poppydawn

Maytag Blue Cheese--a local blue that is grand. I don't get this nearly enough.

 

My general favorite is Brie, but you can't go wrong with cheeses.

One of my favorite things in the whole wide world. :drool. Blue cheese is a no-no during pregnancy, and I had a hard time with that. I told Brian that, when the kid was born, I wanted a giant wheel of Maytag blue cheese and a bottle of Rosenblum Zinfandel waiting in my hospital room. Pure food bliss!

Pimento cheese sandwiches!

I make pimento cheese that would make you cry, it's so good.

I love cheese. Big shock, I know. About the only kind I'm not a fan of is goat cheeses, but I'm working on that. I didn't like brie for years after having some really bad baked brie at a party that smelled like, well, a certain bodily fluid. I finally got over that last year.

I love really strong cheeses (obviously, since I love blue). I like cheddars that punch me in the face. When we make the drive through Wisconsin to visit my in-laws, we load up on this awesome 6-year Wisconsin cheddar. It's so dry and sharp that it crumbles when you cut it. My Cod, my mouth waters just writing that! Right before we moved to Belleville, we found out about a wine and cheese shop in our new neighborhood that sells it! We hadn't seen that cheese outside Wisconsin, and now we have a regular supply.

Irish cheddar injected with Guiness during the aging process? Awesome.

Our CSA has paired with several cheesemakers, so we're getting to try lots of great local stuff. There's one that specializes with in old world-style goudas. And there's a great cheddar-maker out of Normal, Illinois that's ruining me for store-bought stuff.

Last night I busted my kid eating fistfuls of crumbled feta straight out of the container. That's my kid.

But I always wind up crying my eyes out and getting a headache when the dog dies!

...because they always die! "Marley and Me" literally gave me panic attacks in the last chapters. I couldn't finish it.

To the kind folks that I danced with in StL.

 

I am starting a dance class in response to the demand to "dance with meat"!

 

Taking applications now.

I think I should get an automatic in into the Intermediate Dance with Meat class.

"Everyone Poops" is good, but it's completely blown away by the sequel.

It's a much more nuanced story, with a riper plot.

I would play along, but it's kind of pointless since I have never tried the local roast.

Get out there and try them! Geez. There's nothing quite as lovely as having a cup of coffee in the same room where the beans were roasted. Unless they're burning a batch of beans. Then nothing is quite so vomit-inducing.

You know what's really bad? Being hung over in a neighborhood with a Folger's factory on a day when they've burned a batch.

Congratulations! Wishing you a beautiful day to start a beautiful life together. Cheers!

Move on....

Own up.

Or perhaps you could take your own advice and move on, too.

The shrieking occured during one song and it was for Patmylump not for hatin on neighbors. Maybe this about ownership of a recording to add to your history/archive proof of existence. Tweedy looked down

You obviously missed some of the discussions between security and fans around the same time.

As for the recording, can't say I care. You're mighty quick with the assumptions for someone preaching compassion. I was more concerned about the fact that someone was rude enough to interrupt the concert for others.

What happened Friday did not warrant face punching and removal by security, it was a couple of brushes from arm to arm.

No, this isn't about a couple of brushes to the arm. This is about a level of obnoxious shrieking that was bad enough to cause the band to stop the show and issue a warning. Bumping into people is one thing that's to be expected at a sold-out show, and I don't recall anyone in this thread complaining about such contact. I was sitting by the sound board, and my complaint (along with that of the sound guys) was 100% with the shrieking.

We are all water and dna, etc. have some compassion.

Perhaps what a lot of people who were at the Friday show would like is some compassion regarding the fact that they had their show experience interrupted by the inconsideration of someone in need of cutting loose.

Witnesses said a man taking photographs of the Grand Canyon suddenly jumped across a ravine half a mile deep to capture the sunset - after drinking a six-pack of beer

I think the highlighted portion could have been assumed. Just goes to show you - with beer anything's possible!

What the fuck? We follow your name changes. Read you novel. Take your abuse. And this is how you thank us - by going off and bettering your life with fancy "book-learnin'" while sucking a good chunk of fun out of VC? Well.

I hope it goes wonderfully. You'll be missed.

Here's to being able to go to a bar next time you're stateside without fear of deportation! Hope you have a wonderful day, Jamie!

You know I'm in!

I just finished this and loved it. It was one of those (rare) books that I thought about all the time and wondered what would happen next:

 

I'm starting this today.

I finished "Knockemstiff" last night. While I took issue with some of the subject matter (which is just my own wussiness at work), it was otherwise excellent. Really strong writing. While it was violent and gruesome, it wasn't gratuitous. But the writing ... at times if felt a little bit like an after-school special, but most of the time it was honestly gut-wrenching.

