This weekend there are three Cubs-Marlins games in Miami. The series is a best of seven. The Cubs lead 2-1. It is possible that Monday the series will be over. Unlike the Bulls playoff runs, this is killing me. With Michael you never actually thought you might lose. The Cubs, on the other hand, have never done anything other than smash my heart. Thus, I have adopted a stance of cautious optimism. Good grief, this is killing me.
FRÜHSTÜCK
Today I had a taste for German breakfast, and a $25 gift certificate from our wedding to Delicatessen Meyer in Lincoln Square. All I needed was a way to get L to go over to Lincoln Square and get the goods. That didn't work out at all, and after I finished the dishes (!) I went over to Meyer's. You just can't beat Schwarzwalder and/or Westfalen Schinken, Tilsiter and/or Emmentaler cheese, some nice Brötchen and some butter for breakfast. Had we had a nice soft-boiled egg, I would have thought we were back in Germany.
IT'S ALL HOW YOU SAY IT
After Wednesday night's Red Sox-Yankees game, Derek Jeter was quoted as saying, "Wakefield didn't even know where his pitches were going.'' Now, Tim Wakefield is a knuckleball pitcher, which means he really doesn't know where the ball is going. BUT… did Jeter mean that the pitches were so good that even Wakefield didn't know where they were going, or that Wakefield was just heaving the ball and didn't even know where his pitches were going? I guess we'll have to review the tape.
Speaking of the Red Sox, the Boston Globe has a story about an Episcopal convent with eight women in it. They have in excess of a combined 240 years of devotion to the Red Sox, which averages over 30 years apiece. Frankly, looking at the picture with the article, I'd guess that 240 was an author trying to be cute. I bet it is closer to 400. Anyway, the sisters love Tim Wakefield, but think Nomar takes too long to get into the batter's box. They are right on both counts. They are also rabid enough Red Sox fans that when they were late for chapel because they were watching the game, one said, "God will understand, God is a Red Sox fan."
Cute, but God is a Cubs fan. I know this because I always saw the nuns down Grace Street with their Cubs helmets on over their habits when I was a kid. They used to rent parking in their lot for Cubs parking, and they were always out in white habits with blue Cubs batting helmets on, directing traffic and collecting money. Hence, God was a Cubs fan.
By the way, the Yankees are leading in the bottom of the ninth in game 3. Manny Ramirez is a punk for charging the mound, and even though Zimmer went after him, Pedro Martinez is a punk for throwing a 72 year old man with a plate in his head to the ground. Maybe it's the Curse of the Punks and not the Bambino after all.
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
The New York Times (registration always required) quotes the Russians defense minister talking about United States military bases in former Soviet Central Asia. He is quoted as saying "we have always been proceeding from the fact that those bases exist solely for the period required for the final, definitive stabilization of the situation in Afghanistan." This is interesting, since nobody has ever really been able to bring "final, definitive stabilization" to Afghanistan. Maybe he is just saying he wants us in former Soviet Central Asia forever.
The Moscow Times had one of the most useful articles I have seen in a long time. It clarifies a number of issues that I know come up pretty much all the time. For instance, in Russian, готовить is used for any kind of cooking. Я готовила ужин (I made dinner). For anything you cook in water or liquid, you use варить; for anything you fry in some kind of oil, you use жарить; and for anything that is cooked in a pot with the top on, in the oven or on the stovetop, you use тушить. In addition, If you want to dice something, you say, нарезать кусочками; to mince is нарезать мелками кусочками (literally, "in very small pieces"); to cut something into julienne strips is нарезать соломкой (literally, "like a matchstick"). Finally, Кекс for Russians is more like a muffin than an American cake. Бисквит is, alas, not a biscuit, but a sponge cake. And when you are enjoying dessert, if someone says: "Ой! Кофе убегает!" -- it doesn't mean your coffee has sprouted legs and is dashing out the door. It means the coffee is boiling over. Thank God we cleared that up.
JEEZ, THE ITALIANS TOOK IT?
The BBC ran a story saying that Italy is about to return an obelisk they took from Ethiopia in the 1930s when Mussolini invaded Abyssinia. The Ethiopians said that they would do anything "short of war" to get the obelisk back. Given that the Italians have not actually beaten anyone in a war since 1870 or so, it looks like the Italians benefited from their NATO membership. Otherwise it seems like a good bet that the Ethiopians would have just TAKEN their obelisk back.
I WAS GONNA BE ASHAMED, BUT THEN I GOT HIGH…
The Ottawa (Ontario) (Canada) Citizen reports on the United States reaction to the Canadian Prime Minister's comments about possibly smoking some pot after he retires. The Prime Minister is quoted as saying he had never tried marijuana, but might once decriminalization legislation is approved by Parliament."I don't know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal," he said. "I will have money for my fine and a joint in the other hand." The current nonentity we are calling the "Drug Czar" replied that Canadians "are concerned about the behaviour of their prime minister, joking that he is going to use marijuana in his retirement," Mr. Walters said to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "They're ashamed." Yeah, I'm sure Canadians are just mortified. What a moroon.
