Daily Entries for the week of
Sunday, November 21, 2021
through
Saturday, November 27, 2021
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It’s Saturday, November 27, 2021
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Lead Picture*
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
A balloon being inflated by the Steven's Inflation Crew during training at Giants Stadium
\Mkrupnic at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.
This is a picture of the training for the Inflation crew of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It currently is done in the parking lot of Giants Stadium a few weeks before the parade date.
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Commentary
Been in NYC for a day and it’s been what one hopes NYC to be.
Always a surprise. Always in the direction of a positive extreme. Like a twenty-story high picture of a necklace. Liked choked traffic thanks to streets being shut down for inflating the balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Like a humongous Nordstrom’s shoe store where Katherine and I spent two hours picking out shoes for her birthday and Christmas. Loved it. Fun.
NYC has throngs of quality cafes. On that basis, NYC is one of the greatest cities in the world.
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Reading and Writing
I’m keeping up with my writing on schedule.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but
by the seeds that you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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So many happy thanksgivings wishes.
Blog meister responds: And so many back. Love to all
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Wednesday night Katherine, Will, and I had dinner at Dhamaka in NYC.
Papdi Chaat (v)
spiced crisps, tamarind, yogurt
$13
Ragda Pattice (v)
potato patty, white pea, green chili
$12
Beguni (v)
eggplant, turmeric, kasundi
$18
Paplet Fry
ginger, cumin, green chutney
$16
Gurda Kapoora (Limited Availability)
goat kidney & testicles, red onion, pao
$14
Doh Khleh
pork, lime, cilantro, onion, ginger
I listed some of the menu above.
Since they were listed in the NYT top 50 restaurants in NYC our waiter told us every night was like a Saturday.
The food was very good.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
Dhamaka in NYC
A very nice Indian restaurant in NYC
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Short Essay*
The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, the world's largest parade, is presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The parade started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit (with both parades being four years younger than Philadelphia's Thanksgiving Day Parade). The three-hour parade is held in Manhattan, ending outside Macy's Herald Square, and takes place from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1953. Employees at Macy's department stores have the option of marching in the parade.
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It’s Friday, November 26, 2021
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Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left
Unknown. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c21441. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
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Commentary
So excited.
My Brilliant Friend is returning.
Season Three.
One of the top series for television ever created,
Not only is the Italian language television series a loyal adaptation of the beloved books, it has an impressive rating of 96 per cent from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and 95 per cent from audiences.
HBO March 16, 2022 @ 10.00pm
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Reading and Writing
If I can stay on schedule by the time I wake up on Saturday, I should be able to finish the manuscript according to the schedule I set out for myself. I’m on the train to NYC typing very slowly thanks to the shaking of the cars.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How is your Thanksgiving shaping up?
Is a common theme of our communications these days.
Most of the people I know are fine.
I have planned Dec 1 to go to storage and fetch my Christmas stuff to have in place for the first Christmas party of the year: Dec. 5, our Capossela-family exclusive get-together.
Blog meister responds: I will focus on Thanksgiving w my daughter which starts in four hours. There is so much she has to tell me about her new job and her new life.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
Arthur Fiedler on the Charles
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Short Essay*
Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), known professionally as Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, freestyle and critical form of comedy which contained satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in the history of New York State, by Governor George Pataki in 2003.
Bruce paved the way for counterculture era comedians. His trial for obscenity is seen as a landmark for freedom of speech in the United States. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him third (behind Richard Pryor and George Carlin) on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
Bruce was the subject of the 1974 biographical film Lenny, directed by Bob Fosse and starring Dustin Hoffman (in an Academy Award-nominated Best Actor role), and based on the Broadway stage play of the same name written by Julian Barry and starring Cliff Gorman in his 1972 Tony Award-winning role. In addition, the main character's editing of a fictionalized film version of Lenny was a major part of Fosse's own autobiopic, the 1979 Academy Award-nominated All That Jazz; Gorman again played the role of the stand-up comic.
