'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
As a nation we consume too much. We need to shift our economy and I really hope that we can make that shift without things getting too dire in the next couple of years.
Krugman is also talking about the consumer spending numbers today: [link] I think it is going to be rough for a while, no matter how the shift is managed, but I like his brand of thinky.
OMG, another Sartorialist pic of Hammer pants!
Once again, this is in Russia. I went back to the other post of Hammer pants, and the comments were mostly positive. I fear for society.
Dear Consumers:
Please do not spend your precious dollars on Hammer pants!
Kthxbye, Me.
Actually, I think it might be a Hammer jumpsuit!
I wish MY spending fell. 2008 was the Year of The Blown Budget. Little of it was within my control: sick cats, breaking stuff. I don't even want to wonder whether I even managed to break even, rather than my usual saving.
I think it is, Sue. Some kind of freakish shiny hammer-pants onesie.
Is the Rachel Maddow interview with Obama available online?
At least highlights are here: [link]
I think it is, Sue. Some kind of freakish shiny hammer-pants onesie.
Forget Halloween, this is the stuff of nightmares.
A bunch of recipes. This sounds potentially very nummy:
Coffee Shoofly Pie
If you've never tried shoofly pie, or made one, you really should. A specialty of the Pennsylvania Dutch, it's a very full-flavored, molasses-y pie with a part jelly-like, part crumbly filling. It's noteworthy that historians aren't sure where the pie got its name. One theory says that the sweet stickiness of the pie was a real fly magnet. Another claims that the name came from the French chou-fleur - cauliflower - which the surface of the pie is said to resemble, texture-wise. In any event, I don't know that the Pennsylvania Dutch ever add coffee to theirs.
It's not at all out of the question: the coffee flavor has a certain compatibility with the molasses.
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Bottom line: this is a delicious pie, especially with a scoop of vanilla ice cream to balance the forward flavor. Easy, too, since you can use a frozen pie shell from the supermarket (or make your own, of course.)