Underpaid Genius

Sangrita

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:12:50 -0400

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INGREDIENTS

4 cups freshly squeezed orange juice
1 1/2 cups freshly squeezed lime juice
1/2 cup grenadine syrup (use one with real pomegranate — like Employees Only or Fee Brothers)
4 teaspoons ancho-chili powder
12 dashes Tabasco (or to your taste)
1 teaspoon salt

PREPARATION

1.Mix ingredients in a pitcher, chill well and serve in small glasses to chase shots of reposado tequila (or not) — or with very cold Mexican beer(via NY Times)

newspeedwayboogie: Laura Marling - I Was An Eagle This is a...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 09:39:08 -0400

newspeedwayboogie:

Laura Marling - I Was An Eagle

This is a good record. It might be a great record. At times I think it is trying to hard to be a great record. Which doesn’t mean that it isn’t. But it will take some time to figure out.

shared from exfm

Definitely a Joni Mitchell meets Dave Matthews vibe.

Big Granny by Tess Taylor

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 09:06:16 -0400

When they found Emeline, a nail 
held her sack dress together

at the neck.  She lived by gathering herbs 
to sell for curing leather from the land

her people held since they took it from the Cherokee,
quilted mountainsides in Appalachia

where they hewed walnut into rocking chairs,
and sang the stony country’s blessings be,

and ballads carried in their ears from Scotland.
From my grandmother, her granddaughter, 

I have one word in her dialect: stime.
Long-ah, half-rhyme with steam, its meaning: not enough.

As, there’s nary stime of tea nor sugar nar. 
They took apart her house to save the boards. 

Off a dirt road, in iron light, in the mountain graveyard
her clan’s settler stones grow up with moss

thick as the harmonies in shape-note tune.
Among mushrooms, ivy, rhododendron

are tracings, the shadowy foundations
of the cabin where she persevered and died.

Friday, May 3, 2013

Sat, 04 May 2013 08:58:20 -0400

Friday, May 3, 2013

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:34:00 -0400

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.

Final Soliloquy of the Internal Paramour by Wallace Stevens

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 06:19:07 -0400

Light the first light of evening, as in a room
In which we rest and, for small reason, think
The world imagined is the ultimate good.

This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous.
It is in that thought that we collect ourselves,
Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:

Within a single thing, a single shawl
Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth,
A light, a power, the miraculous influence.

Here, now, we forget each other and ourselves.
We feel the obscurity of an order, a whole,
A knowledge, that which arranged the rendezvous.

Within its vital boundary, in the mind.
We say God and the imagination are one …
How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.

Is This a Pandemic Being Born? - By Laurie Garrett | Foreign Policy

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:33:25 -0400

Is This a Pandemic Being Born? - By Laurie Garrett | Foreign Policy:

H7N9 Flu in China is starting to look scary.

Timeline of Events

Feb. 19

First male patient, 87, became ill with H7N9 (Medical News Today).

Feb. 27

Second male patient, 27, became ill with H7N9 (Medical News Today).

March 4

First male patient dies (Medical News Today).

March 9

First female patient, 35, from Anhui province became ill with H7N9 (Telegraph).

March 10

Initial report of over 900 dead pigs in Shanghai’s Huangpu River as of Saturday, March 9 (China Daily)

Second male patient dies (Medical News Today).

March 11

Count of dead pigs in rivers near Shanghai reaches nearly 3,000 (Business Insider).

Laboratory tests find porcine circovirus (PCV) in one water sample from Huangpu River (Xinhua News)

March 13

Officials say the number of pig carcasses in Huangpu River has risen to 6,000 (BBC).

March 14

Workers continued to haul dead hogs from a river in the Shanghai suburbs Thursday, where the pig body count now exceeds 6,600, according to the municipal government (USA Today).

Farm in Zhejiang province confesses to dumping pig carcasses into river (Bloomberg)

March 20

The number of dead pigs discovered in Chinese rivers around Shanghai has risen to almost 14,000 (BBC).

March 22

50 pigs wash up onshore in Changsha, Hunan province; ~1,000 dead ducks are also discovered (NTDon China via YouTube)

Number of dead pigs found in Shanghai river rises to 16,000 (Independent)

March 25

China pulls 1,000 dead ducks from Sichuan river (BBC).

Government officials say that 1,000+ rotten duck carcasses pose no threat to human and livestock along river banks (Xinhua News).

Illegal Zhejiang pork found in food chain (South China Morning Post).

