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a blog with cultural bulimia.

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

LAVOISIER
or
matter is neither created nor destroyed

i have no talent i can speak of.
i can write and i can draw
but i can't write well
and i can't draw that well either.

are people with no talent destined to become critics, reviewers?

i'm an opinion hypochondriac, a taste chameleon.


SO I GO ON APPROPRIATING...




CLIPPINGS FROM THE SUNDAY TIME

UNTYING THE KNOT

It makes no sense to say that a good marriage requires parity, as most marriages in the world and throughout history have been based on entirely different principles. You might even conclude from America's unusually high divorce rate that the expectation of equality and personal fulfillment is itself a more problematic prescription than that of honor and obedience.



'One, a Brazilian, looked like Hollywood's notion of a diplomat — slender, graying, elegant, with a touch of an accent in the many languages he spoke. One, an Egyptian, was a hard-living, hard-drinking, hard-smoking, hard-thinking specialist in managing chaos.

Both died on Tuesday in Baghdad, crushed under the rubble of the Canal Hotel, the makeshift headquarters of the United Nations in Iraq.



Recipe: Classic Margarita:

Lime slice, 1/2 inch thick, for salting glass
Kosher salt
2 ounces silver tequila
1 ounce Cointreau
3/8 ounce fresh lime juice.
1. Rub lime slice around outer rim of cocktail glass. Place salt in a dish. Holding glass parallel to dish, coat only the outside with salt. Place glass in refrigerator.
2. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add tequila, Cointreau and lime juice. Shake well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Yield: 1 drink.


SAINT OF THE MONTH CLUB

August's San Paolo