Jeff Beck and Friends at the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert 2009
I wasn't "feeling it" this morning. I mean, really? How many ways are there to beat a dead horse, no pun intended. So, I saw how Rh mentioned he got another fifty pound bag of brown rice and I went looking for a rice Music tune for this Open Thread. I found a Jeff Beck 'Rice Pudding' video, but it wasn't a live performance and it cut off before the tune ended. And then I saw this one, from the 2009 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert, and it wasn't too bad. It just wasn't rice pudding that's all.
Open Thread means anything we want, including rice.
76 comments:
My father would take leftover white rice (my mom used Minute Rice, exclusively) and treat it like breakfast cereal. In a bowl, milk, sugar, and cinnamon. Raisins, if we had them. Spoon it up.
He called it rice pudding and he'd eat it for dessert after dinner.
I just assumed it had something to do with coming of age during the Great Depression.
Rice pudding is delicious when done right. And it works as well with brown rice.
Minute Rice is not a depression meal, since it is expensive (you pay for them parboiling and then drying out the rice again). Regular rice is fine, you just have to wait 15 minutes for it to too (and with brown you are waiting about 30-45 minutes).
You can put brown rice in the slow cooker too. I do wild rice in it also.
to cook. My bad
I have an Asian girlfriend, after years without dating anyone. I love her madly, but I find myself consuming too much rice. The dense carbs are not so good for me. I'm working on it.
On yesterday's thread Meade wrote:
"Comments - as we knew them - will never return to the Althouse blog. Life and Time move onward."
Frankly, I don't how they put up with it so long. That said, it was truly a wonderful experience while it lasted. The truth is that what I think Althouse imagined she might create was not really possible in an open anonymous forum.
Despite that difficulty she came surprising close, and it was only a very few people and a very few subjects that made it messy or ugly. Of course she gets the blame for it ending because only she could end it, but I would have long ago.
Obviously, Ann pissed off and or disappointed some of us with some of her stands and tone, but that's just more of the same stuff lots of people were throwing about. We just expected better from her, but had no such delusions about the rest. Still none of that is beyond repair or smoothing over in my opinion, although I think some opinions have permanently changed.
I assume Meadehouse are just tired of the work, the constant need of the blog for attention 24/7. Hell you don't even have your own dog, why be tethered to this crap all the time. I completely understand that. I never would have lasted this long, and it's why I don't even try to start an active blog. Mine is just a place to drop stuff I might want to share, which is very rare.
I completely understand the Althouse decision, although it was done with very bad timing and execution. Big decisions affecting lots of people should not be emotionally driven. Regardless, it is done now, and I wish both Meade and Ann the best. I really enjoyed the few years I visited, and shared in a special group that Ann attracted and enticed to open up.
It was special, and the craziness was part of the attraction, even when I hated it. Some things in life are like that. No hard feelings here, and best of luck with whatever you do.
Looks like Z's future may not be as grim as some hoped. If the FBI said his behavior wasn't "racial", that pretty much kills AG "my people" and Choom's vendetta.
bagoh20 said...
Comments - as we knew them - will never return to the Althouse blog. Life and Time move onward.
Frankly, I don't how they put up with it so long. That said, it was truly a wonderful experience while it lasted. The truth is that what I think Althouse imagined she might create was not really possible in an open anonymous forum.
True that, although Ann's latest statement may indicate she changed her mind recently over what direction she wanted the blog to take.
She seemed nettled in the vid at the idea people were coming for the comments and not her posts.
YMMV
Despite that difficulty she came surprising close, and it was only a very few people and a very few subjects that made it messy or ugly. Of course she gets the blame for it ending because only she could end it, but I would have long ago.
I think it was getting involved in the business at the capitol in '11 that was the turning point, but I agree wholeheartedly.
Obviously, Ann pissed off and or disappointed some of us with some of her stands and tone, but that's just more of the same stuff lots of people were throwing about.
In the end, she was doing 20+ posts a day in some cases.
That is one Hell of a lot of work and some of the people who blog themselves should have been a little more understanding.
We just expected better from her, but had no such delusions about the rest. Still none of that is beyond repair or smoothing over in my opinion
Agreed, although a gesture from her might help.
I assume Meadehouse are just tired of the work
As I said above although I still think she doesn't look well.
