Sunday, August 31, 2003
Friday, August 29, 2003
Coming in from a one am backyard under the plum tree cocktail with PC of T found a spider in a ball resting on the tallest icecube in the bourbon. My touching the edge of the cube gently caused it to unfold itself like a hand opening, and it sank bank waving into the drink, assuming as it sunk the same hunched posture. Fishing it out with a spoon I rested the now unconscious spider in a dry part of the sink. PC said I should have drunk it, that such a thing was considered "good luck". This morning, warming the mug for my coffee I saw the spider, who had climbed out of the sink and was now enjoying something sugary on the counter, but it had already started spinning, so was able to lift web and spider with a knitting needle and deposit it in the front porch planter. Off to Newcastle Island today.
Thursday, August 28, 2003
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
76/03/12
FOUL ON THE FIRST PLAY
T: Stephen J. Cannell [19]
S: Chas. Floyd Johnson [2] & Dorothy L. Bailey
D: Lou Antonio [5]
Rockford's former parole officer, a con artist par excellence, tricks
him into investigating the shady dealings surrounding the cutthroat
competition for a pro-basketball franchise.
Marcus Hayes/O'Brien [1] . . . . . . . . . Lou Gossett [1]
Manny Stickells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dick Davalos
Martin Eastman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David White
Greg Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pepper Martin [1]
Steve Sorenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Ingersoll
Tom Corell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Al Ruscio [1]
Todd Morris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Mahon [1]
Commissioner Bob Tremayne. . . . . . . . . Chuck Bowman
Ray Fairchild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vincent Cobb
Receptionist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pamela Serpe
Sherm Addison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Leasing Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Al Checco [1]
Secretary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janet Winter
Janice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jayne Kennedy
FOUL ON THE FIRST PLAY
T: Stephen J. Cannell [19]
S: Chas. Floyd Johnson [2] & Dorothy L. Bailey
D: Lou Antonio [5]
Rockford's former parole officer, a con artist par excellence, tricks
him into investigating the shady dealings surrounding the cutthroat
competition for a pro-basketball franchise.
Marcus Hayes/O'Brien [1] . . . . . . . . . Lou Gossett [1]
Manny Stickells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dick Davalos
Martin Eastman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David White
Greg Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pepper Martin [1]
Steve Sorenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Ingersoll
Tom Corell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Al Ruscio [1]
Todd Morris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Mahon [1]
Commissioner Bob Tremayne. . . . . . . . . Chuck Bowman
Ray Fairchild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vincent Cobb
Receptionist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pamela Serpe
Sherm Addison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Leasing Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Al Checco [1]
Secretary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janet Winter
Janice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jayne Kennedy
Selections from the Oprah Book Club or Episodes of Magnum P.I. ?
1. Death of the Flowers
2. River, Cross My Heart
3. The Arrow That Is Not Aimed
4. Songs in Ordinary Time
5. Going Home
6. Stones from the River
7. Echoes Of The Mind
8. A Lesson Before Dying
9. Let Me Hear The Music
10. The Pilot's Wife
11. Did You See the Sunrise?
12. Drowning Ruth
13. Open House
14. Autumn Warrior
15. Back Roads
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14 are Magnum P.I. episodes
1. Death of the Flowers
2. River, Cross My Heart
3. The Arrow That Is Not Aimed
4. Songs in Ordinary Time
5. Going Home
6. Stones from the River
7. Echoes Of The Mind
8. A Lesson Before Dying
9. Let Me Hear The Music
10. The Pilot's Wife
11. Did You See the Sunrise?
12. Drowning Ruth
13. Open House
14. Autumn Warrior
15. Back Roads
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14 are Magnum P.I. episodes
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
The Worst Journey in the World: " Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and keep them on until Christmas, and, save for a layer of the natural grease of the body, find them as clean as though they were new. It is more lonely than London, more secluded than any monastery, and the post comes but once a year. As men will compare the hardships of France, Palestine, or Mesopotamia, so it would be interesting to contrast the rival claims of the Antarctic as a medium of discomfort. A member of Campbell's party tells me that the trenches at Ypres were a comparative picnic. But until somebody can evolve a standard of endurance I am unable to see how it can be done. Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin."
CONTEXT: Martha Haas on Jean Rhys: "Yet her elusiveness is of a completely different kind from the tradition established by Stein, Barnes, Joyce, and Woolf, and for that she is perpetually ignored by critics of the experimental, even though she is also ignored by the critics of realism because she doesn't fit easily into a realistic tradition either. "
Deep Beatle and Shostakovich listener Ian Macdonald passes: "I consider there are no experts on Shostakovich. The subject is too vast, our present knowledge too partial, and the requisite state of sympathetic insight into his life and work too underdeveloped for anyone to claim to be, or be regarded as, an expert on him . . . I certainly wouldn't, being at best an ephemeral agitator in the cause of truth . . ."
