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Hark! How the Bells
Fenster writes: When tree trimming this year I dispensed with iPod Christmas songs and just put on Pandora. I was about to set up a holiday station when I noted Pandora just started up with holiday songs by default. Well, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Philosophy and Religion
2 Comments
How Terribly Strange to be Twenty
Fenster writes: I had coffee this morning with an old friend with kids about the same age as mine, late teens. As we talked about little-kids-little-problems/big-kids-big-problems we touched on an aspect of life at that age that we’d more or … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics
Tagged Crystal Fairy, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret, Michael Cera, Sixties
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Another Right Pundit Tackles Inequality
Fenster writes: Another right-leaning pundit acknowledges inequality as an issue, which is better than the historic brush-off.
More Umami Confessin’
Fenster writes: I just posted about umami–how I was at first flummoxed at the term, how I soon came to understand that my cooking was long a quest for umami without thinking of it as its own thing and how … Continue reading
Posted in Food and health
Tagged gribenes, schmaltz, sicilian cuisine, ssamjang, szechuan peppercorns, umami
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NOT The Beatles 2
Fenster writes: Another installment: My Before and After, by Cotton Mather. I find this one remarkable. I am simultaneously able to listen to it as a glorious John Lennon song and at the same time as a terrific work in … Continue reading
Seeing What is in Front of One’s Nose
Fenster writes: I wrote here that, just as the Left is right to struggle with the possibility of too much diversity, the Right is left to struggle with the possibility of too much inequality. It’s a struggle all right, and … Continue reading
Posted in Personal reflections, Politics and Economics
Tagged Andrew Sullivan, diversity, Evolutionary Biology, inequality, Krugman, Orwell, Sailer
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NOT The Beatles
Fenster writes: I posted my first NOT The Beach Boys earlier. Here is the first NOT The Beatles. It is another truly shameless rip-off, but enjoyable. There is an entire genre of music that rips off the Beatles in one … Continue reading
Our New Gizmo
Fenster writes: Courtesy of the generosity of one of our UR members, who has chosen to make his gift on an anonymous basis, we now have the ability to upload music files directly. I thought I would put this to … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Music
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NOT The Beach Boys . . .
Fenster writes: . . . wherein we introduce a new semi-regular feature on NOTS. These will be songs that crib from the masters, especially those in the power pop lineage, and do it well enough to make it work no … Continue reading
Ronco’s Amazing Umami-at-Home!
Fenster writes: I suspect fellow umami lovers at UR (see here, here, here) were, like me, initially thrown by the concept. How is it that some upstart new taste can shoehorn its way into the the four-way schema we’ve known for our … Continue reading
Posted in Food and health, Uncategorized
Tagged duxelles, roasted tomatoes, trotter gear, umami
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