March 26

Dumping of thousands of dead pigs linked with Chinese crackdown on pork black market (Business Insider)

More than 1,000 dead ducks, in 60 woven plastic bags, are found in Sichuan province (China Daily, Time).

March 31

The government’s National Health and Family Planning Commission said over the weekend that two men, aged 87 and 27, died in Shanghai in early March after being infected with H7N9 avian influenza (AFP).

April 1

Widespread reporting about two human deaths and one severe casualty of a “lesser-known bird flu virus” (USA Today, AP).

Dr. Michael O’Leary, World Health Organization, says that there is no evidence to show that a type of bird flu which has killed two Chinese men can be transmitted between people (Reuters).

April 2

Shanghai Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center tested 34 samples of pig carcasses pulled from Huangpu River and found no flu viruses (Shanghai Daily).

Sheryl Connelly, Ford futurist

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:56:46 -0400

Sheryl Connelly, Ford futurist

"I believe that in the end, history will record this period in our country’s development as a..."

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:57:53 -0400

“

I believe that in the end, history will record this period in our country’s development as a struggle over the weight that religious mores should have in our system of government and code of laws.

This is either to be America’s Era of Enlightenment or Entrenchment.

Will we move into the future guided by ancient religious texts or current scientific ones? Will we follow the dictates of supposed deities or the prescript of universal dignity?

This is not to begrudge anyone their faith — whatever gets you through the night, brothers and sisters. Rather, it is to say that you should be free to have your faith govern your life but not to extend it to the governance of others’ lives.

I strongly believe in the sovereignty of self — the idea that you are the sole dictate of your own body and your own life as long as no one else is unwittingly or willingly negatively influenced by your choices.

As they say around the way: Do you.

”

- Charles Blow, The Supreme Court and Unfolding History

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:19:58 -0400

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like a disaster.

unconsumption: The Internet is full of ideas for ways to reuse...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:54:40 -0400

unconsumption:

The Internet is full of ideas for ways to reuse pallet wood. We here at Unconsumption certainly have shared a good number of them. (Browse our Pinterest board here, Tumblr archive here, and/or Facebook album here for various examples, including several ideas for DIY projects.)

If pallet repurposing interests you, and you’ve been wondering how to go about disassembling pallets, here’s a brief tutorial from Old World Garden Farms that looks like it could be helpful.

I’m guessing that most of us don’t own the tool the tutorial recommends using: a reciprocating saw (a.k.a. “sawzall”) that can cut through nails. If, like me, you don’t own one, perhaps you live someplace where there’s a tool bank where you could rent such a tool, or a tool library where you could borrow one?

Special note: For reuse projects, many of us look for pallets that are made from harder wood that, if it’s been treated, was heat-treated, not chemical-treated. We mention it on Facebook here.

(via Pictures & Photos of Laoisa Sexton - IMDb) The...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:35:00 -0400

(via Pictures & Photos of Laoisa Sexton - IMDb)

The author of and lead in For Love, currently running at the Irish Rep in Chelsea.

jakeschreier: Deauville, France

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:03:47 -0400

jakeschreier:

Deauville, France

jakeschreier: Brooklyn, NY

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:03:19 -0400

jakeschreier:

Brooklyn, NY

Alenka Bratušek (born 31 March 1970) is...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:48:40 -0400

Alenka Bratušek (born 31 March 1970) is a liberal Slovenian politician and public servant, who has been Prime Minister of Slovenia since March 2013, the first woman in the country to do so. Since January 2013, she has served as president pro temporeof the Positive Slovenia party.

Jiyen Lee

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:06:58 -0400

Jiyen Lee

Laura Boldrini (born 28 April 1961), OMRI, is...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:09:52 -0400

Laura Boldrini (born 28 April 1961), OMRI, is an Italian journalist and politician who has been President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy since 16 March 2013.^[1] Previously she was a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Christy Wampole, author of How To Live Without Irony

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:53:52 -0400

Christy Wampole, author of How To Live Without Irony

Mariko is also involved in 0. (nulpunt). It’s her voice in...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:05:00 -0400

Mariko is also involved in 0. (nulpunt). It’s her voice in the video describing that system.

"A culture in which women are expected to remain virgins until marriage is a rape culture."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:24:51 -0400

“A culture in which women are expected to remain virgins until marriage is a rape culture.”

- EJ Graff, cited by Tara Culp-Ressler in ’Kindergartners Shouldn’t Be Taught Sex Ed’ — And Other Myths Endangering America’s Youth