Allie said...
You got a point there Ken. I incubate my yogurt for up to 24 hours, it gets tart but not nearly as sour as commercial yogurt. The whole milk makes it less so I think. I then drain it in cheesecloth and get a beautiful Greek yogurt, it's amazing. Drain it even longer and you get yo- cheese, so healthy.
What's next is a healthy almost 60 year old woman, and lotsa life worth living to the fullest. But overindulgence in anything isn't good for you, alcohol, blogging, self adoration, clutter phobia.
On the other hand deprivation isn't healthy either, lots of good female friends, handsome older gents(my son in law calls one of my admirers " the silverback" because of his resemblance to an aging gorilla), an occasional overnight guest and a sense of humor above all. It's all a balancing act, makes life interesting , nooooo boredom allowed, oh noes.
That's why when Jamie Lee Curtis called me up to try my yogurt recipe I was happy to have come over. We made yogurt and experimented with a couple of flavors. Apple. Raspberry. Boysenberry. Pumpkin. Baily's Irish Cream. Glenn Fiddich. Mary Jane. We kept eating yogurt and going to the bathroom. It just kept getting hotter and hotter and we started taking off one piece of clothing after another. Before you know it we were topless in our panties smearing yogurt on each other's nipples and licking it off. It was one of the wildest nights I have had.
And it's true.
She is a hermaphrodite.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Heheheh.
ReplyDeleteThe EBL has a post up for commenting on comments. Apparently not a fan of the recent emails she's been receiving.
I don't know why that's amusing but it makes me chuckle.
Qwarky
ReplyDeleteNooooo, so wrong.
ReplyDeleteJaime Lee Curtis?! She does have a beautiful body though, she was actually quite hot in that movie with Arnold Schwarzenater, forgot the title, it was about a dull married couple, he was a really a spy, then Jaime tried to become a spy too, anyone remember the scene where she did the strip tease in the hotel?
I recently wrote about a tank called "Mother" which was a hermaphrodite. It's in a book called "The Devil's Chariots."
ReplyDeleteMilitary weapons and the history of warfare is an acquired task but it's also ineluctable.
Jaime Lee Curtis?! She does have a beautiful body though,...
ReplyDeleteAgreed!
Schwarzenegger, lol.
ReplyDeleteTrooper, This is ndspinelli the snitch. EBL is airing dirty laundry. She's directly dissing you and we commenters over here. I think we have a meltdown. The thread is easy to find. It is a special post to air your beefs. Head on over, I will defend you but I think it's time for you and all of us to let our grievances fly. She invited it..let her have it.
ReplyDeleteNow let me go take a shower..I hate snitches and I've been one lately.
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't like flirting between commenters. Flirting between the blog hostess and her lawn boy, no problem. What a hypocrite.
ReplyDeleteShe is Meade's problem and they deserve each other.
Oh really?!
ReplyDeleteRitmo, so what did I just tell you? Was I right or what?!
ReplyDeleteYou can barely make out any Tony in Jamie Lee. She fell closer to the Janet tree. Keerist, how do people make nice comments? I mean I could've said there's hardly a whiff of Hebe in Jamie Lee, or, Tony hit a homer, he made a shiksa. But then neither of those comments would have been nice. Plus, they wouldn't have advanced the conversation...what IS the f**king conversation anyway?
ReplyDeleteShe is trying to max out on the hate, and feels really wilted by the love.
ReplyDeleteIt's like watching the wicked witch of the west.
Some things bring life. Water, love, garlic.
And then you get witches, EBL, and vampires - who respectively recoil at each of those things.
Funny. Is it really that simple?
Is this the first time I've agreed with Sixty?
ReplyDeleteHopefully this won't be the last. Seems to be an important realization.
She feels we are all "wound lickers" here and that Trooper is really bored by us, bu too proud to admit it. GOD, what a narcissistic bitch! Trooper has a gem here with this witty imaginative fast paced blog, let's keep it on fire!
ReplyDeleteShe honestly thinks "some" are out to deliberately "ruin" her blog, no paranoia there, no none at all. Have another glass of wine, lady.
True. Not many lushes troll for boyfriends and an audience on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteKeep the animus down, Allie. Or vent on your own blog. Really, we understand what you're going through. We've all come to the same conscious decisions and conclusions. We just know there's a better way. Trooper is not bitter and Trooper doesn't pit people against each other. He's a good guy IRL. The internets is not real life.
What I'm trying to say, is, just see the humor and the futility in it. And be glad that's not how you have to be.
I have heard that about Jamie Lee and Kim Novak too.
