eccentric musings on food, drink, fun and life
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Our dish washer finally died. I saw it coming. Do they even make Magic Chef appliances any more?!? I think that ours was the original dishwasher from the time our building was constructed in 1978. So really a pretty good run but it had sure lost its magic long ago.
There were [...]
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I’ve finished Jack Chalker’s five volume “Soul Rider” series and since, I’ve been obsessing more and more about issues of sex, gender and sexuality raised by the work.
So here we are on this amazing place called World. There are areas that are more or less like our planet where the “conventional” physical laws work: [...]
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“…some people take drugs to chemically induce a happiness they cannot otherwise achieve; others drink to excess for the same reason. Still others throw themselves into religious frenzies in a bout of self-intoxication. All are seeking happiness. But happiness, even Heaven, is the absence of further progress. When one is happy, [...]
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I just finished Mireille Guiliano’s French Women for All Seasons, the sequel to her bestselling French Women Don’t Get Fat. Like the first, this book is a guide to thinness and the good life. The name for this blog entry comes from one of her section headings on wine; and just like champagne, [...]
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Has anyone out there in the greater blog-i-verse ever heard of Jack Chalker? He saved my sanity in the 1980’s.
I was a dorky, shy, hypersensitive high school kid then; confused about a lot of things: adulthood, sexuality, my relationship to the world beyond the cookie cutter NoVA suburb that I grew up in, [...]
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Yep. I loved the film. Hegui and I went the first night that New Moon opened at the huge Cineplex in the new downtown San Francisco shopping center. It was the 9:30PM show so was mostly teen girls, adult women, a sprinkling of uncomfortable boyfriends and some hip gay guys. We [...]
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Well, I’ve finally been able to finish this challenging book. To be honest, I skimmed the last quarter of it. Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair was a real struggle for me. Ostensibly the book is about exactly what the title says: the slow food [...]
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We had the good fortune to visit Monticello this past week with my longtime friend, Callie. You probably already know that Monticello, which apparently means “little mountain” in Italian, so you pronounce it with an Italian accent like Monti-chello, was the home of the third U.S. President and writer of the Declaration of Independence, [...]
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We visited Julia Child’s famous “T.V. kitchen” on display at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History last week. We’ve been talking about going to see it for ages, since we read Julie and Julia. Our fascination grew with our recent Julia Child cooking marathon party at John’s place with the release [...]
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Of all the characters in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the one that I came most to admire is Grover the satyr. He’s sort of a clown in The Lightning Thief, barely able to keep his Rastafarian hat and shoes on, let alone watch over Percy effectively. Yet by book five, [...]
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