Cross-posted from last night's open thread:
Comments - as we knew them - will never return to the Althouse blog.
And who knows what that really means, like Meade's earlier blather about "selfish and emotional overreactions to minor problems."
I'm certain Althouse won't return to the wild west commenting that led to her meltdown, but the door is wide open for comments as didn't know them, whatever form that might take -- restricted membership, more proactve hosting, faster banning of obstreperous commenters, etc.
I still believe commenting will return to Althouse for traffic reasons and because it provided an interaction that at its best inspired her and she found enjoyable.
Brown rice, seaweed, and a dirty hot dog.
I find it pretty easy to imagine Althouse bristling at bagoh20's 11:42.
She's no fragile flower in need of anyone's sympathy.
That's been one of her major themes from the very beginning of her blog.
Young Althouse needed to be liked but grownup Althouse is fully self-sufficient, intellectually engaged and tough as nails.
But I'm a softie and I admit it.
Feel free to pity me.
Picking up where we left off on Edward Snowden.
All the articles I have seen about it have a sameness about them, like they originated from the same source and play the same tune on the same one-stringed banjo.
Snowden certainly has called a great deal of embarassment, at home and abroad, but the gov't still has not explained much why his revelations have been so damaging as far as national security is concerned. Just saying they are, won't cut it.
I still think the potential for domestic abuse of these programs are so great that they simply must be open to scrutiny, and scrutinized they must be.
In the end, she was doing 20+ posts a day in some cases.
I didn't understand why she did that -- it made more work for her and it diluted the conversations. Most threads went stale after six hours or less.
"In a bowl, milk, sugar, and cinnamon. Raisins, if we had them. Spoon it up."
My mom used to make the same thing. Hmm. good.
But I don't think she knew "brown rice" even existed.
It's Meade's current fatuousness that has me floored. It's grotesque.
You know, when you start your sourdough culture unique to your place you might want to have a race with the yeast culture that is already carried on the flour. Just for the heckofit. You may find that the inherent culture wins. It might even be more complex, more interesting, stronger and faster.
The thing is, the airborne microbes came from another place. It is the microbes the insects bring directly that are truly cite specific. But again, the plants must be from the place and not imported from another place, like grapes would be. So juniper berries then, or throw in some small local flowers, just throw them into the culture and have its yeast and bacteria infect your culture.
I squeezed a few grapes into my bubbling active culture just to change it. I'm calling it Denver, but it is mostly airborne yeast from who knows where, and now grapes from California.
Come over here and let me fix you a little sandwich.
It will change your attitude toward bread permanently. You will be left wondering, "What have I been eating, lo these many decades? What else am I wrong about? What else am I missing? Oh no, I must start my life over again!"
Okay, maybe you had best not come over here, I'm not sure you're ready for it.
Easy peasy rice pudding. Super simple.
2 cups cooked or left over rice
1 1/3 cup milk
1/8 tsp salt
6 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp melted butter
1 tsp vanilla
4 eggs
1 tsp lemon juice
1/2 cup raisins
dash of nutmeg
Grease an 8x8 casserole or baking dish. Beat the eggs well. Add everything else and stir breaking up the clumps of rice. Pour into casserole. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes.
The problem that will never go away is narcissism. When a person uses, "I, Me, My" 111 times in a vlog, once every 6 seconds; it tells you all your really need to know.
What kind of person counts I's, me's, and my's? It was a vlog about her thoughts and feelings, while answering questions asked of her.
@ Chip Ahoy.
OMG I WANT that sandwich!!! It looks incredible.
You take very good photos of food btw. Whenever I try, the colors are all off and nothing looks very tasty. Perhaps I need a better camera or some better lighting.
William Shatner said an actor will not succeed unless he is focused, narcissistic and competitive.
Althouse is a successful actor.
She's more than just that, of course.
But she is a successful actor, nonetheless
Chip and DBQ inspire me.
Lem: Lovely tribute to Hendrix! I had no idea that the ZZ Top guy could do that.
BTW the bass player is Tal Wilkenfeld, who's a phenom -- a female bass prodigy touring with some of the best in the business. She's 23 in this video.
Here's a better idea of what she can do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLEGQ4VO4Uo
deborah said...
It's Meade's current fatuousness that has me floored. It's grotesque.
