( Lasagna and cheesecake )
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( An interesting bit of history )
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| Date: | 2011-10-31 10:05 |
| Subject: | Trick or treat! |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  contemplative |
I missed my tenth anniversary on LJ: 13 April 2001
( Reruns as long as I am on a roll )
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( I have recipes for the salad and dessert )
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No more snow at lake level. The lake is cold! Perhaps just a tad warmer than Lola Montez was last week. A hot day though. One person canceled because of possible thunder showers. We just had some in Reno over the last few minutes. It hasn't cooled things down much.
( Week in review )
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Fourteen of us. Quite a good turnout and quite an adventure. It's the end of July and snow covers most of the last quarter-mile of the trail. But the adventure began with crossing Castle Creek at the start of the hike. No rocks or logs are exposed to use so we had to go barefoot throught he water. It is cold but the real problem is the rocky bottom. I think my feet are going to be sore for awhile. Ten of us stopped at the lower lake but four went up to the upper lake. That's something to try another time when and if the snow melts completely. I did go swimming though. I'll see if some other photos show up besides mine.
( The world still doesn't change but let's keep track of it anyway )
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Run-of-the-mill pics from Loch Leven. Fairly uneventful hike. Around ten people expressed an interest but there were five of us. A couple of patches of snow on the trail at the top, but I've been through worse. It might even clear up by next week now that the weather is supposed to heat up again. I'm guessing that the Lola Montez hike next week should be good for swimming finally.
( And of course there has to be commentary on current events )
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The coolest thing this time was a deer ran across the trail right in front of me as I was heading back down. As I recall I was between Grass Lake and Jamison Falls. I was hoping to get a picture. As I walked a few more steps I saw the deer above me but it ran away as soon as it saw me. The snow on this hike suggests that Loch Leven next week might still be snowed in and the trail likely will be a river. We'll see how far we can go. Pictures pretty much tell the tale of this hike.
( Yes it is a psy op )
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Another hike with the other hiking group. This was about five miles round trip, though I added another half mile to go up to Lily Lake. There wasn't much of a swimming opportunity. This is in the Gray Eagle Lodge area, or around Gold Lake and Long Lake. You can get to Smith Lake from this area, though that hike is shorter from Jamison Mine. We hiked to the lodge. There isn't much open yet too far past that. Trails are still snowed in. In two weeks I'm giving Loch Leven a try. I'm not too optimistic about the snow. I got a couple of pics.
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A hike with a ghost--or some kind of mystery. I have seventeen signatures on my sign-in sheet. But I consistently counted eighteen people on the hike, not counting me of course, and not counting one person who couldn't start with us but caught up with us at Emerald Bay. Whatever the number, most of them were restless enough to be on the move. I needed to keep track of a couple of slower hikers in the rear, so this hike kind of took on it's own life. After lunch about 10 or 11 went up to Eagle Falls. I wanted to rest on the beach, what little beach is available this time. The lake is full, with most patches of beach we would ordinarily see along the way covered in water. I also tried a little swimming. The most I did was go in up to my ribs. I've been in colder water at times but I figured it wasn't worth freezing this time. It was warm out but not real hot. Indeed, the weather today is kind of cool. We're just not getting hot weather yet.
( I'm not neglecting current events )
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Hiking at last! But there are problems. The extended winter has left snow in the mountains even now. Not on this hike of course, as it is a lower elevation hike. But Donner Summit still shows snow at street level. I moved three hikes that I would normally do in June to July and I still wonder if the snow will be gone by then. Four of us for this one. The river is higher than I've ever seen it. There won't be any swimming in there for a long time.
( I can't resist these reruns )
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Links to material posted on geocities are dead of course, as I've never reposted anything from there:
The only person responsible for getting you trustworthy information is you. This involves a great deal of work. Am I seriously advocating that you spend hours a day just sitting around learning stuff? Absolutely yes, I am. The wonderful Jennifer Bowen introduced me to the phrase “good company is kept discussing good ideas--not people.”
