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Terebinth, Page 892: The Deal

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:56:53 GMT

Darkling Eclectica, Episode 1343

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:13:44 GMT

I filled in again:

For Max on his show, hence the "Month of Sundays" activity listed below the cut.

Mike

Wild Thing Radio Theatre           Sunday, December 20, 2009                     3PM to 4PM

Artist                       Title                         Album                       Genre   New?
Month of Sundays Players     Operation: Bing!              live on KUCI Dec. 20, 1990  Spoken
/
Wynton Marsalis              Winter Wonderland             Crescent City Christmas 
                                                             Card                      Jazz
Walt Kelly; M Payne          Way Out in the Land of the
                               Calabash                    read live                   Spoken


Darkling Eclectica, the        Episode 1343              Sun., Dec. 20, 2009          4PM to 6PM

Artist                       Title                          Album                      Genre   New?
Blue Murder                  I Bid You Goodnight            Out on the Rolling Sea     Folk
Wynton Marsalis              Carol of the Bells             Crescent City Christmas 
                                                              Card                     Jazz
Vasen                        Tree-Felling Waltz & Polska    Trio                       World
/
Bob Crosby & his Orch.       Skaters' Waltz in Swingtime    South Rampart St. Parade   Jazz
Tom Lehrer                   A Christmas Carol              An Evening Wasted With Tom
                                                              Lehrer                   Comedy
Yankee Ingenuity             Been to the East, Been to the
                               West/17 Days in Georgia      Heatin' Up the Hall        Folk
/
Heitor Villa-Lobos           Choros No.4                    Choroi                     Classical
James Howe; M Payne          The Celery Stalks at Midnight,
                                Part 1                      read live                  Spoken
/
Georg Phillip Telemann;
  Jean-Pierre Rampal         Fantasy for Flute No.11 in G   12 Fantasies for Flute     Classical 
Robert Earl Keen             Snowing on Raton               Gravitational Forces       Country
Manuel Ponce; Laurindo 
  Almeida & Charlie Byrd     Estrellita                     Latin Odyssey              Jazz
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Glen Duncan & Bobby Osborne  Footprints in the Snow         Glen Duncan                Country
Don Byron Quintette          Bounce of the Sugar Plum 
                               Fairies                      Bug Music                  Jazz
Triakel                      The Crofter's Christmas Eve
                               Lullabye                     Wintersongs                World
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Darol Anger & Mike Marshall  It's Dark                      The Duo                    Jazz
Fletcher Henderson & the 
  Connie's Inn Orchestra     House of David Blues           Tidal Wave                 Jazz
Stefan Grossman              The Windblown Star             Love, Devils, & the Blues  Folk
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David Grisman Quintet        Silent Night                   Acoustic Christmas         Jazz
The Mills Brothers           I Guess I'll Get the Papers
                               & Go Home                    Souvenir Album             Jazz

Terebinth, Page 891: The Deal

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:16:03 GMT

Daily Grind, Week 251: Twelve Feet Under

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:35:23 GMT

Terebinth, Page 890: The Deal

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:47:56 GMT

Terebinth, Page 889: The Deal

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:47:31 GMT

Daily Grind, Week 250: The Old Country

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:51:28 GMT

Terebinth, Page 888: The Deal

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:13:56 GMT

Terebinth, Page 887: The Deal

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:12:12 GMT

Terebinth, Page 886: The Deal

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:24:34 GMT

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                          Mike

Daily Grind, Week 249: The Old Country

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:37:35 GMT

Terebinth, Page 885: The Deal

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:26:02 GMT

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Terebinth, Page 884: The Deal

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:14:25 GMT

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Daily Grind, Week 248: The Old Country

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:35:57 GMT

Pumpkin Bread Recipe

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:06:58 GMT

Over on:

The Facebook page, kasheri asked for a link to my pumpkin bread recipe. I went looking, and not finding it, came to the realization that I'd posted it on my sister's LiveJournal page, a page that she's since dismantled. So here's the recipe here.

Technically, the recipe belongs to one Nancy Campbell and is printed in the 1976 edition of "The Council Cooks," a cookbook put out by the Harbor Council PTA of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District. The recipe's local, therefore, and Ms. Campbell is even identified in the booklet as having a connection to Newport Elementary School, my alma mater, as they say.

I'm leaving out all the instructions about how to render down your Hallowe'en pumpkin since, well, if you haven't done that already, I'm guessing your Hallowe'en pumpkin is more on the order of slime soup at this point. But I'm sure the recipe will work just as well with canned pumpkin--though I've certainly never made it that way...

Anyhow:

3 1/2 c. flour
1 1/2 tsp. salt
3 c. sugar
2 tsp. soda
1 Tbsp. cinnamon
1 Tbsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. baking powder
2/3 c. water
1 c. cooking oil
4 eggs, unbeaten
2 c. pumpkin
and it says you can put in 2 c. nutmeats, too, but I never do

Combine all dry ingredients and make a well. Add water, oil, eggs, pumpkin (and nuts). Mix untl well blended. Pour into 2 greased and floured loaf pans. Bake 1 1/2 hours at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Check at 1 hour.

Mike

Terebinth, Page 883: The Deal

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:52:43 GMT

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Terebinth, Page 882: The Deal

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:19:51 GMT

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Terebinth, Page 881: The Deal

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:17:45 GMT

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Daily Grind, Week 247: The Old Country

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:40:26 GMT

Terebinth, Page 880: The Deal

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:53:20 GMT

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A Third Magical Squirrel Story

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:50:57 GMT

I've been informed:

That Sword & Sorceress XXIV is now available, the book that has "Three on a Match," the third of my stories about Cluny, the squirrel sorceress, and her familiars, the human Crocker and the firedrake Shtasith.

For those who might be joining us late, you can read "Familiars," the first Cluny story, for free over here, but to read the second, "Squirrel Errant," you'll need to buy a copy of Sword & Sorceress XXIII.

Mike

Face First into the Future

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:59:46 GMT

So:

The library I work for went and got itself a Facebook page. I went to look at it and was told I had to be a member of Facebook to see it. So I signed up. I'm entirely uncertain how things work over there, but I've started posting poetry since my last poetry message board went out-of-business some years ago.

And I thought I'd let folks know about it.

Mike

Terebinth, Page 879: The Deal

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:56:06 GMT

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Daily Grind, Week 246: The Old Country

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:39:24 GMT

Terebinth, Page 878: The Deal

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:47:04 GMT

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                          Mike