Monday, December 30, 2013
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
"Top Secret" Eggnog
Charles Mingus’ “Top Secret” Eggnog
* Separate one egg for one person. Each person gets an egg.
* Two sugars for each egg, each person.
* One shot of rum, one shot of brandy per person.
* Put all the yolks into one big pan, with some milk.
* That’s where the 151 proof rum goes. Put it in gradually or it’ll burn the eggs,
* OK. The whites are separate and the cream is separate.
* In another pot- depending on how many people- put in one shot of each, rum and brandy. (This is after you whip your whites and your cream.)
* Pour it over the top of the milk and yolks.
* One teaspoon of sugar. Brandy and rum.
* Actually you mix it all together.
* Yes, a lot of nutmeg. Fresh nutmeg. And stir it up.
* You don’t need ice cream unless you’ve got people coming and you need to keep it cold. Vanilla ice cream. You can use eggnog. I use vanilla ice cream.
* Right, taste for flavor. Bourbon? I use Jamaica Rum in there. Jamaican Rums. Or I’ll put rye in it. Scotch. It depends.
See, it depends on how drunk I get while I’m tasting it.
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* Separate one egg for one person. Each person gets an egg.
* Two sugars for each egg, each person.
* One shot of rum, one shot of brandy per person.
* Put all the yolks into one big pan, with some milk.
* That’s where the 151 proof rum goes. Put it in gradually or it’ll burn the eggs,
* OK. The whites are separate and the cream is separate.
* In another pot- depending on how many people- put in one shot of each, rum and brandy. (This is after you whip your whites and your cream.)
* Pour it over the top of the milk and yolks.
* One teaspoon of sugar. Brandy and rum.
* Actually you mix it all together.
* Yes, a lot of nutmeg. Fresh nutmeg. And stir it up.
* You don’t need ice cream unless you’ve got people coming and you need to keep it cold. Vanilla ice cream. You can use eggnog. I use vanilla ice cream.
* Right, taste for flavor. Bourbon? I use Jamaica Rum in there. Jamaican Rums. Or I’ll put rye in it. Scotch. It depends.
See, it depends on how drunk I get while I’m tasting it.
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Violence of Photography
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.”
"Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge — and, therefore, like power."
"Images which idealize (like most fashion and animal photography) are no less aggressive than work which makes a virtue of plainness (like class pictures, still lifes of the bleaker sort, and mug shots). There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera."
"It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power."
"Like a car, a camera is sold as a predatory weapon — one that’s as automated as possible, ready to spring. Popular taste expects an easy, an invisible technology. Manufacturers reassure their customers that taking pictures demands no skill or expert knowledge, that the machine is all-knowing, and responds to the slightest pressure of the will. It’s as simple as turning the ignition key or pulling the trigger. Like guns and cars, cameras are fantasy-machines whose use is addictive."
"Photographs … help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. Thus, photography develops in tandem with one of the most characteristic of modern activities: tourism. For the first time in history, large numbers of people regularly travel out of their habitual environments for short periods of time. It seems positively unnatural to travel for pleasure without taking a camera along. Photographs will offer indisputable evidence that the trip was made, that the program was carried out, that fun was had.
[…]
A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it — by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir."
"Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.
[...]
It would not be wrong to speak of people having a compulsion to photograph: to turn experience itself into a way of seeing. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it, and participating in a public event comes more and more to be equivalent to looking at it in photographed form. That most logical of nineteenth-century aesthetes, Mallarmé, said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph."
All quotes by Susan Sontag
taken from an article by Brain Pickings
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Uruguay
Pieczenik discusses the background of Jose Mujica, current president of Uruguay, and his past as an oppositional force to a past government and the farce of labelling a group "terrorist" making analogies of how the "founding fathers" of the U.S. were also labeled "terrorists". This was also the case for Koreans fighting for independence from Japanese imperialism/occupation.
*interestingly around the 13:00 mark, he discusses how the marine corp has used anthropologists to better understand local cultures and reduce extremist violence. If true, it is a definite testament to the importance of anthropologists on the global stage.
