I shit you not.
This is a cookbook’s entire focus is bacon. Bacon! Pancetta. Salt pork. Guanciale. Lard fumé. Pork belly. Bacon! Every recipe involves bacon. From bacon-based appetizers, stews with bacon, bacon entrees, clear through to bacon-wrapped desserts.
I cannot wait to try these recipes. But then again, I love bacon:
Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.
Just After Sunset is a strong collection for Stephen King; a little of what I expect (i.e., schlocky horrorshow) and then some rather sophisticated surprises. This anthology is a bit more literary, a bit more high-brow than what I expect from King — and the “keepers” in here are real keepers. There is some not-unexpected post-9/11 influenced overtones in places, but that just seems to be a framing technique for some of the more fundamental human horrors. In that respect, “Graduation Afternoon” is by far the pick of the litter.
Averaged rating on the Goodreads scale: 3.6923
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Though I a possess a certain hyperbolic certainty that I was the last person in Vermont[1] to obtain an iPhone, I thought I might assemble this handy guide for the folks that (despite my aforementioned certainty) might not be on this particular wagon quite yet. Perhaps you’re waiting for a check to clear; perhaps you’re waiting for an old contract to expire — who knows? Hopefully my mistakes and/or transgressions will help you in crossing over. And perhaps these tips are useful to folks in other locales, as well.
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For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. ¶ The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. ¶ We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. ¶ We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs. ¶ We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. ¶ All this we can do. All this we will do.
Today, our historic election becomes our historic inauguration. Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. He gave a well-tempered speech, and one that spoke deeply to A. and myself[1], one that stirred more than a few emotions and (hopefully) more than a few into action.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was asking people in the crowd in The Mall last night: What are your hopes for Obama’s presidency? Had he called upon me for an answer, I would have said that my hope is that the momentum Obama has built up these past few months doesn’t fade. That somehow, through all of the rough times still ahead of us, that people do not lose sight of the message. I hope that people are still excited, still motivated, still willing to make sacrifices and think creatively with a mind toward a better future — that the inspiration this historic event fills them with now, is still with them in a year.
Two other thoughts on the past twenty-four hours or so:
And now, the work begins.
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