Kittysaur!

Found at https://twitter.com/Gluonsrule/status/406523227171614720/photo/1


Because of https://twitter.com/Gluonsrule/status/406161387535101954
 

Food experiments

#1: Trying to make a jalapeno cranberry sauce by using lots of dates instead of sugar will make it come out a thick, spicy, reddish sauce or glaze to serve with meat or quinoa -- not terrible tasting, but not really like the original cranberry sauce.

#2: Where are all the baby squashes tonight?

#3: Balsamic glaze

http://cleananddelicious.com/2008/08/09/howto_make_balsamic_glaze_vide/

Stacking things at halfbakedharvest

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Hmmm, more ideas for uses of the strange cranberry concoction?

Maybe some other evening...

http://www.halfbakedharvest.com/chipotle-quinoa-sweet-potato-tacos-roasted-cranberry-pomegranate-salsa/

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http://www.eatboutique.com/2011/11/06/balsamic-glaze/#.UpmIw9zTnxN

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"Just a little...because it's an experiment" = eating half of the experiment with a hunk of crusty sourdough.

Takeaways from yesterday

Roasted baby squashes do not need herbs to be delicious

Jalapeno cranberry sauce

The Brontosaurus never existed

Korean businesspeoples' drinking habits

some Descent ideas/associations

Boundlessness in Bloom by Duy Huynh

Ring of Fire

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http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/23580/madrid-firemen-and-one-firewoman-strip-off-for-charity-calendar-to-help-the-hungry

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/watch-this-indian-actress-shut-down-a-female-journalist-for

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Mallika Sherawat & Bruno Mars

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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descent

Food for thought

http://www.michaelschoneman.com/2011/11/im-not-vegan-happy-thanksgiving.html

~ "P.S.  I expect this story probably sounds trivial, but if you've ever been poor and desperate, you know how humiliating it is to ask for help from someone whom you know doesn't want to give it."

~ http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-2013.html



Benjamin Franklin Gets a Facelift

~ A survey of men and women from 1998 to 2009 shows that women 65 years of age and older have a median income that’s 25% lower than that of their male counterparts, according to Bloomberg. Even worse, the federal study showed that women of that age group are twice as likely as men to be living at or below the poverty line."


~ http://business.time.com/2012/07/26/retirement-age-women-twice-as-likely-as-men-to-live-in-poverty-whats-going-on/

http://www.michaelschoneman.com/2011/11/im-not-vegan-happy-thanksgiving.html


~ "....gets hit on all the time by dudes who come in and act like they've never seen a circle-shaped cake before. But she's a little reticent, so usually she does her twitchy, eye-rolly, 'Uh, time to make the fonuts'-type dance, and she walks away. She just got out of a relationship with 'a high-profile chef' they act like they're not going to name for a while, and then she accidentally maybe lets it slip that okay, you dragged it out of her, it's..."

~ http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/08/11/211060932/the-real-foodwives-bravo-found-some-more-rich-ladies-who-gossip

http://southernfoodways.blogspot.com/2013_03_01_archive.html

 ~ "Contrary to conventional wisdom, researchers say it can hurt women to ask for more money. That's because when women do request either a raise or a higher starting salary they are more likely than men to be perceived as greedy, demanding or just not very nice."

"Neale said she thinks it is largely subconscious, and most bosses probably don't even know that they are judging women more harshly."

"When Neale is negotiating, she said she's found that she is more successful if she asks for a package of resources that will help make her employer better—rather than just more money for herself.
In academia, she said, that may mean she also shows how more resources for her research, plus additional teaching assistants, will help the university meet its goal of producing more high-profile results.

  'Then I'm not getting greedy,' she said. 'I'm doing things that help the organization.'"