He's actually running pretty lean these days.
He's actually running pretty lean these days.
Maybe she meant flatulence.
Anyway, I think Lem needs to add a "things are not what they seem" label in regard to all the attention from Althouse and Meade the last few days.
Now is not the time for levity.
creeley23 said...
In the end, she was doing 20+ posts a day in some cases.
I didn't understand why she did that -- it made more work for her and it diluted the conversations. Most threads went stale after six hours or less.
It was funny what some posts took off some times (other than the soapbox ones), and I think she was posting what tickled her fancy one way or t'other, but I think something that just went on and on usually ended up being the usual trolls trying to shout everybody else down.
I mean some of those were 1/4 Ritmo or the UnreasonableTroll snarking at everybody.
"Anyway, I think Lem needs to add a "things are not what they seem" label in regard to all the attention from Althouse and Meade the last few days."
I'd suggest a 'Meade sighting' tag.
Sorry. I'll hush.
Here goes....I am not asking any questions of Ann Althouse, or Meade for that matter. Last time I did, that I recall, seriously was on the SCOTUS/Roberts delusional decision and ignorance of semantic variables regarding tax v penalty vis a vis the PPACA...e.g., Pelosicare.
I did not get an answer. Which is fine. I really didn't expect I'd get one...or even a discussion. Manifest cowardice, and perhaps semantic ignorance [?], by a Supreme Court Justis isn't likely to enthrall other lawyers.
Just look at those lawyers and congress-critters now spewing, post Florida v Zimmerman, that being acquitted, being found not guilty, does not mean found innocent. Guess we've moved on from that presumption of innocence thing to where acquittal changes the import of innocence...what's next, a "bring the guilty bastard in" mentality? I've lived in places like that...and no thank you.
As for the later topics, vis a vis sex variety and male beta-ness...Yawn. That was causing me to visit less, comment less, and that is also fine. At this point I see no reason what-so-ever to debate Althouse's decision or her current topics unless they are off interest to the local commentariat...no different than any other topical source.
Deborah, A PI who doesn't miss much. It doesn't matter what the topic. If, over the course of 11 minutes, someone uses, "I, Me or My" every 6 seconds, they are...well I guess they could be our President!!
Hush, puppie.
Nick, my point stands; she was answering questions about her plans, thoughts, and feelings.
Very sorry about Coco. They are so full of love.
This is no time for brevity.
Your Honor, may I have a moment's recess to check my briefs?
Is there time for wit and for Mitchell to check his briefs?
I would rather that the "Meade was not here" tag got some use.
And take that drunken slutbag fionamcgee back home with you, she might get sunburned again.
Deborah, We'll just have to disagree. It just seemed to jump out @ me, even knowing the topic. We all see the world differently.
Thanks much about Coco. She had lots of love and ENERGY.
Re: vlog
Is there an executive summary? I don't watch talking head videos unless it's the Talking Heads.
It's not that long; give it a whirl to compare with your recent observations.
So Sixty Grit, did Althouse steal your dog? Or did she delete you at one time or another? Or did she simply ignore you?
Rage on, old angry man.
I hope it isn't lawyers saying that being found not guilty does not mean innocent.
Politicians and pundits do, of course, but that is understandable. It is now just 15 months and change before the next election.
Shrek: [to Donkey] WHY are you following me?
Donkey: Oh, I'll tell you why.
[starts to sing]
Donkey: 'Cause I'm all alone / There's no one here beside me / My problems have all gone / There's no one to deride me! / But ya gotta have friends...
Shrek: STOP SINGING! Well, it's no wonder you don't have any friends!
Donkey: Wow! Only a TRUE friend would be that truly honest!
(Shrek, 2001)
It's not that long; give it a whirl to compare with your recent observations.
Naw. If she said anything interesting someone would have mentioned it by now, or better yet thrown it in my face!
I didn't get the hang of the Talking Heads until their "Stop Making Sense" film.
You know, when you start your sourdough culture unique to your place you might want to have a race with the yeast culture that is already carried on the flour. Just for the heckofit. You may find that the inherent culture wins. It might even be more complex, more interesting, stronger and faster.
