Hi Michael,

 ML> >  ML> >  ML> No grinsies there, either, though as far as
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> European art and music from the late middle
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> ages through the Expressionists goes I could
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> at that time have taught at the university
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> level without faking (still could, most
 ML> >  ML> > I'd have to do some brush up on it but could do a credible
 ML> job of it >  ML> > also.

 ML> A good memory helps; visiting lots of art sites helps.

A lot easier to do via internet now. But, going to some of them in
person (Louve, Heritage, etc) would make for an interesting trip. A
couple of months ago one of our girls told me she had a vague, dream
sort of thing about something she saw in one of the museums in Berlin.
She wanted to know if I remembered which specific museum it was; I was
able to tell her "most likely this one".

 ML> For art methods, though, you'd most likely have been
 ML> much more effective than I was.

Probably so as I've taught art related subjects before to groups.

 ML> >  ML> It's hard to know how much I'd have to do on the
 ML> >  ML> art side, as I've not properly seen a painting in
 ML> >  ML> at least 5 years. Music of the 18th to early 20th
 ML> >  ML> centuries, no problem still.
 ML> > I couldn't do the music so it sounds like together, we could teach
 ML> the > class. (G)

 ML> Music isn't second nature to me, it's first nature.

Probably like some aspects of sewing for me.

 ML> >  ML> Problem is that my straight lines are incompetent,
 ML> >  ML> and my nonstraight lines are just plain ugly.
 ML> > Sounds like some of the "modern art" painters. Ever see some of
 ML> Jackson > Pollack's work?

 ML> Pollock was a genius, and his splatters are
 ML> - though outwardly random - inimitable and
 ML> strangely graceful. Nobody has managed to
 ML> capture the spirit of it, and many have
 ML> tried, you can imagine. I had a friend who
 ML> (either he or his older brother, I'm not
 ML> sure at this point) tried to produce
 ML> pseudo-masterworks in the styles of various
 ML> modern artists. He did a tolerable job on
 ML> Mondrian and Miro but failed totally with
 ML> Pollock. The funny thing is that if you
 ML> encounter a representational piece of
 ML> Pollock's, it's ugly as all getout.

I'm less than impressed with it. Same as dance--Tuesday nights after
AGT, a show comes on called "World of Dance", a competition. It's very
heavy into what looks like work out exercises and gymnastics floor
exercise (IMO) but occaisionally there are some real dance performers.

 ML> > But, we are doing some experimentation with it now. Once the weather
 ML> > cools off (naybe around October), I'm going to try something like a
 ML> beef > stew with a bit of red wine.

 ML> As I keep noting, it does make a difference
 ML> and in my opinion generally a beneficial one.

We'll see, it being not our usual stew, we will have to develop a
tasting criteria for it. Then too, I've changed up the way I do beef
stew from the way I did it when I first started. Not so much in
technique but adding ingredients my mom would have never dreamed of
adding. It's a lot different (better) tasting than the beef stew I was
brought up on. (G)

 ML> Beware recipes that don't apply enough heat,
 ML> though, for example slow cooker ones - my rule
 ML> of thumb is if a slow cooker recipe calls for
 ML> alcohol, discard it and every recipe from the
 ML> same source, because it comes from palate-dead
 ML> people. The taste of raw alcohol is as unwelcome
 ML> to me as the effect is unwelcome to you.

Same as a slow oven probably.


 ML> > And we like to talk with our doctors, not have them talk at us.

 ML> I wonder how many doctors prefer an interactive
 ML> telationship with their patients versus a one-sided
 ML> one in which the customers just sit there going
 ML> uh huh all the time. For my heart procedures I had

I've had some of the one sided drs but have, overall, tried to find ones
I could talk with. A bit harder to do with the military drs but did get
some good ones there, once they knew I knew what I was talking about.

 ML> one of each and was scheduled for followup with the
 ML> fascist one (a Marine colonel). I fired him and
 ML> went with the other.

Sounds like you did the right thing for your care.

 ML> >  ML> The rest of the trip was not happy, and I hope he
 ML> >  ML> realizes the worth or at least validity of my position
 ML> >  ML> before he drives someone into the Charles.
 ML> > Hopefully he was just trying to get a conversation started and the
 ML> book > never actually got written.

 ML> The book no doubt would have been therapeutic
 ML> for him; just he shouldn't get all bent out of
 ML> shape when other people don't appreciate his
 ML> pearls of wisdom as much as he does.

Limited edition (of one) printing?


 ML> Chip and cheese wafers
 ML> categories: historical, snack
 ML> yield: 48

 ML> 3 oz roll snappy or sharp cheese
 ML> 1/4 c softened butter
 ML> 1 ts prepared mustard
 ML> 1/2 c flour
 ML> 1 c crushed Wise potato chips

 ML> Recipes that Pep-Up Meals with Wise Potato Chips, adapted

A ploy to get you to buy more potato chips. (G)


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