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Sunday Food: Elitist Arugula
Arugula (with truffle) Arugula is the salad green of the moment. It deserves to be, as it’s really healthy and tastes good. Full disclosure; I grow arugula here in North Texas. It’s tasty and it’s...
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Saturday Art: Spiro Mounds, Caddo Relics
Points and vessels from late Caddo, 1200-1500 A.D. In the territory now known as Northeastern Oklahoma there are the remains of a community that can be traced to 700 – 1500 A.D., approximately, where...
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Pull Up a Chair
Prickly Pear Hello, welcome to the very minor Hispanic holiday of Cinco de Mayo. The battle it celebrates didn’t do much, but in this day it’s a celebration of marketing TexMex stuff. I recommend...
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Saturday Art: Rodin’s Balzac
Rodin's 'Monument to Balzac' (click to embiggen) Considered the first ‘truly modern’ sculpture, Auguste Rodin’s sculpture of Monument to Balzac graces the Hirshorn Sculpture Garden on the capitol’s...
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Saturday Art: NW Tribal Ceremonial Relics
Yup'ik Dance Wand, 1920-30 Objects used in ceremonies include masks, robes, musical instruments, drums, and wands such as the one pictured above. The Yup’ik are indigenous to Alaska and Siberia, and...
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Sunday Food; Blueberry Season
Blueberries ready for picking (Picture courtesy of Tom Gill at flickr.com.) All of us have a treat coming at this time of year, when blueberries are right there on the bush and ready to be picked....
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Sunday Food: Easy, Make A Frittata
Potato frittata (Picture courtesy of framino’s photostream at flickr.com.) Something I always like is potatoes, and this is one way to make them that’s not something you run into every time you turn...
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Pull Up a Chair
Friday morning, foot of snow Yesterday we saw the first red winged blackbird here, and that’s a sign that despite the foot of new snow in the yard we are on the edge of springtime. On the first day of...
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Over Easy
Over Easy (Picture courtesy of mhaithaca at flickr.com.) Welcome to Thursday’s rundown of international news and foreign media as was begun at Lakeside Diner by Southern Dragon and carried on by us,...
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Over Easy
Over Easy (Picture courtesy of mhaithaca at flickr.com.) The Thursday tradition that carries on Southern Dragon’s practice of focus on media and news outside our usual sphere has particular poignance...
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Over Easy
Over Easy In tribute to Southern Dragon’s Lakeside Diner, the Over Easy community gathers to discuss news of the day of a morning. The Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, remains in chaos with reports of...
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Saturday Art: Lincoln Memorial
We all instantly recognize the Lincoln Memorial next to the tidal basin, a feature of the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, on the national Mall. While Abraham Lincoln is one of our best known U.S....
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Sunday Food: Queen Conch
Conch shell (Photo courtesy Wikimedia) During our trip to the Western Caribbean, we encountered checkpoints, particularly in the Costa Maya area, checking for Queen Conch. The major food source in the...
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Over Easy
In tribute to Southern Dragon’s Lakeside Diner, the Over Easy community gathers to discuss news of the day of a morning. Thank you all for carrying on without me, yes, the trip was amazing and we...
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Over Easy
Over Easy The community that began with Southern Dragon’s Lakeshore Diner continues. Today we collect news from outside the usual, and renew the discussion. The Nile and rights to its abundant water...
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Saturday Art: A Tribute to Paintings We’ll Never See
The artworks now being recovered are featured on some of these links, but not yet in the public domain. Impression IIIWassily Kandinsky (Picture not of painting confiscated by Nazis, another work of...
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Over Easy
Over Easy The community that began with Southern Dragon’s Lakeside Diner continues. Today we collect news from outside the usual, and renew the discussion. As I am travelling, I won’t be able to post...
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Over Easy The community that began with Southern Dragon’s Lakeside Diner continues. Today we collect news from outside the usual, and renew the discussion. As I am travelling, I won’t be able to post...
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