4.30.2008
4.29.2008
From the UW Archive:
Carrillon Tower before 1962
The archive only manages to specify that these are images of the tower before the 1962 construction of the Social Sciences Building.
4.28.2008
We were really hummin'
This weekend's cake-- provisionally titled Deadbeat Club Cake-- comes primarily from Camille Glenn's The Heritage of Southern Cooking. My little 6" layers of yellow cake fit on a single rack.
Instead of the orange filling Glenn recommends, I opted for a layer of coffee pastry cream, mostly using Dorie Greenspan's recipe-- instead of adding coffee at the end, I steeped roughly ground beans in the hot milk, a trick I learned from Daniel Boulud's Cafe Boulud Cookbook which, after all, is co-written by Greenspan.
The finished cake will appear as soon as I snap a decent photo.
Instead of the orange filling Glenn recommends, I opted for a layer of coffee pastry cream, mostly using Dorie Greenspan's recipe-- instead of adding coffee at the end, I steeped roughly ground beans in the hot milk, a trick I learned from Daniel Boulud's Cafe Boulud Cookbook which, after all, is co-written by Greenspan.
The finished cake will appear as soon as I snap a decent photo.
4.27.2008
4.26.2008
How Many Cups??
During intermission at the UW-Madison Dance Program's spring program concert this evening, I bought a Perrier and a Reese's (2 Peanut Butter Cups) in order to support the budding student dance organization. I was only going to eat one of the cups and save the other for later, but I gobbled both down. OMFG--now, I am like on drugs. I haven't been this wired and wildheaded in forever. Apparently the concentration of the sugar and chocolate is just too much for me.Erk: Dance is so delicate I mean watching dance requires focused attention and if a whole damn family gets up and exits in the middle of a piece then the piece is ruined and you know what else ruins a piece-- a dancer's contempo bra straps visible beneath her period costume-- the dance is ruined. But the concert was just terrific...
Kenneth: Oh, honey, will you even sleep tonight?
Erk: I'm wired, right??
Kenneth: How many cups did you have?
Erk: [manically tightening a loose drawer nob with his nail] Only two-- only two butter cups!
4.25.2008
Still Scratching
Regarding "pursuit of stability"... here are a couple more scraps of paper. On the left, in addition to making notes, I kept track of the number of times I checked my email and my blog during a period of reading. On the right, during another period of reading, I tracked the times at which I had urges to check my email, etc. All of this was taken on because I'm tremendously distracted just now. I believe, though, that these projects only added to any distraction. As with meditating, one should simply let the unwanted thought flutter past-- not put the book aside and jot down the time of its occurrence. The best part is my note, between the 4:15 and 4:27 urges: "peed."
Scratch Paper
Discovered while tidying my office, this sentence:
I found myself flapping against the computer screen like a bird trying to defenestrate itself.
Began to revise the sentence in my head:
I found myself flapping against the computer screen like a bird trying to self-defenestrate.
etc.
4.24.2008
4.23.2008
From the UW Archives:
Langdon Street Antics
1965: Frat boys launching water balloons at other frats and crew boats out on the lake.
I'm so into this image. I want to choreograph a piece based on it. Too bad I'm not a choreographer.
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