The thing is, the airborne microbes came from another place. It is the microbes the insects bring directly that are truly cite specific. But again, the plants must be from the place and not imported from another place, like grapes would be. So juniper berries then, or throw in some small local flowers, just throw them into the culture and have its yeast and bacteria infect your culture.
I squeezed a few grapes into my bubbling active culture just to change it. I'm calling it Denver, but it is mostly airborne yeast from who knows where, and now grapes from California.
Come over here and let me fix you a little sandwich.
It will change your attitude toward bread permanently. You will be left wondering, "What have I been eating, lo these many decades? What else am I wrong about? What else am I missing? Oh no, I must start my life over again!"
Okay, maybe you had best not come over here, I'm not sure you're ready for it.
**********
Interesting--so it can really taste that diffent based on---yikes!--microbes?
I'm sure once you cook and all that--hell I know that but cripes I never knew that microbes could make a difference--that you can taste after they are dead.
Okay I 'm hungry now--but that's just because I haven't eaten yet.
And I didn't realize what a power Buddy Guy was until I saw the Stones' "Shine a Light."
Oops meant to say-
I know once you cook it and all that the microbes should be dead , hopefully...
You know if there are really microbes everywhere and we eat em--I just want to think they are dead till I get lunch done.
Thanks in advance.
Hell they are already in my stomach aren't they?
I know that but I don't want to know that, or think about that too much, you know?
Dust Bunny Queen said...
Perhaps I need a better camera or some better lighting.
Or better food.
deborah said...
It's Meade's current fatuousness that has me floored. It's grotesque.
If you ever followed the Professor's links to his comments at The Isthmus, that's what his comments were like over there. While he sometimes had a good point, he was very trollish in his approach.
Oooooh, here's where y'all went. Kewl.
Hi, Lem. Grand to see you.
Where's the beer?
Cracking a cold one for Pogo.
1. Well said Bagoh @ 11:42 AM.
2. EBL is getting some notoriety for her brilliant Angela Corey Meltdown video. Dare you to watch it and not laugh out loud. Andrew Branca was so impressed he sent her a copy of his magnum opus on self-defense. Kudos!
3. I confused El Pollo Raylan with the Chicks from the Raelians. However, I have that sorted out now. If you need help also try: "Who Are the Raelians and Why Are They Naked?"
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4059
4. I would link it but I don't know how. I have read six web sites that supposedly had instructions and not one of them matches the prompts and drop-downs on my computer.
Pogo's here.
Hey Stick, how you doing.
(I always wanted to say that.)
He called it rice pudding and he'd eat it for dessert after dinner.
I just assumed it had something to do with coming of age during the Great Depression.
Are you kidding? Yum!
"Hey Stick, how you doing."
Jumpy.
Prolly the Mtn Dew.
Oh goodness my friends are so silly, here's Monkeon.
ndspinelli ... I think I am senile because I can't recall if I said condolences for your loss of "Coco."
If I didn't, please know I am very sorry and fully understand the feelings incumbent on such a loss.
nteresting--so it can really taste that different based on---yikes!--microbes?
Yes. Because they're in there living and growing, eating and pooping and farting and sexing it up with each other down there and breaking of duplicates of themselves and dying down there, but mostly farting.
The single organism isolated for bread yeast is chosen specifically for its extraordinary fartyness. Other than that it is not particularly delicious.
And that is a different strain than the strain chosen for lager which is a different strain isolated for the malt beers. Having to do with temperature, top and bottom fermenting.
Historically, though, you took what was present in the air and by insects, and it was MAGIC!!!!!!1!!1 nobody understood what was going on. The gods did it.
If you use commercial bread yeast and leave it overnight, cooled to slow it, then it will ferment, and the traces of alcohol contribute significantly to flavor.
The microbes are consuming the flour. They partially digest the bread before you eat it. It's like miso that way. Healthier because they've started the digestion process. And you are not loading up on all that sugar. They did.
Talking about bread frankly is gross innit.
My brother tolerated my proclivities in Maui for three weeks. He doubted it would work, but Maui is a three shower a day place, that right there, and our laundry told me it would work brilliantly. I should have bet him $1,000.00 but that would just been mean.
I collected cultures in one hour and all three are perfectly unique to Maui. The bread is characterized by extra thick crust. The thickest of all. And delicious. It has stayed unique for five years through successive feeding of flour that carries its own microbes.
