I spend my days Polishing the Brass on a Sinking Ship:

Thanksgiving Greetings from Northern Indiana!

Thought for the Day:
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain

Last Post for Few Days:

I am off to the UP to join my wife’s primitive tribal people for their annual dog hunt, a delicacy they find quite tasty. Oddly, since many of them don’t own a pair of shoes, internet access will be limited to say the least. I would like to take this moment to wish everyone a well earned day of thankfulness. J. Tom the Jazz Man and his wife Sweet-Pea and my God Daughter, Sweet Potato are coming up from Memphis Friday for a visit. Until we meet again, may good food, company and drink, grace your table.

Your Recipes for the Holiday and After:

Blackberry Dumplings
This dish is not made with pie crust but with ordinary biscuit dough, made just a trifle shorter than usual. Roll the dough out a little thinner than for biscuit, on a well-floured cloth. Cover the top of the dough with a thick layer of fresh, ripe blackberries. Roll the dough and berries up and tie the whole in the cloth on which it was rolled. Put the whole thing in a pot of briskly boiling water. Bring it back to boiling point as quickly as possible and then cook steadily until done. While the dumplings boil, make a sweet sauce as follows: Take 1 1/2 cups of top milk, one cupful of sugar, 1/4 cup of butter. Cook together thoroughly and flavor by putting in sprigs and leaves of mint, which have been bruised. Remove the mint leaves before serving the sauce, which should be served hot on slices of the boiled dumplings.

Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish Recipe
(I am after all a NPR fan and yes this is good)

2 cups raw cranberries
1 small onion
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup sour cream
2T Red Horseradish

Grind the cranberries & onion together. Add remaining ingredients and mix. Put in a plastic container and freeze. Thanksgiving morning (or even the night before), move the container from the freezer to the refrigerator compartment to thaw (it should still have some little icy slivers left). The relish will be thick, creamy, and shocking pink (OK, Pepto Bismol pink). Makes 1 1/2 pints!

Dobbs Himself’s Small Batch Beef Stew
From the drunken ramblings of a great American and friend in the collective unconscious, a recipe for you.

1.5 lbs. London broil
4 small potatoes cubed
3 pieces garlic minced
2 medium size onions chopped
1 bag organic carrots
1 can whole kernel corn
Bag of green beans or broccoli chopped
2 cans beef broth
salt and pepper to taste

Cook meat, onions, potatoes, for a hour in a big old pot with 2 cans beef broth and then add all veggies. cook on low to medium for another 2 hours then mix 1/4 cup flour with some water in a cup and mix it, add it to the stew and presto you have done a Dobbs stews. He recommends that you then smoke a “doobie” and have a Bombay and Tonic and a foot massage, before dinning.

Your Mail Order Bride for the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend:
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(…Domestic Violence Bruising is such a turn on…)

Random thoughts:


I really hate Mitch Daniels.

I like the Amish

Coffee Black, Folgers

I have rather large glaring issues with my family.
Example: all my brothers and sisters, got their baby clothes, all carefully put away and stored at my grandparents, however when I enquired about mine, I was told “oh, your stuff we gave to the Mexicans”.

I am permanently banned from Graceland

I dip snuff; as a matter of fact I am dipping right now.

Mail Pouch adds from the turn of the century still make me giggle.

I look at porn

I cuss way to much, but not as much has my loving and potty mouthed wife.

I have a large collection of antique post cards for no apparent reason.

I also have large collection of the following: modern art done by very modern artists and old photos of people I am not related to.

I read too much.

I am not a handyman

I can and have shoed a horse and harnessed a team.

Sometimes, I miss the Army.

I think I am related to Fulkner

I like being Catholic, most days.

I drink a lot of Sweet Tea

John Coaltrain kicks my ass

French should only be spoken by people who know how to speak it.

I have pretty green eyes.

Having sex in order to procreate can often become a part time job and is often looked forward to with has much enthusiasm, by both parties.

I love football, but the only sport I ever played was Rugby.

I have been in to many fistfights and it’s not something I am proud of.

I really do love my family.

I don’t fart

I miss Hunter S. Thomson

I don’t smoke pot

I really, really, love my wife, she is my best friend and no I am not kissing ass.

I like waking up early.

Today, I am wearing my grandfather’s cardigan.

I used to hunt, I don’t anymore

I am very proud of my friends.

I was told yesterday, that I excel in systems thinking and I have no idea what the fuck they were talking about.

Rumplemintz is like crack to me

I don’t eat red beets, squid, organ meats, or anchovies.

I learned how to drive in 48 Ford pick-up and a Model 50 John Deere.

I love to cook. Ergo, I love to eat.

I am haunted by things I have done and/or seen done and that’s ok.

I miss my dad.

I really miss South Carolina.

I hate the student loan people.

I love bean soup & cornbread.

I smoke a pipe.

I enjoy Cream of Wheat

I know lots of very odd people.

I think that “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,…” is one of the best opening lines for a poem.

Your Drinks for Thanksgiving:



Absinthe Cocktail
(Yes, you can import up to two bottles for your own personal consumption in the US)

Drink Ingredients:
1 tsp. Sugar
1 Egg White
1 1/2 oz. Absinthe

Instruction:
Garnish with lemon twist or a Shrunken Head

Cafe Diable
(Nice in front of a fire place or a trash can fire)
Drink Ingredients:
5 oz. Rum
2 tbs. Sugar
2 Orange Peel
2 Cinnamon
5 cup Coffee
10 Whole cloves

Instruction:
Place all ingredients except the coffee in a chafing dish. Heat gently, stirring constantly. Ignite and allow to burn for 1 minute. Slowly add coffee. Ladle into cups, remove the spices. Makes 4-6 servings.

Queen of Scots
(College kids and old ladies love this one)

Drink Ingredients:
1 tsp. Lemon Juice
1 tsp. Sugar
0.5 tsp. Chartreuse
0.5 tsp. Curacao
2 tsp. Water
2 oz. Scotch

Instruction:
Combine sugar and water, stir until dissolved, then add lemon juice and scotch, and stir. Pour into cocktail glass filled with ice and float green chartreuse and blue Curacao, for plaid effect.

Cancellations:

There will be no, No-Love-Thursday meeting this week, in observance of the national Holiday, suffice to say across this great land, there will be more than enough No-Love” shown on this holiday

Today’s Bill:
SONNET 5
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel:
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter and confounds him there;
Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where:
Then, were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was:
But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

Quote for the Day:
They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.
David Assael

I remain, your ever present internal voice of bravado:

JQP esq.