Thanks. At our age any unexplained absence can be
worrisome to the rest of us. Consider this a sort of
request for sort of doctors' notes.

I trust you are doing ok with all those fires and power outages in
CA...? Or have you moved on from there, in which case, is Lilli ok...?

I addressed this a day or two ago. It's a relatively safe
neighborhood, on a rocky knob, and if the eucalyptus trees
don't go, everything'll be fine. That said, I escaped
(alone) to the east coast a couple days ago.

I quite like them as well... grabbing them when they show up in fried chicken and such... ;)

Not all kidneys look like kidney beans, same as not
all hearts are heart-shaped (are any?).

I don't think any are what is thought of as heart-shaped... ;) But just about all do seem to have some resemblance to each other, whether bird
or beast.... dunno about fish and reptiles etc...

True, two-chambered hearts might have a better chance of
being heart-shaped.

posts) I like Popeye's best and Church's next; Bojangles's
food is way too salty, and the only time I eat it is in
the Charlotte airport, where the food choices though
abundant are mostly not very good.

Only one of those around here is Popeye's... and yes, I appreciate that
about their chicken thighs.... Wegmans' fried chicken tends to have the intact kidneys, too...

I've not had Weggie's fried chicken, but other supermarket
fried chicken is way too salty for me, as it potentially
has to be kept under the lamp for a long time.

... It's Ethnic Holiday X So Lets Make Ethnic Dish Y.

Now that's a Wellerism. Question: isn't everything
ethnic in some context?

Of course.... generally, though, taken to be some cuisine that isn't
what one grew up with....

Well, though some of us tend to forget the fact, we're
all of some ethnicity or another.

I find it amusing, as does our friend Cathy, who is, for want of a
better term, African-American, when her sister gets squicked out by the places that we take Cathy to eat... including Abyssinia (Ethiopian), and
all the various asian places... "Don't they EVER eat anything American...??!!" to which the answer actually is "Yes, quite often, just
not when we go out that much"... :)

That's somewhere between amusing and horrifying.

... "I'm back from my lobotomy," said Tom absentmindedly.

I just spent a lovely evening with a beautiful woman
with Alzheimer's (also her husband, the retired tenor of
Apollo's Fire, who was many years ago dubbed "Cleveland's
Treasure" - which would have been a first for that city.)

Bloody Mary
categories: historical, New York. Marriott
servings: 1

1 oz vodka
2 oz Tomato juice
1 ds lemon juice
2 ds celery salt
2 ds black pepper
2 ds cayenne pepper
3 ds Worcestershire sauce

Combine ingredients in cocktail shaker. Shake
vigorously. Strain over ice cubes. Garnish with a lemon wedge

Robert 'Bob' Albright, King Cole Bar, St. Regis, New York
via Dan Q. Dao, TimeOut magazine, 3/2016
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