The documentary Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, directed by Robert B. Weide and narrated by Robert De Niro, was released in 1998. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
In 2004, Comedy Central listed Bruce at number three on its list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time, placing above Woody Allen (4th) and below Richard Pryor (1st) and George Carlin (2nd). Both comedians who ranked higher than Bruce considered him a major influence; Pryor said that hearing Bruce for the first time "changed my life," while Carlin said that Bruce was a "brilliant comedian" who influenced him as much as a man in his moral thinking and attitudes as he did as a comedian. Carlin was arrested along with Bruce after refusing to provide identification when police raided a Bruce performance.
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It’s Thursday, November 25, 2021
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Johnnie Ray
Ray c. 1952
Unknown author - eBay
Publicity headshot of Johnnie Ray
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Commentary
Travel has an excitement for me that I relish.
On Wednesday, I’m taking a train to NYC.
Now I always have my morning coffee at about 5.00am.
And on Wednesday, I’ll have plenty of time to take my coffee per usual.
But I will forebear.
For the excitement of buying a cup at South Station on my travel day I will not make my cup per usual.
I will wait.
I will start my vacation when I wake up.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
~Margaret Mead
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This from Sally C:
Wakefield held one more farmers market on Saturday, so I wandered over from the laundromat. One of the vendors had huge kohlrabi (also known as “cabbage turnip” because it is cabbage-colored and turnip-shaped), so I bought one. I hadn’t seen any at Market Basket all year, which I thought was odd. Seeing these made me realize how much I missed the vegetable, so I bought one the size of a soccer ball. I cut it into sticks and we had it with a dip made from mayonnaise and Tabasco sauce. We made a serious dent in it that evening! You can cook it – it’s very mild flavored – but we prefer it raw. Not as peppery or hard as raw rutabaga, which we also like.
I was introduced to kohlrabi as a child, when an old Russian who lived up the road came by every week with his wagon full of his vegetables. (I don’t know what his name was – we always called him “Angie,” something we could pronounce, which was likely an Anglicized nickname of his Russian name.) Kohlrabi was never in the grocery store, so when we moved out of that town, I never saw it again until after I was in my thirties. Introduced it to my husband and it’s been a favorite of ours ever since.
Happy Thanksgiving! I think I’ll be looking for a rib roast for us.
Sally
Blog meister responds: Always good food when Sally shares. Love you, girl.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Tuesday night I had yet another Roast Turkey dinner.
I enjoyed it, yet again.
I’ve been taking longer walks home during the day, replacing my second, night time walks.
The Charles offers us a lovely walking space.
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Swans on the Charles
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Short Essay*
John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what became rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music, and his animated stage personality. Tony Bennett called Ray the "father of rock and roll", and historians have noted him as a pioneering figure in the development of the genre.
Raised in Dallas, Oregon, Ray, who was partially deaf, began singing professionally at age fifteen on Portland radio stations. He gained a local following singing at small, predominantly African-American nightclubs in Detroit, where he was discovered in 1949 and subsequently signed to Okeh Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records. He rose quickly from obscurity in the United States with the release of his debut album Johnnie Ray (1952), as well as with a 78 rpm single, both of whose sides reached the Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 chart, "Cry" and "The Little White Cloud That Cried".
In 1954, Ray made his first and only major motion picture, There's No Business Like Show Business as part of an ensemble cast that included Ethel Merman and Marilyn Monroe. His career in his native United States began to decline in 1957, and his American record label dropped him in 1960. He never regained a strong following there and rarely appeared on American television after 1973. His fanbases in the United Kingdom and Australia, however, remained strong until his death in 1990 of complications from liver failure.
British Hit Singles & Albums noted that Ray was "a sensation in the 1950s; the heart-wrenching vocal delivery of 'Cry' ... influenced many acts including Elvis, and was the prime target for teen hysteria in the pre-Presley days." Ray's dramatic stage performances and melancholic songs have been credited by music historians as precursory to later performers ranging from Leonard Cohen to Morrissey.
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It’s Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Welcome to the 1,276th consecutive post to the blog,
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Lead Picture*
Dean Martin
Original studio publicity photo of Dean Martin for the film Bells Are Ringing (1960)
Studio - eBay
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Commentary
If I were raising children today I would try to ingrain in them two Internet activities.
