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Thursday, September 22 - 5:43am

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The food of the Gods.

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Thursday, September 22 - 1:40pm

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     I've never had foie gras. I may or may not ever try it. But I know 1 thing:

     Ducks clearly have a political lobby group; duck-eaters and duck-preparers don't. Q.E.D.

     It's not the pressure groups that are the real problem. It's the legislators that find them worth paying attention to, and the voters that put pull-peddling people in the chairs of legislators. While these democratically oriented pork-shufflers are the main kind of politicians we keep electing, more than ducks will keep disappearing from our lives' menus.

LLAP
J:D

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Friday, September 23 - 10:02am

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I blame the geese. I hate those fuckers.

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Saturday, September 24 - 9:58pm

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     No, I disagree. It's not the fault of the geese (the term 'geese' has no possessive!). Indeed, we contemporary Americans, lucked out in being able to live off of the remnants of those geese that, together, 200 yrs ago, laid a 'Golden Egg' for us...live off of, that is, for a while.

     It's all the subsequent ganders' fault, since then, who've been trying to make an omelette out of what we once had, while fighting against any more Gold-Egg-Laying geese coming around us.

     These are the REAL 'fuckers.' And we keep voting for them (or their superficially different competitors) to make important decisions that affect all of us.

     Our omelette's almost gone...and we're approaching being 'well-done.'

LLAP
J-D

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Saturday, September 24 - 10:00pm

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Geese's'es?

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Saturday, September 24 - 10:24pm

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Some very ornery gooses in Auckland Domain. They're not well armed or anything, but their personalities seem to generate a very hateful I-can-take-you force field. I too nearly hated, was almost afraid. But damnit! I realised that philosophers, Objectivists, shouldn't take that kind of shit from any creature of feathers born.

And that's how I learned to stop worrying and love the goose.

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Sunday, September 25 - 4:07am

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You love the goose?

Someone call the NZSPCA. Actually on reflection, they're only geese - don't bother.

Given the adage "What's good for the geese is good for the gander", I trust that we will see Mr Giles making some new political friends in the US. Some...very close...political friends.

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Sunday, September 25 - 5:13am

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Don't get wise with me goose-bait! Feathers belong down below the sheets, not between them.

It's RSPCA (R is for Royal), and they needn't be alerted because I've seen pictures of your politicians....a greater contraceptive than their ugly mugs the world has yet to know.

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Sunday, September 25 - 4:25pm

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It's okay to quote or paraphrase Jennifer on SOLO?

--Brant

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Sunday, September 25 - 6:52pm

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Brant,

As far as I know, she was never banned.

She left,
then she left,
then she left,
then she found out she was moderated,
then she really left.

She made some kind of off-line agreement with Linz to come back, but I don't know what they agreed to. Then she decided not to come back at all, this time really for good.

At least until now.

Michael

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Sunday, September 25 - 8:47pm

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She's NOT banned, so when she writes something extraordinarily relevant to SOLO I'll post a link - unless the Management decides otherwise...

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Sunday, September 25 - 8:58pm

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MSK�I think you left out a couple of the exits. :-) She reminded me of the Tosca in the Peter Ustinov story who threw herself of the parapet, as the plot requires, only to land on a trampoline & keep reappearing. It was quite operatic & wholly unnecessary. But she hasn't been our only prima donna. And like real opera stars, she has talent. I wish her well. There's certainly no ban on mentioning her. Hardly our style.

Linz

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Monday, September 26 - 12:22am

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Linz: "There's certainly no ban on mentioning her, not our style." Okay!

--Brant

(Edited by Brant Gaede on 9/26, 7:27am)

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Monday, September 26 - 2:13am

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Linz,

I read the Tosca story years ago in a book called Great Operatic Disasters by Hugh Vickers. Ustinov wrote the intro according to one reviewer (I don't recall now). If I remember correctly, this happened at the San Francisco Opera. Apparently the soprano had been getting on the nerves of the stage crew with constant abusive criticism and this was how they paid her back.

There is also a hilarious story about the firing squad (San Francisco Opera again), which was recruited from a local university football team. They were told at the very last minute to shoot the principle and exit with the principles by a harried overworked director. When they went on stage and saw TWO principles they became confused and shot the wrong one (Tosca) while her lover fell dead at the other end of the stage. Then when Tosca jumped, well... she was the only principle left, so the firing squad committed suicide with her one-by-one in single file.

There's also Rigoletto's sliding hump and other goodies...

Michael

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Monday, September 26 - 1:52pm

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Be sure to listen the new Gastronomic Meditations podcast, which you can find on iTunes. (with theme music written by yours truly :)

*edit* Mike, that's absolutely hilarious! Though I love opera, and I like sports, the two should never mix. LOL

Adam

(Edited by Adam Buker on 9/26, 1:57pm)

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Monday, October 3 - 7:29pm

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Definitely funny, Mike. As far as I'm concerned, though, those are the only type of things that would make going to the Opera interesting to me; think Marx Bros.

LLAP
J:D