Sunday, March 24, 2013

Chopped and Screwed

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Is this a blog on slasher erotica?  Sorry to disappoint but nyet.  Ok then.  A blog on the eroticism of food and sex i.e. the movie Tom Jones or Last Tango in Paris (butter anyone?) or George Costanza with 2 of his trifecta,  food and sex and to complete the trifecta, listening to a Yankees game while doing the other two.  Only on Seinfeld.  No my loyal readers.  It is none of the above.  I am really satisfying my curiosity with this one.  It all started with Rush Limbaugh.  Yes, yes, I know.  That arrogant ba*tard.  I find him to be a provocateur.  On Fridays, which he calls open line Friday, a caller can ask him about anything.  A caller asked him if he thought President Obama had any "chopped and screwed" music on his iPod.  Rush, normally always culturally up to speed ;)), said he didn't know what it was.  Well, he then went on about a half hour or so trying to find out what "chopped and screwed" was. He also got into the Beyonce/ Keisha feud.  Trust me folks.  It was a surreal listening adventure.  Hopefully I've gotten you so intellectually stimulated you're ready to satisfy your curiosity.   Here's what "chopped and screwed" is along with the must accompanying drink, the "Purple Drank". Read more...

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Memories of the 4th of July Italian Style

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If you go back in my blog posts, you'll see a post on My Memories of the 4th of July, Part One.  It's spending the weekend of July 4th, 1976 at a 3 day Willie Nelson concert.  Now flash forward to July 1996.  My husband (a different one at this point and still happily married) and I decided to  travel to Italy's lake country and see what we could see.  We found some very interesting and unusual sites and activities.  We stayed at the venerable Villa d' Este on Lake Como (George Clooney sightings?  No.).  The Villa is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.  Work on the Villa and its grounds started in 1550 but wasn't completed until 1886.  Our room was in the Princess Wing in a corner room that looked on to the Villa as well as having a full view of Lake Como. We ended up being lucky to have such a good location. Read more...

Book Review: The Dinner by Herman Koch

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When we meet a person for the first time, we are like new born babies.  We know nothing of that person's world.  Where did they grow up, go to school, work, marriage, kids, we know none of this.  When that person tells us things, we have to take their word that they are speaking the truth.  As we get to know that person, we begin to realize that that person is either straight forward and has been telling us the truth or is a b*ll sh*t artist out to take advantage of us or to somehow raise their self worth in our eyes.  I dated a guy once, he was from NYC, who told me that on the weekends he was a ski instructor.  That's easy to believe.  But then he told me (you might remember this, that on the Wide World of Sports, when they were showing downhill skiing,they used to show a guy having a horrible crash) that guy was him.  Now that was easy to verify.  Not him.  Too bad.  He was a good looking guy and fun but unreliable when telling me anything.  And that's what we have in Herman Koch's new book The Dinner.  A totally unreliable narrator. The Dinner is a big hit in Europe having sold over 1 million copies and now has made its debut here in the states. Following on the heels of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, which also has very unreliable narrators, The Dinner should do very well. The Dinner  read more...