One is to look up any word they do not fully understand. Perhaps read it aloud to you so you could learn too. So they may interact with you. Add looking up synonyms and antonyms.
And two, is to use Wikipedia to expand their knowledge. Suggest tht they use it whenever they are talking about something they are interested in, rather than introduce it aa a homework assignment. She likes a sports figure? “Let’s see what Wiki says about it.”
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Many of life's failures are people
who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up.
~Thomas A. Edison
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This from Sally C:
Dear Dom,
If Tommie T. is a big fan of cabbage, she is likely familiar with Bubble & Squeak. - in essence: sausage, cabbage, and apple. My mother prepared it regularly when I was growing up, and I learned later that it dates back at least to colonial times.
Sweet sausage, hot sausage, or a mixture of both. Kielbasa. Whatever you like best. A few firm apples that retain some shape when cooked. Half a head of cabbage to a pound of sausage.
In a large pot (I use a deep, cast-iron Dutch oven), fry the sausage, in chunks or like loose hamburger or as slices. Set aside the sausage. Lightly saute slices of apples (I keep the skins on) and shredded cabbage in the same pot, letting the juices from the sausage season the apple and cabbage. Return the sausage to the pot, add basil or oregano or whatever seasonings you prefer, a bit of water if needed. (Now and then, I find that it wants a pinch of sugar.) Cover and let steam over low heat for a few minutes, until the cabbage is tender.
Quick and easy. And tasty.
Blog meister responds: Sounds great. Hoping to try making it soon.
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Charles River Oasis
Kudos to whoever thought of these potties in a well-used area without any relief stations
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Monday night I had another Roast Turkey dinner, my fourth in six nights.
This one from a second turkey. I am planning to eat my fill of turkey before the season for the good ones ends, always too soon.
I still have plenty of that delicious stuffing whose recipe I shared several days ago..
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Short Essay*
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed "The King of Cool." Martin gained his career breakthrough together with comedian Jerry Lewis, billed as Martin & Lewis, in 1946. They performed in nightclubs and later had numerous appearances on radio, television and in films.
Following an acrimonious ending of the partnership in 1956, Martin pursued a solo career as a performer and actor. Martin established himself as a singer, recording numerous contemporary songs as well as standards from the Great American Songbook. He became one of the most popular acts in Las Vegas and was known for his friendship with fellow artists Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., who together with several others formed the Rat Pack.
Starting in 1965, Martin was the host of the television variety program The Dean Martin Show, which centered on Martin's singing and comedic talents and was characterized by his relaxed, easy-going demeanor. From 1974 to 1984, he was roastmaster on the popular Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, which drew celebrities, comedians and politicians. Throughout his career, Martin performed in concert stages, nightclubs, audio recordings and appeared in 85 film and television productions.
His best known songs include "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?", "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", and "Volare".
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It’s Tuesday, November 23, 2021
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Johnny Mathis
Mathis in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California in 2006
Dwight McCann/Chumash Casino Resort/www.DwightMcCann.com
Dwight McCann, http://dwightmccann.com/Images/JohnnyMathisWeb/JM7183-1000.JPG, Johnny Mathis in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, on May 25, 2006. Cropped slightly by Ali'i on 17:18, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
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Commentary
Planning my next seven days.
In the middle of them, two plus days on my NYC trip to spend with my daughter, Katherine.
Food, always my #1 issue.
I have a lot of delicious stuffing left over and a lot of veggies.
And turkey time is passing quickly.
Despite just having eaten three dinners of turkey, I bought another.
The under-10-pound turkeys all gone, I settled on one @ 11.5 pounds, with all the pedigree.
I put it in the oven at 5.00pm on Sunday evening and cooked it for 1 hour per pound at 200*,
finishing it with 15 minutes @ 500*.
Ten minutes after I took it from the oven, the plastic thermometer inserted into the breast popped up.
All ready for dinner this evening.
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Reading and Writing
Still getting lots of writing time.