I watched the film version of "Little Children" over the weekend. It was pretty good, although I thought all of the humor was sucked out of it. Some of the more interesting subplots were cut, like Richard's trip to visit Slutty Kay. That bothered me, because it made Sarah seem less sympathetic. Otherwise, it was pretty good for a film adaptation.

I hope it's a great one, Kevin! :dancing

Concerts are a public gathering, these are not private sessions.

Yep, which is why I don't understand why concerts should be exempt from reasonably courteous behavior. When one is making such a loud, persistent noise that the band has to stop playing to ask the noise-maker to stop, that's not reasonably courteous behavior.

I'm all for singing, dancing, cheering. Did plenty of it myself all three nights. What I didn't do was disrupt the show for everyone. I only know of one person who did that during the course of the three nights.

I do give you credit for apologizing to the band.

Was it in your ear? Did it hurt?

Insteresting - I didn't care for the ending. It just seemed like he stopped writing.

Oh, I hated the ending in general. It was just that last line that I loved. A few pages before it ended, I had that thought that it was going to be one of those endings where the author just stops writing, and I generally hate those. This was one of the only times where I've seen that happen and the writer stopped at just the right line. The lead-up to it was pretty sloppy, though.

I'd be thrilled to teach there--they're home to one of my favorite literary journals, The Mid-American Review. Honestly, with the way the job market is these days, I'll be thrilled to get a tenure track job anywhere.

My friend Kristina (Lady Lemon on Interference) got her BA in English from Bowling Green with a minor in pop culture. I would have loved to have taken the classes she was in. Both programs looked very interesting.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you on your job search!

I'm going to miss all the fun this year. Damn shame, because the line-up's good and Twangfest is always a good time.

We were sitting to the right of the tapers on Friday night. Must have just missed each other.

a friend and I are doing a little "book club" kinda thing and this is our first pick - mine just arrived today. It looks crazy!

 

Too bad I started a new book last night or I'd hurry up and crash your book club. This looks good.

I finished Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs last night. The first few essays were a little slow, but after I got into it, I read most of it in a day. I'm really interested in pop culture and cultural studies, especially the intersection between serious criticism and what Klosterman dubs as "low culture," and I definitely think there are a few essays in here I'd use as assigned reading in a class. This book was a bit more serious than IV, but I was really impressed by some of the realizations he reaches by the end of some of the essays.

Tell me again why you're not teaching at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where they have English and American Popular Culture departments?

Next up for me is Rob Sheffield's Love Is a Mix Tape

I've professed my adoration of this book and Sheffield's writing before, but let me do it again. Love him!

I'm reading

Pollack's writing is immaculate and wonderful to read, but I'm having a lot of trouble with some of the subject matter. Ever since I birthed that kid, I've had a really difficult time reading or watching anything violent, even if the violence isn't gratuitous, and especially if it involves kids. Every portion of this book has made me feel downright nauseous, and yet it's so well-written I can't stop reading it.

As for "The Abstinence Teacher", it was good but definitely not up to par with "Little Children". When I was three pages from the end I was thinking, "Oh, this ending's going to suck." But it didn't. That was the one really great thing about the book - the last line. And I don't mean that in a snarky I'm-glad-that's-over way. I thought it was just a perfect, clean way to sum up where the characters were at that point.

most likely

yeah...just started summer session and......and.....next Tuesday I see my first patient ever. Just spent about an hour on the internet designing a business card to give to my patients in clinic so that they remember their appointment date.

If the tooth is white, it's alright. If it's black, it's out of whack. Good luck!

Hey poppydawn were you buying merch early in the afternoon on Thurs with only one other person in there? I was in there buying a poster but didn't know it was you or I would have said hi.

My husband and I bought a print pretty early in the day on Thursday. We were shrieking about the design. And yep, there was one other person in there. Sounds like we were probably there at the same time. Wish I had known! I'd wondered where you were in the crowd.

I don't have any advice, but I can say that my mom has had these injections and they've really helped her. She usually feels a little wonky the day she gets it, but after that she's lots better.

Be careful what you wish for

I was presenting you with a challenge.

And for the record, Nels and I are not practically engaged. I just really, really like his music, and he's inexplicably decided he wants to be my new best friend.

...because he is The Nicest Human Being in All the Land.

Both stitched samplers will be hung above my toilet.

Maggie, did you get the rocket ship shirt for any of your girls? They didn't have them at the merchandise stand on Thursday, but I nabbed one on Saturday. Clara Jane's just about worn out her ice cream cone shirt.