http://www.laurenspohrer.com Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:26:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FOOD: Last night I baked eggplant and acorn squash and also steamed some broccoli to eat with this cheddar cheese sauce. We had a lot of cheese sauce leftover so we ate it with millet this morning and it was awesome and tasted like cheese grits. Last week I made ... http://www.laurenspohrer.com/2008/11/16/food-books-news/ from the LAT. http://www.laurenspohrer.com/2008/11/16/portland-based-husband-and-wife-duo-apak-aaron-piland-and-ayumi-kajikawa/ http://www.laurenspohrer.com/2008/10/19/my-favorite-scene-from-freaks-and-geeks/ Today we went to St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue for second installment of “Six Saturdays With Messiaen." John Scott (the church's organist and music director) is performing all of Olivier Messiaen’s organ works. Scott plays the church’s incredible Arents Memorial Organ, a Skinner instrument from 1913. It's huge. It is wonderful ... http://www.laurenspohrer.com/2008/10/11/to-celebrate-their-domestic-happiness/ I'm reading SOME INSTRUCTIONS by Stanley Crawford for a class. I had never heard of this book before. It doesn't look like Crawford has a Wikipedia page. Last month, Bookslut put up this interview and Deb Olin Unferth interviewed him for Powell's. Crawford and his wife run a garlic ... http://www.laurenspohrer.com/2008/10/05/stanley-crawford/ I was watching a 1997 interview David Foster Wallace gave to Charlie Rose and then this happened: ROSE: Can you imagine yourself writing a screenplay? Have you tried? DFW: No, I haven't tried. I've talked a couple times -- my best friend writes mysteries and he and I have talked about doing ... http://www.laurenspohrer.com/2008/10/03/you-know-its-henry-james-basically/ I finished The Black Prince and started Murdoch's The Sacred and Profane Love Machine. For school I'm reading Remainder by the International Necronautical Society's Tom McCarthy. (Their First Manifesto declared that "Death is a type of space, which we intend to map, ... http://www.laurenspohrer.com/2008/09/15/a-very-sincere-failure/ Amy Goodman - the host of Democracy Now! was arrested while covering the RNC, along with about 77 others. http://www.laurenspohrer.com/2008/09/01/255/ Amy Dickinson (of "Ask Amy") married a childhood friend this weekend. Rush Limbaugh thinks Sarah Palin is a "babe." From the same piece I found out why her kids have the names they do - Track is named after high school track meets, Bristol for Bristol Bay where they did commercial ... http://www.laurenspohrer.com/2008/08/31/paper-trail/ I am no longer embarrassed to admit how much I like classical music and jazz. I especially enjoy streaming Jazz 88. It makes me feel relieved, the same relief I feel after washing all of the dishes and then wiping off the kitchen table. I have already written here about ... http://www.laurenspohrer.com/2008/08/29/pleasures/