recipes are fun...

. Sunday, October 14, 2007
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Tessa - 1/4 cup of ambition - 2 heaping tablespoons of kindness - a gallon of crazy Serve hot.
'What is your personality recipe?' at QuizGalaxy.com

banned book week - the closer...

. Friday, October 5, 2007
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so this is the end of banned books week and i thought that i couldn't let it pass without saying something, so... U.S Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read "They are noting people's race and they are writing down what people read" "The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment." really the whole article is about the censorship of travel... soon they will decide when and where you are allowed to go... the loss of personal freedom is huge, and when you start with small things like what people are reading and what they are allowed to read - it very quickly leads to bigger things... "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."- Heinrich Heine some links in the fight against censorship... Delete Censorship The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 Banned Book T-shirts The Forbidden Library Controversial & Banned Books some more quotes on censorship...

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education." -- Alfred Whitney Griswold, Essays on Education

"If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me." -- Larry Flynt

"Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance." -- Lyndon Baines Johnson, February 11, 1964

and my personal favorite...

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?" -- Juvenal so, go read a banned book...

About Feeding the Flock

In the beginning there was a group of friends, let's call them The Flock, who were held together by a love of literature, pop culture, and criticism… we all had our roles within the group - the pontiff, the scribe, the inquisitor, the artist - and I became the mistress of hospitality.

The Flock has evolved, members added and fallen away, but the need for food remains - so here I am, feeding the flock, reading my books, and snarking about it all as I report on my own culinary adventures, palate explorations, restaurant excursions (though my current budget does prevent much in restaurant excursions), and really any other tidbit that I feel like offering - though I will try to keep it to food and books involving food…

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