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HOLIDAY CAAAAAARDS

If you would enjoy a receiving a card, please fill out the below! For safety & privacy, I delete addresses as soon as cards are sent out — so, I'm afraid I don't have your details if you've given them to me before. We'll all continue to pretend I'm not asking mid-November, only to send cards out late December again.



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HELLO as we jot down more translated Romanian bread-baking recipes — source Laura Laurentiu, who allegedly inherited it from the Painea Casei bakery of Josefin.

Check out the original in Ro for helpful visuals!



a-breadin' we will go )

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HELLO.


All your Christmas card relevant details belong to Squishy.

Please include full name, plurk or screen name if you never go by your RL name, address + any requests or notes (including if you don't celebrate Christmas, I'll sub the card accordingly!)

Comments screened, addresses will be deleted once cards have been mailed.

eta; cards have been sent out, addresses bahleeted :)

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And because efffff further bad news -

HOLIDAY CARDS


You know what time it is...! All comments screened & deleted once I've sent out your caaarrrddddd. Aka if you gave me your address previously, pls resubmit it, it is no longer within the Hive Mind's tentacle-addled reach.

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FRIENDS AND ROMANS, here lies the one, the only, the beeyooteeful....................

HOLIDAY CARD POST


Which is, as always, dutifully posted many weeks in advance, only for cards to be physically sent out an obligatory two days before D-day. All comments screened & to be deleted as soon aaaaaaaaaaaas I've sent out your thingamajig. This means I don't still have your address if you've given it previously, pls submit it to the Borg again.

Also going to try and probably fail painting cards again this year! Please mention in the 'notes' bit below if you'd like anything in particular drawn, if I get around to doing yours.

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NEW YEAR [ANON] RESOLUTIONS 2015


Wait for it, drum rolls... drum rolls, please, drum rolls...aaaaaaaand we're off:

Feel free to drop off any small or existential New Year's resolutions that you don't want to pressure/second-doubt/??? yourself with by committing to publicly. It's just you, the comment box, and whatever advice or cheer you can give anyone else whose resolution hits home with you.

I make a point of setting previous resolution entries of p r i v a t e on the next NYE, but you should still find the details of your dastardly world takeover plan here and waitin', if you need to remind yourself what 2015 is all about for you over the course of the next 12 months.

Aaaaand, needless to say: good luck with it!

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holiday cards


...because the early bird catches the chupacabra.

Please drop your:

name
address
CARD DETAILS AND PIN!!!
any... preferences... whatsoever...


If you'd like a holiday card of some kind from me. Please let me know if you don't celebrate Christmas, so I can send you something more appropriate!

Thhhhheeee sooner you fill this out, the greater the odds I'll be able to hand paint you a card, versus sending off a store-bought one : ( b

Comments screened, all personal details deleted once the cards have been sent.

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Juuuuuust a couple of icons from the Thor film.

Screencaps courtesy of midnight_road @ eljay!

thor film; icons: loki, sif, thor )

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Mrs. Laura Laurentiu's olive / onion bread recipe, summarized and translated from here!

I've included a couple of personal notes / recommendations, but those're more like... my preferences, so you can presumably ignore them and still get some lovely rolls!

olive / onion bread recipe! )
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"Of course, I sympathized, but I think that, to me, sympathy is always just the permissible version of the desire to thoroughly shake all that is weak from its very foundations."

THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE | NEMIRA, 55
John Banville


RO → EN
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'He said desperately, "I need a ... It isn't true?"

It was the very heart of the business section in Bruges, but they found him, ingeniously, a corner to be sick in, and worse, with a group of drunk lightermen to encourage him. Then they took him down one of the canal slopes and sat him at the edge of the water, dipping his kerchief for him. He was trembling. He said, "That was the foulest thing you've ever done. That was wicked. That was a dirty, unfair, rotten ..." Tears were moving down his cheeks. He said, "You could have thought up some other story." He saw them looking at one another. The boulder that had been in his stomach had moved into his throat. He said, "I'm going to the tavern. I don't want to see you again." Still they didn't move, and neither did he. His body started to heave. Then he put his face in his hands and sobbed.'