I can get very good nice clean sourdough flavor using commercial yeast by fermenting the dough for two or three days.
But all that is a project upon projects. Like right now I'm late feeding it, but it forgives me. It's a pain in the ass and I do not recommend it.
Knowing how to collect/start with natural yeast/stuff seems like a really important prepper ability.
Rice pudding? Where? *looks behind the blog sofa*
Not sure if the leftover rice concoction would be a depression era dessert (or breakfast), at least in my grandparents' kitchens. Milk was scarce, and what was available was saved for young children. Sugar was scarce as well.
I sure sounds good, though, much better than it's down-in-the-heel cousin tapioca pudding.
Hey Pogo, nice to see you.
Pogo and Synova...
I'm speechless... I mean that's not very hard for me to accomplish. as you know.
I'm just glad you guys are here with the gang back together.
You too, Synova.
Yes. Because they're in there living and growing, eating and pooping and farting and sexing it up with each other down there and breaking of duplicates of themselves and dying down there, but mostly farting.
OMG--LOL!
I just had to add that right now--have to go back to read the rest of it.
I made sure to finish lunch up real good--before venturing back into this here thread.
Okay I'm still trying to digest all of this--so to speak...let's see:
The microbes are consuming the flour. They partially digest the bread before you eat it. It's like miso that way. Healthier because they've started the digestion process. And you are not loading up on all that sugar. They did.
Hmmm--some bread does give me indigestion--heck almost all bread--but I do feel like I can eat sourdough--maybe this is why.
Talking about bread frankly is gross innit.
Ya--jeebus but then I think the microbes---are calling from inside your-- Ars, er-HOUSE! So you know--you know it but you kinda go the un-know it stage pretty fast.
My brother tolerated my proclivities in Maui for three weeks. He doubted it would work, but Maui is a three shower a day place, that right there, and our laundry told me it would work brilliantly.
Oh gawd....
I should have bet him $1,000.00 but that would just been mean.
Na--dough to make dough--poetic.
I collected cultures in one hour and all three are perfectly unique to Maui. The bread is characterized by extra thick crust. The thickest of all. And delicious. It has stayed unique for five years through successive feeding of flour that carries its own microbes.
Delicious like sweeter, yeastier--I'm betting "yeastier" if that's a word.
I can get very good nice clean sourdough flavor using commercial yeast by fermenting the dough for two or three days.
But all that is a project upon projects. Like right now I'm late feeding it, but it forgives me. It's a pain in the ass and I do not recommend it.
Okay so just as I thought--
"Hey, I should do this!"--you un-recommend it.
Thanks, I was probably too lazy to begin with and doomed for failure.
Now if you could only answer why bagels taste a lot better at the flipping Hilton Garden Inn in NY--than they do anywhere in Cali or out West--and hell Florida.
The bagels--they suck.
She seemed nettled in the vid at the idea people were coming for the comments and not her posts.
I had been coming for the whole package. Now it just seems stunted. I find I'm losing interest without the conversational aspects.
Lem: Lovely tribute to Hendrix! I had no idea that the ZZ Top guy could do that.
Not long before he died, Hendrix said that Billy Gibbons was either his favorite guitarist at the time, or favorite up and coming guitarist, I forget the details. Gibbons was pretty much completely unknown at the time.
Pogo and Synova! About time you two showed up! Glad you are here : )
Things I have learned from Chip ahoy:
Bread = Tangible Farts
Yee Gawd, who do Bayes English Muffins equal?
I have made more levels on my Guild Wars 2 characters in the last week or so than I'd made in months!
(Just saying.)
I'm thinking of buying Skyrim.
:-)
So it goes! For example.
Not long before he died, Hendrix said that Billy Gibbons was either his favorite guitarist at the time, or favorite up and coming guitarist...
Icepick: I learn something everyday!
I don't often listen to Hendrix -- he's too intense for daily wear -- but Lem's video inspired to put on some Jimi and it was a pleasure.
For those who care, they released a great CD compilation of Hendrix blues tracks a few years ago titled, "Blues," of all things. Quite wonderful. Not an exploitation package.
The treadmill has quick select speed buttons on the right. As it turns out, it is very easy to press one of these while using the iPad on the treadmill. It is surprising if one accidentally presses the button for 12 miles an hour.
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