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Musings Along Electric Avenue: RICE AND MEANS
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Saturday, September 11, 2010. People of means do not eat rice. Risotto is a rich person’s dish, the name dressed up as much as the simple kernel itself. Fifty pound bags of granular substance are reserved for second and third world countries. To make a meal of rice is so un-American, it is justified only by the accompaniment beans and maracas. Yet this snubbed food symbolizes home to me. Not because I am from a rice country, but because we didn’t have much. Labels: rice to riches. Disenthralled - Issue 4.
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Musings Along Electric Avenue: 51st State: Newest Mexico
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010. 51st State: Newest Mexico. In an age when illegal immigrants from Mexico aren’t deterred by barbed wire, gunfire, or Arizona’s legalized profiling, isn’t it time to redirect those millions of taxpayer dollars and invest them in a sure-fire plan? For a year’s budget that goes to fighting drugs in the U.S. that slip from in Mexico, it could be stopped permanently with one swift military action. Why haven’t we then? Without drug money and drug lord interference, North American ma...
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Musings Along Electric Avenue: Till Cold Feet Do Us Part
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Till Cold Feet Do Us Part. As an adult with a thermostat-regulated gas furnace, no wood to chop, and insulated walls, there is little need for this New England bedroom staple. But like warm cookies and hot chocolate, it is a comfort, a guilty pleasure. But unlike such American staples as Star Wars and Corvette, the original benefited from its update: the electric mattress pad. Labels: couple fight cold. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Disenthralled - Issue 4.
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Musings Along Electric Avenue: Russia Saves the Galaxy?
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Russia Saves the Galaxy? It wasn't too long ago that we were sure that Russia - the USSR, CCCP - would blow up the world. They beat us to space, we beat them at hockey. We raced to build arms with the foolish thought that if we had one more than them, they'd back down. In the end, they gave us their wall and we gave them denim. So what does a nation do that's been all but exiled from Earth? Russia's space agency just announced plans to attack a rogue asteroid, ala Armageddon.
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Musings Along Electric Avenue: Biggest Brothers
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Sunday, December 13, 2009. Is not meant to be watched in the dark, alone. It is soul marking and its enlightenment should be realized in the shadow of tree limbs splattered with tiny lights as the snow falls outside. Every Christmas I dust off my boxed set and pop it in. From its brilliant beginning, where David Schwimmer has his Glengarry Glen Ross moment, to the freeing of the camps, Band of Brothers. Before it got canned. Other great sightings: An unrecognizable Matthew Settle (before Gossip Girl.
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Musings Along Electric Avenue: September 2010
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Saturday, September 11, 2010. People of means do not eat rice. Risotto is a rich person’s dish, the name dressed up as much as the simple kernel itself. Fifty pound bags of granular substance are reserved for second and third world countries. To make a meal of rice is so un-American, it is justified only by the accompaniment beans and maracas. Yet this snubbed food symbolizes home to me. Not because I am from a rice country, but because we didn’t have much. Labels: rice to riches. Disenthralled - Issue 4.
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Musings Along Electric Avenue: June 2010
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Sunday, June 6, 2010. Now Hiring: Chief Executive Transponster. Today, job titles range from the obscure (the “Fandemonium Director” created by Monster.com) to the ambiguous (the “Happiness Engineers” that work at WordPress) to the hubristic (the self-applied “iCEO” title held by Steve Jobs). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Disenthralled - Issue 4. Boston Literary Magazine - Haiku. Boston Literary Magazine - poetry. Gloom Cupboard - fiction editor. Disenthralled - Issue 2. Disenthralled - Issue 1.
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Musings Along Electric Avenue: I pledge allegiance to . . . Hubba Bubba?
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Friday, February 26, 2010. I pledge allegiance to . . . Hubba Bubba? In typical American slacker fashion, Bode Miller chomped gum during the national anthem as he stood on the medal podium at the 2010 Olympics. The next day, his teammates paid dearly. Lindsey Vonn crashed hard and broke a bone, causing Julia Mancuso to be stopped mid-run. Her cursed second run went poorly. Hell hath no fury like a nation’s flag scorned. The Pledge of Allegiance isn’t said in most of our schools anymore. Only Wh...As for ...
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Musings Along Electric Avenue: Warning: Made in China
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Saturday, April 3, 2010. Warning: Made in China. What if you declare war and no one shows up to fight? That seems to be what China’s mulling over right now. Caught up in a made-up war over in the desert, we neglected to heed the call to arms that China issued nearly a decade ago. Why do we keep chalking up each attack to ineptitude when it’s obvious they’re trying to pick us off one by one – and succeeding? The latest bomb exploded in our housing sector, though it may have been the first one planted....
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Musings Along Electric Avenue: Lucy -- one year gone
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Thursday, November 26, 2009. Lucy - one year gone. She died on Thanksgiving. She was my friend. It was a cruel circle of life. I cleaned up after her as a puppy. And again as a senior when she couldn't hold her own. I helped her up stairs when she was too little and gangly to make it. And again when she was too old and arthritic. I crushed up her food before she had teeth. And again when they'd all fallen out. She died on Thanksgiving. And I was never more thankful. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
