political foo: Book TV

xposted from a comment in ragdoll's journal

Just an FYI I got from my mom (who is, yes, a devout anti-Bushite) that Book TV on CSPAN2 is running an interview with folks from the New Democracy Project (www.newdemocracyproject.org), called "Books on Bush", that interviews Krugman, Unger, and others who have written books exposing Bush & Co's real agenda.

It's going to run at bad hours (2 am and 6 am Eastern time), but if you've got Tivo/VCR/strange hours, you might want to check it out. My Replay is already set up.

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the bake-off

As planned, this morning I pitted my mom's biscuit recipe against the Alton Brown's "Good Eats" recipe. I think the former came out better than ever because I now know that there's a difference between baking powder and baking soda and why it matters.

( food porn follows )

I enjoyed, D. enjoyed, both of us are very full now. I don't do the biscuit thing often, but I enjoy doing cooking on this scale occasionally - after all, in the South, food = love :)

quizzels

( rock and roll high school )

( the seven intelligences )

The latter I find particularly fun because I've been flipping through Emotional Intelligence lately, as it was referred to in "Introvert Advantage". So far, it makes sense to me - "book smarts" aren't everything. I mean, didn't we all know someone at some point who got straight As on tests but had no imagination, or a highly trained professional who had absolutely no social skills?

more politicking: Kerry's speech transcript

The really firey one from last week in Springfield OH, for ragdoll and other interested parties: http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0902.html.

pretty gothy things

Heavy Red Couture Noir - wish the pictures were bigger and less dark (so I could see it all better!) but I like very much, especially the jewelry :) Think Wednesday Addams all grown up :)