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Wed, 28/06/2023 - 05:37
I love vintage cookbooks, but my favorite genre may be “Recipes from Restaurants That Aren’t There Anymore.” So I immediately bought a copy of Favorite Restaurant Recipes: 500 Unforgettable Dishes from the R.S.V.P. Column of Bon Appetit (1982) when it first popped on my radar. For the R.S.V.P. Column, readers would request recipes from theirContinue reading The Coach House Black Bean Soup & Corn Sticks (1982)
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Wed, 28/06/2023 - 03:01

Stop all the clocks, cut off the…
What?
Yes, stop all the clocks.
Yes, all the clocks.
Sorry?
I do realise there are lots of clocks.
Just stop them.
What do you mean “how”?
Are you honestly telling me
You don’t know how to stop a clock?
Just take the batteries out!
Fine, if it plugs in, take the plug out.
I am aware it will start flashing 00:00
Yes, that counts as stopped.
Yes, even when it’s flashing.
I know it’s annoying, this whole thing is annoying.
Why are you making this so difficult?
Wind-up clocks? Erm…
Well, just stick your finger in there.
Or something.
Look.
Please calm down.
Stop shouting.
Yes, I want you to stick your finger in,
All the wind-up clocks in the world.
Yes, even Big Ben.
Yes, even the Rathaus-Glockenspiel.
I have thought this through!
I have!
I’m not making up the rules as I go along.
Fine, then just throw a cloth over them.
Please stop crying.
Please.
I know you’ll hear them ticking.

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Tue, 27/06/2023 - 23:31

Several times in recent weeks I’ve heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been speaking to us through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She’s saying that she wants the coal, oil, and gas left in the ground, but I fear her message will have little more influence on climate policy than her previous ones did. After all, we essentially hit the “snooze” button on the wakeup call from Hurricane Katrina 18 years ago; ditto the disastrous Hurricane Sandy seven years later, as well as the East Coast heat waves and West Coast wildfires of more recent years; or the startling overheating of global waters and the sea level rise that goes with it. And that’s... Read more

Source: We’re Having a Violent Meltdown appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

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Tue, 27/06/2023 - 22:00

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2. Real Conch Seashell Power-Wielding Natural Persuasive Shell

3. Novelty 14 × 16 Self-Aging Portrait Includes Sins and Inner Demons

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6. Red Hat Ear Flaps Distinctive Headwear for Hunting or Confused Adolescent

7. Metallic One-Size-Fits-All No Green Stains One-Ring-Rules-All Ring

8. White 60-Foot Uncatchable Sperm Whale Symbolic Ocean Fixation

9. Red Initial “A” Letter Pin Accessory Gift for Birthday/Holiday/Adultery

10. Fully-Loaded Gun Russian-Made Foreboding Apprehensive Prop Firearm

11. Glass Bell-Shaped Vacuum-Sealed Suffocating Transparent Depression Jar

12. Black Tapping Omen Raven for Home Chamber Leering Death Harbinger

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Tue, 27/06/2023 - 21:24

In 1970, students staged a sit-in in the registry offices of my alma mater Warwick University. There, they stumbled across shocking files detailing extensive surveillance of students and staff as well as the incestuous relationship between the university administration and big business. The protests, rent strikes and student occupations of this era earned the University […]

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Tue, 27/06/2023 - 20:45
Lord Skidelsky  My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, made an important point about the importance of thinking about a post-Putin future. I have never thought that Putin either can or deserves to survive this adventure on which he has embarked, but I am interested in what is meant by such phrases as “withdraw his … Continue reading Comment in the House of Lords on a post-Putin Russia
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Tue, 27/06/2023 - 20:00

Morell, Donald Trump’s “deep state” enemy No. 1, spoke at a Chamber of Commerce event Monday, highlighting the strange gulf between the K Street titan and the GOP.

The post U.S. Chamber of Commerce Invites Trump Bête Noire Michael Morell to Speak at Major Gathering appeared first on The Intercept.