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."

***

"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."

 

***

 

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

 

***

 

"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