~ For women, asking for a raise...

http://thegraphicsfairy.com/retro-clip-art-money-moms-women/

~ "asking is complicated"

~ http://amandapalmer.tumblr.com/post/65423995378/whats-the-most-important-thing-you-have-learned-this

A cornocopia of links

https://libraries.mit.edu/news/cornucopia-cookbooks/1223/

Hey Good Lookin'

Hey Coal Miner's Daughter

Hey Junipero

Hey Seven Cities of Gold

Hey Erendiras

http://mexicanfood1.wordpress.com/

Par-for-the-course eggshell human psyche

While the earlier portion of the evening involved unloading groceries, plans to putter around in the kitchen and accidentally getting the silly Adam Sandler Hanukkah song stuck in my head, this somehow evolved into Gary Jules' Mad World becoming embedded in my brain before I even cooked the turkey bacon for the broccoli salad. Probably will just have to go out to a coffee place and think about it.

From etsy

Not a Southern California kind of film

If you search images for love in hills you get a lot of stuff, but one those images is this:

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/beyond-the-hills-review-divine-love-1.4807357

I think it's meant to be watched when a person is in the mood for lots of bleak winter landscape.
And religious women.

Bodies and books

Howard Schatz's Images Of Female Athletes...

http://bookshelfies.tumblr.com/

The internet and its (culinary) influence

I read this and decided to cook something.

http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-soup-spot-mecca-of-soup.html

I have onion. I have broth. I have what is probably the incorrect type of cheese. I can go to the store for French bread.

Voila...

From closetcooking

Sadly, I do not own a crock.
Oh well. I've always wanted to try cooking French Onion soup.
Maybe I will even make this adventurous apple version.

fancy talking pictures types of things

From Morris Dance on wikipedia

In search of light comical song/dance relief, was trying very hard to find a hey nonny nonny sketch, but ALL I got was:

http://www.moviestack.com/posts/261498-robin-hood-men-in-tights-on-key--peele.

Typing "renaissance costumes" and various other things did not help.

On the other hand, Lando's Fan and Tackle & Grapple and McCringleberry's Excessive Celebration (the last one reminded me of that time I found out a kid who sat behind me in a math class had magically metamorphosed into being someone's dad and had also posted a religious sermon including comparisons of himself to a rhinoceros) were perfectly available. Now I really should go proofread an essay for a coworker whose mom is my age. Hey nonny donde estany...

Melting

From Feral Librarian

From thisiscolossal

From theinspiredapple

joie de vivre & aloe plants?

Vance Joy ~ Riptide

From vancejoy

Which pair of praying hands looks most pious

Younger or elder?

From jeannedepompadour

from wikipedia

Hi, Hans

I couldn't understand a word you said.

From simfy

but thanks for contributing to one of the best cinematic experiences I ever had in my LIFE,

From http://www.karussell.de/hans-paetsch

which was watching Run Lola Run at the Byrd Theater in Richmond.

From hamlethamster

Also the only time I ever got to see someone play one of those old organs, and whoever that guy was was fantastic as well.

Sherasherashera

What on earth is this a picture of?

From http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/11/third-time-pays-for-all.html

And this?  http://severinefeist.blogspot.com/2013/07/sometimes-you-just-gotta-get-with-your.html

Like most good girl children of the early 80s, I was a big fan of Shera as an 8-year-old. (And now I'm wondering where the name originated after noticing these Hindi (?) songs: Shera, shera somali, ye dilwaalon ki basti hai Shera 1999...) I missed out on watching Blues Clues as a kid because I was a decade off, but after skimming through The Tipping Point while entertaining a cat named Coraline this weekend, I wonder if I should check it out? Also because of my weird little dog dreamish experience around Halloween.  And because, as Mr. Dylan relayed, I think I have dreamed of St. Augustine! Perhaps not always with my eyes closed.

Swirly streaks n' striations

From plantsarethestrangestpeople

From verybestbaking

From lifeokblog

From soapqueen

Le restaurant review

From The Burger Shack review on yelp, little photo 15

todays t-shirt slogan idea

is "I Prefer Sarcastic Secular People"

I think it's kinda clever. I thought it up in my brain...

From npr.org

Brain Story that came on the radio a little while ago.

a she from somewhere

I don't know how, but yesterday I accidentally stumbled across a blog that stopped in 2011. I looked at it briefly, decided it was mostly full of selfies, then closed my browser. Well, this morning it kept getting in my face when I was closing windows so I thought that maybe it wanted to be shared.

This was from December of 2009: http://theaudreywilde.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html.

