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F-ing Friday, finally!  Fancy that!

There is always talk about comfort food, that food we grew up on that takes us back to a time when we felt happy and secure and loved. I hope it does not make you uncomfortable for me to ask these. Of course I will start with the food. What is your absolute favorite comfort food? What song or album takes you back to those times when you hear it, that it could be called Comfort Music? What book is your Comfort Book? This one is not necessarily relating to the past: What would your perfect Comfort Room be? A space that would suit you entirely, that you could share or not share as you please?

Was that too serious? One more: Places that have great burgers but no fries. Deal breaker or not?

Now let us go wading in the Twitter Stream:

Now open your history books to page 3,458. There will be a test afterward.

On This Day

In 1533, England’s King Henry VIII secretly married Anne Boleyn, his second wife.

In 1890, the intrepid Nellie Bly completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

In 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell (who I will forever picture as Don Ameche), inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.

In 1919, the League of Nations was founded.

In 1949, the first Emmy Awards were held at the Hollywood Athletic Club.

In 1961, John F. Kennedy gave the first nationally televised Presidential news conference.

In 1971, Charles Manson and three of his female minions were found guilty of the Tate-LaBianca murders.

In 1971, Idi Amin led a coup that deposed Milton Obote and set himself up as Uganda’s new president.

In 1993, five people were shot outside of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia (which never would have happened if those CIA people had been armed!!!)

In 2011, the first protest that marked the beginning of the Egyptian revolution began in Tahrir Square.

Born on This Day

1509 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)

1615 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)

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1708 – Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter (d. 1887)

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1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)

1777 – Karoline Jagemann, German actress (d. 1848)

1806 – Daniel Maclise, Irish painter (d. 1870)

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1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)

1882 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)

1891 – Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, British actress (d. 1992)

1896 – Florence Mills, African-American singer, dancer and comedian, a big star whose untimely death cut short a promising career.  Duke Ellington wrote this song to commemorate her. (d. 1927)

1899 – Sleepy John Estes, American musician (d. 1977)

1913 – Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)

1915 – Ewan MacColl, English socialist folk singer-songwriter (d. 1989)

1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia

1929 – Benny Golson, American jazz musician

1931 – Dean Jones, American actor

1935 – Conrad Burns, American wingut politician

1936 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)

1938 – Etta James, American singer (d. 2012)

1944 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian model and Rolling Stone ex-girlfriend

1949 – John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet

1954 – Kim Gandy, American feminist activist

1956 – Andy Cox, English musician (The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals)

Died on This Day

1578 – Mihrimah Sultana, Ottoman princess (b. 1522)

1586 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)

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1884 – Périclès Pantazis, Greek impressionist painter (b. 1849)

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1896 – Frederic Leighton, English painter  (b. 1830)

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1908 – Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)

1947 – Al Capone, American organized crime figure (b. 1899)

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

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1969 – Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)

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1980 – Queenie Watts, English actress (b. 1926)

1981 – Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)

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1988 – Colleen Moore, American silent film star who went from demure to wild flapper in her film roles. (b. 1899)

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1990 – Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)

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2005 – Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)

Today is

Opposite Day

National Irish Coffee Day

Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day

Re: the poll: Just in time they are going to allow women in combat (when they have actually been in combat all along). Coincidentally, the website Suduvu.com has a Fantasy Cage Match every year, usually kicking off in March, which is really soon. It is a most hilarious exercise and I heartily recommend it to everyone, even if you aren’t familiar with the characters.

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  2. lulu57

    Nothing like signing on to a new blog and then having a family emergency drag you away for a month. Lots of catching up to do!

    Comfort Food: probably Mac & Cheese or meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Close runner-up would be a really good Chile Relleno 🙂

    Comfort Album: Moondance by Van Morrison. Shows my age, but there you go 😉

    Comfort Book: Hmmmm…so many to choose from! Probably something by either Raymond Chandler or John Steinbeck. They both comfort me in different ways.

    Comfort Room: Criminy, give me a few days to come up with something splendid, will ya? It always changes with my mood and the weather 😉

    I cannot answer your poll because WTF? Miss Marple FTW 😉

  3. JanF

       SO: The GOP thinks they have a better chance of stealing the presidency in broad daylight than winning the electoral college.

       – LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 25, 2013

    From TPM and Josh Marshall:

    A week ago I noted a new Republican push to gerrymander the electoral college to make it almost impossible for Democrats to win the presidency in 2016 and 2020, even if they match or exceed Barack Obama’s vote margin in 2012. Is something like that really possible? Yes, very possible.[…]

    In other words, the new plan is to make the electoral college as wired for Republicans as the House currently is. But only in Dem leaning states. In Republican states just keep it winner take all. So Dems get no electoral votes at all.

    Another way of looking at this is that the new system makes the votes of whites count for much more than non-whites – which is a helpful thing if you’re overwhelmingly dependent on white votes in a country that is increasingly non-white.

    It makes this tweet seem positively archaic now:

       How did asking white people to pass background checks to buy a gun become more offensive than asking minorities to provide photo ID to vote?

       – The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 24, 2013

    They have much better ways to disenfranchise Democrats than that expensive photo id thing: disenfranchise all the urban areas.

    Back later this afternoon to read the rest and hover around …

  4. Jk2003

    food:  chicken pot pie (i make a killer chicken pot pie and the house smells good for days after)

    music:  jim croce – my dad loved him when i was a kid and i just adore his voice

    book:  a prayer for owen meany – seriously.  i have read it 5 or 6 times, i make everyone i know read it.  also – all the kings men and wuthering heights

  5. Its the Supreme Court Stupid

    she took on the f-in’ Lord of the Nazgul.

    Other answers:

    What is your absolute favorite comfort food? Mac & Cheese.

    What song or album takes you back to those times when you hear it, that it could be called Comfort Music?  The Band, Rock of Ages

    What book is your Comfort Book? LotR

    This one is not necessarily relating to the past: What would your perfect Comfort Room be? A space that would suit you entirely, that you could share or not share as you please? You think I’m gonna share this with YOU?

    Was that too serious? One more: Places that have great burgers but no fries. Deal breaker or not? There are such places?  I can’t conceive of it.

  6. raina

    One of the foods I always requested whenever I visited my parents was lima beans and rice. We practically had that every week growing up. Cheap protein. They were made with dried limas, which in no way has the same flavor as the green ones, and no one could make it like them.

    One of the first books I read as a child was The Story of Ferdinand. Whenever I stayed the night at my grandparents’ house, who lived across the street from us, I would stay in the guest room and the book was always in there and Grandma would tell me it was my dad’s room when he was a boy, and his book.

    Comfort room would be in my parents’ dining room, having supper (it’s not Dinner!!! don’t get my dad started. heh), with everyone in my family again.  

  7. raina

    You do know that he intended the telephone to be a sort of assistive device for the deaf? Ironic, no? And that both his mother and wife were deaf?

    He was one of the leading proponents of the oralism movement in the US, anti- sign language, and didn’t want deaf people marrying each other, fearing they would produce more deaf kids.

    http://www.pbs.org/weta/throug…

    Mr. Bell, with all due respect, how’s this for sign language?

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  8. LeftOverFlowerChild

    Well let’s see….

    What is your absolute favorite comfort food? Mac and Cheese

    What song or album takes you back to those times when you hear it, that it could be called Comfort Music? Chicago..Always loved that band…And of all things the bunny hop music. My dad used to play that and dance with my sibs and me.

    What book is your Comfort Book? Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion…Yeah I’m an Austen fan. Though I love Dicken’s Little Dorrit too.

    What would your perfect Comfort Room be? A space that would suit you entirely, that you could share or not share as you please? A room with a view–preferably of the ocean…over stuffed furniture and bookshelves that runneth over…Somewhere I can spin or do whatever craft I have going and watch the water. I like hardwood floors and fireplaces, high ceilings and earthy colors. Blues, browns, greens soft winter white gauzy curtains–I guess bottom line, I like calm!!

    Places that have great burgers but no fries. Deal breaker or not? Eh, not so much a deal breaker…I’d do take out and hit McD’s for fries lol..Problem solved.

  11. bubbanomics

    * What is your absolute favorite comfort food?

