Last Bagel Before Pesach
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ellenkushner....was just eaten.
Now I'm looking forward to my parents' arrival on Sunday, and to bullying my dad into eating whatever I tell him to because "I have to use it up!" - including strange rare treats like the fancy-schmancy oatmeal, and the end of the really good French cheese. He'll do it if he has to. And to hearing Delia & my mom warbling Gilbert & Sullivan and Tom Lehrer together as they grate carrots and whip eggs to a leaven-y froth.
Between then and now lie deserts of vast eternity of cleaning cabinets & shifting boxes of dishes & food - mostly by Delia & her Minions, I admit . . . I finished most of the shopping today - though I sure hope those unopened boxes of matzah meal in the basement from last year have lost none of their savor.
My favorite line from yesterday's radio interview with Frank Stasio - actually his intro to the interview before ours:
No other Englishman beheaded by a monarch has moved as much product as Sir Walter Raleigh.
(No, of course I didn't remember it verbatim! I wrote it down. And it turns out you can hear the whole very entertaining interview with Mark Nicholls, co-author of Sir Walter Raleigh: Life and Legend, on the same page as ours.
(I haven't listened to ours, yet. You listen, and tell me if I sound like an idiot!)
Now I'm looking forward to my parents' arrival on Sunday, and to bullying my dad into eating whatever I tell him to because "I have to use it up!" - including strange rare treats like the fancy-schmancy oatmeal, and the end of the really good French cheese. He'll do it if he has to. And to hearing Delia & my mom warbling Gilbert & Sullivan and Tom Lehrer together as they grate carrots and whip eggs to a leaven-y froth.
Between then and now lie deserts of vast eternity of cleaning cabinets & shifting boxes of dishes & food - mostly by Delia & her Minions, I admit . . . I finished most of the shopping today - though I sure hope those unopened boxes of matzah meal in the basement from last year have lost none of their savor.
My favorite line from yesterday's radio interview with Frank Stasio - actually his intro to the interview before ours:
No other Englishman beheaded by a monarch has moved as much product as Sir Walter Raleigh.
(No, of course I didn't remember it verbatim! I wrote it down. And it turns out you can hear the whole very entertaining interview with Mark Nicholls, co-author of Sir Walter Raleigh: Life and Legend, on the same page as ours.
(I haven't listened to ours, yet. You listen, and tell me if I sound like an idiot!)
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Date: 2011-04-15 08:26 pm (UTC)Damn, I have to stock up on bagels, bacon, prawns, cream cheese, and Marmite (trefe especially during Pesach according to some orthodox acquaintances, on account of it being yeast extract), just so I can eat my annual ultimate unkosher bagel!
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Date: 2011-04-15 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-15 08:48 pm (UTC)(The whimpering noise you hear is my gut, the next morning.)
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Date: 2011-04-15 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-15 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-15 08:45 pm (UTC)There's actually a name for that: we call it "driveway listening."
No matter; you can still hear it online. Enjoy!
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Date: 2011-04-15 08:50 pm (UTC)So glad for podcasts!
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Date: 2011-04-15 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-15 09:03 pm (UTC)Oh, the things we learn in the path of tradition.
Chag sameach!
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Date: 2011-04-15 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-15 09:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-16 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-15 10:21 pm (UTC)This. Is pretty much what my weekend is about.
With a side of fridge-and-oven scrubbing.
matzah
Date: 2011-04-15 10:59 pm (UTC)Apropos of nothing
Date: 2011-04-18 01:57 am (UTC)Sorry for the non sequitur response to pesach; I tried to find a Riverside-related post, but they were all older and I didn't want to be obscurely stalker-y.
Re: Apropos of nothing
Date: 2011-04-18 02:09 am (UTC)Re: Apropos of nothing
Date: 2011-04-18 06:48 pm (UTC)