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cheveux sable with earworm rampant's LiveJournal:
| Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | |
| 12:09 pm | the news depresses me i know that there are a lot of people who have found comfort and inspiration therein, but i find myself thinking that the bible has done more damage than almost any other substance in existence. i'm reading a story in the NYTimes where people are citing the bible's admonitions about not intermarrying and "creating another breed" as reasons to not vote for obama even as they say that a candidate's skin color holds no importance for them. there's so much wrong there that i can't even start. i don't really have time to flesh this out right now, but things like this make me profoundly unhappy. here's the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/us/po but it's not just that article, it's a million things about this race and politics in this country and how we move through the world and the history of the world and the way we treat each other and the way the bible is used as justification for how we treat each other. i have a really strong spiritual life and love my communities, including the ones with strong connections to religions that are not my own. i'm perfectly open to the statement that the bible is being misused in so many of these instances, but the observation stands that it *has* been used in that way and that the damage occurred and keeps on occurring. |
| Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | |
| 9:22 am | i do these things so that you don't have to, #358 safeway thin wheat crackers do NOT taste the same as nabisco wheat thins. they're much sweeter. |
| Sunday, October 12th, 2008 | |
| 2:04 pm | thank god i got that college degree i'm still trying to burn that rehearsal CD for the car. the things i'm having to do to get realplayer to do this the way i want it to...well, actually, let's make sure that it actually does wind up doing what i want it to before we have this conversation. what a cranky cranky piece of software. |
| 10:49 am | reason #457 that i love my family my dad's been out canvassing for obama in ohio. |
| Saturday, October 11th, 2008 | |
| 12:34 pm | also realplayer is having an incredibly pissy morning, even for it, and it's usually pretty aggravating. (i am trying to create a rehearsal CD for the car since i have not gotten a jump on getting a tape player for it and you would think i was trying to do brain surgery. no, brain surgery would be easier because i could just wade in there with a saw.) |
| 12:26 pm | an observation and an invention it is amazing how many fewer three is than four. i had four iced tea glasses (that is, taller glasses that hold more liquid). i broke one in the great cold-liquid-into-hot-from-the-dishwasher-g i have an experiment in the oven. i put penzey's rogan josh seasoning into half a cup of flour, dredged chicken in it, fried until golden, then put into the oven to finish. i'm hoping the flour will lessen the impact of the cayenne in the seasoning. anyway, that should make for good lunches all week. it smells fabulous. |
| Friday, October 10th, 2008 | |
| 2:40 pm | Connecticut legalizes same-sex marriage wow: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/10/connec |
| Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | |
| 12:58 pm | well i guess they were a good investment i've had this pair of shoes for six years, too. (again this exciting fact was gleaned from reading an old post where i refer to them.) |
| 12:10 pm | did someone say tenacious? i was reading an old LJ entry and realized that i started thinking about replacing my 93 corolla wagon at least in 2002. (i just finally replaced it this year.) wow, i really moved quickly on that one. |
| 10:17 am | about the new year i was away for rosh hashanah so i didn't have my usual observance--i'll do that this weekend. every year i listen to the bloch sacred service (i've linked to the recording i actually have, there) in ... not quite celebration, but acknowledgement of this point in the cycle of the year. tonight i'll observe the end of yom kippur (which i am not otherwise observing) by going and singing shapenote songs. this seems more fitting than a lot of things i could be doing--singing and community. the past year has been hard for so many people i know and love. many people are going through hard things right now. the world has so many troubled places. may the new year be sweeter for all of us. |
| Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 | |
| 3:22 pm | and while i'm posting links this is a review by roger ebert of a documentary called I.O.U.S.A.: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbc i really want to see this--i hadn't heard of it before. has anyone seen it? |
| 2:15 pm | shapenote article here's a pretty good article about shapenote singing for all of you who have been wondering what the heck i'm talking about and haven't been around long enough to get one of my explanations: http://www.savannahmagazine.com/article the fellow standing in the middle in the picture is actually a chicago singer who comes and sings with the hyde park group every thursday. (btw, that article was illegible in netscape 7.2 but fine in IE--i don't have opera or firefox on this machine to test them but if you can't read it, try a different browser.) |
| Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 | |
| 1:58 pm | a frustrated michigan turns to the vibrator [13:51] mort: woah http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanm [13:52] tim: jiminy! [13:56] lisa: when you're that old, sometimes you have to pull out early |
| Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 | |
| 5:44 pm | a luscious treat and no this is not a food post. first off--let me just mention that my computer connection here is cranky as heck, so when i do manage to get a few minutes to read or post, it's very labor intensive. so i'm mostly skipping comments and links and other fripperies. anyway, i finished margaret atwood's the blind assassin today. my god i love her writing. she doesn't write in a self-conscious "look at me, i'm a writer!" way, but she writes so well. this book was beautifully constructed and interwoven. as with several of her books, she moves back and forth between the present and the past. in this case there are two narratives dealing with the past (three if you count the newspaper clippings). someone in the present is telling us about the present but also the past, but also we are reading a book written by one of the characters and published long ago called _the blind assassin_--and within that book is a science-fiction/fantasy narrative that one of the characters is telling to another. if that all sounds complicated--she carries it off brilliantly. i loved this book but also i loved reading this book, if that makes sense? i don't want to spoil it for other readers but i'd love to hear what other people thought of it, if they've read it. i own it in hardcover but i got this trade paper copy from the library and brought it with me--it's 500 pages which seemed like a lot of hardcover to lug on the plane. i'm so glad i finally read it. there's a lesson here about just waiting for the paperback if the size is going to be a barrier to ever reading it, rather than getting books right when they are published in hardcover. |
