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Warm Picture for a Frozen Biscuit Lounge

Mural on the side of a building in El Prado (near Taos), NM

ps… now it’s 5 o’clock.

My Life Will Be Perfect Once 5 o’clock Gets Here Lounge

Oh god, only 2 1/2 more work days til I get 5 off, and only 5 work days after that til I get a month off, and only 4 months til we can officially say Spring is here!

Angels in the Architecture Lounge

Detail of the terra cotta ornamentation of the Florentine Building, downtown Birmingham, Alabama.

BIG MAMA’S YEAST BISCUITS

This biscuit recipe is from a cookbook by the Dallas County Heritage Society. The Society had a wonderful restaurant called Brent Place in an old farmhouse in Old City Park where they would serve just lunch three days a week. The meals were always the best of old fashioned heritage recipes. All of us downtown Dallas workers loved going there!
I make this recipe every year for Thanksgiving weekend. Nothing like the smell of hot yeast biscuits to satisfy the soul. It’s best to make the dough up one to two days before the big day and keep in the fridge for the whole weekend. Just pinch off enough to bake for each meal and punch down the dough and keep it covered. Actually, punch down the dough each day if you use it or not! You’ll have lovely, fluffy biscuits all weekend! Read more »

Color Me Cynical

Wal-Mart Gives Fresh Food to Help Combat Hunger

Responding to the economic downturn, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to give more than 90 million pounds of fresh food annually to the nation’s largest nonprofit organization addressing hunger, Feeding America [ed note: formerly Second Harvest].

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“A lot of donated food is canned goods or bakery items, but we were interested in seeing how we could provide protein and fresh produce, which is a very different task,” [Wal-Mart spokesman] Ms. McKenna said. “We had to figure out how to fast freeze meat and poultry, even dairy, to ensure that we were not just giving away food but giving away food in a manner that it would be safe.”

I haven’t shopped at Wal-Mart in years. When I did, I bought canned goods and some frozen products, but never ever ever the “fresh” food. Their meats are pre-packaged in nitrogen to retain that lovely red color even after they have begun to spoil. Produce was always months old and often came complete with its own fruit flies buzzing merrily around the displays.

When I briefly worked with Second Harvest many years ago, the deal was that they would pick up fruits and vegetables from restaurants and local grocery stores at or just before their sell-by date in order to prevent them being tossed into a dumpster. If Wal-Mart is now donating their produce and meat just before the sell-by date… and if when it’s still on the shelves it’s approaching inedible…

… you have to wonder if the suits in Bentonville are just trying to foist off their dumpster costs on someone else.

The Radioactive Coffee Club

  As you know, I have been getting radiation therapy treatment to eliminate recurrent cancer in my upper abdomen.  Every Monday through Friday, I drive a short distance to the radiation oncology treatment center at the hospital for my zaps to the belly.  Although the initial treament planning, or simulation, takes quite a bit of time, once that is done, the routine treatments only take about five minutes.  What makes radiation treatments interesting for me this time around is the special group of people I have met that get their treatment at about the same time as I do.  Follow me as I introduce you to the Radioactive Coffee Club. Read more »

Valiant Little Tree Lounge

Just like PolitiCook, surviving against all odds in a desolate and dusty place.

Hovenweep National Monument

6 Days Until Liberation Lounge

6 days until the last day of classes.

Of course, there’s still finals to get through but, after finals, I have an entire month off. I. can. not. wait!

The Universe is Collapsing

Please believe me, I have tried to post everything here simultaneously, or first. I think that everyone, all four of us, understand that. I very much like all of you.

But no one, except for us, visits here, unless a thief who posts my thoughts on another site, and can not be kept from doing so until it is too late. Not good.

I am just telling everyone here, as of now that I will no longer post nor crosspost here. It takes too much effort, for too little gain. I have enjoyed all four of your comments, but I have limited time.

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No Mo’ Joe. Comic Relief: More Fun with the AFA 18 November 2008

Crossposted at Dailykos.com

OK, I am frosted with the pardon that Lieberman got, but I expected it. There are, at most, only 100 sitting Senators at a time. That is a pretty small club, and they look out for each other. I expect him not to be a member of the club come 2012, but we will see.

The folks at The American Family Association have been amusing today, to for the mutual entertainment of all of us, I offer these nuggets. As always in this series, the blockquotes are cut and pasted, so that I do not introduce any bias into the way those folks express themselves. I have improved this post by inserting links to specific stories for everyone to verify my observations, but will not give a direct link to their offensive site. These stories are current as of 8:23 PM Eastern. Here we go!

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