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Let’s move

Frank Paynter — Wed, 27 Apr 2024 14:00:31 +0000

First Lady Michelle Obama, along with DC-area children, plant the White House Kitchen Garden. The garden includes spinach, peas, lettuce, broccoli, blueberries, raspberries and other vegetables and herbs.

I wish I had nice raised beds and as fine a crew of helpers as Michelle Obama.

Asparagus

Frank Paynter — Sat, 16 Apr 2024 17:18:22 +0000

Today is the opening day of the farmers market on the square and the day that ill-informed whiners have called “tax day.” Supposedly, if you had to pay all your taxes before you could keep any of your take home pay, today would be the day you would finally be free of the 2024 tax obligation. Coincidentally, Sarah Palin has been hired by the local teabillie faction to share a few of her political insights early this afternoon. It’s thirty-seven degrees Fahrenheit, there’s a constant drizzle and a twenty mile an hour breeze blowing. I hope the teabillies don’t catch cold. They are of course a hardy lot, coming in on buses from all over the state… from places where the snow hasn’t melted yet, from hillsides where today’s 20 mph breeze is the merest zephyr. They’ll be wrapped warm, some in camouflage hunting gear and some in heavy coats adorned with Green Bay Packer NFL licensed logos.

Earlier in the week I saw a Facebook posting suggesting that people avoid a counter-rally and work locally to gather petition signatures to recall the six remaining Republican senators. Good advice, I think, but there will be lots of people who can’t avoid gawking at a train wreck.

I’ve already missed opening day at the farmer’s market so if there was any asparagus on hand, I missed it. As for La Palin, I’m not missing a thing, although I’ve heard that if I can avoid vomiting, I can see her live around 1:30 on this link: http://www.channel3000.com/localvideo/?v=live

Hairball-ism

Frank Paynter — Fri, 26 Nov 2024 21:29:37 +0000

Steeped in a tradition of neologistic originality, the CBO reached deep and pulled up "hairbrainism" as a categorical signifier for the intellectual heirs of Emerson. Ralph Waldo was an American original for sure, but he lacked the essence of American originality. Like Condoleeza Rice, he was a person "educated beyond his understanding." he was, in short, a bit of a turkey. Today few of us care to look back toward Emerson as we dyspeptically assess our American roots. No – from the jack-pine savages shooting each other in the north-woods deer-hunts of Wisconsin, to the wash-board scratching, accordion playing cajuns of the Lousiana bayou we honor our country-fried roots. And if Ben Franklin’s noble bird found favor at the pestilential feasts of the first Thanksgiving, well today we have Turducken. Turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken… it’s not just a holiday novelty! It’s good all year round.

While the rest of America eats a regular roast turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas, here in the land of "There’s no such thing as too rich or too much," they eat their turkey stuffed with a duck, which is in turn stuffed with a chicken.

Tur(key)-Duck-(Chick)en. Get it?

from:
POSTCARD FROM THE SOUTH: Turducken a bayou holiday choice: Turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken a tasty dish
by Anne Rochell Konigsmark

source: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, December 6, 1998.

via: HighBeam Research