Jan. 21st, 2006

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I love it when Ian gets annoyed. I look forward to being able to take him and Tessa and baby Lucy out to dinner some time so I can hear it live, up-close and personal.
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The OOA blogroll is full of links to acquaintances of mine, friends, buddies past and present, and just plain folks I know. Here are some news headlines:


  • Michael Reaves is co-writing the new "Star Trek: New Voyages" episode starring George Takei as Sulu.*
  • C.J. Cherryh continues to work on her ice skating and installs a new reef tank
  • Bob Greenberger goes job-hunting (Someone please hire him quick, OK? You're letting one of comics' great talents just sit there, and there's no reason for it. You ask me, his firing was unwarranted.)
  • The news about Dave Stewart's tumor is better than we were afraid it might be, thank God
  • Charlie Stross gets cranky about ads and spam (and why not?)
  • The Incredible Hulk is up in arms about a toy
  • Kathryn Cramer looks into black ops in Haiti
  • Peter David wonders idly if his name's big enough on this cover (Is he nuts? No author's name is ever big enough on the cover.)
  • Jim Swallow gets weird (paper) mail
  • Joey the Accordion Guy is trying to find out about Roztez
  • Bruce Willis is offering $1 million for info leading to bin Laden's arrest (I don't know Bruce, but this was on Joey's blog and I just had to link to it... Someone commented, "In the old days, Bruce would just have hunted Osama down himself...")


What a busy world...


*Scroll down on this page and look at the guy they've cast as the young Sarek. Woo Woo.
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I have fine potatoes, ripe potatoes!
Will your Lordship please to taste a potato?
'Twill advance your wither'd state,
fill your honour full of noble itches.
From The Loyal Subject by John Fletcher


(heh) That Fletcher. Always digging you in the ribs with one elbow, going nudge-nudge-wink-wink in the Pythonesque manner. He was of course referring to the early rep potatoes had of being an aphrodisiac.

Never mind that. I've never made this dish before -- one of those archetypal cold-weather dishes. It's essentially potatoes (matchsticked / julienned), anchovies, and cream, with some breadcrumbs on top to make a nice crust. We'll see how it comes out. I'll take some pictures, and if one or two come out well, I'll post them.

While it's baking, I'll put a couple of things up in the eBay store. This house is full of galleys and manuscripts: I don't see why interested parties shouldn't have them.

(BTW, apparently there's some way to generate an RSS feed of the store's contents and changes. I'm still struggling with figuring this out...as soon as I do, I'll put the link up in the central column of the weblog under the store's link.)

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