Tomorrow! The In Your Ear reading series will proudly present:
CHRIS MASON
&
MATVEI YANKELEVICH
@ District of Columbia Arts Center
at 3 p.m.
Admission is $5.00.
District of Columbia Arts Center is located at 2438 18th Street NW in Adams
Morgan, Washington, DC, between the Dupont Circle and Woodley Park metro
stations. For directions, see the DCAC web site at
http://www.dcartscenter.org/plan_location.htm
Be there or be a regularly sided parallelogram.
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This is one of my grandmother's favorite phrases, and I found it nearly as confusing as a child as my dad's constant refrain of "You make a better door than a window." (Growing up in a home with sliding glass doors made that phrase perfectly incomprehensible...our doors were windows).
But yesterday I received my contributor's copy of the second issue of Handsome, the journal of Black Ocean Press, and well, it is handsome indeed! And now available to all and sundry. Hie thee hence and discover the veritable treasure trove of poems that awaits!
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Jeff's birthday is Sunday, and in his honor, I have fulfilled one of his lexicographical dreams: ownership of the 20-volume OED.
Behold!
The two-volume shorter OED just wasn't cutting it anymore. The new, bigger version arrived on Wednesday, and we spent that evening carefully prizing the volumes out of six separate boxes, freeing them from shinkwrap, and finding out that, say, the definition of the word "open" runs to 25 pages, and that the phrase "to ride a horse foaled of an acorn" means to be hanged from a gallows. Also that the definition of the word "pastrami" is illustrated by a letter from Groucho Marx in which he refers to someone as "the demon pastrami prince."
Yesterday, we went to the Hoyas-Seton Hall basketballgame, and as soon we got home, Jeff was already busily engaged in looking up more words in the OED. I left him snapping glamor shots of it, such as the one that adorns this post.
It is the gift that keeps on giving.
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From the Dep't of General Awesomeness, Jessica Smith and a collaborator, Jeannie Hoag, have created a digital archive of the first two volumes of Foursquare. This is something I need to do with the tinysides (first, I need a scanner. And maybe an intern).
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Last night I made fried rice using this recipe. I didn't use any chicken, I just upped the red pepper content. Still has an egg, though, so not quite vegan.
It was pretty good, despite a lot of people in the comments arguing that the recipe isn't "authentic" enough. Authenticity is not something I hugely value in my food, except to the extent that all of the ingredients are authentically edible, as opposed to being giant hunks of plastic or motor oil or something. The recipe as written could do with some more soy sauce, but that's pretty easy to adjust to your taste.
There will probably be more and more recipes on this blog, as I am experiencing a serious cooking obsession. Really. It is obsession. All I want to do is cook stuff. It isn't that the act of cooking actually makes me really happy (though the act of eating is pretty nice). It's just the means I am currently taking to reduce and channel anxiety into a socially-acceptable form. I have also gone through bouts of crochet obsession, origami obsession, linoleum printing obsession, sewing obsession, bookbinding obsession, collage obsession, etc.
By cooking through bouts of nervousness, I can actually eat my own worry. Sympathetic magic. And totally delicious!
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Tomorrow I am going to this:
Monday, January 11, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Folger Shakespeare Library
Celebrating Beltway Quarterly's 10th anniversary and the 120th Anniversary of Poet Lore, with readings by Kyle Dargan and Kim Addonizio, and a discussion with the editors Kim Roberts, Jody Bolz, and E. Ethelbert Miller, moderated by Jon West-Bey.
Followed by reception and anthology release party.
$12 Admission. 201 E. Capitol St. SE, DC (202) 544-7077
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I made this last night, and it turned out great. I am trying to eat mostly vegetarian right now, as part of a grand plan to get back down to my fighting weight. It is also an opportunity to rediscover the yumminess of veggies.
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I tried to bake eggs, but they would not bake. Jeff even put on some triumphant egg-processional classical music to welcome the baked eggs, but even after we put them back in the oven for a while, they would not bake. So we tried to finish them off in the microwave, and they exploded!
They ended up sort of edible, like poorly poached eggs. Okay. Yolk too hard in the middle and still runny at the edges. But edible. We salvaged what we could and then cleaned up after the rest.
Now Jeff appears to be listening to his egg-processional music and the Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow" simultaneously. I do not understand this.
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