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The Daily F Bomb, Sunday 3/3/13

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Happy last day of your weekend, Bombrewskis!  I hope you all have a delightfully slothful Sunday.

You have the right to remain silent, but I wish you wouldn’t…

Interrogatories

I’m going to borrow a question that was regularly featured in Bon Appetit’s little back page chef interview: What historical person or persons would you like to have dinner and drinks with? Expanding on that, what fictional characters (assuming it was at all possible) would you like to have dinner and drinks with? What fictional place you you like to visit? When you travel, do you prefer to find accommodations like the natives or do you prefer to stay in places that are more like what you find at home? Do you usually cook at home or go out to eat?

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On This Day

In 1845, Florida became the 27th state.

In 1875, Georges Bizet’s opera, “Carmen,” premiered at the Opéra Comique in Paris.

In 1887, Anne Sullivan met and became the teacher of the blind and deaf 6-year-old Helen Keller.

In 1913, suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns led a parade of 8000 women, 10 bands, 5 mounted brigades, and 26 floats down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC to advance the cause of Women’s Suffrage. The authorities failed to clear the roads beforehand, and the mostly male crowds harassed them, sometimes aided by the police. Their ill-treatment actually won them much sympathy, and backfired on the harassers.

In 1923, Time Magazine debuted.

In 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed into law a bill making “The Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem. I personally think he should have gone with something easier to sing, like “America the Beautiful,” or “America, Fuck Yeah!”

In 1991, in a case that sparked a national outcry, motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video.

In 2006, former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA), was sentenced by a federal judge to more than eight years in prison for corruption.

Born on This Day

1606 – Edmund Waller, British poet (d. 1687)

1631 – Esaias Boursse, Dutch painter (d. 1672)

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1756 – William Godwin, English writer (d. 1836)

1778 – Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover (d. 1841)

1793 – William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)

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1816 – William James Blacklock, British painter (d. 1858)

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1831 – George Pullman, American inventor (d. 1897)

1844 – Marie Spartali Stillman, painter (d. 1927)

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1848 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880)

1873 – William Green, American labor union leader (d. 1952)

1880 – Florence Auer, American actress (d. 1962)

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1882 – Charles Ponzi, scheming Italian (d. 1949)

1890 – Edmund Lowe, American actor (d. 1971)

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1894 – Ethel Grandin, silent film actress (d. 1988)

1903 – Gilbert Adrian, American costume designer (d. 1959) (The music doesn’t belong, but the clothes are his, from the 1939 film “The Women.”)

1911 – Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)

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1920 – James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. 2005)

1920 – Ronald Searle, English illustrator (d. 2011)

1921 – Diana Barrymore, American actress (d. 1960)

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1933 – Lee Radziwill, American fashion executive

1934 – Gia Scala, Italian actress (d. 1972)

1938 – Willie Chambers, American guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)

1942 – Mike Pender, English singer and guitarist (The Searchers)

1948 – Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd)

1951 – Lindsay Cooper, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel)

1953 – Robyn Hitchcock, British musician (The Soft Boys)

1954 – John Lilley, American musician (The Hooters)

1958 – Miranda Richardson, English actress

1966 – Tone Lōc (Anthony Terrell Smith), American rapper and actor

1971 – Tyler Florence, American chef and author

Died on This Day

1703 – Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635)

1765 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist (b. 1687)

1792 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect (b. 1728)

1920 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)

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1959 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)

1987 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1913)

1988 – Lois Wilson, American actress (b. 1894)

Lois and Louise knew Scalia was a monster, but were still shocked when he decided to drop trou right in the courtroom.

1993 – Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist (b. 1903)

2003 – Horst Buchholz, German actor (b. 1933)

2004 – Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (b. 1958)

2012 – Ronnie Montrose, American guitarist (Montrose and Gamma) (b. 1947)

Today is

National Cold Cuts Day

National Mulled Wine Day

I Want You to be Happy Day

Peach Blossom Day

National Anthem Day

If Pets Had Thumbs Day


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  2. blue jersey mom

    A few answers:

    What historical person or persons would you like to have dinner and drinks with? Ben Franklin, founder of the University of Pennsylvania (among many other things).

    Expanding on that, what fictional characters (assuming it was at all possible) would you like to have dinner and drinks with? the original Star Trek crew.

    What fictional place you you like to visit? Hogwarts. I know that’s not very original.

    When you travel, do you prefer to find accommodations like the natives or do you prefer to stay in places that are more like what you find at home? I like to go native. I enjoy getting off the beaten path. One of the perks of my job is that I have traveled to a lot of different places.

    Do you usually cook at home or go out to eat? We cook at home. Actually Doug mostly cooks since he is retired and I am not. Also, frankly, he is a better cook. I can make some very nice tea sandwiches and pasta.

  3. michelewln

    Sleepy morning. On my first cup of Dark Chocolate Truffle coffee to see if I can wake up. If you haven’t checked out the Archer Farms coffee at Target you really should. They have wonderful flavors!

    What historical person or persons would you like to have dinner and drinks with? Oscar Wilde

    Expanding on that, what fictional characters (assuming it was at all possible) would you like to have dinner and drinks with? Gandalf and Aragorn

    What fictional place you you like to visit? Middle Earth

    When you travel, do you prefer to find accommodations like the natives or do you prefer to stay in places that are more like what you find at home? I usually go for someplace close to a restaurant and that has morning brunch.

    Do you usually cook at home or go out to eat? I am writing a cookbook so definitely cook at home.

