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Monday, November 15, 2004

Hard Work Jack Torrance: [typed] All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.   9:03:38 PM    comment []

[Jack is trying to kill Wendy] Jack Torrance: Do you have the slightest idea what a moral and ethical principle is? Do you?   9:01:13 PM    comment []

Here's Johnny!   Jack Torrance: You WERE the caretaker here, Mr. Grady. Delbert Grady: No sir, YOU are the caretaker. You've always been the caretaker. I ought to know: I've always been here.     8:48:33 PM    comment []

Some Cooking Notes:   The béarnaise yesterday was way too thin. I never tried blender before, well, yes I have, and it was never ever any good. That recipe called for 6 yolks for 2 sticks of butter and my line on –aisse sauces is one yolk per stick of butter or equivalent amount of oil. The tarragon/onion reduction should be beat in after the sauce has been properly whisked, a tablespoon of melted butter at a time. That works.   No real loss, the béarnaise leftovers will be schmeared on the innards of panini for the leftover beef.   Picked up plates and chargers (after Liz, with her impeccable taste, commented favorably on their contribution yesterday) at Linens’N’Things today, with a 20% off coupon. Yes, we will do Thanksgiving right. Pfaltzgraff matched - on golden chargers, a notch above silver steeds - and a far cry better than my current buck-a-plates from Dollar General. Anyone have a better color match on the chargers? They were only ten bucks for four and this was the best of the color choices I could do. I still have the receipt…     7:18:33 PM    comment []

Another Memo of “historical interest” to future SOS Condi Rice:   Bin Laden determined to detonate nuke-you-lar device in US!!   After Sept. 11, Scheuer says bin Laden was criticized by Muslim clerics for launching such a serious attack without sufficient warning. That has now been given. And he says bin Laden has even obtained a fatwa, or Islamic decree, justifying a nuclear attack against the United States on religious grounds. "He secured from a Saudi sheik named Hamid bin Fahd a rather long treatise on the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the Americans. Specifically, nuclear weapons," says Scheuer. "And the treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans."   Please don’t let this shit happen to us!. We don’t wanna be nuclearized! Try, please try, to stop it – pretty, pretty, pretty please! We’ll even give you Ashcroft’s piano (after The Rapture, of course).   Anything.     6:44:40 PM    comment []

“Inverted Pyramid of Piffle” collapsing on Poor Boris!   BORIS JOHNSON was fighting last night to keep his job as Editor of The Spectator after the revelation that he lied over his affair with Petronella Wyatt. Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay, owners of the magazine since they bought the Telegraph Group in the summer, were said to be “at the end of their tether” with Mr. Johnson. The reclusive brothers, devout Roman Catholics who jealously guard the privacy of their families, were said to be upset by press stories, but decided to take no action after last weekend’s reports of an affair that Mr. Johnson* denied. …and what kind of name is Petronella anyway? Sounds like some kinda scented candle or even food poisoning. No wonder he feels burned and sick to the stomach! You need to be more selective about what you plook, Mr. Johnson.  …and (as long as the kimonos are open) Barclay Brothers, sounding like non-hazardous Dukes**, don’cha think they oughta change the name of their cruddy magazine to, I dunno, maybe something other than The Spectator? Mebbe Voyeurs On A Leash... *JOHNSON! Oh, you doesn't has to call me Johnson. You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me RayJay, or you can call me RJ, or you can call me RJJ or you can call me RJJ Jr., but you doesn't have to call me Johnson! *also: Dick, Trousersnake, Snake, Cobra, King Cobra, Cock, Willy, Peter, Johnson **Randolph Duke: Mother always said you were greedy. Mortimer Duke: She meant it as a compliment.     6:03:48 PM    comment []

Southern Comfort     Sky   Trees   Building   Truck                                             5:05:29 PM    comment []