“ARE YOU F-ING KIDDING ME? THAT WAS EXCESSIVE CELEBRATION? UNSPORTSMAN-LIKE CONDUCT?” I am not an LSU fan. I am certainly not a fan of That School Up North. BUT ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Two calls in a row?? Let’s just play tiddlywinks. Neither of those two calls was justified. Please note my formal protest against
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“Mom?” “Mom? Where’s that deer skull?” “Ummm… . In that chest in the foyer.” Right side. Top shelf. Because, like, doesn’t everyone have a deer skull in a chest in the foyer? The steer mandible is in the garage near the Area 51 rock. The goat skull is on top of one set of encyclopedias– I
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Miss M and I really did go to Our State Capital the other day, but we didn’t stay. Daughter C and Mr. Big Food really did go to Hotlanta. Oh! What stories they brought home. (They showered upon their return, ensuring that stories were the only things they brought home.) But that was last week.
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Life is pretty amazing, isn’t it? On any given day in May, June, July, August, September or October the ambient air temperature can be 98 °F or greater in Mississippi. Take a look at these 48 data points. Consider different pairs of monthly high & low records: -5 & 85 (Jan.); 54 & 107 (August).
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Miss M & I are headed to Our State Capital day after tomorrow. So much to think about. What books to take in the Traveling Library? How much canned Canada Dry can we reasonably transport? I never did order that quick one cup little traveling coffee maker… how to improvise such that I have coffee
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Ro*Tel Baked Macaroni & Cheese Ha ha ha haha. You thought I was going talk about college football, didn’t you? I’ve tabulated the results after three games entrees and the polls results for The Fall ’14 Macaroni & Cheese Contest are in! Vegetable Macaroni & Cheese is in the lead with two #1 votes. Ro*Tel is #2
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You know what’s more odd than the Ole Miss vs. A&M and the State vs. Auburn scores? The sound bar arrived today while Mr. Big Food & I were at the game. I coaxed Daughter C into hooking it up after I hooked it up after we had supper after we got back from the
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Via Instapundit at Business Insider a “Beautiful Visualization Of Nobel Prizes By Country Since 1901. It is beautiful, isn’t it?Suggestions for further reading:Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Edward R. Tufte. Graphic Press, Cheshire, Connecticut. 1997.Sign, Image, Symbol. Gyorgy Kepes, ed. George Braziller, New York. 1966.The Great Books Foundation Set One Volume Four: Aristotle, The Federalist
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3. Lies. 4. Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (E.S.P.N. dadadada). PART 3 WALMART LIES Until 5pm this afternoon, FedEx tracking had my order arriving today. Who were they kidding? Hutchens, TX is 8 hours from here. It’s not arriving tomorrow, either. We all know that. Tomorrow is Game Day. Ain’t nobody gonna be driving a
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From a crappy old book. I’m on a mission to catalog 365 Things I Am Tired Of Which I am Tired. In the interest of positive thinking, I thought I should counter with a year’s worth of things that tickled me to no end. This illustration from a 1933 edition of The Pilgrim’s Progress is #1.
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Cherry Dumplings topped with cinnamon sugar Before we go to the recipe, I’d like to say a word or two about ‘Dumpling Culture‘. Dumpling Culture refers to the crappy old times in which folks ate a lot of dumplings– usually with sauce or gravy. I will not say that those were simpler times because making dumplings
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Just add cinnamon sugar See? I am trying. I may remind one & all that I am not the only one who has admin posting privileges.
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As I mentioned, we’re having a contest: The Fall ’14 Macaroni & Cheese Contest.Some time ago Mr. Big Food made a Mac & Cheese dish and I asked how many Mac & Cheese recipes he had. He didn’t know for sure but guessed about 70 or 80. What an exaggeration! He got to counting and
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Don’t get too excited. I know ‘Fresh Air’ is a ® of NPR– your tax dollars at work. But dammit. Fresh Air belongs to all of us! All I have to do is prop open one door, and then another, and then bingo bambo… This happens every Spring and Fall. It’s better outside than
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I found this quite odd. Frans Hals, Descartes From page 208 of Civilisation by Kenneth Clark (1969). Civilisation was a BBC series. It spun a book. I don’t have time to critique the crappy old book in the full measure with which it is due since it’s late and we’re under a tornado watch so I’m
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The Lost Summer began mid-May. Between then and now– i.e., during those four and one-half months– I added 207 crappy old books to my library. That’s one and one-half books per day!* Some came from my old haunts, others from a new crappy old bookstore I found in Jackson, still others from the Neuroscience & Anatomy
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In no particular order of Importance, Relevance to Life, or Linear Time Lines (we qualified for a ‘free’ Direct TV upgrade; I can now watch Daughter C’s recorded episodes of Dr. Who over & over again as I dust), I am tired of 1. Not blogging –and– 2. Dust It is dry and there is
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