Towse: views from the hill

April 16, 2008

Michelle Obama on The Colbert Report

Filed under: politics — Towse @ 6:00 am

YouTube – Michelle Obama on The Colbert Report

April 15, 2008

How I spent my Sunday with Obama and the Mayhill Fowler Agenda

Filed under: politics — Towse @ 7:18 pm

I was starting to hear whispers in the blogosphere about Mayhill Fowler and the bzzz she created with her column on Huffington Post on Friday covering a comment Obama had made at a fundraiser five days before. (Five DAYS?!?? How’s that for the immediacy of blogging, eh?)

Comments on the HuffPo posts about the uproar questioned her motives, her allegiances (was she really a closet Hillary supporter?) and her purpose in following Obama’s campaign.

A Google search for /”mayhill fowler” -huffington/ brought me to this pro-Obama blogger post on the Obama site, a supporter who was at the Sunday event, someone who could at last put things in context.

Sandy’s Blog: How I spent my Sunday with Obama and the Mayhill Fowler Agenda

Odd. The only Mayhill Fowler that Zabasearch.com shows in Oakland was born in 1974, six years after HuffPo’s Mayhill Fowler graduated college. I assume that Mayhill Fowler is an offspring of the Mayhill Fowler on HuffPo. How come the sixty-one-year-old Mayhill doesn’t show up with Zabasearch? Her husband does.

Update:Another blogger who was there chimes in: David Coleman: I Was There: What Obama Really Said About Pennsylvania

and

2004 Charlie Rose clip (up on YouTube) that shows Obama talking the same sort of talk only instead of the sound bite, there’s a full discussion:
clip and full interview.

April 14, 2008

View from the Hill

Filed under: art,life — Tags: , — Towse @ 5:54 am

In today’s Chron … a view from the Hill

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2008/04/13/PKMADONNA.DTL

:-)

The text was influenced by the mystery I’m allegedly working on. (Nothing about people with telescopes and/or wheelchairs. Honest!)

Update: Updated link to Madonna strip. Previous link was 404.

April 13, 2008

Dinner last night – give me that old time sauce and sole

Filed under: food,life — Towse @ 2:35 am

Simple really.

We buy fish at Costco in big cheaper-by-the-pound lots and then divvy it up into 1/2lb. bags for the freezer.

Cost of fish ~$3.

1C of dry white wine. (Doesn’t need to be the pricey stuff, but at least make it something you’d drink out of a glass without spewing. Peter Vella Chardonnay out of the box we stash in the hall closet for just such uses.)

Chopped onion. I used maybe half an onion. (onion $0.39/lb in Chinatown)

Add wine and onion to saute pan and heat to boiling. Add fish. Cook until fish flakes easily with a fork. Take fish out of pan and put in a glass baking dish.

While the fish is cooking. Melt a cube [1/2C] of butter in a measuring cup in the microwave. Butter melted? Fish done and removed to baking dish? Good.

Boil down the wine and onion until reduced to about 1/3C. Add the hot wine/onion reduction to the melted butter in the measuring cup.

Separate two egg yolks.
(We used the egg whites in the scrambled eggs this morning. …)

Put two egg yolks in blender and whirl. You see where we’re going right? While the yolks are whirling, pour the wine/onion/melted-butter mix into the blender and whirl until it all thickens up. Call this a Hollandaise variant if you must.

Pour the sauce over the fish that’s in the baking dish. Sprinkle with a bit of shredded Parmesan cheese. On top of that, sprinkle a dusting of paprika.

Put under a broiler until the sauce browns lightly.

Served with rice and asparagus, which happens to be 99c/pound in Chinatown and local, not shipped in from Chile or some such place. We had about half a pound between us.

Total cost something like $4, maybe $4.50 for the two of us.

Delish. Hard on the arteries, but delish.

Views from the Hill

Filed under: life,San Francisco — Towse @ 1:41 am

No picture. Didn’t think of it while everything was happening.

BIG CLOUD OF BLACK BLACK SMOKE coming up from the other side of Treasure Island. We popped the cover off the telescope lens and spotted a yacht adrift, flames billowing above it, being pushed south by the tides. The boat drifted behind the Admin building and then came into sight again. Looked like probably an engine fire. That end of the boat was engulfed in flames. Engine fire? Fiberglass boat? The smoke was immense.

One of the fireboats headed off from Pier 22 1/2 to deal with the blaze. Coast Guard and other boats were keeping clear after rescuing the folks on board the boat. The fireboat eventually arrived (They’re not the fastest boats on the Bay.) and started dousing the blaze. Eventually the yacht sank beneath the waves.

Not a sunny Saturday for the people on the yacht, but at least they got out with their skins intact.

Update:Chron story

April 10, 2008

Callooh! Callay! Internet Resource for Writers rounds the Big One

Filed under: app,blog — Towse @ 3:47 pm

Internet Resources – Writers Resources – Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers

And, turns out, the count didn’t zero. Rather, added another digit.

I’m *still* going to swop in another free hit counter. Maybe Site Meter. I’m not too fond of how the current hit counter delivers data.

A MILLION HITS! I can’t believe it.

April 8, 2008

Kensington, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Filed under: blog,photographs — Towse @ 8:25 pm

Kensington, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Brilliant blog.

Internet Resources – Writers Resources – Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers

Filed under: stats,URL,writing — Towse @ 7:54 pm

http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

Hit counter stands at 999439. When it rolls over to zeroes, I plan to swop it for a different counter.

Mercy me. A million hits. Who woulda thunk back when that this day would come to pass?

April 6, 2008

Lost in Translation the sequel

Filed under: photographs,travel — Towse @ 2:07 am
 
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Lost in Translation

Filed under: photographs,travel — Towse @ 1:59 am
 

Seen parked near the Pyramids in Giza.

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