Both times the topics were anchovies and artichokes.
Both times the topics were anchovies and artichokes.
THE TOPIC WAS ANCHOVIES - my years-later fan-fiction sequel to THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
I have read 2 other Erdrich books, this is her 1st dystopia one that I know of. At times I liked it very much, other times I rolled my eyes and read quickly. What I liked about the book kept me reading and engrossed.
It was written in 3 parts. Each part was one long chapter. It was part 3, I read last night where it fell apart for me.
I woke up this morning still angry about it. Reading the reviews I seem to be in the minority.
I have read 2 other Erdrich books, this is her 1st dystopia one that I know of. At times I liked it very much, other times I rolled my eyes and read quickly. What I liked about the book kept me reading and engrossed.
It was written in 3 parts. Each part was one long chapter. It was part 3, I read last night where it fell apart for me.
I woke up this morning still angry about it. Reading the reviews I seem to be in the minority.
I read two of hers, too. No more. Really depressing. So is her history with her late husband and their adopted children.
Carl Hiassen can be fun. I think Skin Tight was my favorite.
Carl Hiassen can be fun. I think Skin Tight was my favorite.
Happy birthday to the busy DR edisaurus!!!
I just dropped the girls off at the theater. I'm sure I will hear all about their adventure. For months, probably.
I just dropped the girls off at the theater. I'm sure I will hear all about their adventure. For months, probably.
Is this HAMILTON day?
Both times the topics were anchovies and artichokes.
THE TOPIC WAS ANCHOVIES - my years-later fan-fiction sequel to THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
Both times the topics were anchovies and artichokes.
THE TOPIC WAS ANCHOVIES - my years-later fan-fiction sequel to THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
;D
NO-COLD vibes for DR Jeanne!
My dad's niece was about 15-20 years older than I. when I was around 12 or so, she married an Italian American and they lived in Manhattan's Little Italy. when they came to Ohio to visit around 1958, he made pizza for everyone, and I've loved it ever since.
I loved the one Carl Hiassen book I've read (SICK PUPPY) and I always intend to read more.
Thank you for yet another reminder, DR Elmore.
I just dropped the girls off at the theater. I'm sure I will hear all about their adventure. For months, probably.
Love-starved Thatch, for all his dislike of being held, is becoming the little flirt. He loves to be petted, so he rubs against my legs, then lies down, rolls on his back and lets me pet him. When he gets tired or frightened of what he's feeling, he runs away, and then comes back for more. Over and over. Early this morning, he jumped into bed with me and Annabelle, curled up in my armpit and I would swear he tried to nurse!
Thanks DR elmore. Native Tongue looks good. Should I begin with the first book in the series before reading this one?
Greetings to DR Edi and a sample of how DR elmore can have fun with his Amazon boxes.
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DR George I am pleased you had a good evening.
Yes, it is indeed Hamilton Day.
Off to Houston. My instructor, Joy, is taking her test for her certification in standard dancing today. I have to dance both the leader and the follower (formerly the man’s and woman’s) parts. It’s been a challenge to learn and thankfully the judge won’t be looking too much at me.
I've been fighting a cold all week. Fortunately, minor rather than major, but PERSISTENT. Normally, I take a couple doses of Sambucol and poof! Cold gone. This one doesn't want to leave. Like Elmore, I feel the need to be cautious. My next -- dare I say it? -- root canal is scheduled for this coming Tuesday and I'd like to be as strong as possible going into it.
Both times the topics were anchovies and artichokes.
THE TOPIC WAS ANCHOVIES - my years-later fan-fiction sequel to THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
Greetings to DR Edi and a sample of how DR elmore can have fun with his Amazon boxes.
(https://i.imgflip.com/1jhffw.jpg)
Yes, it is indeed Hamilton Day.
in New York City, (almost) each day is Hamilton Day!
