Audacious tyrant, do you dare
To beard a maiden in her lair?
- Gilbert & Sullivan

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and
taste good with ketchup?

Do not mess with me, for I do not taste good
with ketchup.

Were you born in 1964 or 1976? Those are
dragon years.

Sometimes such might turn out a decent product;
and it doesn't take bumbling software employed
by bumbling creatives to make excrescences that
dot the landscape, such as two horrors I passed
on my walk today, designed by John Andrews and
Minoru Yamasaki, who are fairly Big Names in the
business.

Big name doesn't mean good taste.

The problem is that most people have been
cowed into thinking so. There is a most
famous 19th century architect called
H.H. Richardson, who designed dozens if
not hundreds of buildings most of which
I consider blights on the landscape, though
after living among them for fifty years,
they have not exactly grown on me, but at
least I don't notice them anymore. He is
widely regarded as one of the holy trinity
of American architecture; one of the otherw
is Frank Lloyd Wright, and the other isn't.

escaping Manhattan rents.

Thus causing the local rents to rise toward the
level of across the river. The Newark I ride
through between the train station and the
airport remains pretty ungentrified.

A lot of the new money is in loft apartments that used to be cheap
rent for artists.

Gentrification step 1 is putting industrious
lower-income people in undesirable accommodations,
and let's face it, musicians and artists generally
fall into this category. Step 2 is getting
well-to-do would-be artistic types to want to rub
elbows with them. Step 3 is pricing the rents up
so that the creatives get squeezed out. And thus
a real estate boom is born, but the original
justification is gone.

Thing is the better steaks can't be had
from the supermarket even on special order.
Our dilemma for Christmas dinner (in Cambridge)
is that Harriet, a must-satisfy guest, doesn't
eat the time-honored lobster and must have beef,
but to get a steak worthy of the occasion we'd
have to pay $25 a pound or more, and still it
won't be as good as what Grill 23 offers.

Decisions decisions. I'll be getting ravioli for dinner instead. My
BIL's family used to make, badly, their own. Now he gets them from an Italian place that's known for ravioli instead.

See the next post for an appropriate recipe!

I'm thinking of saying screw it all and getting
a 3-to-4-lb standing rib of the lower Choice
classification and roast it up and then cut out
the heart and serve it to her, making up in
quantity what quality may be slightly inadequate.

My Big Y sells some of the better stuff; there may be a place up near
you too.

Though the Big Y may have a partially upscale
clientele along the line of Wegmans's, it is
vanishingly unlikely that it ever sold any of
the best of the better stuff.

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Title: Seafood Soup
Categories: Soups/stews, Fish/sea
Yield: 1 servings

1 lg Thin sliced onion 1/4 ts Thyme crushed
1 c Chopped green onion & tops 1/4 ts Rosemary crushed
3 cl Garlic fine chopped 1 ts Salt
1/2 c Fine chopped parsley 1/4 ts Fresh ground black
1 Seeded and diced bell Pepper
Pepper 1 Bay leaf
3 c Tomato sauce 1 lb Crab/firm white fish
cubed
1 c Dry white wine 1 lb Shrimp
1 c Water 6 Scallops/clams in the
shell

Combine onions and garlic and cook, covered, over low heat until soft,
stirring frequently so they don't scorch. Add parsley, bell pepper,
tomato
sauce, wine, water, thyme, rosemary, salt, pepper and bay leaf and
simmer,
covered 1 hour. Add crab or white fish, shrimp, scallops or clams and
cook,
covered, for 8-10 minutes or until scallops or clam shells open. Discard
any shells that do not open. Source unknown

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Audacious tyrant, do you dare
To beard a maiden in her lair?
- Gilbert & Sullivan

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and
taste good with ketchup?

Do not mess with me, for I do not taste good
with ketchup.

The likes of us would poison anything trying to eat us.

Were you born in 1964 or 1976? Those are
dragon years.

Horse - 1966. Now how the heck I even know that is a good question.

on my walk today, designed by John Andrews and
Minoru Yamasaki, who are fairly Big Names in the
business.

Big name doesn't mean good taste.

The problem is that most people have been
cowed into thinking so. There is a most

Emperor, meet your new clothes.

famous 19th century architect called
H.H. Richardson, who designed dozens if
not hundreds of buildings most of which
I consider blights on the landscape, though
after living among them for fifty years,
they have not exactly grown on me, but at
least I don't notice them anymore. He is
widely regarded as one of the holy trinity
of American architecture; one of the otherw
is Frank Lloyd Wright, and the other isn't.

There are some of those around here too.

A lot of the new money is in loft apartments that used to be

cheap

rent for artists.

Gentrification step 1 is putting industrious
lower-income people in undesirable accommodations,
and let's face it, musicians and artists generally
fall into this category. Step 2 is getting
well-to-do would-be artistic types to want to rub
elbows with them. Step 3 is pricing the rents up
so that the creatives get squeezed out. And thus
a real estate boom is born, but the original
justification is gone.

The creatives then get forced out into another area and doing it all
over again. The small percentage who've been successful or switched
careers and are earning a few bucks may stay put.

quantity what quality may be slightly inadequate.

My Big Y sells some of the better stuff; there may be a place up

near

you too.

Though the Big Y may have a partially upscale
clientele along the line of Wegmans's, it is
vanishingly unlikely that it ever sold any of
the best of the better stuff.

Mine has displays of ageing beef, mold and all. We don't have a
Weggies to compete. It probably isn't the absolute best, but it's
better than the drek Stop & Plop sells.

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Quoting Michael Loo to Ruth Hanschka on 12-25-18 08:44 <=-

Big name doesn't mean good taste.

The problem is that most people have been
cowed into thinking so. There is a most
famous 19th century architect called
H.H. Richardson, who designed dozens if
not hundreds of buildings most of which
I consider blights on the landscape, though
after living among them for fifty years,
they have not exactly grown on me, but at
least I don't notice them anymore. He is
widely regarded as one of the holy trinity
of American architecture; one of the otherw
is Frank Lloyd Wright, and the other isn't.

Are you thinking maybe of I. M. Pei....?

ttyl neb

... Don't question authority...it doesn't know either.

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