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A Mild Adversative: June 2005
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Saturday, June 11, 2005. Though I cannot relate to many of the details, I adore this piece. Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection. 1967,1969), pp. 39-40:. Which lies at the heart of matter. And that is why all men should hasten to become very poor or very rich or both at once, like St. Paul, who had nothing yet possessed all things. The world was made in sport, for sports. Economy is worth only a smile. There are more serious things to laugh at. Into outer darkness then with ...
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A Mild Adversative: July 2006
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006. My longtime mottoes are "Volume, volume, volume" and "I'm not as stupid as I look." I've worked up a new motto: "I don't get mad; I get - OK, I just get mad.". I'd use "Trust me; I know what I'm doing," but that's already taken. Posted by aparker54 at 11:47 PM. When I obtained my marriage license in June 1979, I was handed a pack of gifts. I think I got some sanitary napkins as part of the deal. I know I got a book titled "Vanishing Bride.". Posted by aparker54 at 12:23 AM.
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A Mild Adversative: April 2005
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Saturday, April 30, 2005. A Halloween piece from 1997:. First, dump a can of cream of mushroom soup into a wide bowl. Don’t let the moment escape you, now. Savor the giant sucking sound, then the slurping glop. And look, oh, look! My subconscious seems to have tried rather desperately to save me the trauma, too, for what would come welling up in my memory but my first dinner party? Was I hoping to forestall the moment of goop? I was an innocent. I might have saved the day with a little more guile, a ...
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A Mild Adversative: March 2006
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Friday, March 31, 2006. I probably got a job once, one of my favorites, because I was too honest. The interview was a bit awkward. The interviewer, a prominent physiologist, scanned over the application and said: "Most of this isn't interesting. But what about the My-Oh-My Club? This was in 1984. As waitresses, by the way, we made no salary, only tips. But we made better money, most of the time, than the salaried dancers. For legal reasons back then, the club banned the placement of folding curre...I got...
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A Mild Adversative: May 2006
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006. Digging out a hardback copy of "Gaudy NIght" almost caused a major disaster in my study - all the books over it started to spill out. I have other copies of "Gaudy Night," of course. One of them is a first American edition that a supervisor gave me back when I worked in a D.C.-area bookstore. She didn't respect first American editions. On the back cover of the later edition, received today:. Posted by aparker54 at 8:43 PM. When I was an undergraduate, my father sent me a copy of th...
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A Mild Adversative: May 2005
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005. David Mulroy, Why Did We Revert to Tribalism? David Mulroy, The War Against Grammar. 2003), pp. 17-19. The tendency of modern teachers to disparage the importance of literal meanings reinforces and is reinforced by the low status of grammar, since the rules of grammar play an indispensable role in establishing the literal meanings of statements. Grammar and literal meanings have both become pariahs, and this fact lies at the root of several troubling tendencies. When people decide ...
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A Mild Adversative: July 2005
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Saturday, July 16, 2005. The Object Stares Back. Work on Thomas Hardy took me back to a good book on sight. James Elkins, The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996, pp. 12-13 (the very opening of the introduction) and 225-26 (in chapter on "Blindness," near the end). Posted by aparker54 at 8:54 AM. Long ago and far away: http:/ www.bestofcox.com/1999/22.html. View my complete profile. That's Nice, Cheeks. Tom Lehrer Song Lyrics. Get Your War On," etc.
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A Mild Adversative: April 2006
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006. I read trashy romance novels on occasion. Not serious bodice rippers, though; the 187-189 pages of the Harlequin Presents series is about as much as I can take. For good cover art, check out this site: http:/ www.worldoflongmire.com/features/romance novels/. When I have the cash, I'll buy the book Gallery of Regrettable Food. Posted by aparker54 at 11:33 PM. Monday, April 24, 2006. Aug 31, 1998:. The Headline Cure. It seemed so obvious, yet so ingenious! Let's take one of my culi...
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A Mild Adversative: August 2005
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Saturday, August 20, 2005. A Pair of Blue Eyes". I adore Thomas Hardy's "A Pair of Blue Eyes." The book is in every way brilliant and hilarious. Here's a favorite passage from Chapter 33:. But it lay loosely over the stone. It is a tuft of grass,' he said. But it lacked the roughness and humidity of the finest grass. It is a mason's whitewash-brush.'. Such brushes, he remembered, were more bristly; and however much used in repairing a structure, would not be required in pulling one down. The National Lam...
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A Mild Adversative: June 2006
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006. Kitchen and newspaper nightmares. While hanging out with my parents, I've grown fond of cable TV. (Crazed copy editors can get upset at the word "fondling" in sex-crime matters, and perhaps they're correct; "fondle" is a word, surely, that's used only of people one's fond of. Right.). Earlier this evening, I found myself watching a show on BBC America:. Http:/ www.bbcamerica.com/genre/. Home living/ramsays kitchen nightmares/. Ramsays kitchen nightmares episode guide.jsp.