This was the last visual (I believe it's Bernard):

BalloonsWatermelonLibrarians

A Dream of Flying


Geena Davis Archery Tricks


Your Move, Librarians

calamity clam koan

into every life

a little calamity

must fall O Seattle

Dances With Clams

 as tho' Rain Song


he finds a red mushroom under a tree (1:17)

found Bye Bye Birdie?

Environmental Calamities

From nationalpost.com

Life/Death

1) This evening, my roommate from the Philippines was saying his family is extremely lucky that the terrible typhoon missed his small island.

2) As I was driving home, this announcement interrupted the music: "Only 15% chance of getting pregnant after age 35! Only 5% chance after age 40!" This topic is always in my face lately. And meanwhile there are also those articles about girls hitting puberty at young ages...

"Ainsley closed her eyes, as if to shut out the embarrassment. The ongoing quest to understand why her young body was turning into a woman’s was not one of Ainsley’s favorite pastimes. She preferred torturing her 6-year-old brother and playing school with the neighborhood kids. (Ainsley was always the teacher, and she was very strict.) 

'Have you seen Western doctors for this?' Allomong asked."

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"Finally, he asked Ainsley to sit up. 'It doesn’t test like it’s her own estrogens,' Allomong reported to Tracee, meaning he didn’t think Ainsley’s ovaries were producing too many hormones on their own. 'I think it’s xeno-estrogens, from the environment,' he explained. 'And I think it’s stress and insulin and sugar.'"

~From Puberty Before Age 10: A New "Normal"?

3) This weekend, I made about 20 copies of pages out of a good book called Womancode. I was only going to copy the part about all the endocrine disruptors in shampoos, soaps, etc. but then I got on a roll. Out of the 15+ books I have checked out, it was the only one I couldn't renew; someone else has requested it. (Ah, those others, secretly lurking...)

4) Then I watched The Subliminal Message In So Many Animated Kids’ Movies And Shows Isn’t About Violence and had to look up Geena Davis (and found this, by the way: "At age 46,Davis gave birth to their daughter Alizeh Keshvar (born April 10, 2002). At age 48, she had twin boys, Kian William Jarrahy and Kaiis Steven (born May 6, 2004)" not saying that's normal for most women, but guessing that she must have been batting an average better than 5%.) I know most people probably think of her in Thelma and Louise but I remembered more about seeing her in The Accidental Tourist. I watched her acceptance speech. (She first thanked Anne Tyler for writing such wonderful book! How sweet.) Then I saw that the guy she was married to at the time died in New Zealand from falling over a cliff  just this morning?

5) Fittingly, a bunch of emergency vehicles came blaring down the street and parked at the end of the block as I was typing this. 

6) Okay that actor did not die, apparently. God, that's the hazard of being famous.

FloralyLeafyButteflyeeHair

http://thecolorpassion.blogspot.com/2011/04/flower-dance.html

Long car rides can make one hungry

Excepts below from Comfort Food: No One Brings Dinner When Your Daughter Is An Addict by Larry M. Lake

From http://womenlaughingalonewithsalad.tumblr.com/

"When my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, we ate well."

"Leftovers piled up in the refrigerator, and soon the freezer filled up too, this tsunami of food offerings an edible symbol of our community’s abundant generosity.

Although few said the word breast unless it belonged to a chicken, many friends were familiar with the word cancer and said it often, without flinching. They asked how we were doing, sent notes and cards, passed along things they’d read about treatments and medications, emailed links to good recovery websites and the titles of helpful books, called frequently, placed gentle if tentative hands on shoulders, spoke in low and warm tones, wondered if we had enough food. The phrase we heard most was: 'If there’s anything I can do ... '"

"Almost a decade later, our daughter, Maggie, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with bipolar disorder, following years of secret alcohol and drug abuse.

No warm casseroles."

From http://womenlaughingalonewithsalad.tumblr.com/page/2

"We drove nearly five hours round trip each Sunday for our one weekly visiting hour. The sustenance of food, candy, and fiction were forbidden as gifts to patients at the treatment center. Instead, we brought Maggie cigarettes, sketchbooks, colored pencils, and phone cards. Any beef roasts or spaghetti dinners we ate were ones we’d prepared ourselves or bought in a restaurant on the long road to the center.