I’m still loving it.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
~Babe Ruth
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This from Tommie T:
Dom, I live to roast cabbage. Quarter the head, add olive oil, s&p, and lemon juice. Roast at 400 F until tender but but still with a bite. I also saute shredded cabbage with sweet onions, a little olive oil, a little chicken broth and white wine. Sometimes I add parsley, thyme, and dried red pepper. Sometimes I add apples.
Another favorite is to steam shredded cabbage until tender. Toss with olive oil or butter (or both) salt and freshly ground pepper. Easy and delicious. Good with pork tenderloin or steamed chicken.
I make slaw - shredded cabbage (angel hair) , thinly sliced vidalia onions, 2 table spoons olive oil, juice from a lemon, s & p.
Cabbage rolls were a favorite of our children when they were growing up. I made the filling with manicotti, rice, and ground beef baked in a marinara sauce.
As you have surmised, we eat a lot of cabbage.😁
Inexpensive, versatile, delicious, and healthy as long as it is not cooked like my grandmother cooked it - with a piece of pork and one could smell it two blocks away! She cooked it for hours! Horrible! 🙄
Blog meister responds: I am very glad to be a recent convert to the altar of cabbage!
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Sunday night I slow-roasted a boneless Pork Loin chop which I finished with 1TB olive oil at a high heat in a frying pan. With the pan juices I added some vinegar pepper and mustard and made a quick, piquant sauce.
Very tasty.
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Turkey, Second of Season
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Short Essay*
John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts to date. Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three separate recordings.
Although frequently described as a romantic singer, his discography includes traditional pop, Brazilian and Spanish music, soul, rhythm and blues, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, soft rock, blues, country music, and even a few disco songs for his album Mathis Magic in 1979. Mathis has also recorded six albums of Christmas music. In a 1968 interview, Mathis cited Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, and Bing Crosby among his musical influences.
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It’s Monday, November 22, 2021
Welcome to the 1,274th consecutive post to the blog,
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Messiah
George Frideric Handel's autograph manuscript of the title page of Messiah, 1741: Fascimiles of this were already reproduced with permission and sold before 1903.
George Frideric Handel 1685–1759 - Printed in and scanned from copy of the complete score, Courier Dover Publications, 1989
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Commentary
On Dec 5 I am hosting a dinner for the children of the four siblings of my mother and father. The four of us share a heritage that uniquely stamped us in ways that, of course, affected our combined thirteen children.
My son Dom and niece Cami instituted the concept, holding the first ‘Cousins Get Together’ two years ago and the second this past summer. At that party, all of the families of my nephews and nieces were also invited. I attended and considered it a huge success.
I got to thinking that we might distill the group and have a tighter assembly, nephews and nieces only, no other family members.
The event , which seemed so far off from when I first proposed it, is only two weeks away.
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Reading and Writing
The writing of the manuscript is ahead of schedule. Part One should be ready for final editing in two weeks, Sunday, Dec 5.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
~Mother Teresa
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Lots of conversations on holiday plans. For ourselves, Daughter Kat is suggesting a movie at a theater for our post-dinner event. She recommends, and I agree, House of Gucci. The trailer is well done.
Blog meister responds: We’ll walk Central Park in the nice part of the day. Dinner is in Soho, another nice walking area.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Saturday night I enjoyed sushi from W Foods.
The food was good and well-priced but the variety of fish (tuna and salmon) leaves a lot to be desired.
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Short Essay*
Messiah (Handel)
Oratorio by George Frideric Handel
Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Coverdale Psalter, the version of the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere nearly a year later. After an initially modest public reception, the oratorio gained in popularity, eventually becoming one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music.
Handel's reputation in England, where he had lived since 1712, had been established through his compositions of Italian opera. He turned to English oratorio in the 1730s in response to changes in public taste; Messiah was his sixth work in this genre. Although its structure resembles that of opera, it is not in dramatic form; there are no impersonations of characters and no direct speech. Instead, Jennens's text is an extended reflection on Jesus as the Messiah called Christ. The text begins in Part I with prophecies by Isaiah and others, and moves to the annunciation to the shepherds, the only "scene" taken from the Gospels. In Part II, Handel concentrates on the Passion and ends with the "Hallelujah" chorus. In Part III he covers the resurrection of the dead and Christ's glorification in heaven.
