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Archive for October, 2004

Wiped out

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

(My hands smell of vicks vapo-rub.) Bah, bad bugs, bed bugs, bugged to bed, must. Ugh, bad bugs, nasty virus bad bugs, mid-level low-hanging bad-weather ever-present pests, find another bed. Wind? Clear sweep? No not yet? Salt, sore throat rinse, swish bad bugs out, salt should clear. Gold once, minerals both, fortresses on salt roads, […]

Chocolate Cake

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

I think I’ve mentioned The Chocolate Cake a couple of times recently. This is the recipe, adapted from the Devil’s Food Cake recipe in Iva Bennett and Martha Simon’s 1973 edition of The Prudent Diet: Assemble a collection of three smallish bowls and one larger one for mixing. Take 1/2 cup of cocoa powder — […]

Mixed bag

Saturday, October 2nd, 2004

No chocolate cake recipe yet. I’ve been reading around in several unrelated articles, all found on Arts & Letters Daily. First, there was a fascinating interview with Christopher Hitchins by Johann Hari, In enemy territory?: He is appalled that some people on the left are prepared to do almost nothing to defeat Islamofascism. “When I […]

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