Read more from the BBC: here
Brand v. Paxman
Source
More here at Dangerous Minds
and his essay: 'We No Longer Have the Luxury of Tradition' @ the New Staesman
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
Jonas Mekas: As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means. So when I began now to put all these rolls of film together, to string them together, the first idea was to keep them chronological. But then I gave up and I just began splicing them together by chance the way that I found them on the shelf.
Because I really don't know where any piece of my life really belongs, so let it be. Let it go. Just by pure chance, disorder.
There is some current, some kind of order in it, order of its own, which I do not really understand same as I never understood life around me.
The real life, as they say. Or the real people. I never understood them. I still do not understand them. And I do not really want to understand them.Source
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The Count of Monte Cristo
After watching this again (for the first time in a long time), I remembered why I don't like it. Read the book. They changed too much in this movie.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Ask yourself
ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive"
-Howard Thurman
source
Monday, December 2, 2013
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Friday, November 29, 2013
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Hamlet, II, ii
"I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw."
-Shakespeare
Hamlet, II, ii
Monday, November 25, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
Chol Soo Lee
The movie 'True Believer' is based on this case.
"On August 11, 1982, the retrial of the first case began, and on September 3, 1982, the San Francisco County Superior Court jury acquitted Lee of the murder of Yip Yee Tak, and its foreman joined the Chol Soo Lee Defense Committee.
On January 14, 1983, California's 3rd District Court of Appeal nullified Chol Soo Lee's death sentence for the Needham stabbing, citing the Stockton trial judge's incorrect jury instructions, and for allowing hearsay testimony in the death penalty phase of the trial.
San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Peter Seires ordered Chol Soo Lee to be released on March 28, 1983, after Lee's supporters pledged property worth twice the amount of the $250,000 bail.
However, the prosecution moved to retry Lee on the prison killing charge. Lee's co-counsels were able to plea bargain on the Needham case. Lee, who had served nearly ten years in prison, was given credit for time served and freed from prison.
Lee did not receive an apology or compensation from the state and currently lives in San Francisco."
source
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Muhammad Ali on How he would like to be remembered
During an interview with David Frost (1972)
David Frost:
What would you like people to think about you when you've gone?
Mohammad Ali:
I'd like for them to say: He took a few cups of love.
He took one tablespoon of patience,
One teaspoon of generosity,
One pint of kindness.
He took one quart of laughter,
One pinch of concern.
And then, he mixed willingness with happiness.
He added lots of faith,
And he stirred it up well.
Then he spred it over a span of a lifetime,
And he served it to each and every deserving person he met.
David Frost:
What would you like people to think about you when you've gone?
Mohammad Ali:
I'd like for them to say: He took a few cups of love.
He took one tablespoon of patience,
One teaspoon of generosity,
One pint of kindness.
He took one quart of laughter,
One pinch of concern.
And then, he mixed willingness with happiness.
He added lots of faith,
And he stirred it up well.
Then he spred it over a span of a lifetime,
And he served it to each and every deserving person he met.
PBS Documentary: Black Coffee
Lovelier than a thousand kisses,Source
smoother than muscatel wine.
Coffee, I must have coffee,
and if anyone wants to give me a treat,
ah!, just give me some coffee!
Friday, November 15, 2013
World's Best 18 cities for Higher Ed.
Vienna
Philadelphia
Istanbul
Milan
Beijing
Stockholm
Washington DC
Chicago
Barcelona (and Catalonia)
Sydney
Melbourne
Tokyo
Seoul
New York City
Paris
Hong Kong
Boston
London
Source
Philadelphia
Istanbul
Milan
Beijing
Stockholm
Washington DC
Chicago
Barcelona (and Catalonia)
Sydney
Melbourne
Tokyo
Seoul
New York City
Paris
Hong Kong
Boston
London
Source
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Korean-American
This is a good history of Korean-Americans (from 1st to 4th generation Korean-Americans, to Half-Koreans, to Korean adoptees): here
The following clips discuss some of the complexities of identity:
The following clips discuss some of the complexities of identity:
Monday, November 11, 2013
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Strict Asian Parents
My parents weren't as strict as the ones presented in the video, and I was much more bull-headed to rebel against this kind of imposition, but I can certainly relate to them.