--Brainsturbator
In order to overcome the muting effect of TV's essential grayness, the managers of all televisual spectacle try automatically to intensify each broadcast moment through the few sensational techniques available: extreme close-ups, marvelously heightened colors, dizzying graphics, high-pitched voices trilling choral harmonies, insistent bursts of domesticated rock and roll, and the incessant, meaningless montage that includes all things, events and persons.
--Mark Crispin Miller
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( Like a dreadful beast nurtured in the CIA secret labs, only once they reportedly rebelled against their merciless creator--on 9/11 )
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Joseph Noel Paton's Study for The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania (c. 1849)
I didn't take note of the last Nevada Repretory Company production because I didn't know what to make of it or what to say about it. It was good but not great and didn't seem to say anything different from a host of works that deal with prejudice and peer conflict. The latest production seems to be a return to form. I guess you can't get more traditional than Shakespeare, and A Midsummer Night's Dream shows off what Nevada Rep seems to do best, when it sets out to do its best: cool set design and costume design. As I once noted, all the founders of Nevada Rep have retired, and it looks like their immediate successor is moving on after this semester. This was her last production, and I don't think she directed any of the earlier productions this school year. I wonder if that's a factor in what seems to me to be a weak season.
Fortunate for me there is a review from five years ago of Biedermann and the Firebugs which explains some things. I don't know what to make of it. It's well done, sure enough, but I didn't find myself drawn into it. Brüka is always good for doing things that might not be done anywhere else.
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| Date: | 2011-04-08 09:07 |
| Subject: | Provocation |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | contemplative |
Wallace warned that if the Civil Rights bill passed, Congress should propose to withdraw American troops from Berlin and Vietnam.
--J. Hoberman, The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties (New York and London: The New Press, 2003), 84
Even as early as 1963 George Wallace handed any Democratic president or possible Democratic president, Kennedy, Johnson or Humphrey, a get out of Vietnam free card: bring the troops home to defend the country against threatened Confederate insurrection. There is no excuse for any president or presidential candidate not to have used the card.
Some people suspected rogue CIA elements while, according to KGB files released decades later, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's friend William Walton had been dispatched to Moscow in December 1963 with word that the Kennedy family believed JFK the victim of a right-wing conspiracy; the message was corroborated by information an American businessman furnished Polish intelligence that Texas oilmen Sid Richardson, Clint Murchison and H.L. Hunt organized the assassination. [Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, "One Hell of a Gamble:" Krushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), 344-45, 348-49].
--J. Hoberman, The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties (New York and London: The New Press, 2003), 95
There is some confirmation that Robert Kennedy knew that the official story about the assassination was a crock. There is little excuse for his recklessness in running for president in 1968 when he knew that his brother's assassins were still at large. He knew that Eugene McCarthy couldn't secure the nomination no matter how well he did in the primaries. Hubert Humphrey was the annointed one after Lyndon Johnson withdrew from the race. The one thing Kennedy might have done is deliver an ultimatum to Humphrey: use the get out of Vietnam free card or Robert Kennedy enters the race.
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Here is something to do with the carrot pulp after running carrots through a juicer:
3 C carrot pulp
1-1/2 C pecans
1 C pitted (soaked in carrot juice) packed dates
2 T maple syrup
3 t pumpkin pie spice
1 or 2 vanilla beans (optional, scrape the seeds out or blend one up fine)
1/4 t pink Himalayan sea salt
In food processor, crush pecans down to crumbs. Add remaining ingredietns and process until smooth. Spread into pan and chill
Maple cashew frosting:
1 C raw cashew pieces
1/4 C maple syrup
1/4 C water
1 Meyer lemon, juiced
1 vanilla bean (buy it ground, or grind it, fresh and plump is best, worth it)
Blend until smooth and creamy in high speed blender, adding water if needed to thin it. Frosting takes a while to thcken so take care. Spread over pumpkin bars. Sprinkle with extra cinnamon (optional). Chill. For cake: Spread half of the cake "batter" into pan. Spread with 1/2 frosting. Spread rest of cake on top and spread with remaining frosting.
