Above is a picture of a recipe of my own creation. I call it “Butter Curry Noodle,” and it combines three of my favorite food stuffs: butter, curry powder, and noodles. Also salt, but that didn’t seem quite important enough to include in the name.
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Happily imperfect
I’ve mentioned before my affinity for clothing sold by Banana Republic back when it sold things that someone might conceivably wear in a banana republic, or perhaps import from one. Lately I’ve rediscovered and been wearing another old skool BR item: my set of ox horn bracelets.
A little Big Bird
From last weekend’s Tar and Feather Party at Wigle Whiskey: Toonseum had carton characters on poster board so you could be your favorite feathered friend. My nephew chose Big Bird.
Hello, horsie
Yesterday at a barbeque with family and friends, we made a new friend.
PSA: Run. Hide. Fight. What to do in an active shooter scenario
Point Park University recently emailed this video to faculty and staff. It’s a how-to video for what to do if someone shows up wherever you are and starts shooting. I think it’s important for everyone to watch it. It’s a little tense — more than your average training video, obviously — but not graphic, so …
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In search of the Butler Freeport Trail
Yesterday I went exploring, trying to find a trailhead for the Butler Freeport Trail.
Feathers, friends
I’ve lived in the Pittsburgh area for years and years, and the National Aviary is in Pittsburgh, and I like birds. You’d think I’d be visiting there a few times a year. But no, yesterday I visited for the first time. I seem to go to museums and zoos and other interesting places only when …
This explains my feeling about phone calls much better than I ever could
She doesn’t go shopping ’cause she doesn’t like hopping
Whoa: big-time blast from the past. This is a cartoon from Sesame Street, from long, long ago. I always found it troubling, because … well, because the Martian looks really odd, and maybe more because she has a bow on each individual hair. How do the bows stay on? And yet now, i think it’s …
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Image of the day: Children playing with cat
“Children playing with cat,” 1957, Concord, New Hampshire, USA — Ladies Home Journal Magazine — Image by © Genevieve Naylor/CORBIS From a set on If Charlie Parker… called Shutterbug Friday #11, Genevieve Naylor (Act Two: Wee Folk in the Eisenhower Era). Genevieve Naylor was a fashion photographer and photojournalist whose work appeared in all the best magazines in …
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