Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
Glstening lights

Monday, October 3, 2016

Proliferation and Tedium.




Today's Tids Issue 3,697
For October:

Ah, the chill in the air that could only be October. The beginning of that rainbow of colors spreading throughout hills and valleys, reflecting brightly in glimmering lakes and gentle streams. The soft days of the tenth month, where candy in bright bags are on sale everywhere. Witches and skeletons on green lawns harken the advent of Halloween. Yet, all that really matters in this most beautiful month is making it to November without a Stock Market disaster, or devastating hurricane. There’s always something, even in magnificent October.

Did you ever think we would get to the times when every 5th American woman would be a yoga instructor? Or, personal trainer?

I get high on bacon.

Did you hear about the local Narragansett restaurant that saved a man’s life? A guy fishing off a breakwater dropped his cell phone which fell into a crevice. When he reached down to get it he slipped head first into a large hole in the rock formation. He got stuck and couldn’t get out! Fire and police came but it was a well-known doughboy and clam restaurant that saved the day. Because of the potential instability of the large rocks, the rescue people were leery of using heavy equipment. So they ran over to the restaurant taking all of their Olive Oil. With it, they greased up the floundering fisherman. I imagine they had to wait until environmental police left before they could use the oil near the pristine ocean. Hey, but what’s a person’s life to an environmentalist.

Hillary is just that annoying kind of aloof person who is the very definition of condescending. Everybody by now knows of her own caste system that relegates “Deplorable Nation” to a basket. Yesterday a hacked auto clip has Hillary categorizing Bernie’s supporters as “Uninformed basement dwellers.” I wonder what she thinks of devout Catholics and all good Christians who don’t believe in abortion.

One of the more pleasant ways to drift off into romantic fantasy is listening to Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde.

The Question:
What is the Second biggest use for wheat after bread? Bonus: Name two 1950’s TV anthology style series that always had you guessing in the end. Super Bonus: What President established the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day? Extra Special Super Bonus: Name the five best and five worst states in which to retire.

The Headlines:
--Markets Poised To Open Lower.
--Trump Kids Bothered By His Fanatical Focus On Trivia.
--Eastern Eyes Watching Mathew.
--Assange Postpones Balcony Release Of Hillary Info Because Of Security; Mentions Murder Of DNC Aide As Concern.
--90% Of Hungarian Voters Say No To EU Dictated Refugee Settlement.
--India And Pakistan Exchange Fire In Kashmir.
--Columbia Peace Plan Defeated By Voters.
--Kim Kardashian Robbed Of Jewelry In Paris; Kardashian Said To Have Had $10 Mil Worth Of Bling In Her Possession Is Bound And Gagged And Held at Gunpoint; Some say It Looks Like New Segment For reality Show; Where Were Her Body Guards?
--Bass Pro Shops To Buy Out Cabela’s For $5.5 Billion.

The Hillary campaign loves keeping alive absurdities like Miss Universe. Basically they’re playing a chess match with Trump, and Trump is tending to move towards checkmate.

Could The Well Fargo “Two Million Felonies” be the Dastardly Deeds that breaks the tradition of Big Finance’s Fraudulent Tendencies.

I have found some great classical music just by buying the Grammy Awards classical album of the year. One of them is the hypnotic Symphony #3 of Henryk Gorecki, often morose and somber, but in reality a monumental presentation reflecting the enormity of the human spirit. It is a remembrance of the Hitler surprise attack on Warsaw and the devastation that ensued. A people who stood strong. A haunting orchestral interpretation leads to rays of sunlight in the vocal passages of soprano Dawn Upshaw. I played it yesterday in honor of Rosh Shoshanna. While specific to that Warsaw insurgence, to me it seems appropriate for all who have been oppressed since the biblical times.

A moment of silence for Neville Marriner, the brilliant maestro of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra. But then, maybe it’s not silence but beautiful music that should be wafting through the city streets and countryside. After all, Neville and his orchestra was perhaps the most recorded classical organization ever. Feel the music.

Speaking of playing games, Barack Hussein Obama is not going out quietly. It seems like his mighty minions are scouring U.S. law looking for ways for the 0-Man to skirt Congress. Get ready for some doozies. Just ask fishermen.

