Today's Tids Issue
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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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