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Tuesday, December 03, 2002

Wanted - Dead Or Alive! In the Boolean sense, this is almost always a true statement, if the implied subject is wanted and he is still either dead or alive. Alive? - We can't say for sure whether those "basement tapes" are real or not. Maybe he's kinda like Bob Dylan after John Wesley Harding and that motorcycle accident, bidin' his time, hangin' out at Big Pink with Robbie and Levon while they tweaked A&R tracks. Dead? -  Then he might be kinda like the eerie voices of John and George, their children or other lookalikes, that now haunt the otherwise unremarkable concerts of Sir Paul McCartney. Long term, as John Maynard Keynes might say to Maynard G. Krebs, either we're all dead or, worse, have to go to "WORK!?!", if we can find it. Nobody seems to ever say "Help Wanted - Dead or Alive." Does attention deficit spending help underemployment? Now, what were we talking about? 9:23:13 PM    comment []

"When people are insecure, they'd rather have someone strong and wrong, rather than weak and right." Quote of the day - Ibid    (that's an inside joke to my lifelong best friend) I'm willing to bet that there are people nowadays , some of them in high places, who couldn't get through that sentence with 5 rehearsals and a teleprompter. 8:13:25 PM    comment []

Why babelfish will always be the funniest! Cake of Aipim with Coconut Ingredients: 1 ralado coconut; 4 raw and raladas roots of aipim; 2 spoons, of the ones of soup, good full of butter; 1 sugar saucers; grass-candy the taste. Confection: All join well the ingredients. Made this, everything sets in one fôrma dipped in grease well of butter. It bakes in well hot oven. 6:57:57 PM    comment []

My first Bolo de Aipim is in the oven. Add coconut milk and grated yucca to an ordinary sugar/milk/egg batter and see what happens, I guess. The test will be tomorrow when I feed my co-workers. Everything always is eaten, but good things go faster. The yucca root was not my first. They are tough and usually have woody portions at the top that you gotta cut out. They are nearly impossible to grate across the grain, but yield easily when the grater runs across the grain. My grater's name is Cuisinart and it complains less when I cut the root sections short enough for the hopper and cut those in half. Do 'em one at a time. I used the coarse grater, then the rotary blade to chop that up finer, doing two batches. Whether or not the bolo is good, the grating went very well. Update 30 minutes later: That 300F oven sounded a little too cool for something meant to be a litle like scones. It's still batter. I kicked the oven up to 400F and hope the little bubbles in it didn't cook out already. "It bakes in well hot oven."  Many hours later, another update: It took well an hour starting at 300F and pumping it up to 400F. The original recipe quoted is way wrong on that, but the batter is nice. The grated yucca is like grated coconut, moist and chewy, so coconut could be substituted. The finished cake resembles ordinary "yellow cake" more than the pannekoeken I guessed in advance. Looks good, moist and probably just a little chewy. Coconut milk in there, I bet people think it's coconut cake. 6:16:44 PM    comment []

pssst...wanna buy a Henry Kissinger poster for your den? ($6.99 plus S&H) 2:59:36 AM    comment []