Laurence O’Donnell was right. We’ve twisted ourselves in knots all week over Greenland, and LO said he really wouldn’t use force to get Greenland. Today Trump said he won’t use force to get Greenland.
Which is not to say that a lot of damage hasn’t been done.
Daniel: I refuse to buy clothes or shoes without a try-on. Except for maybe shirts. My feet need orthotics, jeans come in myriad “fits.” The cycle of buying and returning seems like such a waste to me, but it must be good for people who must have the widest choices or the oddball sizes.
I wanted to buy new drawstrings for 2 sets of pajama pants, as the old ones frayed and snapped. Wanted to avoid Amazon. But couldn’t find them in online searches of Macy’s, Target or Michael’s craft stores.
If you type “drawstrings” into Amazon’s search box, boom — dozens of options come up immediately.
What would you do? Use a different search term? Search different types of stores?
Yes…ordered from the big A. Not thrilled, but it’s only 5 bucks.
And don’t bears scratch their backs by rubbing against tree bark?
@wtg said in Thoughts on portable electric heaters:
@Daniel said in Thoughts on portable electric heaters:
I considered buying a small indoor propane heater
Those give me headaches. I would avoid.
It would seem that the words “propane” and “indoor” should not appear next to each other.
Kind of crude to remove a former benefactor’s name when someone comes along and throws more money at it. Fisher/Geffen Hall?
We have an oil-filled DeLonghi (pictured a few posts up there) What do you think of leaving it plugged into the wall, even though turned off? They all recommend unplugging after use, but the only usable plug in this room is behind some heavy furniture, and it would be a pain to move that furniture every time. Anyway, so far no issues.
@Steve-Miller said in About that Ford employee:
$810K?
Where do I sign up for a gig like that?
The right heckle at the right time!
But it’s great that he didn’t back down and his Union stood behind him, and only got a suspension.
Happy anniversary!
That Smithy pan looks great, especially since it has that really smooth cooking surface that the Lodges don’t have. Enjoy it!
I have two Lodge skillets from some 30 or 40 years ago. At this point they could use restoration and reseasoning, and I’ve been reading about that on a Facebook group. May get to it in a month or so.
Really? I kind of thought they no longer existed.
Found Mexican oregano in the Mexican grocery today. I hope it is the real thing. It was next to another type of oregano that was not marked Mexican.
Tried it in pinto beans tonight. It didn’t seem altogether different from common oregano, maybe a slightly fruitier nuance. What I’ve read is that Mexican oregano is from an entirely different plant family.
Couldn’t upload image here…says file size too large. Just a typical iPhone photo.
We buy Rao’s now and then, but because it’s so easy to make a garlic-and-oil sauce with parsley, and grate some Parmesan, I do that 95% of the time. Fresh is always best.
In the warmer months, when we can get real tomatoes, I’ll make a marinara from scratch. Somehow the jarred sauces seem meh. Some of the Italian specialty stores in NYC make their own, and those can be worthwhile.
If I identify as as mouse, can I get the treatment now?
I like wearing a watch. It’s a pain to pull out the phone just to see the time (because I keep it in a zipped shoulder bag).
I need to find a band I like. Mine is all metal and irritates my skin after a while. But the band design is integral to the watch, so I guess I really need a new watch.
I’ve seen the bracket-like long pause but not the peaked-roof one.
@ShiroKuro Ah, my old book had 371 chorales, so it looks like they discovered a few more over the years.
I didn’t listen all the way through, but 3/4 of the way. The hymn sounds of course very familiar. I did a couple of years of organ study as my “minor” instrument, and have had various church gigs. I find many of these old hymns quite beautiful, even apart from their religious contexts.
When the critic complained about the harmonization, it was about not following certain rules of voice-leading: how the four lines of music should move relative to each other and to the overall harmony. When I was an undergrad, we had to study Bach’s hymn harmonizations. They were in a book called 371 Chorales. This was where we learned what the rules were, such as avoiding parallel fourths and fifths, and how to resolve a 7th chord. And we had to do our own harmonizations as coursework.
It was the “violations” of these rules in Abide With Me that the critic objected to. Of course, these days the hymn sounds completely fine and conventional to our ears.
I’m surprised he didn’t bring up the tuning of that old organ. It sure doesn’t sound like equal temperament to me! I thought he might have discussed that. More interesting to me than the hymn itself.
We also had to study 16th century counterpoint, and it was far more restrictive than what Bach was doing! This was the era of Palestrina and Victoria.
Strange that this young man dissed medieval music. Nothing wrong with it, and interesting in its own right.
Waves upon waves of artist csncellations.
The Mediterranean diet seems to be holding up well through the years.