Found an interesting article that gave the following:
- Different kids with different levels of preparation come into a math class. Some of these kids have parents who have drilled them on math from a young age, while others never had that kind of parental input.
- On the first few tests, the well-prepared kids get perfect scores, while the unprepared kids get only what they could figure out by winging it—maybe 80 or 85%, a solid B.
- The unprepared kids, not realizing that the top scorers were well-prepared, assume that genetic ability was what determined the performance differences. Deciding that they “just aren’t math people,” they don’t try hard in future classes, and fall further behind.
- The well-prepared kids, not realizing that the B students were simply unprepared, assume that they are “math people,” and work hard in the future, cementing their advantage.
2. “Japanese high school students of the 1980s studied 3 ½ hours a day, and that number is likely to be, if anything, higher today.”
3. “[The inhabitants of Japan and Korea] do not need to read this book to find out that intelligence and intellectual accomplishment are highly malleable. Confucius set that matter straight twenty-five hundred years ago.”
4. “When they do badly at something, [Japanese, Koreans, etc.] respond by working harder at it.”
5. “Persistence in the face of failure is very much part of the Asian tradition of self-improvement. And [people in those countries] are accustomed to criticism in the service of self-improvement in situations where Westerners avoid it or resent it.”
source
Friday, November 8, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Cops
source
"Police didn’t want to hear DeAndre Brown’s alibi. They wanted him to confess to a crime instead. Never mind that he had no criminal record. A witness placed the 26-year-old Pittsburgh-area security guard at the scene, and that was good enough to lock him up for a month, despite the existence of a surveillance tape showing him at a training event somewhere else." more here
Dave Chappelle expands
Timeline of MJ in US
Monday, November 4, 2013
breakfast cupcakes
Breakfast Cupcakes
1lb Turkey Sausage
1 cup Broccoli florets
8 large eggs
1/4 cup milk
salt & pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375 F. In a large sauté pan, over medium high heat, brown Sausage for about 5 minutes, or until the sausage is no longer pink. Remove from heat and stir in broccoli. Whisk together eggs, & milk. Season with salt and pepper. Lightly spray a 12-cupcake pan with oil. Spoon out the sausage and broccoli mixture evenly into each cupcake. Ladle the egg mixture over sausage and broccoli. Bake for 15-20 minutes.
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1lb Turkey Sausage
1 cup Broccoli florets
8 large eggs
1/4 cup milk
salt & pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375 F. In a large sauté pan, over medium high heat, brown Sausage for about 5 minutes, or until the sausage is no longer pink. Remove from heat and stir in broccoli. Whisk together eggs, & milk. Season with salt and pepper. Lightly spray a 12-cupcake pan with oil. Spoon out the sausage and broccoli mixture evenly into each cupcake. Ladle the egg mixture over sausage and broccoli. Bake for 15-20 minutes.
source
Carrot and Zucchini Fries
Source
Recipe: Carrot and Zucchini Fries
An unbelievably easy and delicious way to cook carrots and zucchini.Ingredients
- Olive oil
- Zucchini
- Carrots Seasonings of your choice. (See note under "Instructions.")
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 F.
- Cut your veg into 3-inch sticks, making sure they are even in thickness.
- Line a baking tray with baking paper and a light layer of olive oil.
- SEASON – Go with the usual salt&pepper and branch out to one or two of the following (Choose Your Own Adventure-style): paprika, cumin, cayenne, crushed red peppers, thyme, rosemary, sage – really, whatever takes your fancy and suits your meal. Using premixed spice blends is a great option too – Italian, Mexican, Old Bay – you know, just not all at once. (Today I used salt&pepper, smokey paprika and crushed red peppers.)
- Lightly toss your vegetable batons with a tablespoon or so of olive oil (not too much) and the herbs and spices.
- Spread your seasoned veg over your lined tray and roast, tossing halfway through, for about 20 minutes or until golden and slightly browned at the edges.
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