Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.

Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

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.


Laura - Jul 26, 2009 7:59:08 am PDT #764 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Happy birthday, Kat! Cupcake wishes to you.

Wow, do I miss Harper's Island. Saturday night TV in the summer is a wasteland.

I watched the whole thing last week a couple eps or more a day. Great summer entertainment.

Noah and Grace hug it out

A world of Awwwww. So cute.

Come to my house. Abby's latest obsession is brownies.

Bobby discovered that he could make pizza dough from scratch and made us a spinach/garlic pizza this week. Cooking kids = good.

eta: well, not so much cooking kids, but kids that enjoy cooking stuff for us to eat


DavidS - Jul 26, 2009 8:22:30 am PDT #765 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

eta: well, not so much cooking kids, but kids that enjoy cooking stuff for us to eat

I'm reminded of a foodstuff that appears in the Patrick O'Brien books called: "boiled baby."

no actual babies harmed in the making of said foodstuff

"The gunroom feast for the Captain was if anything more copious than that of the day before. The gunroom cook, by means known to himself alone, had conserved the makings of a superb suet pudding of the kind called boiled baby in the service, known to be Jack Aubrey's favourite form of food, and it came in on a scrubbed scuttle-cover to the sound of cheering."


beth b - Jul 26, 2009 9:17:54 am PDT #766 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I'd like a tiny pastry chef.

Loved looking at the huggy babies ( who really aren't babies anymore)

Happy birthday Kat!

It is not very talky here -- that means I need to go out and pull more plants out .


DavidS - Jul 26, 2009 9:28:52 am PDT #767 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This morning's breakfast was inspired by: (1) scrounging with available leftovers; (2) fancy coffee table cookbooks with tantalizing pictures of elaborate open faced sandwiches; (3) English cuisine. (Oxymoron?)

Leftovers included a half loaf of Italian bread that came with our Italian takeout from a few nights ago; hard boiled eggs; cherry tomatoes.

Cut two thick slices of Italian bread and popped them in the toaster. Shelled the hardboiled egg and sliced up the smooth little eggy. Took the perfectly toasted bread, buttered it, shaved parmesan over it, put on the sliced hard boiled eggs, sliced up the cherry tomatoes to add a little contrasting color and acid. A little salt and pepper and it was delicious.

Note to self: have a small bowl of hard boiled eggs handy in the fridge for salads and other summery fare.


Tom Scola - Jul 26, 2009 9:33:14 am PDT #768 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

have a small bowl of hard boiled eggs handy in the fridge for salads and other summery fare.

I thought Summer in San Francisco was a myth.


megan walker - Jul 26, 2009 9:42:03 am PDT #769 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Well, it's more "summer" in San Francisco.

But the food is summery because it comes from inland where "summer" is actually summer.

Meanwhile, I'm waiting to see if my French friends survive the trek into the city. We are heading to the Presidio Social Club for what I hope will be a tasty brunch. I'm planning on having a sloe gin fizz.


DavidS - Jul 26, 2009 10:03:10 am PDT #770 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

It's actually sunny and fogless right now. A blistering...61 degrees at noon.


msbelle - Jul 26, 2009 10:18:24 am PDT #771 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I realize I have not eaten. Mac got back from the movies with one friend and I just dropped off for a playdate with another. I've got 3 more hours to get stuff done today, then it will be prep for tomorrow.


§ ita § - Jul 26, 2009 10:24:08 am PDT #772 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Happy birthday, kat! You are so old, and I'm even older! But so are your kids.


Laura - Jul 26, 2009 10:45:01 am PDT #773 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

A blistering...61 degrees at noon.

We are a smokin' 73! I didn't think we would ever crack 70.

I had another mountain adventure today, taking my trash and recycles to the transfer station. Being a city girl I am accustomed to people actually coming to my house to take the trash and recycles. So after a month of accumulating bags in a big trash can and carefully separating every conceivable category of recycles I set off in a truck and went to the top of McCauley Mountain to the official garbage joint. They are open later on Sunday because that is when most campers are leaving. The attendant was super helpful and polite and assured me that any kind of old junk that needed disposing could find a bin there. Whee! I feel all accomplished. I should nap now.