According to Margie Haack, this is more than a recipe for her Lemon Dilled Rice:
Lemon Dilled Rice (Serves 3-4)
1 cup rice
4 T. butter
1 small onion, diced
1 t. salt
2 t. dill weed (or 2 T. fresh dill, chopped)
2 c. water or chicken broth
1 lemon, juiced
In a saucepan, melt butter. Add rice and onion. Sautee for 4 [...]
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Here is the video from the fourth song on Flying Club Cup by Beirut (Zach Condon and band). The song is “La Banlieue”
La banlieue (literally “the outskirts”) is the French term for an area of low income housing around the edge [...]
(From the Making Men Moral Conference at Union University, Jackson TN, February 25-27, 2009. As reported by Owen Strachan. A friend tells me Harry Poe is the great grandson of Edgar Allen Poe. If anyone has any more bio on him, I’ll be glad to add it here. HT for the quote to Christ Datillo [...]
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I’m currently blogging through the set of videos for Zach Condon’s (aka Beirut) magical album The Flying Club Cup. Today’s song is “Guyamas Sonora.”
I think it was this song that made me start thinking about another side to Zach’s exploration of [...]
What happens when we lose our sense of wonder and awe (told in hysterically funny fashion, so we can bear it):
UPDATE: While most innovations of our day would indeed seem amazing to someone from the past, not so for all: Futureman explains social media to ’50s guys
[WARNING: Vain and perhaps foolish attempt ahead to try to justify promoting a friend's blog as a worthy post given the theme and focus of his blog.]
I like What Chris Likes. Chris Martin (no, not that Chris Martin, let’s get that out of the way) was one of our housemates in Philadelphia for all too [...]
From Moby Dick [in reference to the sperm whale's supposed lack of a voice]: “
Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a living. Oh! happy that the world is such an excellent listener!”
What do you think of [...]
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Here is the video for “Sunday Smile,” the second song off Beirut’s album Flying Club Cup.
This time the video is set in the courtyard of a Brooklyn apartment building. I like the substitution of twin ukuleles in this live arrangement for [...]
This must be why mystics and poets record /
The slender incursions of splintered light, /
Echoes, fragments, odd words and phrases /
Like flashes through darkened hallways. - Rod Jellema