It is rare that a story so profound could have remained so hidden, but if it hadn’t then it wouldn’t have happened, because staying hidden made it so powerful. And there is a wonderful sublime poetic justice to be found in that censorship helped to create the very power that destroyed an evil empire. Words almost fail me, and I do not want to be a spoiler, but it must be very odd to wake up one day and find you have played a tremendous role in history, and nobody told you. And then to be almost completely unchanged by the experience. This movie is a real treat, and the story it tells will move you greatly.
Life … is one peculiar bowl of fish but sometimes it makes a fine bouillabaisse.
I posted 2 vids in response to above trailer, but no dice?
Johannesburg- Gil Scott Heron
We Almost Lost Detroit- Gil Scott Heron
Weird – they were in the spam folder! That is a first and I have no idea why. I think you should be proud.
Unlimited secret donations pervert American politics, at the state and national levels. They inevitably produce the appearance (and often the reality) of favoritism and corruption, and, in this case, their toxic residue will literally flow into the clean waters of northern Wisconsin.
From: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/opinion/did-gov-scott-walker-violate-campaign-laws.html?_r=0
This should smell better than rendering lard or making head cheese. Think I’ll try it this winter with deer bones if I’m lucky enough to harvest one. Thought I was enlightened more than most by saving the heart and liver, but if this works out I’ll really be a smug little fucker. As well as a proud spam generator.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/bone-broth-benefits-from-digestion-to-joint-pain-zbcz1408.aspx#axzz3C4cP43TK
I thought for a minute you meant Scott Walker getting caught red-handed would smell better than rendering lard!
I quickly read the bone broth link too, and wanted to quote this from it because while I have long advocated simmering rather than boiling bones (my dad was a bone boiler, and he often neglected to leave anything on the bones to help flavour things along, great dad though he was, and sometimes made a thin meanish stock) I knew nothing about using something to draw out the minerals:
Grass-fed bones. So much of our beef is corn fed it is disgusting and they have managed to market it as though it were an advantage. I gotta get me some grass-fed bones …
More info on bone broth at this site, as well as tons of other good stuff.
http://www.westonaprice.org/
UPdate on nephew. Out of 6 hour surgery. Quadruple bypass. 40 years old.
Wow. Genetic? My dad had his first heart attack at 50, and it turned out there were people in his past who had died young, before they were so good at surgery. 6 hours. Poor guy, but lucky guy.
life isn’t fair
http://www.milwaukeemag.com/article/6202011-bestwurst
I’ve been loving the breakfast links from Stoddard’s. I put them ahead of Glorioso’s, ahead of Fraboni’s, ahead of everyone. Sadly, their brats are just OK, and their Italians are less than that. But they do carry leaf lard now and then, so that’s a plus.
In other food news, if you can make your way to the new Metro Market in Cottage Grove, over by the rotisserie chickens, they have beef brisket and it’s great. $10 a pound, but awesome. Hot, smoky, and ready to eat.
And…I have my blood draw for my annual physical in 9 days, so maybe I should lay off some of this stuff for a bit. 🙄
I had oatmeal for breakfast yesterday. It made me sad.
I have learned to eat oatmeal. My mother-in-law has been pushing it at me for years, and I caved a few years back when my weight kept dropping [I know, nice problem]. But I add maple syrup and cream, or brown sugar. Just a small bowl and I have had to admit that it calms my belly somewhat. But I am of Scottish heritage, and I have a thing about ancestral foods being easier to tolerate. Maybe you were born to eat sausage! But not before a blood test, much agreed. And don’t drink too much liquid or you will up your blood pressure – it is lower when a little on the dehydrated side. Cheating the test is important to avoid all those drugs they like to give people for life as they get older.
My dad was a weirdo and from Thanksgiving until I think the May long weekend he made hot cereal every weekday morning, each day a different kind but the pattern repeating week after week. Then we were released from purgatory and back into the relative heaven of Sugar Puffs. But with reconstituted skim milk. Red River day was the worst – like chomping through bird seed and I only liked Cream of Wheat, so only 1 out of 5 mornngs wasn’t a bust. We fed the kids instant packaged oatmeal all winter long here though, but it was packed with sugar and when you are cold you will eat anything. So we kept them cold and hungry, like little Oliver Twists, just like my parents kept us. They were also great car camping – I mean the oatmeal – but the kids were cute too.
You can’t see the packages but you can see the telltale cups and spoons. Those were super fun days.
Oh, and that isn’t my hubby – just sayin’ and nothing personal to the fine old friend pictured, who is the father of the darker haired sweetie.
I spy…a couple of great old Coleman lanterns hanging on the tree. And if only I could see more of that other table, I bet there’d be green Coleman camp stove there as well. Good stuff.
Agreed, I think there is something to the idea that you’ll function better with ancestral foods, and I have no doubt I come from a long line of sausage eaters. There’s probably a key DNA sequence for it. 😎
And “cheating the test is important”!! I agree, but tut, tut, the medical establishment is giving us both the evil eye as we speak. 👿
my brother and i call it our “bucket list”. we want to find and visit every mom and pop, or should i say mom or pop sausage maker in Wisconsin, as i found a new one this summer in Rhinelander called Bessey’s. i believe that is a female name, but could be wrong, but just to stay on the safe side… btw… i have hit all the sausage places in that article except the one in Bayside.
http://besseysmeatmarket.com/
i will be eating healthy today, tomorrow, and the next day. my cornucopia is full to overflowing…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopia
i picked this morning, and just finished making Pico de Gallo, and guacamole. dang it, but i needed to buy a fruit/vegetable – avocado. i also got out some homemade black beans i had in the freezer. that takes care of the easy stuff to eat as far as healthy goes. i do love Mexican food. next cucumbers and zucchini. i’m thinking of Tzatziki, so i can have some meat! in Pita bread… maybe some cucumber salad on the side. fried zucchini? anyway, i’d love to have this same dilemma come January.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzatziki
as far as cereal, i really don’t like it that much at all. i prefer eggs and potatoes or just skip it and start with lunch. when camping, i usually have baked potatoes that i left in the coals over night, and if i have time, a steak or freshly caught fish. in fact, a friend and me back in the day, wouldn’t (see below) bring any meat or fish on some of our camp retreats. the rule is that you either killed your food, or you were stuck eating rabbit food. around that time my wife began calling my annual fishing/camping week “testosterone week”. i never told her that both my friend Jim and i cheated by bringing beef jerky, sardines etc., though we never admitted it to each other. we both just knew, and kept our mouths shut.
Different trip, same place but more elaborate set up, coleman stoves at the left end of the table you could see in the background of the other photo.
That may be someone that I am very married to.