Handel wrote Messiah for modest vocal and instrumental forces, with optional settings for many of the individual numbers. In the years after his death, the work was adapted for performance on a much larger scale, with giant orchestras and choirs. In other efforts to update it, its orchestration was revised and amplified by, among others, Mozart (Der Messias). In the late 20th and early 21st centuries the trend has been towards reproducing a greater fidelity to Handel's original intentions, although "big Messiah" productions continue to be mounted. A near-complete version was issued on 78 rpm discs in 1928; since then the work has been recorded many times.
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It’s Sunday, November 21, 2021
Welcome to the 1,273rd consecutive post to the blog,
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Lead Picture*
Patti Page
Page in the 1950s
General Artists Corporation (management) - eBay item photo
Publicity photo of singer Patti Page.
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Commentary
The holidays provide good occasions to encourage our families to go for 100% FULLY vaccinated before planning family get togethers. It’s so easy to get. It’s so unfair to subject people we love to exposure.
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Reading and Writing
The Lincoln Highway is starting real strong.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Groucho Marx:
"Those are my principles,
and if you don't like them...
well, I have others."
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This from Ann H whose son is a doctor.
Interesting about DC as I just got off the phone with Eric and Covid cases are on the rise at his hospital in Philly
Blog meister responds: Covid does not want to quit the scene. Vaccinations, please. Everyone.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Friday I had the last turkey dinner. It was delicious. I’m still eating two sets of vegetables: cabbage, collard greens and black beans, alternating with acorn and butternut squashes, and sweet potatoes.
I only ate the drumsticks, the wings, and the thighs. The rest of the turkey I simmered for five hours and then reduced the resulting stock by 95% , adding the concentrate to my tub of turkey gravy. It’s filled up now.
Here is my recipe for stuffing. It is as good as any I have ever had.
And everything in it is good for you.
TURKEY STUFFING
Medium Dice in a bowl
6 oz bread
6oz onions
6oz celery
3oz raisins
1 apple
Wet mix in a second bowl
beaten egg
1 ½ cups chicken stock
parsley
1t sage
1t thyme
pinch of saffron
½ t salt
Casserole in oven
Butter casserole
Oven to 400*
Pour wet mix into medium dice and mix well
Pour stuffing into casserole and bake for 40 minutes
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Community Photos**
I walked home via the Charles River and took this picture of an extraordinary tree.
Tree twisted on Charles River
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Short Essay*
Clara Ann Fowler (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013), known professionally as Patti Page, was an American singer of pop and country music and occasional actress. She was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s,[1] selling over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career.[2] She was often introduced as "the Singin' Rage, Miss Patti Page". New York WNEW disc-jockey William B. Williams introduced her as "A Page in my life called Patti".
Page signed with Mercury Records in 1947, and became their first successful female artist, starting with 1948's "Confess". In 1950, she had her first million-selling single "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming", and eventually had 14 additional million-selling singles between 1950 and 1965.
Page's signature song, "Tennessee Waltz", was one of the biggest-selling singles of the 20th century, and is recognized today as one of the official songs of the state of Tennessee. It spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard's best-sellers list in 1950/51. Page had three additional number-one hit singles between 1950 and 1953, "All My Love (Bolero)", "I Went to Your Wedding", and "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?".
Unlike most other pop singers, Page blended country music styles into many of her songs. As a result of this crossover appeal, many of Page's singles appeared on the Billboard Country Chart. In the 1970s, she shifted her style more toward country music and began having even more success on the country charts, ending up as one of the few vocalists to have charted in five separate decades.
With the rise of rock and roll in the 1950s, mainstream popular music record sales began to decline. Page was among the few pop singers who were able to maintain popularity, continuing to have hits well into the 1960s, with "Old Cape Cod", "Allegheny Moon", "A Poor Man's Roses (or a Rich Man's Gold)", and "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte".
In 1997, Patti Page was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. She was posthumously honored with the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 2013.
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