What part of you relates to me?
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spatch was not working this evening and I finally had some energy left, we cooked together for the first time in weeks. We had a pair of pork chops which we seasoned with pico fruta, briefly pan-seared, and then slathered in a dark, sweet, especially high-Scoville variation on helljam to finish cooking in a tightly foil-wrapped baking dish along with some experimental pulled chicken: 10/10, would prepare all meats in similar juicy, heat-rich but not obliterated fashion. We made cheese grits to accompany. We may be approaching the event horizon where I learn how to cook collard greens. Please enjoy some links.
1. In praise of a restaurant I want to revisit: "I spent the night at South Street Diner, Boston's only 24/7 sit-down spot."
2. On damage and different kinds of anger: Martha C. Nussbaum, "The Weakness of the Furies."
3. Speaking of the uses of transition anger: "The Radicalism of Warren's Unapologetic Aggression." I am fascinated by this sentence: "Here was an assassin, bathed in the blood of her enemies, turning steady eyes to the TV camera and offering her talents to the public: For the small price of a primary vote, this assassin will work for you." I think it's the characterization of assassin when the pledge and I'll fight for your family would have made me think straight-up of mercenary knights, but maybe to most people it's the same thing.
4. It is entirely reasonable that a year of beautiful men should include Roddy McDowall. I still think that white-and-gold safari-jacket ensemble he's wearing there in his first appearance as Jonathan Willoway suits him much less well than the eventual black leather jacket of his regular costume. It's a really good jacket.
5. I am indebted toisis for introducing me to the turboencabulator.
spatch was not working this evening and I finally had some energy left, we cooked together for the first time in weeks. We had a pair of pork chops which we seasoned with pico fruta, briefly pan-seared, and then slathered in a dark, sweet, especially high-Scoville variation on helljam to finish cooking in a tightly foil-wrapped baking dish along with some experimental pulled chicken: 10/10, would prepare all meats in similar juicy, heat-rich but not obliterated fashion. We made cheese grits to accompany. We may be approaching the event horizon where I learn how to cook collard greens. Please enjoy some links.1. In praise of a restaurant I want to revisit: "I spent the night at South Street Diner, Boston's only 24/7 sit-down spot."
2. On damage and different kinds of anger: Martha C. Nussbaum, "The Weakness of the Furies."
3. Speaking of the uses of transition anger: "The Radicalism of Warren's Unapologetic Aggression." I am fascinated by this sentence: "Here was an assassin, bathed in the blood of her enemies, turning steady eyes to the TV camera and offering her talents to the public: For the small price of a primary vote, this assassin will work for you." I think it's the characterization of assassin when the pledge and I'll fight for your family would have made me think straight-up of mercenary knights, but maybe to most people it's the same thing.
4. It is entirely reasonable that a year of beautiful men should include Roddy McDowall. I still think that white-and-gold safari-jacket ensemble he's wearing there in his first appearance as Jonathan Willoway suits him much less well than the eventual black leather jacket of his regular costume. It's a really good jacket.
5. I am indebted to
isis for introducing me to the turboencabulator.
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Absolutely! Dear gods I had such a crush on him in my teen and college years - he was especially gorgeous in The Haunting of Hell House.
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I love that movie. And he was. He got into a dream of mine and then into a story.
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Yay Roddy McDowall!
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I feel like I've cooked other greens, so it should be possible for me to learn collards. And then I would have an unlimited home supply of potlikker, which would also make me happy.
Yay Roddy McDowall!
Always!
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My experience is primarily with spinach and chard, both of which I do a bunch of things with. We don't have a pressure cooker, so I suspect collards would be the pot route.
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Otherwise, we make a variant of the Kenyan dish sukuma wiki. Sauté collards, onions, and tomatoes. I add beans and sometimes frozen corn, instead of making ugali. Or one can use grits, something that you already have. I got that from a book about Kenyan marathon runners. It's apparently pretty common there.
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I just finished this, and it's full of much wisdom. I'm reminded of something my partner
Sadly, the most common response I've seen to this knowledge (at least in the US) are exclamations that all women should act in a more masculine manner, rather than an understanding that both modes can be useful, and that people should be allowed use either depending upon situation and preference, rather than anyone being expected to always act in a subordinate or dominant manner.
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Yes. I believe that.
and that people should be allowed use either depending upon situation and preference
I think that applies to just about every attribute conventionally connected to binary gender, sigh.
TNR and Elizabeth Warren
I hope she wins. Canada - as presently constituted - can work with her, and with an administration she would lead. It would be imperfect, as always is the case in international politics, but we could do useful work together.
Re: TNR and Elizabeth Warren
I didn't know that. That suggests the word choice is a callback, and as such a reclamation as well as an endorsement. Thanks for providing the missing information.
It would be imperfect, as always is the case in international politics, but we could do useful work together.
I would very much like Warren as President, and I am frustrated by the media narrative of "unelectability" which seems far more setup for self-fulfilling prophecy than any real read on the situation.
Re: TNR and Elizabeth Warren
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/opinion/sunday/starr-dershowitz-trump-epstein.html
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Fair enough!
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I suspect I'm going to be trying to thinking about what use I can make of it in the context of online bullying and brigading by antis, for example by Tamsyn Muir, and contexts in which cancel culture is helpful/harmful. A departure from the Nussbaum's concerns, I imagine, but I'd really like better tools to help think in the this area, even repurposed ones.
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You're welcome! It may the only time algorithms on the internet have ever advertised me something I did in fact want.
I suspect I'm going to be trying to thinking about what use I can make of it in the context of online bullying and brigading by antis, for example by Tamsyn Muir, and contexts in which cancel culture is helpful/harmful.
I don't think it would be unhelpful in that area, but also, what happened with Tamsyn Muir?
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You can probably get a sense of the inciting incident from this recent interview:
http://threecrowsmagazine.com/tamsyn-muir-interview-there-is-a-lot-of-blood-on-my-dance-floor/
But I wouldn't recommend investigating too deeply the actions of the online bullies. There's enough pain in the world to push through already.
Someone I know merely talked about "how fanfiction has trigger warnings" and how "writting fiction doesn't imply that you endorse the ethics of every character you write", and was attacked, in the most unspeakable terms, by a portion of the mob--triggering a clinical panic attack. I can't imagine what it was like to be at the center, not the edges, of their venom.
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"People have written brilliantly about personal damages they have not suffered. People have personal damage they don't, can't, or won't disclose."
Thanks. Argh.