Monday, August 25, 2003
The Believer - Beth Orton: "It's an hour drive to beaches that look like muted over-exposed photographs, and countryside every shade of green you ever saw all at once. And the trees and bushes would have a kind of light fur a bit like skunk weed, and the trees seemed to glisten. Kissing was something I did a lot of. "
We Have Ways of Making You Talk: "Admiral Jacoby’s rationale is fascinating: first of all, because there might be something the interrogators missed, or can find out if there are new suspects captured somewhere else sometime. And you wouldn’t want Padilla to have any sense of hope if they need to question him again: “Any delay in obtaining information from Padilla could have the severest consequences for national security and public safety.” Secondly—and this is what’s really creepy—because Padilla might reveal “sources and methods.” That is, he might talk about precisely those means that were used to make him talk, therefore he can never be allowed to talk at all.
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Sunday, August 24, 2003
The cat, mice, the weasel
"The cat is called musio, mouse-catcher, because it is the enemy of mice. It is commonly called catus, cat, from captura, the act of catching. Others say it gets the name from capto, because it catches mice with its sharp eyes. For it has such piercing sight that it overcomes the dark of night with the gleam of light from its eyes. As a result, the Greek word catus means sharp, or cunning. "
"The cat is called musio, mouse-catcher, because it is the enemy of mice. It is commonly called catus, cat, from captura, the act of catching. Others say it gets the name from capto, because it catches mice with its sharp eyes. For it has such piercing sight that it overcomes the dark of night with the gleam of light from its eyes. As a result, the Greek word catus means sharp, or cunning. "
Tristram Shandy: "'Tis an undercraft of authors to keep up a good understanding amongst words, as politicians do amongst men - not knowing how near they may be under a necessity of placing them to each other.' "
Saturday, August 23, 2003
Nice Allmans essay: "When the Allman Brothers Band set out to make its first record, the world was falling apart. The Beatles were in their death throes. Led Zeppelin had introduced its savage, Druidian form of the blues. American pop music was swamped in psychedelia. Motown had been Spector-ized, and jazz was disoriented by the cerebral experiments of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor. What the musical landscape needed was a revival, a movement that gathered up the fragments and gave meat to the poor in spirit. "
blissblog: "And Jack White, for sure, excels at what he does--in the same way that a cabinet-maker, or an engraver, or someone who has mastered the art of crafting magic lanterns, excels at what they do. It’s just that there’s not that much call for it anymore. You can listen and feel your ingrained reflexes responding to the tug of that certain way of building with riffs and spacing, builds and dynamics. But then every so often (I find) one's old modernist instincts resurge and it’s like you’re in some dank old cellar and the music has the shuddery sensation of cobwebs on your skin, and you’re like ‘eeurrgh, yukyuk, get it off me get it off me’."
Thursday, August 21, 2003
Where is Raed ?: "G. my friend got beaten up by US Army last night, he was handcuffed and had a bag put on his head. he was kicked several times and was made to lie on his face for a while. All he wanted to do was to take pictures and report on an attack, he works for the New York Times as a translator and fixer. He got more kicks for speaking english.
his sin: he looks Iraqi and has a beard.
story will be told, I need to get him drunk enough to get the whole thing out of him he doesn't want to talk. "
his sin: he looks Iraqi and has a beard.
story will be told, I need to get him drunk enough to get the whole thing out of him he doesn't want to talk. "
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Claudia Roden's Middle Eastern Orange Cake
2 large oranges, washed
6 eggs, beaten
250 g. ground almonds
250 g. sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
Boil oranges in a little water in a covered saucepan for 2 hours. Allow to cool, then cut open, remove pips and chop roughly.
Preheat oven to 190ºC and butter and flour a springform tin.
Blend oranges and remaining ingredients thoroughly in a food processor. Pour batter into prepared tin. Bake for 1 hour. If cake is still very wet, cook a little longer. Cool in tin before gently turning out
2 large oranges, washed
6 eggs, beaten
250 g. ground almonds
250 g. sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
Boil oranges in a little water in a covered saucepan for 2 hours. Allow to cool, then cut open, remove pips and chop roughly.
Preheat oven to 190ºC and butter and flour a springform tin.
Blend oranges and remaining ingredients thoroughly in a food processor. Pour batter into prepared tin. Bake for 1 hour. If cake is still very wet, cook a little longer. Cool in tin before gently turning out
Monday, August 18, 2003
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