Yesterday, Lin-Manuel Miranda and his wife Vanessa had their second child.
https://www.usmagazine.com/.../lin-manuel-miranda-welcomes-second-child-with-wife-vanessa-nadal/
Thanks DR elmore. Native Tongue looks good. Should I begin with the first book in the series before reading this one?
Thanks for correcting that, George!
I am finished....yes finished....done.....the end!
Yes, after about 12 hours of non-continuous work, I have completed the slide show for the 50th Reunion of my high school class of 1968. The yearbook was published in some process that made all of the photos very light....so in addition to being cropped, the light levels on all of them had to be corrected.
And of course, the first time I had some slides reversed and a couple of misspellings - but those have been corrected.
So let it be written - so let it be done.
I DID NOT DO THE MEMORIAL SLIDE SHOW for the 26 class members who have gone on to their rewards....or punishment in the case of a couple of them....hopefully the organizers will get me the DATES I need to complete that. I have already cropped and corrected the pictures....so I just need the info for the headstones, so to speak.
What kind of pizza does not involve melted cheese? (he asks, truly bewildered)
What kind of pizza does not involve melted cheese? (he asks, truly bewildered)
;D
Pesto pizza for one ;)
Three-hour workshop was really fun. Fifteen people. And while they were all very nervous by the end of it they really were having a good time. I'm pretty good at this stuff and keep it all so positive and I have my little tricks. One girl, who literally could not hear pitches, sang on pitch by the end of it because I talked her through it patiently and gave her my secret tips. It bowled her and everyone else in the room over.
Piece o' Pizza in my nabe was on La Cienega and 18th.
What kind of pizza does not involve melted cheese? (he asks, truly bewildered)
;D
Pesto pizza for one ;)
Is that different from pesto pizza for two?
I never thought of that as pizza, but I guess anything on pizza dough is pizza!
Wae-Ling thought it was the greatest thing EVER; Sandra doesn't see what all the hype was about.
I have a recollection of being very young at the pizza store on Avenue J across form the Midwood Theatre in Brooklyn. I can't remember why i did this, but I was scraping the cheese off my pizza and eating only the delicious cheese and sauce part, and leaving the crust. And someone in my family group said "You're pulling the pizza's face off." I said, "But I don't want to eat the bread part." And this relative said, "How would you like it if someone was pulling your face off? You wouldn't like it, would you?"
I recall thinking I wouldn't care that much about my face being pulled off if I were being consumed and eaten alive by a monster or something like that, would I?
Wae-Ling thought it was the greatest thing EVER; Sandra doesn't see what all the hype was about.
Wae-Ling thought it was the greatest thing EVER; Sandra doesn't see what all the hype was about.
I;'m glad I saw HAMILTON early, in previews! After hearing about any show for 2-1/2 years, I don't think anything but the original company of HAMLET could live up to expectations. But it felt like quite a miracle, pretty fresh in previews. (at regular prices, before tickets got up to post-opening levels)
I have a recollection of being very young at the pizza store on Avenue J across form the Midwood Theatre in Brooklyn. I can't remember why i did this, but I was scraping the cheese off my pizza and eating only the delicious cheese and sauce part, and leaving the crust. And someone in my family group said "You're pulling the pizza's face off." I said, "But I don't want to eat the bread part." And this relative said, "How would you like it if someone was pulling your face off? You wouldn't like it, would you?"
I recall thinking I wouldn't care that much about my face being pulled off if I were being consumed and eaten alive by a monster or something like that, would I?
What an awful thing to say to a child ;D
Wae-Ling thought it was the greatest thing EVER; Sandra doesn't see what all the hype was about.
I;'m glad I saw HAMILTON early, in previews! After hearing about any show for 2-1/2 years, I don't think anything but the original company of HAMLET could live up to expectations. But it felt like quite a miracle, pretty fresh in previews. (at regular prices, before tickets got up to post-opening levels)
Before the hype is always best.
