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magid ([personal profile] magid) wrote2025-06-11 05:11 pm
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Farm share, week 1

I re-upped with Stone Soup Farm; they’ve got good quality veggies, and while sometimes I wish they grew a wider variety of things, it can be useful to have enough to use in more than one recipe.

  • 2 bunches of green curly kale
  • 2 bunches of broccolini
  • 2 heads of lettuce (I chose red leaf varieties over green leaf; I don’t know why those almost always call me louder, but they do)
  • 1 pound of spinach (huge leaves: this is for cooking, not salad)
  • 1 pound of mixed salad greens (that might be ok to wilt into something towards the end of cooking)
  • 1 pound of garlic scapes

First thoughts: some kind of vegan saag using the spinach and some pureed garlic scalpes (perhaps some kale?) with tofu. Kale salad with lemon-tahini dressing and sunflower seeds (iron building salad). Stir-fried broccolini with onions, mushrooms, and tofu over rice (it feels so strange to wish I had carrots!). Green salad with tuna and a variety of pickles, plus some cucumber and tomatoes. Garlic scape puree for later use.
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morbane ([personal profile] morbane) wrote in [community profile] jukebox_fest2025-06-09 07:02 pm
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Updated PHs #2, 4, 7 & NEW 8 & 9

Thanks for considering these assignments! Please reply (comments are screened) or email jukebox.mod@gmail.com in order to claim a pinch hit.

Due: 11:59pm EDT Sunday 29 June

Minimum requirements: A work about one requested song or music video (or crossovers if specifically encouraged by your recipient), complete and polished, no generation of content via "AI" assistive tools. 1,000+ words for fic; a complete piece for art; 1,000+ words of podfic of an existing fic OR 500+ words of podfic of a work both written and recorded for this exchange.

Song/video/lyrics links for all requested canons can be found here.

Pinch hit #2 - The Questions Still Entertain Me - Hussalonia (Song), Passerby - Dave Smallen (Song), St. Elmo's Fire - Brian Eno (Song) - fic )

CLAIMED - Pinch hit #4 - Deutschland - Rammstein (Music Video), Le Jardin Des Larmes - ZAZ ft. Till Lindemann (Music Video), Blacksnake - Charming Disaster (Song) - art, fic )

Pinch hit #7 - My Therapy - Kamelot (Music Video), So Handsome Hello - Woodkid (Song), Until Eternity - Blackbriar (Music Video), Moonflower - Blackbriar (Music Video) - fic )

Pinch hit #8 - Someone New - Hozier (Music Video), Please Please Please - Sabrina Carpenter feat. Dolly Parton (Music Video), Blow - Ke$ha (Music Video) - fic )

CLAIMED - Pinch hit #9 - Blow - Ke$ha (Music Video), Rocket Man - Elton John (Song), Dead Ringer For Love - Meat Loaf ft. Cher (Music Video), Fancy - Reba McEntire (Song), Fast Car - Tracy Chapman - Song, The Devil Came Up to Boston - Adam Ezra Group (Song), Gentlemen Who Fell - Milla Jovovich (Song), If I Had A Boat - Lyle Lovett (Song), Maggie May - Rod Stewart (Song), Re: Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton (Song) - art, fic, podfic [varies by request] )
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jadelennox ([personal profile] jadelennox) wrote2025-06-08 11:17 pm
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the blattlach were mediocre, but the blintzes were good

For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I made a GF variant of Emma Goldman's blintz recipe this morning. (It's because for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I happened to have farmer cheese in the house.)

When I went looking for something snappy to turn my blintzes into a post, the first quotation on wikiquote is from a newspaper report after her arrest:

I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work.

Anyway I am not an anarchist by any measure whatsoever, but I have generally found reading Emma Goldman to be informative and fulfilling (My Disillusionment in Russia is gutwrenching and honestly I think keyboard warriors should read it). Her wikiquote page is so chock full of evergreen statements that I can't even cherrypick anything else to quote. But how about this one?

The very proclaimers of "America first" have long before this betrayed the fundamental principles of real Americanism...the other truly great Americans who aimed to make of this country a haven of refuge, who hoped that all the disinherited and oppressed people in coming to these shores would give character, quality and meaning to the country.

You can make blintzes vegan, too, if you use banana instead of the egg and flip the blattlach very gently. That can be potato or blueberry blintzes, although I've seen a recipe for blintzes with cashew cheese.

