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by ghostjmf » Wed May 28, 2008 4:03 pm
A) FOUR PLACES I GO OVER AND OVER:
Plum Island* Reserve, 45 miles north of Boston; 1st heard of it in a local musician (Richard Johnson)'s instrumental named after it, & thought "if I ever have a car I will check it out"; about 15 years later I did have a car & did, its exactly as lovely as the music was.
Sacred Harp singings; I'm not as much into this as I was few years ago maybe, but I still go & I prefer the smaller singings where I get to meet & talk to people in-between, & where I feel "they actually may miss my voice on the part if I leave"
Home to Ohio, to visit my very old Mom, my sister, my brother, & my sister's Lhasa Apso
work every day
B) FOUR PEOPLE WHO PM ME:
I don't have PM
C) FOUR FOODS I LIKE:
OK, I like way more than 4 foods. As do most of you too.
I'm going to list "foods I love that I don't make myself up to great restaurant quality":
Strange Flavor Chicken; the strange flavor is either special peppercorns, cilantro, both, or something else depending on which recipe you read; after my favorite restaurant went out of business I finally found another who made it almost as good
Szechuan Duck with Vegetables; after my favorite restaurant became unfavorite by virtue of changing all their recipes (& probably the chef), I finally found one that made it differently but just as good; unfortunately, its in my home town, not where I live
Toscanini's Kulfee & Burnt Caramel ice cream flavors (is that 2?)
My very own chicken scallopini (called picatta by some), which recipe I got from a chef-in-training neighbor; gotta get the batter-coated chicken crispy & then put the lemon on & "reduce" it 'til its a glaze, but without burning anything, although I'll eat it burnt too; this I think I make better than some restaurants, but of course I have to try theirs to compare
D) FOUR PLACES WHERE I'D RATHER BE:
Plum Island (see above)
My apartment after it gets a complete overhaul, which it only would if I owned, not rented & if then I could afford it; barring that, some inn that is far enough away so I don't feel guilty staying in it instead of heading back home (I never actually stay in expensive "country comfort" inns, but I eat meals in a lot of them, & wish)
Britain or Ireland again, just driving around (again)
Hawaii, where I've never gone, but on this vacation, since its still technically in the US, I'd make no bones about sightseeing by day & watching all my stupid favorite TV shows at night; I'm not a night-life type of person anyway, & on vacations even to Ohio I manage not to get something on tape back home that even in this era isn't repeated on the internet
FOUR PEOPLE WHO I THINK WILL RESPOND:
Is that 'respond to me" or respond at all? I've read too much of this thread already to fairly guess "at all"; if its "to me", I hope its the people I like, & not the jerkwaters; occasionally a nice person gets miffed & thinks I mean them by this, but all the jerkwaters make no mistake about who they are
FOUR MOVIES THAT I WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
none. I get hives at the thought of re-seeing movies. I've seen "Its a Wonderful Life", which I do like, several times, but that was by default, considering what time of year its on.
I have also re-watched only a few TV series: The 1st (5?) years of Tom Baker as Dr. Who; 1st I had to watch them again in color when I finally got a color TV, then I had to watch them all again when the tiny bits that were cut out in the American version for the narrator "catch up" at the beginning by Howard Da Silva (?) were put back in. I admit I've seen most of these about 7 times each. I don't like the last 2 years, after creepy pseudo-Zen people took over production, & have only seen most of them once even though Baker's still in them.
Then there's Da Vinci's Inquest, which I've had to watch several episodes of at least a couple/3 times because I missed part of the original syndicated broadcast due to evil scheduling by local TV stations; also, any time I get a chance to watch the original CBC version I do, because small things were cut out of the American syndicated version (not just "silenced" for language, which happens on this show all the time & is kinda funny because you can always tell exactly what word is being silenced, but incomprehensibly, as this was a prime-time Canadian drama, cut)
* Technically listed as Parker River Something Reserve, if anyone's looking for it. You buy a $15.00 "bird stamp" to get in year round; else its some amount per car every time.
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ghostjmf on Thu May 29, 2008 9:29 am, edited 1 time in total.