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Artificial refrigeration was perfected throughout the 1800s, but wasn’t available to consumers in the US until the early 1900s. There was some health concern at the time about “articifial ice” as opposed to the natural stuff cut out of rivers and lakes.
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How anybody can deny the excellence of this idea is beyond me.
Everyone should take the “post something” challenge. I challenge y’all to post something.
Pastor Wilson dislikes the rhetoric of Michael Pollan, the “food-like substances” bit. The Velveeta he’s given thanks for in childhood is food, indeed. But it’s hard to deny the rhetoric when manufacturers themselves use it. No real ingredients = food product:
that’s my photo! and when you read the back of these cans it was a type of spread…. ick.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, p. 121:
Yitta Schwartz died last month aged 93. It’s estimated she may have had over 2000 living descendants, including more than 200 grandchildren.
People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I’ll never see it again.
Mary Karr – best interview ever
Do you mind if I point out how incredibly ironic it is that you, of all people, posted this quote?
I read this somewheres and it resonates with my limited personal experience.
When we tell stories, we start at the chronological beginning and move to the chronological end. The most important part is the *plot*.
When the poor tell stories, they start at the chronological *end* or the part with the greatest emotional intensity. They tell the story in vignettes with audience interaction in between. It ends with a comment about the character’s values. The most important part is the *characterization*.
I don’t think it’s controversial to say that different classes have different bodies of common / assumed knowledge, and to change classes or work to interact well with a different class might necessarily involve a sacrifice of ease in ones current relationships.
That’s an interesting claim: Perhaps I’m just being dense, but could you try to connect some of the dots for me? What sort of concrete examples might justify such a sweeping generalization? Who are “the poor” referred to here? What exactly do you mean by a “sacrifice of ease in ones current relationships”? What is your favorite color?
Ha, I wish I could. I’ll work on examples and definitions, but I’m still working through things.
“I think one of the under-recognized strengths of Lost is how the structure of the storytelling reflects what the show is about. Long before the characters started traveling through time, we were traveling through time, via flashbacks and flash-forwards. And now it seems that this season—in which the story is split between two realities—is going to be devoted to alternate realities within the two realities. Choosing a side in the coming island conflict isn’t just a matter of allying with friends against enemies. It’s also about subscribing to a worldview. It’s about picking a reality to live in.” Noel Murray
F is discussing. 
Miriam is discussing. 
F 6:02 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink
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