                         

Then, late one night in June, Maggie and another patient were riding in the treatment center’s van on the way back to their house after a full day of the hard work of addiction recovery."

 

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"That night, an oncoming speeding car hit the van head-on."

 

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"While Maggie was in the hospital, cards and letters filled our mailbox at home. For the two weeks that Maggie remained in rehab, and even while she flew to the Midwest, then wore her pink dress at Nick’s wedding and danced triumphantly with her cousins, offers of food crackled from our answering machine and scrolled out on email: 'If there’s anything I can do ... '"

 

http://womenlaughingalonewithsalad.tumblr.com/page/2

A family of treees

I just watched the MGMT -  "Kids" video for the first time and went, wait, is that really little  kid actually scared and crying? Can kids that young act/fake-cry? I'm not sure about that. Do they actually have to make a kid cry to make the video? I think my grandmother would not approve. If they need to show a really little kid crying, can't they just show the crying in, like, an animated version? And then it went animated! And the cartoon kid cried way less...

His body was a cage...

"My Body is a Cage"

(Arcade Fire & Once Upon a Time in the West)
(Sara Lov)

made me think of...



Saint Augustine and Saint Monica (1846), by Ary Scheffer

"Augustine's mother had followed him to Milan and he allowed her to arrange a marriage, for which he abandoned his concubine. It is believed that Augustine truly loved the woman he had lived with for so long and was deeply hurt by ending this relationship. In fact, there is evidence that Augustine may have considered his relationship with the concubine to be equivalent to marriage, though not legally recognized as such.^[32] In his Confessions, he admitted that the experience eventually produced a decreased sensitivity to pain over time. He had to wait two years until his fiancée came of age, and he soon took another concubine. Augustine eventually broke off his engagement to his eleven-year-old fiancée, but never renewed his relationship with either of his concubines."

Angelico, Fra. The Conversion of St. Augustine

"Alypius of Thagaste steered Augustine away from marriage, saying that they could not live a life together in the love of wisdom if he married. Augustine looked back years later on the life at Cassiciacum, a villa outside of Milan where he gathered with his followers, and described it as Christianae vitae otium – the Christian life of leisure.^[33] Augustine had been awarded a job of professor of rhetoric in Milan at the time he was living at Cassiciacum around 383."

St. Augustine in his cell - Sandro Botticelli

"Augustine was one of the first Christian ancient Latin authors with very clear anthropological vision.^[49] He saw the human being as a perfect unity of two substances: soul and body. In his late treatise On Care to Be Had for the Dead, section 5 (420 AD) he exhorted to respect the body on the grounds that it belonged to the very nature of the human person.^[50] Augustine's favourite figure to describe body-soul unity is marriage: caro tua, coniunx tua — your body is your wife.^[51][52][53] Initially, the two elements were in perfect harmony. After the fall of humanity they are now experiencing dramatic combat between one another. They are two categorically different things. The body is a three-dimensional object composed of the four elements, whereas the soul has no spatial dimensions.^[54]

From elephantinthehottub

^"His feast day is 28 August, the day on which he died. He is considered the patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, sore eyes, and a number of cities and dioceses.^[10]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo

Music Video Triage

Sambuca definitions

http://horinca.blogspot.com/2008/02/soncino-donkey-stew-with-guelfs-and.html

*  Clips from Black Orpheus in Arcade Fire ~ Afterlife

(Don't think I heard the song earlier, but "Reflektor" was mentioned on the radio.)

**  I also felt the need to look up Electric Relaxation...

(Sometimes what I hear just before I get out of the car in the morning stays in my head at the end of the day.)

***  And there's this video for So Many Wizards ~ Lose Your Mind

(That song was hanging around in my head more than I thought it would.)

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I decided to check, and "Triage" doesn't mean what I thought it did.

http://www.wordnik.com/words/triage

But it fits.

Trio of songs

Heard Halloween morning

from etsy

*  Trouble Every Day ~ Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention

**  Lose Your Mind ~ So Many Wizards

***  Girls Just Wanna Have Fun cover ~ Voice on Tape

From Video Killed The Radio Star