  4. Jk2003

    I’m going to borrow a question that was regularly featured in Bon Appetit’s little back page chef interview: What historical person or persons would you like to have dinner and drinks with? Expanding on that, what fictional characters (assuming it was at all possible) would you like to have dinner and drinks with? What fictional place you you like to visit? When you travel, do you prefer to find accommodations like the natives or do you prefer to stay in places that are more like what you find at home? Do you usually cook at home or go out to eat?

    Dinner with a dead person:  teddy Roosevelt, Truman capote,

    Dinner with fictional person:  Atticus finch, Willie stark, Owen meany

    Fictional place:  the fictionalized south of books, the weather, the smells, the farms, the fishing, the lemonade, the small town wonderful.  

    Travel accommodations: I like a shower and a toilet.  The rest is negotiable

    Cook:  at home

  5. plf515

    I’m going to borrow a question that was regularly featured in Bon Appetit’s little back page chef interview: What historical person or persons would you like to have dinner and drinks with?

    Bertrand Russell, Leibniz, Einstein and DaVinci



    Expanding on that, what fictional characters (assuming it was at all possible) would you like to have dinner and drinks with?

    Eliza from Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle

    What fictional place you you like to visit?

    Foundation.



    When you travel, do you prefer to find accommodations like the natives or do you prefer to stay in places that are more like what you find at home?

    In most of the places, the differences aren’t that big.

    Do you usually cook at home or go out to eat?

    About 50-50

  6. Melanie in IA

    I’ll skip to the last 2 questions:

    When you travel, do you prefer to find accommodations like the natives or do you prefer to stay in places that are more like what you find at home?

    We don’t travel outside of the States much, and mostly we either stay WITH the natives (friends/family) or in hotels. Most important, as someone else said — shower and toilet.

    Do you usually cook at home or go out to eat?

    Almost always cook at home. We average eating out well less than once a week.

    Sunny here in eastern Iowa, about 17 degrees. Jim’s reading the forecast to me. The models are conflicting. We’re likely to get snow, somewhere between not much and quite a lot.

  7. zenor

    I curious.

    I changed some settings and now see some pix.

    Caint watch no movies so TMobile still must die. Their retread refurb obsolete replacements for rotten fraud no good special don’t work new fones fatal detraction.

    Anybody encounter eric herm, son of a farmer, child of the earth?

    He say GMOs worse than we thought and poison land and us and we should farm local and turn it around..

  8. raina

    waiting for it to warm up so I can start mowing.

    Historical figure to have dinner with: Jesus.

    Fictional characters: Detective Bobby Goren.

    Fictional place: Stars Hollow, home of the Gilmore Girls.

    Cook at home.

  9. Its the Supreme Court Stupid

    I have emerged from my new job hole and I saw my shadow!  Obviously, we will have an early spring.

    Questions:

    What historical person or persons would you like to have dinner and drinks with? Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.  

    Expanding on that, what fictional characters (assuming it was at all possible) would you like to have dinner and drinks with? Gandalf, of course.

    What fictional place you you like to visit? Lorien

    When you travel, do you prefer to find accommodations like the natives or do you prefer to stay in places that are more like what you find at home? Depends on where I am traveling.

    Do you usually cook at home or go out to eat? Yes

  10. 1864 House

    The first two questions are hard.

    It didn’t specify if historical person had to be famous, so I’m going to say my father. He died when I was just a year old and I would love to have a long dinner and get to know him.

    Fictional Characters… gotta think about that one.

    Travel? I am good with a bed behind a closed door and a bathroom/shower somewhere close by. My daughter and I stayed in hostels this past summer in Japan, something I have done for a long time and they were just fine.

    I cook at home most of the time. It tastes better, is cheaper and better for me.

    And I choose not to celebrate If Pets Had Thumbs Day. I cannot image the chaos that would create if my dog had thumbs.

  11. DeniseVelez

    What historical person or persons would you like to have dinner and drinks with? Langston Hughes.  

    Expanding on that, what fictional characters (assuming it was at all possible) would you like to have dinner and drinks with? Miss Marple

    What fictional place you you like to visit? Zion from The Matrix

    When you travel, do you prefer to find accommodations like the natives or do you prefer to stay in places that are more like what you find at home?

     I like to stay with families – not in hotels.

    Do you usually cook at home or go out to eat? Home cookin’

  12. Gee

    Godley & Creme are singing “Crime and Punishment.”  But golf beckons.

    What historical person or persons would you like to have dinner and drinks with? Expanding on that, what fictional characters (assuming it was at all possible) would you like to have dinner and drinks with? What fictional place you you like to visit? When you travel, do you prefer to find accommodations like the natives or do you prefer to stay in places that are more like what you find at home? Do you usually cook at home or go out to eat?

    Natalie Portman.  Oh, wait, historical, as in that Steve Allen PBS series?  Voltaire.  Thomas Paine.  Montaigne.  Spinoza.  Bertrand Russell.  Molly Ivins.

    Billie Dawn.

    Eden.

    That’s a tough one.  I like comfort and running water, but I don’t want to be isolated from the actual life of the place I went to see.  I don’t want a little “America bubble” around me.

    I don’t cook at all, so if Lulu’s not around, I go out.

  13. JG in MD

    These questions are too hard.

    I don’t cook except in the crockpot. It’s taken me a year to get the hang of it. Before that I just didn’t cook. I don’t remember how I managed to eat. Maybe I cooked sometimes.

    What I learned today: If you put frozen butternut squash in with your meat and veggies, the gravy thickens. Finally I get stew instead of soup.

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