tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87985767239104667402024-03-13T05:37:06.772-07:00contrarienneA woman "of a certain age" with a certain attitude writes for others of similar persuasion. Men allowed.julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.comBlogger3561125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-90886992993615242052015-03-07T11:31:00.001-08:002015-03-07T15:48:55.129-08:00Extreme MeasuresOkay, so without further ado, we re-institute the long-abandoned (because Facebook, doncha know) Contrarienne, because some projects take a lot of space.
Feel free to comment either here or on the Facebook post regarding the entries, and also feel free to suggest new entries.
Thank you
Management
From: The Editor
To: Anyone who writes or says anything in English
Banned Until Furtherjulimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-9900369599985103412013-10-18T16:35:00.002-07:002013-10-19T09:27:18.349-07:00Sweet Potato Souffle from Great Dinners From Life, 1969Sweet Potato Souffle
from Great Dinners From Life
(and I quote)
Don't expect this dish to be light as a dessert souffle. It won't blow up that much, so you needn't worry that you've done something wrong. The flavor is not as sweet as you might expect it to be either. In fact, it's on the spicy side.
3 one lb. 2 oz. cans of sweet potatoes or four pounds, cooked
1/2 C butter, melted
6 eggs
3/4 C julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-56866761446511006342013-01-10T22:22:00.003-08:002013-01-10T22:22:39.042-08:00Answers to Downton Quiz
CHARACTERS QUOTED:
FEMALE
The Dowager Countess, Lord Grantham's Mother
Miss O'Brien, Lady Grantham's maid
Cora, Lady Grantham
Mrs. Levinson, Cora's mother
Miss Reed, Mrs. Levinson's maid
Edith, Grantham daughter
Mary, Grantham daugher
Anna (Bates, Mary's maid)
Mrs. Hughes, housekeeper
Mrs. Pattmore, cook
Daisy, kitchen maid
Unnamed female dinner guest
MALE
Lord julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-48905292673509463432012-10-01T22:11:00.000-07:002012-10-01T22:11:09.913-07:00Gangnam StyleIt is important that you know about this, because it holds the all-time record for YouTube views and I've been seeing the term for weeks without knowing what it was about.
Also, I kinda get a self-parody here that's endearing.
julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-35247702732095605632012-09-28T09:37:00.000-07:002012-09-28T09:37:01.883-07:00Kinda Like A Leper ColonyDina Martina, not Sarah Silverman, would be the funniest woman in America if only...
julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-89454243448768233512012-09-25T21:17:00.000-07:002012-09-25T21:17:12.891-07:00Leaves: Pure Poetry
A leaf is filled with chambers illuminated by gathered light. In these glowing rooms photons bump around, and the leaf captures their energy, turning it into the sugar from which plants, animals, and civilizations are built.Chloroplasts, fed by sun, water, carbon dioxide, and nutrients, do the leaf’s work. They evolved about 1.6 billion years ago when one cell, incapable of using the sun’s julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-8358380222685632972012-09-25T19:44:00.000-07:002012-09-25T19:46:19.463-07:00Vote!From Sarah Silverman, the funniest woman in America.
(Virtually the only reason to watch The Aristocrats, except for, uh, it's important to know the reference.)
julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-37063266177616490302012-09-23T12:43:00.001-07:002012-09-23T12:43:25.004-07:00Ted Hughes To His SonLive like a mighty river.
I am glad to get the reminder today from Andrew Sullivan because I've been meaning to read about Hughes and Sylvia Plath, starting with Janet Malcolm's book, and maybe even approach his poetry. If it's anything like this letter, it's damned good.julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-91904574179811829192012-09-21T13:11:00.000-07:002012-09-21T13:11:01.783-07:00I Made This TodayGIFSoupjulimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-45212433301151242192012-09-12T20:56:00.000-07:002012-09-12T21:03:29.578-07:00I'm Back, I ThinkI blame my absence on the slow news month — August after all — but it could just as easily have been just general alienation of the can't-give-a-shit variety. I was actually thinking of getting off Facebook and dropping my internet service.
Can you imagine? Apparently neither can I.
Romney's deep pile of doo-doo today gives me hope. I was actually considering various headlines such as "Romney julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-80320014533507965922012-08-08T09:19:00.001-07:002012-08-08T09:19:43.893-07:00For The RecordI feel like to day is worth noting, a harbinger of what's to come, a turning point, a tipping point.
julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-87679238367946814212012-08-08T08:38:00.000-07:002012-08-08T08:38:10.133-07:00Romney, Reid And...McCainTalking Points Memo has been running informed commentary by a reader who has extensive knowledge and expertise in how Romney, thanks to Bain, may have paid little or no income tax for several years, just as Harry says.