If you have a dehydrator, juice pulp crackers:
2-1/2 C juice pulp
1/2 C ground flaxseed
1/2 t curry
1 t nama shoyu
1 t lemon juice
Mix all ingredients well, by hand. Add water if needed (cucumber or celery pulp won't need any). Spread mixtue on dehydrator tray lined with teflex sheet, about 1/6 to 1/4 inch thick. Score sheet of dough lightly into cracker-sized squares, and put in dehydrator at 115 degrees. Dehydrate for two hours, break crackers and flip. Dehydrate another two hours. Check consistency. Dehydrate more if they aren't crunchy enough. Let them stand in air for fifteen minutes then put in airtight container. They should keep a week. If you don't have a dehydrator, they could probably bake at 150 or 175.
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A look at an arc of reviews for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1 2 3 4) sums up how I view the series. I was hooked from the beginning. Though I remained a loyal fan to the end, I really found Whedon's penchant for cheap shocks too much to take after awhile. Perhaps the better way to put it is his penchant for wildly implausible plot turns. The most wildly implausible of all (as I think I posted somewhere on LJ, but is worth repeating) is the curse on Angel, the part of the curse where Angel loses his soul again if he experiences a moment of true happiness. What kind of curse is that? The purpose of the curse was to restore his soul so that he would be eternally tormented. Why would the curse include an escape clause that only serves to add more victims to Angelus' list? And that was a plot turn that occurred early in the series, when it could still be counted as the best show on television. In a way it illustrates how forgiving fans were throughout the show's run. People were hungry to see evil vanquished at least metaphorically. Too bad Whedon never thought more carefully about the implications of the directions he took his stories.
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What did I ever see in the movie Serenity? (1) In 2005 it looked like a good allegory about an insurgency against a noxious empire. Today, Obama's empire is just as noxious as Bush's, but whatever can be classed as an insurgency against it comes from the deluded lunatic fringe. (2) Serenity's crew looks a little too much like that. In any case, the basis of the plot is too implausible. The violence that the Alliance unleashes over the possibility that the secret of the Reavers will be exposed is out of proportion to the threat. An empire with that much power to begin with has little to fear from Serenity or River Tam, and the Reavers would probably have eliminated themselves in an orgy of self-consumption anyway, leaving the issue a non-starter.
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I'm glad I figured out FB Notes. It allows a little more thought than just posting someting off the cuff. And of course I really did have to wait for our friends the walking encyclopedias (1 2) to sift through things. I don't have the fortitude to do it so I let my staple resources do it for me. I have been wondering about some of those staples though. I believe Xymphora lost her mind some time ago. I like this sample of her work from five years ago (3). Her one error (which does look like a big one) is that she predicted that the result of the Canadian election of that time would be undone within a year. Though she's gone downhill since then, she occasionally is capable of sane analyses (4 5). Keith Olbermann (6) is good but his attempt to find equivalency between "both" sides is bogus. All the violent rhetoric and violence comes from the right, and the right is not going to tone down its rhetoric. Indeed it already seems to have ratcheted it up at least a notch. The mainstream press is always worthless. Jeff Wells from almost six years ago (7) still has pertinence. Perhaps Gilad Atzmon (8) has nothing directly relevant to say about this business, but unfortunately the irrational (whatever that means) is not going away any time soon and we better start thinking about how it plays out in this world.
Crossposted on FB
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Where indeed? I've been ice skating, anyway, at least weekdays. Weekends are a little rough with the later opening time and warmer weather. There has been one holiday party, December 4. I broke down and made the meatless enchiladas from Diet for a Small Planet finally after a few years of sticking with salads. I've also been getting rid of malware from my computer. Back in September, when Dish was supposed to pull the plug on my service, I got the bright idea to try to bring some TV programming through my computer. All that did was open things up to an invasion of malware. And Dish didn't pull the plug in September, anyway, but began doing so in November. It's still sending a few channels. I'm sure they'll disappear soon enough.
( Keeping track of things )
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