In conclusion, blintzes! Mine had strawberries.

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beluosus ([personal profile] beluosus) wrote2025-06-07 06:20 pm

litterae &c.

Nuper Fran apud nos primum invisit. Vinum haud pretiossissimum bibentes de variis usque ad noctem sermocinati sumus, ut solemus. Colloquium lectionem scriptionemque tetigit -- haud insolite -- ut infra exponam.

E-lectore Kindle nomine olim usa est, et nuper programma in telephono mobili habet ad libros legendos. Scio, inquit, te istas machinas respuere, tamen postquam eam in mobile addidi, sescentes libros perlegebam, cum antea raro legissem. Mel quoque interdum legit programmati Netgalley, quo domus editoriae libros ineditos mittunt recensionis causa. Codices legere scilicet mavult.

Libros electronicos omnes repudio, nisi si thesauri verborum sint, quippe eos facilius ad thermopolium et per museum praecipue ferre possum. Numquam enim fabulam electronice lego, quae in papyro edita'st ; velim codicem tangere, mulcere, olfacere quidem, et his qualitatibus editionem cuiusque libri eligo. Praeter necessitatem nihil me cogit ut librum turpi cum tegmine eligam, ad quem finem codices ipse glutinare didiceram. Ne eos quidem despecto qui eis utitur, nisi fautores ordinatrorum fanaticos immodicos contumeliosos -- et arcendos.

No solum, ut dixit Fran, telephono mobili legit sed etiam scribit ; programmati utitur ad ephemeridem scribendam. Pro certo non possum mobili sic uti : neque claviaturam (sc. cum thesauro verborum) latinam nec graecam antiquam habet, et cacodaemon Autocorrect nomine inibi insidiatur qui verba distorqueat, e.g. dictum « oderint dum metuant » mutat ut legatur « ordering dum methane ». Facilius enim sententias akkadicas componere possum -- dummodo signs veteribus babylonicis utor, neque rarioribus. Hieroglyphis aegyptiis scribere plane nequeo, etsi programma, thesaurum verborum francogallico-hieroglyphicum, habeo. Neque domi ordinatrum hierogluypa scit, quoniam programmati pretioso caret. Stilo possum lingua et signa confestim mutare et omnes litteras signa characteres muanus habet. Utilitatis igitur causa calamum requiro, idem ac αἴθησιν κατά praefero.

Notas per mobile invite exscribebam, quippe tabernae emptoribus rationes non iam dant, ut frustis papyrorum ubique non feram. Sed telephonum claviaturam perparvam habet, quam hic daemon obsidet. Ita notae nonnullae obscurissimae, sic nota (e.g.) quae legitur « crocodile/warburg/petrie(flames) ». Nam, hoc die cum Melle in thermopolio Crocidile prandi, exinde ad exhibitionem de chartulis Tarocchi apud Institutum Warburg iimus, deinde, quod horae II nobis tum vacabant anetaquam cum amicis in tabern convenimus, museum Petrie invisimus. At flammae (feliciter !) aberant. Fortasse conatus sum « flamen » exscribere ; hoc autem sacerdotis genus quoque aberat. Verisimiliter claviaturae parvitas et digiti inhabiles verbum funditus detorserunt. Quid voluerim non memini. Raro (nec numquam) idem papyro feci.

Olim amica mihi de amore et de vita consilium sapientissimum dedit, quod volebam exscribere. Credidi me paucos dies colloquii recordaturum, ut simpliciter in scheda « Quid R- dixit » exscripsi. Eheu, cum colloquebamur ad tabernam nocturnam ibamus, quo potantes saltantesque abnoctavimus. Papyro III post dies reperto, memineram quis sit R-, et quo in trivio collocuti simus, sed totius rei colloquii oblitus sum.
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timemidae ([personal profile] timemidae) wrote in [community profile] little_details2025-06-05 07:17 pm

Catholic school 1940's Quebec

Hi! 

I've been reading up on the historical Catholic school system in Quebec, and I've gathered that until 1960 there were commonly Catholic schools that were supported by public funds (officially ended in the 90's). I've been able to find the names of some of the girl's schools, but haven't been able to easily find the names of any of the mixed or boy's schools below the high school level. 

Anyone know any specific schools that could have served a 10-year old, working class, Catholic boy in Montreal or Quebec City ~1940? 

Thanks!