What kind of pizza does not involve melted cheese? (he asks, truly bewildered)
;D
Pesto pizza for one ;)
Three-hour workshop was really fun. Fifteen people. And while they were all very nervous by the end of it they really were having a good time. I'm pretty good at this stuff and keep it all so positive and I have my little tricks. One girl, who literally could not hear pitches, sang on pitch by the end of it because I talked her through it patiently and gave her my secret tips. It bowled her and everyone else in the room over.
Could someone have a dessert pizza?
LOL DR JANE - maybe they've just moved on....I had trouble finding a photo for one guy....he was in NONE of the four yearbooks for our high school years....I thought I was going to have to use one of his numerous online mug shots....but I found him in a CLUB photo of a club he was in....running the radial saw....
Could someone have a dessert pizza?
Of course! Pizza Hut used to have a dessert pizza that was like an open-faced apple pie with crumbles. It was totally delish!
Could someone have a dessert pizza?
Of course! Pizza Hut used to have a dessert pizza that was like an open-faced apple pie with crumbles. It was totally delish!
I don't remember this.
TOD:
I couldn't tell you about my very first pizza, but as a child, my family always went to Round Table pizza. That chain is crazy expensive now, but it couldn't have been that way 40 years ago or else my dad would never have picked that place. We always got a large with sausage and mushrooms, and a medium pepperoni with olives. I also remember around that same era going out for pizza with a friend, and her parents asked me what I liked on my pizza and I said, "salami". I think my parents never told me that stuff I'd been eating on pizza for years, that looked like dry salami, was actually called "pepperoni".
These days, we like Toppers. Mark, the weirdo, hates melted cheese. Can you imagine? Who could hate melted cheese!? So, we have to get two small separate pizzas.
I am enjoying the plethora of all the build-your-own-pizza places popping up everywhere. It's shocking how many of them there are now. We just went to a brand new one last night called Blaze. It was good. We've been going to Mod Pizza because we like it better than Pieology.
Thanks DR GEORGE.
LOL DR JANE - maybe they've just moved on....I had trouble finding a photo for one guy....he was in NONE of the four yearbooks for our high school years....I thought I was going to have to use one of his numerous online mug shots....but I found him in a CLUB photo of a club he was in....running the radial saw....
Joy passed her test. We danced well. But it was strange/funny: Joy kept telling me beforehand that we didn’t have to dance all that much, that the test giver would tell us to stop after about a minute, then we could change roles and dance it again. Well, he never told us to stop. Any time. So we danced two or more minutes on each. When we were finished, Joy asked why he didn’t stop us. “We had time,” he said. “And you looked good.” I did screw up a few times, especially as we went on and on, so I didn’t care for that response at the time. It’s actually a compliment as the test giver is a past world champion.
Joy passed her test. We danced well. But it was strange/funny: Joy kept telling me beforehand that we didn’t have to dance all that much, that the test giver would tell us to stop after about a minute, then we could change roles and dance it again. Well, he never told us to stop. Any time. So we danced two or more minutes on each. When we were finished, Joy asked why he didn’t stop us. “We had time,” he said. “And you looked good.” I did screw up a few times, especially as we went on and on, so I didn’t care for that response at the time. It’s actually a compliment as the test giver is a past world champion.
Joy passed her test. We danced well. But it was strange/funny: Joy kept telling me beforehand that we didn’t have to dance all that much, that the test giver would tell us to stop after about a minute, then we could change roles and dance it again. Well, he never told us to stop. Any time. So we danced two or more minutes on each. When we were finished, Joy asked why he didn’t stop us. “We had time,” he said. “And you looked good.” I did screw up a few times, especially as we went on and on, so I didn’t care for that response at the time. It’s actually a compliment as the test giver is a past world champion.
Afterward we went to the nearby Chinatown area for a celebratory dinner of chicken feet, turnip cake and beef tripe. We also had crab, shrimp, tofu, squid and pea shoots, altogether too much wonderful food.