Not directly linked to that commentary is the regularly surfacing fact that John McCain's campaign saw 23 years' worth of Romney tax returns when Mitt was under consideration for julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-56096924191673650062012-07-31T11:43:00.002-07:002012-07-31T11:43:39.225-07:00Because I Canjulimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-65935390442600908072012-07-28T12:55:00.001-07:002012-07-28T12:55:41.877-07:00Brown Bear & Salmon Cam - Brooks Falls - Bears - exploreBrown Bear & Salmon Cam - Brooks Falls - Bears - explorejulimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-35253373743009882292012-07-24T20:52:00.000-07:002012-07-24T20:53:25.088-07:00Best Scene From Mad MenSomebody who posted it called it that. I don't know, but it's pretty good.
julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-15642340555967969742012-07-24T13:33:00.000-07:002012-07-24T13:37:04.779-07:00I Really Love Lawrence KraussHe's very entertaining. But a good case can be made that he's also full of shit, the shit being himself.
I get mad at Andrew Sullivan quite regularly, but who else would give me Ron Rosenbaum (I get mad at him, too) and Jim Holt, the greatest gifts of the day not including a sun emerging finally at 1:30 p.m.?
Why is there something, indeed?julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-5468029464724682792012-07-13T14:00:00.001-07:002018-07-19T20:25:52.941-07:00Who's 'Unraveling And Desperate'?So earlier today someone in the Romney camp said all the Bain hoo-ha — when did he officially leave, who'd he tell the truth to, was he retired or "on leave," who's your Daddy, CEO — showed the Obama campaign is unraveling and desperate.
I thought, oh, Karl, how often are we gonna pull that before it catches up with you. So, this afternoon, Romney is giving an unprecedented five, count them, fivejulimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-4610393606907532322012-07-11T16:36:00.001-07:002012-07-11T16:36:56.187-07:00LiteratureAmazon readers review the best. I laughed so hard at this that I was crying and clutching my middle:
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)“Here’s the first half of the book: ‘We had dinner and a few drinks. We went to a cafe and talked and had some drinks. We ate dinner and had a few drinks. Dinner. Drinks. More dinner. More drinks. We took a cab here (or there) in Paris and julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-20346316068360577122012-07-11T15:08:00.002-07:002012-07-11T15:08:51.009-07:00Even They Think It's CrazyI used to think all the space stuff was a big yawn. But I changed.
julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-3398731304110950982012-07-10T21:27:00.003-07:002012-07-10T21:27:52.731-07:00Mother's MilkI want to read the new book on breasts (or at least look at the pictures), but The Guardian has a pretty interesting excerpt about breastmilk.
In 1982, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery said "there is a substantial body of medical information and opinion … to the effect that [small breasts] are really a disease"julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-34228114375111952982012-07-08T16:20:00.001-07:002012-07-08T16:20:34.404-07:00Mexico Has A New PresidentAnd Wonkette has the scoop.
First off, he’s a slut. Big deal. So was Bill Clinton (and John F. Kennedy, for that matter). But a slutty assassin and wife killer (MAYBE!) is a totally different story.
I confess I didn't read a single Mexican election story although I saw the headlines. But how can you resist now? I still don't know his name. Pena? Is that it?julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-39536162225464834942012-07-03T11:48:00.001-07:002012-07-04T08:42:05.303-07:00In Other Art News
MOMA sends me monthly newsletters and this month they were featuring F-111, an iconic James Rosenquist work that takes up four walls. When I was in NYC in 2003 I saw the only Rosenquist retrospective ever including his 35-foot long Econo-mist before its shipment to the German bank that commissioned it. I had no idea who he was or what I would be seeing when I went there. I can say it's been a julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-89802509581922935492012-07-03T09:12:00.001-07:002012-07-03T09:12:55.291-07:00Climate Change HeroHis name is Lonnie Thompson. And he's been a man obsessed.
His West Virginia farm upbringing came in handy as he challenged Mongol porters to contests shooting wild game. Other times, he went hungry. Once, in China, dinner was a bowl of stewed camel paws.
One more time, just for the record. Stewed. Camel. Paws.
As far as I'm concerned, these people are all honorary contrariennes.julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-42293076125449356832012-07-03T08:38:00.000-07:002012-07-03T08:38:13.980-07:00The Outsource, er Offshore PresidentFrom Vanity Fair.
To give but one example, there is a Bermuda-based entity called Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd., which has been described in securities filings as “a Bermuda corporation wholly owned by W. Mitt Romney.” It could be that Sankaty is an old vehicle with little importance, but Romney appears to have treated it rather carefully. He set it up in 1997, then transferred it to julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8798576723910466740.post-48678311749971370882012-07-02T13:21:00.000-07:002012-07-02T15:12:11.618-07:00Too Long For FacebookAndrew Sullivan's perspective on Roberts' vote for the ACA includes one of the most concise, spot-on summaries of what the Republicans have been doing that I have ever read. It got my blood boiling and my fever rising. It is strikingly well-written.
It is the Rant O' Teh Decade.
But it's too long for Facebook and may even be a bit over the 500-word fair use limit for this site. I'm running julimachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09389645231963235701noreply@blogger.com0