NICCOLO RISING | Ch. 29
Dorothy Dunnett
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' "Very well, then I shall conquer the birds of the sky," he said, but was reminded that he had already done so and also that he had been given an eloquent tribute speech by a parrot.
"What about the ants? Can't we conquer them?" Reluctantly, one general unfurled a tiny document of surrender.
Seeking to console Alexander, the wisest of his counsellors said, "Perhaps, master, what you truly seek is not to conquer but to be conquered."
Alexander picked up a spear and ran him through. '

ALEXANDER THE GREAT | THE NEW YORKER
Jack Handey
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'GEOFFREY: Why do you think so little of me?
ELEANOR: Little? Never that. Whatever you are, you're not little.
GEOFFREY: I remember my third birthday. Not just pictures of the garden or the gifts, but who did what to whom and how it felt. My memory reaches back that far and never once can I remember anything from you or Father warmer than indifference. Why is that?
ELEANOR: (putting the crown back in the box) I don't know.
GEOFFREY: That was not an easy question for me and I don't deserve an easy answer.
ELEANOR: There are times I think we loved none of our children.
GEOFFREY: Still too easy, don't you think?
ELEANOR: I'm weary and you want a simple answer and I haven't one. (Starting to remove the jewellery) I was thinking earlier of Peter Abelard. I was a queen of fifteen in those days and on dull afternoons I'd go watch Heloise watch Abelard spread heresy like bonemeal in the palace gardens. Here the Seine and there the cypress trees and how it bored me. Thought, pure thought, flashed clear as water all around me and all I could think about was how to make a Caesar of a monkish husband. I'd like to hear the old man talk again; I'd listen now. For my ambition's thin with age and all the mysteries are as plump as ever. (Looking at Geoffrey) I read minds. In yours, a shapely hand is writing, "Clever Mother, what's your clever reason for this clever talk?" It isn't clever but you'll make it so. (Patting his cheek) I am so sick of all of you. '

THE LION IN WINTER | SAMUEL HOUSE, LTD, 25
James Goldman

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"Art is domination."


MASTER CLASS | Act 2
Terrence McNally


Ciao, bella.
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"Sir, said he, as for me, my name is Sir Tristram de Liones, and in Cornwall was I born ,and nephew I am unto King Mark. And as for the death of your sons I might not do withal, for an they had been the next kin that I have I might have done none otherwise. And if I had slain them by treason or treachery I had been worthy to have died. All this I consider, said Sir Darras, that all that ye did was by force of knighthood, and that was the cause I would not put you to death. "

KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE COURT | BORDERS, 173
Alfred W. Pollard

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"Genji gave His Majesty's messenger a warm and respectful welcome. He replied,

Never as today can the slopes of Oshio, where repeated snows
weigh upon the forest pines, have seen true magnificence.
"



THE TALE OF GENJI | PENGUIN, 501
Murasaki Shikibu

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"Here's the strangest thing: the [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy] television series, lasting more than five and a quarter hours, was bovine of pace, often ugly to behold, and content to meander along byways that petered out into open country or led inexorably to dead ends (...)"

I SPY: JOHN LE CARRE AND THE RISE OF GEORGE SMILEY | THE NEW YORKER
Anthony Lane


Mooooooooooo.
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NEW YEAR ANON RESOLUTIONS


o1. Put down your resolution(s) for 2012, however tiny, grand, vague, or specific.
o2. Do it anonymously: no names, no pressure, no guilt.
o3. If you spot any resolution for which you can give advice, help, or general cheer: go for it and comment to it!

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' Mussolini says: I want. Lord Perth says: I would like. Mussolini says: I don't want. Lord Perth says: We can't. Mussolini says: I think. Lord Perth says: I suppose, may I suggest, may I propose, may I believe. Mussolini says: Irrevocable. Lord Perth says: Rather, may be, perhaps, almost, probably. Mussolini says: My opinion. Lord Perth says: The public opinion. Mussolini says: The fascist revolution. Lord Perth says: Italy. Mussolini says: The King. Lord Perth says: His Majesty, the King. Mussolini says: I. Lord Perth says: The British Empire.

"Even Eden," says Dorothy di Fraso, "Had difficulties communicating with Mussolini. It seems they didn't pronounce the same words in the same way." '

KAPUTT | NEMIRA, 486
Curzio Malaparte


ROEN
n.tr: italics originally in En.
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"He found that Philippe had the root of his nose, which started right under his eyes, too wide (as with lion cubs, if you will), and this single trait that displeased him prevented him from answering the boy's caress with a spontaneity lacking in reservations. And he scrutinized himself, fearing not to seem cold, for he loved him very much, and he minded that in terms of endearments, he should never become indebted. Just as he wondered, with women, "How can she find pleasure in kissing me?" And he did not understand."

LES JEUNES FILLES | POLIROM, 94
Henry de Montherlant


n.b: FRROEN.

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