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I met an artist, Dorothea Tanning. She was a famous Surrealist. Cataracts drove her crazy because the colors were all wrong.

@Steve-Miller Hi, Steve. I have an immersion blender. I don’t know, maybe it’s not a very good one, but it doesn’t do what the KitchenAid can. The KitchenAid is a powerhouse…took me a while to master it (well, still not mastered). The buttons have flashing red lights as if to say, like the software prompts, “Are you sure?”

@wtg That lentil soup sounds great too!

Split pea soup tonight. I have been using a recipe for “Lebanese” split pea soup, involving celery, potatoes, cumin and za’atar. Today I’m adding carrots. Split pea soup is pretty flexible and indestructible. The tricky part will be puréeing it in the blender without scalding myself.

Also making croutons from some old, stale sourdough.

If those Trump-image coins come to pass, I will never use them. The unmitigated gall!

I weaned myself off caffeine a dozen years ago after frightening chest pain that I interpreted as a heart attack, but tests proved it was something like GERD. I had been drinking lots of tea daily. Then I went into strictly herbal teas for a long time. I discovered that coffee didn’t cause a bad reaction, so I have one or two cups a day. I seem to be fine.

@Daniel Your story of the trike accident really shook me. It’s a miracle you came through it so well, thanks to your gymnastics training. I should learn how to fall since I’ve had two serious bike accidents — i.e. resulting in broken bones.

Anyway, if the chain falls off a front chain wheel — this is assuming the bike has a rear derailleur, but maybe it works on others too — you position your stick-tool above the lower run of the chain and drag it forward and around the chain wheel (counterclockwise). The stick keeps your hand away from the chain wheel teeth that could pinch you. The spring in the derailleur allows slack in the chain that facilitates this maneuver.

I’ve often wanted to show this trick to some poor kid whose chain had fallen off and dreaded a long walk home.

Well, Steve, that’s a commercial for Mint Mobile, although there’s some good advice surrounding it. I frankly didn’t watch the whole thing.

The bit about remounting a bike chain…it’s so easy; you just find a random stick or ballpoint pen on the road and coax the chain over the chain wheel. You don’t even have to get dirty.

Every other ad in my Facebook feed is from some piano store having a Black Friday sale.

Does that guy in the video make and wear corsets? With that bod, I don’t think he needs them.

Doesn’t DJT wear them? The layers of belly fat are all too apparent in this golf attire.

Not the Italians specifically. If you draw a horizontal line across where the island juts out toward Brooklyn, that runs along I-278. Roughly north of there is “north shore” and it just so happens that that is the area more aligned with the rest of the city. More minorities, more creatives, more older. funky and interesting neighborhoods. (That’s where I live,) South Shore is more conservative, suburban, MAGA, Trumpy.

Most of the Republicans voted for Cuomo (brown color), a dem running as an independent, out of fear of Mamdani. They even abandoned the Republican Curtis Sliwa, because he didn’t have a chance in a 3-way race.

I think they’re famous for sets of nesting glass bowls too. I have such a set, but they’re knockoffs because I didn’t know any better at the time.

The little Italian market I popped into yesterday had DiCecco at $4/lb. The proprietor said next week it will be $8.

On the other hand, today I was in my usual Key Foods supermarket and DiCecco was on sale at 2 packages for $5. I bought two but may go back for more. Lately it’s been $3.79/lb. there.

I was in our university chorus as an undergrad. In addition to being a music performance major. It was great, very fulfilling! Contributing to something larger than yourself…and learning other aspects of musicianship

The Italian groceries, of which we have many (they don’t call it Staten Italy for nothing) are going to be unhappy.

I'll stock up. For one thing, I wonder if the types of wheat used in Europe tend to be different. And I've tried some American brands that taste distinctly inferior, though I certainly haven't tried them all.

Yes!

@Daniel Yes, it doesn’t even have to be metal. I have a flexible sleeve that protects the card. Also my shoulder bag’s front pocket has the blocking technology embedded in the fabric.

Great news.

@DougG said in The verdict is in:

If the sandwich hits, you mustard acquit