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Bright Splinters: Notes from Reality Hunger – Queso Confessions
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Bright Splinters: Notes from Reality Hunger. May 13, 2016: I’m starving. I order Bakery Lorraine’s Kale Caesar Salad and a salted caramel and chocolate tart to-go. Next door at the Twig, I buy Reality Hunger. By David Shields. It’s a manifesto for a new style of writing, the anti-novel, more like a collage, which is reflective of today’s world. He lists his thoughts and ideas in numbers. 8220;It’s always the procedures where they’re not supposed to be worried about anything happening,” ...May 19, 2016: I...
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Only Pasta – Queso Confessions
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Mama Olga fashions a bowl from a simple mound of flour on the counter. I’m watching her out of the corner of my eye while listening to Gianluca. He’s trying to translate but taking four times longer to do it. She invites me to knead. I take over, delighted to try out my bread-making prowess. Can pasta dough get overworked, like bread dough? Molto di pui che. This fancy hotel’s demo kitchen is its own exposition of ridiculousness and excess, a building unto itself with brand-new oversized sparkling shiny ...
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Chicken Tinga – Queso Confessions
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Everybody in our family loves Urban Taco’s chicken tinga. This comes close…. 1 chicken, roasted. 2 pints cherry tomatoes (or any size–I use the cherry ones for their flavor). 1 onion, chopped. 2 cloves peeled garlic. 4 T chipotle paste (or chipotles in adobo, stemmed and seeded). 1 c or more of chicken broth. Tortillas or lettuce leaves for wraps. June 26, 2016. September 11, 2016. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Sorry, your blo...
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Life Confessions – Queso Confessions
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The Care and Feeding of Longhaired Dachshunds: A User’s Manual. February 2, 2017. February 2, 2017. Don’t wander into your husband’s office weeks before your birthday and discover printouts of longhaired dachshunds on his desk. It’s supposed to be a surprise. Make … Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Longhaired Dachshunds: A User’s Manual. January 15, 2017. January 15, 2017. September 16, 2016. Listening for the Lotus. September 8, 2016. September 12, 2016. September 2, 2016. September 2, 2016.
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Agnes Martin’s Retrospective at the Guggenheim, December, 2016 – Queso Confessions
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Agnes Martin’s Retrospective at the Guggenheim, December, 2016. One of the first encounters on the journey upwards is a room that contains her white paintings,. 1979) They are all 72 square and of the same palette, white with very subtle bands of light blue and graphite demarcations that serve to divide the paintings into geometric permutations of widening bands, both horizontal and vertical. People were walking in front of me and blocking my view. They were positioning her paintings in their iPhones...
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Beyond the Rainbow – Queso Confessions
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Gets mentioned, a story so preposterous, it’s bound to be the stuff of urban legend. Our own, south Texas version takes place in the woods behind the baseball fields. Because I have two older daughters, I feel inoculated from these horror stories. My daughters and I–. Peggy Orenstein’s book helped me pull my head out of the sand. I didn’t understand the immensity of cultural change between my teen years and theirs, despite obvious intonations from songs like Pitbull’s. I thought it was just like that.
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December 2016 – Queso Confessions
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Agnes Martin’s Retrospective at the Guggenheim, December, 2016. December 6, 2016. December 6, 2016. I could do that….Yeah, but you didn’t! Continue reading Agnes Martin’s Retrospective at the Guggenheim, December, 2016. The Care and Feeding of Longhaired Dachshunds: A User’s Manual. Agnes Martin’s Retrospective at the Guggenheim, December, 2016. Cita on The Care and Feeding of Longha…. Courtney on Angel Dust. Stacey Hill on Quiche Cluster. On Agnes Martin’s Retrospective a…. Tim Swan on Angel Dust.
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Sisters in Oblivion – Queso Confessions
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This past Mother’s Day, I was unpacking my suitcase when I found my long lost wireless Beats earphones. My elegant grandmother would work herself into a complete frenzy. I can see her sitting on the couch, impeccably composed without a hair out of place, yet rifling through her purse, tossing out its contents and asking in a bewildered voice, Where are they? I just had them! Where can they be? As life’s narrative unfolds, the details pile on, like an overfilled bag of popcorn. Some’s going spil...I berat...
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Angel Dust – Queso Confessions
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Hushed tones signal secrets. Right away, I understood the words’ poetry didn’t match the doom-like context in which they were being spoken. Like. Belonged to enigmatic adult conversation. Listening in didn’t always reveal the whole story. Certain words teased from behind their seemingly obvious meanings. They sparkled, thudded, or darted through the conversation, elusive and blurred. Other words sounded like huge burdens being lifted off the speaker’s tongue, like rocks. Such was the case with. We had fi...