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Top Chef Open Thread

by John Cole|  August 19, 20098:34 pm| 43 Comments

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By request.

Anything to keep the natives happy.

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Open Thread

by John Cole|  August 19, 20095:51 pm| 154 Comments

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The best part of owning a dog is that no matter how long you are gone, whether it is an hour or eight hours, they are just as excited to see you:

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Just making some home made marinara (tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, basil, salt and pepper) and pouring it over some fresh spinach and quinoa rotelle. Simple, but tasty.

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The T word

by DougJ|  August 19, 20095:46 pm| 85 Comments

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I agree completely with John that the word “treason” should not be used lightly. Thus, I disagree with my man Eric Massa when he describes Chuck Grassley’s “pull the plug on grandma” quip as treason.

On the other hand, it is worth noting that there are plenty of teabaggers out there who are talking about overthrowing the government and that attempting to overthrow the government would almost certainly meet the standard of treason. Obviously, it only becomes treason when you actually attempt the overthrow, not when you write about it from the safety of your basement or mobile home. And Grassley has yet to advocate the overthrow of the government himself.

But I think it’s fair to say that Grassley is palling around with would-be traitors.

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Hurricane Bill

by John Cole|  August 19, 20095:40 pm| 44 Comments

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I was just thinking the other day that it sure seems like it has been a relatively slow hurricane season. Looks like that might change.

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Sad News

by John Cole|  August 19, 20093:18 pm| 89 Comments

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Frequent commenter Svensker passes along the sad news that her friend, Mary Catherine, who we all pitched in to help out a few months back, has passed:

My friend MC – Mary Catherine Lamb – for whom John sponsored a fundraiser last winter, lost her battle with cancer on August 15.

MC’s passing was a shock to everyone. Her prognosis had been very good. She had recently been diagnosed with some tiny tumors in her brain but the doctor expected treatment to be effective. At first everything went well – in fact, in typical MC fashion, she thought that the aluminum mask used to target the radiation was so beautiful that she turned it into a sculpture. But an infection took hold in her weakened state and neither antibiotics nor her body could stop it. She died very quickly with many loved ones around her.

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I never met MC in person. We were on-line buddies, both denizens of vintage clothing chat boards where her knowledge, her wit, her sharp eye, her kindness, her quirkiness, her talent, her bravery in the face of her disease and her bottomless sense of humor endeared her to all. Here is how she described herself in one of her bios:

I’ve lived in Portland for 30 years, still ardently love it here. I sell vintage part-time, am a longtime copy editor, and have been making and exhibiting oddball quilts for the wall since the early ’90s. I’m a bookworm, a collector of oddments, and a cat lover. I’m a former union organizer, waitress, library clerk, dishwasher and noncommercial radio programmer.”

She was amazingly talented. The International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, purchased a number of her “oddball quilts for the wall.” In fact, her “Sock Monkey Jamboree” will be included in the exhibition opening on November 21, “Perspectives: Art, Craft, Design and the Studio Quilt.” Here is the sock monkey quilt (she was inordinately fond of sock monkeys!) :

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Another quilt owned by the IQSCM was one of a series she did on Biblical themes – with her own unique vision, of course. Here is her Whore of Babylon:

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And a detail showing the Whore’s beautiful face:

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She had recently received a commission for a quilt in memory of the artist Robert Rauschenberg, which she was very excited about. Unfortunately, we will never get to see that quilt. But as another of MC’s many on-line friends said, just imagine what she’s working on in heaven!

I just wanted to reiterate how much the financial support and the kindness of the Balloon Juicers meant to her and how you made an enormous difference in the last year of her life. She didn’t have to worry about money while she was coping with her disease — that was an extraordinary gift from all of you. Thank you all.

God speed, MC.

mc

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Barney Frank, by popular demand

by DougJ|  August 19, 20099:55 am| 134 Comments

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I’d like to see the rest of the interview interrupted here, because I wonder if Frist attempted a remote diagnosis of this woman.

(via Wonkette)

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Star Wars, those near and far wars

by DougJ|  August 19, 20098:16 am| 107 Comments

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Whiskey Fire finds what may be the greatest Erick Erickson post ever. The title is “Is Glenn Beck TV’s Obi Wan Kenobi?”

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