovely little seasonal segues, made me very happy. It's like the new director came in and said, "All right. This is a movie. Remember movies? We're actually going to make this a movie and not just a series of illustrations for the book."
Dolloch - thank you, thank you, thank you! I hadn't known about the movie remake. Did some googles and found the official website-in-development.
I love that they're casting some of the original voice actors, but what confuses me is the decision to have Mia Farrow, the voice of the unicorn in 1982, switch to the role of Molly Grue in 2005. Maybe it has to do with switching from animation to live-action, making an actor's appearance as important as her voice (maybe Farrow looks more like a Molly than an Amalthea?), but I can't help but think that it's going to sound kind of weird.
Can't complain though! Very, very much looking forward to the film.
Quoth Teresa,
...you appear to believe your role here is to lecture your fellow sophonts, but not to listen to them or learn from them. In the exercise of this role you've assumed, you've been neither accurate, nor pleasant, nor amusing, nor observant, nor well-informed, nor helpful.
My guess is that you're going to think your daring and unpopular political views are the reason that what's about to happen to you is about to happen. They aren't.
...Wow. I wish I'd had that to say to a certain someone on a local mailing list I moderate, before the previous moderator evicted him. He and his cronies were very fond of deflecting criticism of their needlessly caustic rhetoric by screeching about intolerance for disparate viewpoints. Your words here would have been the perfect rebuke.
Not that it would have convinced him, but it would have made me feel better, dammit! (And maybe it would have quashed some of the cronies' responses to news of his eviction.)
Permission to quote in full if another situation arises? With due credit and links given? Pretty please?
Gods, what a fun thread. It makes my head throw off random bits and quarks.
All I remember of Electric Company is being mildly horrified by it, and fascinated by the horror. Maybe because it was so loud... Sad thing is, I'm older than some of y'all what've been gleefully reminiscing about it.
Square One! Mathnet!!! "My name is Thursday. I'm a mathematician." Bum-bum-bum!!!! Only it's been a few (!) years so I may have got that wrong. I got such a kick out of little Mathman. "Mathman! Mathman! Mathman!" You know, I think he was a Pokemon before there were Pokemon.
Of course my brother had all the He-Man dolls, and I had the She-Ra ones. When friends came over, we had to go steal my brother's toys to have a complete Etheria/Eternia crossover.
The thing about The Last Unicorn, the movie, was that it tried to be TOO true to the book. I remember when I finally read it being astounded at how much dialogue was taken word-for-word and sometimes simply lopped off mid-sentence to appease the Great God of Limited Amounts of Time. (Were they to make the movie today, it would prolly be a good 2.5 hours long because what with Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings we're getting used to numb cinema asses. :-)
eh. that's all until the next random quark fires. What a welcome break from all the bad news in the world this is.
Says Calimac,
Lis Carey: "Having genuine, significant, positive accomplishments as president in addition to the negative accomplishments does make someone a better President than someone who only has the negative 'accomplishments' to offer."
No. Goodness in one realm does not ameliorate badness in another. It would be both craven, and irrelevant, to respond to denunciations of Vietnam by saying "Yeah, but Johnson also passed the Civil Rights Act." He did, and the Civil Rights Act was a Good Thing, but it doesn't make Vietnam one whit less bad, and that's what makes the argument irrelevant.
I think there's some cross-talk going on here. Seems like Lis Carey is speaking of evaluating a President's entire term, not any one particular act.
If you're weighing Presidential badness so you can say "Prez A was a worse President than Prez B," you can calculate the ratio of bad stuff to good stuff attributable to each President to arrive at a basis for comparison. A Prez that did only bad stuff will have a higher ratio (and thus a worse ranking) than a Prez that did good and bad stuff. From that perspective, the good acts do mitigate the effect that the bad acts have on a Prez's overall record.
But I don't think Lis or anyone else here in Making Light is arguing that the good acts actually make the bad acts less bad.
Regarding where to find articulate conservative blogs and columnists: I know Orson Scott Card has made himself extra-unpopular lately, but I still like his columns at http://www.hatrack.com and http://www.ornery.org/ (where other people also post.) I read them for just this reason: to get insight into positions that I (mostly) disagree with.
Thanks for the link - His latest column is as well-written and thought-provoking as I could hope, much as I might disagree with him.
But is anyone else a little turned off by conservative columnists who refer to "The Left" as one big homogenous political entity? It may just be semantics, but as soon as I see it, my Grain-O-Saltmeter goes up a few ticks and my Straw Man Detector starts beeping. It seems a better strategy to refer to actual people that hold the opinions one is arguing against, even if all one can say is "Many liberal commentators have said..." rather than posit this imaginary nebulous unified Thing.
(Yes, I'm equally turned off by liberal columnists who refer to "The Right" as though it were one homogenous boogey man, too.)
Wow. Thanks for all the enlightening chatter about the Narnia books - I recall doing a bit of Googling, but not finding anything helpful.
It was really interesting to hear about all the Norse mythology inserted in the American versions. I didn't remember the other references at all; all I knew was that at the time it made sense to me that the wolf's name was Fenris, and I resented having it changed on me. (And, yes, I ought to have said "figure from Norse mythology" rather than "from the Norse pantheon", but at least I didn't say, "one of the Aesir" and REALLY put my foot in my mouth, right?).
I think it helped that I read the books as a child incapable of taking anything less than literally. So I had no idea that it was all a Christian allegory, not even when I got to the clue-by-four-to-the-head scene at the end of _Voyage of the Dawn Treader_ where Aslan briefly turns into a lamb. I was just that clueless. So coming back to it later, the allegory never got in the way; every later reading had the all the exciting colors of the first one superimposed over it.
Some of the Christian references I came to find interesting for what they seemed to imply about Lewis's own beliefs - the conversation between Aslan and the Calormene soldier, for instance, where deeds done in the name of Tash are discussed. One of these days I really need to do some extensive reading of Lewis's religious writings and what his contemporaries wrote about him.
Hi there, this is a newbie post and all that. OK.
Speaking of abridgements and the like, here's something that's been bothering me.
The renumbering of the seven books of Narnia, such that _The Magician's Nephew_ is presented first instead of sixth in these new boxes.
I had to replace my old copies that Mom bought me in the very early '80s; they sustained extensive water damage from the careless placement of a drippy houseplant. Picked up the colorful new boxes with the original artwork on the covers, and was astounded to see the tales presented in Strict Chronological Order According To The History Of Narnia rather than in the narrative order I was used to. Astounded further to read the claim on the copyright page that this is according to the author's original wishes.
Is this true? Have I just been duped by an *earlier* abridgement, and am now disgruntled that they are returning to the original order?
Or is it *not* just my imagination that the narration in _The Magician's Nephew_ actually makes reference to _The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe_, such that it wouldn't make sense to read _Magician_ first?
I think they changed some names on us, too - I could swear the captain of the secret police in _Lion_ used to be named after a prominent figure in Norse mythology, and now he's not.
So, at the risk of being horribly wrong about what's right, does anyone know the actual scoop on this? Y'all being literary types, I'd trust you.
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