FRÜHSTÜCK
Today I had a taste for German breakfast, and a $25 gift certificate from our wedding to Delicatessen Meyer in Lincoln Square. All I needed was a way to get L to go over to Lincoln Square and get the goods. That didn't work out at all, and after I finished the dishes (!) I went over to Meyer's. You just can't beat Schwarzwalder and/or Westfalen Schinken, Tilsiter and/or Emmentaler cheese, some nice Brötchen and some butter for breakfast. Had we had a nice soft-boiled egg, I would have thought we were back in Germany.
IT'S ALL HOW YOU SAY IT
After Wednesday night's Red Sox-Yankees game, Derek Jeter was quoted as saying, "Wakefield didn't even know where his pitches were going.'' Now, Tim Wakefield is a knuckleball pitcher, which means he really doesn't know where the ball is going. BUT… did Jeter mean that the pitches were so good that even Wakefield didn't know where they were going, or that Wakefield was just heaving the ball and didn't even know where his pitches were going? I guess we'll have to review the tape.
Speaking of the Red Sox, the Boston Globe has a story about an Episcopal convent with eight women in it. They have in excess of a combined 240 years of devotion to the Red Sox, which averages over 30 years apiece. Frankly, looking at the picture with the article, I'd guess that 240 was an author trying to be cute. I bet it is closer to 400. Anyway, the sisters love Tim Wakefield, but think Nomar takes too long to get into the batter's box. They are right on both counts. They are also rabid enough Red Sox fans that when they were late for chapel because they were watching the game, one said, "God will understand, God is a Red Sox fan."
Cute, but God is a Cubs fan. I know this because I always saw the nuns down Grace Street with their Cubs helmets on over their habits when I was a kid. They used to rent parking in their lot for Cubs parking, and they were always out in white habits with blue Cubs batting helmets on, directing traffic and collecting money. Hence, God was a Cubs fan.
By the way, the Yankees are leading in the bottom of the ninth in game 3. Manny Ramirez is a punk for charging the mound, and even though Zimmer went after him, Pedro Martinez is a punk for throwing a 72 year old man with a plate in his head to the ground. Maybe it's the Curse of the Punks and not the Bambino after all.
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
The New York Times (registration always required) quotes the Russians defense minister talking about United States military bases in former Soviet Central Asia. He is quoted as saying "we have always been proceeding from the fact that those bases exist solely for the period required for the final, definitive stabilization of the situation in Afghanistan." This is interesting, since nobody has ever really been able to bring "final, definitive stabilization" to Afghanistan. Maybe he is just saying he wants us in former Soviet Central Asia forever.
The Moscow Times had one of the most useful articles I have seen in a long time. It clarifies a number of issues that I know come up pretty much all the time. For instance, in Russian, готовить is used for any kind of cooking. Я готовила ужин (I made dinner). For anything you cook in water or liquid, you use варить; for anything you fry in some kind of oil, you use жарить; and for anything that is cooked in a pot with the top on, in the oven or on the stovetop, you use тушить. In addition, If you want to dice something, you say, нарезать кусочками; to mince is нарезать мелками кусочками (literally, "in very small pieces"); to cut something into julienne strips is нарезать соломкой (literally, "like a matchstick"). Finally, Кекс for Russians is more like a muffin than an American cake. Бисквит is, alas, not a biscuit, but a sponge cake. And when you are enjoying dessert, if someone says: "Ой! Кофе убегает!" -- it doesn't mean your coffee has sprouted legs and is dashing out the door. It means the coffee is boiling over. Thank God we cleared that up.
JEEZ, THE ITALIANS TOOK IT?
The BBC ran a story saying that Italy is about to return an obelisk they took from Ethiopia in the 1930s when Mussolini invaded Abyssinia. The Ethiopians said that they would do anything "short of war" to get the obelisk back. Given that the Italians have not actually beaten anyone in a war since 1870 or so, it looks like the Italians benefited from their NATO membership. Otherwise it seems like a good bet that the Ethiopians would have just TAKEN their obelisk back.
I WAS GONNA BE ASHAMED, BUT THEN I GOT HIGH…
The Ottawa (Ontario) (Canada) Citizen reports on the United States reaction to the Canadian Prime Minister's comments about possibly smoking some pot after he retires. The Prime Minister is quoted as saying he had never tried marijuana, but might once decriminalization legislation is approved by Parliament."I don't know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal," he said. "I will have money for my fine and a joint in the other hand." The current nonentity we are calling the "Drug Czar" replied that Canadians "are concerned about the behaviour of their prime minister, joking that he is going to use marijuana in his retirement," Mr. Walters said to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "They're ashamed." Yeah, I'm sure Canadians are just mortified. What a moroon.
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