Do you get the idea that Oreo is proliferating its brand to the point where there will be so many versions of the scrumptious cookie that it will confuse buyers? There is that truism to contend with – “too much of a good thing…”

The same could be said for sports, because after Cheetos, gravy and Oreo’s -- that is my favorite thing. But even I, a devout gym rat for seven decades, am losing interest with the propagation of talk programs and varied “experts” trying to outdo each other but essentially saying the same thing in different ways. And often, when trying to be different, outrageousness reaches the unlistenable scale. Yes, sadly, my sports radio stations are not as heavily used as they were. But all is not hopeless, as my stomach still roils several days before each Pats game and will soon for the Red Sox. So I still have the potential energy of sports juice simmering in my soul. Do you think the Celtics will be better? Bruins? PC Friars? URI?

Love Chicken, Department:
Here’s a thing called lemon parmesan chicken with asparagus, and it’s is easy. Put 1/3 cp flour in one bowl. In another combine, cp Panko (Or regular) crumbs1/2 cp parm cheese, ½ tsp each of S&P. In third bowl add 1-2 tsp lemon zest, 4-5 tsp lemon juice, 1 tbs minced garlic, 5 tbs melted butter. Stir, then remove 4 tbs of mixture. Take 1 ½ pounds boneless skinless chix breasts an cut to chix tenders size (Or use Chick tenders). Coat each in flour, then dredge in lemon mixture and finally breadcrumb mixture. Place chix on sheet with parchment paper. Sprinkle with Panko mix and lemon/pepper seasoning (Mrs. Dash). Bake in preheated 400 degree oven for 10 mins. Flip to other side. Next to chix place 1 lb asparagus. Drizzle with reserve lemon butter sauce and 1.2 cp Parm. Bake additional 10-12 mins. In small bowl whisk together 3 tbs melted but, 3 tbs lemon juice, 3 tbs OO, 3 tbs honey. Add pepper and parsley. Do not top chix with But/Lemon/Honey mess until at table ready to eat. Could be good.

Don’t buy your art at Target or Wal-Mart, even if It looks good. Struggling artists need you.

Did you ever stop to think of that one day in the past when some guy or gal in an animal skin was walking through the fields of waving grass espied the grain tops leading him to think --why I could pound those tops of the grass into flour and make bread! What is bread anyhow, would be his or her next thought.

Why wouldn’t The “Chips Ahoy” people make extra thin versions of their cookies and put Oreo stuff in the middle of two of them. That has possibilities.

My smart phone Health App doesn’t know what I do, and certainly doesn’t know as much about me as it thinks it does. And I’m not telling it.

Have the New England Patriots run onto the field yet?

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:
--Deep Water Horizon Looks to me like More adventure than I need, telling a story I already know that was told incessantly at the time.. But, disaster pic fans will enjoy it as it is quite well produced, and it has a serious tenor for those who want to look back at the effects of the tragedy. It is a nice heroic tale of people working for each other. It could be a box office disaster, though, as first weekend results were a disappointment.
--Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children may be as odd as its title implies. Based on a best-selling novel of a home for children with special powers, we find our own hero Jake discovering his own special powers to save his friends. It is a good mystery that spans different worlds and times. Not terribly well accepted by critics and audiences.
--Queen of Katwe is your basic feel good movie about a young girl from rural Uganda who pursues her goal to become an international chess champion. Your basic rags to riches story ala Karate Kid and others. But, well done in the disney mode.

The Answer:
I don’t know if it was Marco Polo who promoted it, but Pasta is the other main use of Wheat. Bonus: Why don’t they have TV series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone anymore? Super Bonus: Honest Abe said Let the last Thursday in November be a day of thanksgiving. ES Super Bonus: The Five best states for retirement are #1 followed by Wyoming, South Dakota, South Carolina, Colorado, Idaho, Texas, Montana, Nevada and Virginia. The Worst State, number Five One, is Rhode Island. Yikes! The rest are DC, Hawaii, Conn, Vermont, New Jersey, West Virginia, New York, Alaska and Maryland.

Have a great first full week of October.

Sun’s out! That’s odd.

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