    Macaroni and cheese, made with velveeta and small pasta shells and some cut up hot doggies in it.

    * What song or album takes you back to those times when you hear it, that it could be called Comfort Music?

    Jessica, by the Allman Brothers.  

    * What book is your Comfort Book?

    Only Forward, by Michael Marshall Smith.

    * What would your perfect Comfort Room be?

    Would have to have both a nice desk and chair for thinking, and a good computer, as well as a comfortable chair for reading, listening to music, watching the tube. High quality music system and TV.  floor to ceiling book cases filled with science and math, econ, fiction, sci-fi, bios.  Maybe just the NYPL with a sweet media room.

  12. princesspat

    Hmmmm……my room is the spot today. New, so very soft flannel sheets, an adjustable bed so my leg is very comfy, a mix of soft and firm pillows, I look through my old maple trees to Bellingham Bay and the sky is a lovely PNW pinky blue this morning, warm coffee, an orchid just ready to open new blooms, a bookcase full of books, music, and my computer……

    This has been a healing oasis for me, even when I’ve griped about being stuck here. Now that I’m busier and as well as I’m most likely going to be it is a welcome retreat.

    My grandmother used to make poached eggs in milk, served over a slice of her toasted bread for me whenever I was sick, so a version of that is my current bland diet comfort. When I can eat them again carne asada tacos with fresh salsa are at the top of my list.

    Comfort books would be the poems by A.A Milne…..my mother read them to me, and I’ve read them to my children and grandchildren. Just saying the words is a comfort, and I seem to to so nearly every day…..

    Halfway down the stairs

    is a stair

    where i sit.

    there isn’t any

    other stair

    quite like

    it.

    i’m not at the bottom,

    i’m not at the top;

    so this is the stair

    where

    I always

    stop.

    http://allpoetry.com/A.A._Milne

  13. Chris Blask

    * What is your absolute favorite comfort food? Homemade soup on a cold day.

    * What song or album takes you back to those times when you hear it, that it could be called Comfort Music?  Roderick Falconer, Babydoll.

    * What book is your Comfort Book? Donald Jacks The Bandy Papers starting with Three Cheers for Me

    What would your perfect Comfort Room be? That was the library up at the lodge on Kawagama Lake in Canada. When we bought the place the old Dining Hall was a 150′ long A-frame with pine tongue and groove, divided in half with a bar area in the middle. I built floor to ceiling cedar shelves in the lakeside end of it, put in a big old woodstove and couches and chairs to make multiple sitting areas. That was my favorite alone or together place, browsing and sorting books and magazines by myself or hanging out with friends.

    Only pic I have handy, before the shelves went up, fleeing Billy’s endless penis humor.

  14. Kysen

    Food: Shrimp n’ Grits (or, really, any homecooked Southern fare)

    Music: Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens (soothes mah soul)

    Book: Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (just one of many many many comfort books for me)

    Room: My mancave (it is my batcave, my fortress of solitude, my cabin on Walden’s Pond)

    Anyone else dealing with Winter Storm Khan?

    Khan Brings Ice and Snow to South, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest


  15. sarahnity

    What is your absolute favorite comfort food? dumplings fried in brown butter, but grilled cheese and tomato soup is a close second.

    What song or album takes you back to those times when you hear it, that it could be called Comfort Music?  “Here Comes the Sun”  My mom played it a lot when I was little and she needed to believe things were going to get better (they did).

    What book is your Comfort Book?  I don’t really re-read books, but AA Milne or The Velveteen Rabbit does take me right back to childhood

    This one is not necessarily relating to the past: What would your perfect Comfort Room be? A space that would suit you entirely, that you could share or not share as you please?  It’s a room from my past: the living room of a good friend’s vacation home.  Giant room with a fireplace you could stand up in, all wood with big overstuffed chairs perfect for napping or reading or chatting, as the case may be and it overlooks a river.  

    Was that too serious?   Nah.  I just got something in my eye is all.

    One more: Places that have great burgers but no fries. Deal breaker or not?  Not.  In-n-Out fries are pretty lame, but it doesn’t mean I won’t go there again and again.

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