Moar

[pantryslut]

1. Someone needs to remind me to take off the chicken skin before poaching so I can make some cracklings.

2. I am totally serious about Elizabeth Moon's rhetoric, like "the business of a citizen is the welfare of the nation," being proto-fascist.

3. I owe you all some recently read books. (Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye--Barbara Payton's bio, thus the comment last post--and a couple 33 1/3's on Murmur and In Utero. The latter is a pretty straightforward journalistic account of the making of the album; the former is seriously fascinating on all sorts of levels.)

Comments

[ilipodscrill.livejournal.com]

i loved the murmur book. for in utero, i felt like i already knew most of it, and what i didn't were esoteric facts about the recording sessions. some of my other faves have been patti smith-horses, david bowie-low and tom waits-swordfishtrombones

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Horses! Looking forward to it.

I'm also intermittently fantasizing about writing something for the series.

[jean-roberta.livejournal.com]

Sorry to be a tech-challenged pain, but would you post a link to the Elizabeth Moon piece under discussion? (I won't contribute to a flame war, just want to see what the fuss is about.) I looked for it, but had no luck.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

http://e-moon60.livejournal.com/335480.html

comments have been deleted, and that's where some of the really ugly stuff was happening.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

are you on the concom list at the moment? anyhow, in either case, please please please suggest a protofascism panel? or email me a para or two on what it would be about, and i'll write up a panel description and get it in.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

OK, will do in the morning. (I think I am set to nomail on the concom list.)

[jean-roberta.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for the link. Now I see what responders were responding to. Her first few paragraphs sound so reasonable & broad-minded, like the general policy of the Canadian political party I would like to see voted into federal office (as a better alternative to the currently-reigning Conservatives).
Sigh.

Almond or Apricot Seed oil for ecsema

[(Anonymous)]

...with or without Tea Tree (meleleuca) in it (20%-50%) - I have the same problem and this is turning out to be the best solution, nearly gone in the past week. (Other food-grade oils might work okay but the stone-fruit ones seem to absorb quicker with less greasiness and don't smell as strongly. And some people are reactive to meleleua, though it seems to be helping rather than inflaming for me.

In a pinch (ie in public), Burts' Bees chapstick also works pretty well, trade-off of convenience with cost.

& I'm sure you're familiar with Orcinus but the PDF on proto-fascism that Dave has there might be a helpful primer for other congoers.

[(Anonymous)]

BTW, sorry for being anon, but since being outed to/by my theocon family I don't dare post or even be much online - I just happened to thread to the Mooning and figured I should try to be helpful as far as I could.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

No apologies needed, and thank you for both tips.