| Friday, September 26th, 2008 | |
| 1:45 pm | possibly not a good sign i'm getting used to the taste of these weird-tasting british cough drops. |
| Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 | |
| 10:27 pm | just a few words about the white sox on the one hand, no one expected them to do anything this year. on the other hand, if they remain in first place for most of the season only to blow it during the last few games---AUGHHHHH!!!!! on the third hand, at least the cubs are in. and i root for the cubs...unless they are playing the white sox. i know a red line* series was and is unlikely, but OMG, what fun if it would ever happen. *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Li (the cubs are at the addison stop on that line, and the sox are at Sox-35th, oddly enough.) |
| Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 | |
| 12:56 pm | one quick thought it's international celebrate bisexuality day. and my first thought was that for me, it is still the case that what makes me bisexual was adding men to the mix. (i have a tiny peeve that people use the question "how did you know you were bisexual" to mean "how did you know you liked members of the same sex.") anyway, my celebration will have to wait until the end of the week. but have my festive milkshake icon to celebrate with. |
| Sunday, September 21st, 2008 | |
| 7:51 pm | let's brainstorm i used a spice mix from penzeys called "rogan josh" spice mix to make some potatoes today. it had too much cayenne in it for me. it occurs to me that i could add something(s) to it to sort of distribute the amount of cayenne over more spice mix, if you see what i mean. the description says: Hand-mixed from: paprika, garlic, ginger, cumin, coriander, black pepper, cayenne pepper, Korintje cassia cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and saffron. what would you add more of to sort of counterbalance the cayenne? |
| Saturday, September 20th, 2008 | |
| 2:58 pm | raise your hands if you didn't see this coming i made a quiche this morning--starting with my usual spinach and onion quiche recipe. today's modification: seasonings were a tablespoon of penzey's sweet curry powder and a tablespoon of cumin. OMG, so good. |
| 10:13 am | random notes from breakfast frizzled kosher bologna slices curve up into little yarmulkes as they heat. this amuses me greatly for some reason. (this was my third try at breakfast ideas--the first two resulted in discoveries that i had food that needed to be thrown out. i really need to not buy certain things in bulk--it's not a cost savings if you throw some of it out.) dr. pepper has changed their formula or different bottling plants have different formulas, or i got ahold of a bad case or something (this is a pack i purchased in ohio when i visited there). it's not that it's old, it's their newest package design. but it's like cough syrup--just about undrinkable to me. i happen to have a coupon for a free 12 pack so i'll get a case of the new package here to make sure that it's not a local-to-ohio problem, but if that one tastes like this one, you all can plan your lives accordingly--i'll be off the dr. pepper bandwagon. |
| Thursday, September 18th, 2008 | |
| 11:09 pm | okay, now i have a camera we'll see if i can figure out how to upload this picture. and trust me, no one can accuse me of trying to make myself look more glamourous--i look like i've been sick for a week...funny, that.  |
| 11:41 am | i am not a camera? am i the only person on LJ who doesn't have a picture-taking device anywhere near me when these picture-taking memes come around? |
| Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 | |
| 10:45 am | not my poll ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} minnehaha is trying to figure out if there really are very few undecided voters or if it's just their friendslist, so they've asked other people to spread the poll to their friendslists and invite other people to link to it as well to get a broader sample.therefore, for your dining and polling pleasure: http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=125 (there is an "i do not have voting rights in the US" option, for those non-USAans who want to stand up and be counted.) |
| Monday, September 15th, 2008 | |
| 9:50 pm | shocking expose' apparently penzeys puts crack cocaine into their curry powder. ever since i tried it on chicken yesterday, i'm adding it to everything that doesn't run away fast enough. maybe i'll try making an apple pie and see what it tastes like in that. |
| Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 | |
| 11:37 pm | tore myself away to type how does anyone manage to sleep once they have started to read jo walton's book, Farthing? |
| Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | |
| 8:52 am | one survey question answered 21) Looking back [to 1998], are you where you thought you would be in 2008? hahahahahahaha. if you had paid me a million dollars, i never would have guessed in 1998 that some parts of my life would be the way they are in 2008. i mean shapenote singing? who could have seen that coming? |
| Sunday, August 24th, 2008 | |
| 10:03 am | we're getting the band back together a locked friendslist post has reminded me of a question i had for surelars but maybe it would be interesting for others of you, as well.if you were trying to assemble the best rock band of all time, who would you have in each role? singer, lead guitar, bass, keyboards, drums--it's okay with me if you want to put someone on maracas or the triangle or have a sax. how would you fill out that group? you can decide if you want to be influenced by how they would all work together--how they would blend--answer this question the way it interests you the most.l btw, part of why i wanted to ask lars is because i can't answer this question--not because there are so many choices that i am overwhelmed, but because i can't really speak to most of the musicianship of most groups. lars has really had a strong influence on the way i listen to rock music--before it was all about the singers and the songwriting and did i like to sing their stuff? i could occasionally hear when something was really good or really dreadful but mostly it was a wash. now he has me paying attention to all sorts of other details, but i'm really just beginning to listen that way--i'm sure not ready to flaunt an opinion on most of it over the internet. |
| Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 | |
| 11:54 pm | something i learned tonight (sorry, very USA-oriented): costco makes really good brownies. maybe more later. v. v. tired. |
| 6:26 pm | one survey question continuing my tradition of answering one survey question when a survey makes the rounds: 50. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up this morning? "why the hell am i awake when it's twenty to six?" |
| Monday, August 18th, 2008 | |
| 12:23 pm | one question from a survey 29. Do you wish on stars? i wish *for* stars. (some of my greatest memories are of skies full of stars in the arizona desert north of tucson and the karoo desert in south africa.) |