Archive for November, 2004
Sunday, November 21st, 2004
The kitchen quiz is concluded. The answers are at the bottom of this post, printed upside-down. Just kidding, here they are:spagetti - ground black pepper
spagetti - thymespagetti - bay leavesspagetti - ground corianderspagetti - crushed red peppersspagetti - parsley flakesspagetti - paprikaoatmeal - ginger powderoatmeal - cinnamoneither - ...
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Thursday, November 18th, 2004
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THE QUIZ
I have decided to spice things up here at chezJoel with a pop quiz. This quiz features the choices and pitfalls I face in my own kitchen. There are two pillars of the bachelor's menu: oatmeal and spagetti. For each ...
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Thursday, November 11th, 2004
Like Dan Rather on election night, I'm really, really hesitant to "hit this muffin-head with the dab of gravy" he richly deserves. This evening Arafat's condition is said to be very stable indeed, but can I believe it? But Fox News is confirming it now, Arafat is dead. ...
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
Yasser Arafat is "sleeping" in a "light coma" or perhaps he slipped into a "deeper coma" last night. He apparently has a massive brain hemorrhage which is getting worse, but, nonetheless, his condition is "stable." And apparently its against Islamic law to remove him from "life support."
I have ...
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Sunday, November 7th, 2004
For the first couple of days after the election, I fantasized about a new Democratic Party. I was encouraged by the first coverage by the MSM. CNN and MSNBC seemed to be admitting Bush had some sort of a mandate, and were bringing on guests who were somber, subdued, and ...
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Saturday, November 6th, 2004
People, it's now a movement. This is the new geocaching: you take a picture of yourself holding a sign with idiotic, scrawled apologies to Islamofascist tyrants, or to smug Eurosexual pseudo-intellectual chocolate makers. Do it: say for the rest of us who are not sensitive or nuanced enough ...
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Friday, November 5th, 2004
Anarchist group Black Bloq was out in force at the San Francisco rally, and were at the center of the fizzled riot.
My brother sent me an email with a link to zombietime.com's coverage of the Nov. 3rd anti-Bush rally-and-would-be-riot in San Francisco. It looks like the fringe is headed ...
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Thursday, November 4th, 2004
I was hanging around the Blue Bottle on a Thursday night, when in walks guitarist Eric Loy. He has a really weird guitar so I hung around to hear him play it. He's as good as his axe is weird. Actually he's better. He puts on ...
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Thursday, November 4th, 2004
This is a shot out my window at dawn taken at the end of August.
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Thursday, November 4th, 2004
Stone-cold Mowgli.
I made myself a promise (note, I never made this promise to you) back when I started this blog that I would not write about my pets. I think it's a good guideline. It can be so dreary to read people who drag on about how their ...
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