ReplyDeleteCompletely off topic but I could see Trooper digging this one: Sometimes dinner requires some hard work.
Well, that is my own advice anyway.
ReplyDeleteSome of Trooper's, er, troops, have had more experience in interblog warfare. I like a few of the things Spinelli's said lately and if he says something's on, I can't stop it. Nor would I.
But it will be fun to watch.
Myself, I've played as much of my own part in that game as I care to for now. It's like the computer in Wargames who realizes that no one wins Tic Tac Toe.
But I will enjoy watching to see what Mr Spinelli can bring to the table. I'm not saying there's no entertainment value in it.
But just don't take it too seriously. That would be the ultimate loss, at least insofar as loss is obsessively defined by a certain side.
Ann Althouse said...
ReplyDelete"Troop's left the blog. He took offense to the mass delete."
That gets a big "oh, bullshit" from me.
He's got his own place, and he would like Althouse commenters to come over, and a few do go there to lick their wounds after their vanity is hurt on this blog. That's fine with me. He's been serving that function for way longer than the recent policy-change that involved some deletion.
"Mass deletion" = way too much drama. I got rid of some clutter. That's all. I'm trying to make the blog a better place for readers who don't care about inter-commenter disputes (and flirting).
Most commenters do best by staying substantive. Talk about the subject at hand. Don't start going back and forth insulting (or sucking up to) another commenter. The visual effect of lots of short, relatively meaningless comments from 2 or 3 or 4 commenters is really bad. If you've been part of that, but you don't understand what I'm talking about, you need to step back and think from the perspective of a new reader.
There are other ways to be a good commenter than staying on the substance of the post, but if you want to be that kind of good commenter, think about what new readers are seeing. Are you interesting and amusing? Are you a good character?
Really, the clutter culling Meade and I are doing is about keeping more people in the conversation and making the conversation interesting.
You want to see the stuff I deleted? Believe me, it was just plain stupid. It drove people away.
And the conversation has been a lot better under the new policy.
You don't like it? Get your own blog. Start your own conversation. That's what Trooper did, but I don't think the current crop of wound-lickers amuses him too much. He's been trying to say that, but vanity is jamming the channels over there, and his commenters don't know it.
12/6/11 7:14 PM
Not exactly classy Ann. Wound-lickers?
She feels we are all "wound lickers" here and that Trooper is really bored by us, bu[t] too proud to admit it.
ReplyDeleteActually, she has a point & and it's true about me: link
Trooper if I've overstepped my bounds I apologize, I take things to heart and foolishly let them hurt me personally, I'm done now.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you went there CL, it occurred to me but I thought better of it, especially when I envision that souse with the wine glass held unsteadily in her hand. That's enough to put one off of one's feed, so to speak.
ReplyDeleteAnn Althouse said...
ReplyDelete"I have been spending a lot less time here. Part of it was the weird flirting, part of it was the predictably vituperative denouement into which every thread seems to descend, but mostly it has been the tolerance for J, who does not deserve it."
Well, then, Tyrone, this new policy is for you. You're an excellent commenter from way back, and I want you and others like you back. I want new people too.
I'm evicting the Occupy Althouse crowd.
12/6/11 7:41 PM
Ann, some of us left on our own because we found J offensive. No hard feelings to you. I like your blog. But I like Trooper's more.
I'm sure you haven't overstepped any bounds, Allie! I only said what I said for your own good and the good of everybody who knows you're better than what you're being goaded into!
ReplyDeleteYou didn't click my link did you sixty... :(
ReplyDeleteSure did, but maybe my comment was too circumspect. Or circumcised. Or maybe I just need to call it a night.
ReplyDeleteOh it's OK Ritmo, I trust you you and I know your're looking out for me.
ReplyDeleteI clicked on it, ew, that description was kind of icky.
ReplyDeleteFred,
ReplyDeleteTrooper had a really interesting conversation with AA a while back where they discussed the philosophy about what attracts people to blogs in the first place, and what keeps them there.
I really felt like he had a great point and kept the conversation going really well. After a while, it seemed like there was nothing more she could say.
It's a difference of either taste or personal philosophy. But I know which one is better.
I guess it needs one of the "things that amuse only me" tags.
ReplyDeleteWell, if she is accusing Trooper of nothing more than a place for licking wounds, it looks like she's doing a splendid job of copying that in one single (and necessarily unoriginal, if the logic follows?) post.
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing has a Festivus "Airing of Grievances" feel to it. Very regimented and ritualistic.
Only her grievances are actually about her own blog, and not someone else's.
ReplyDeleteKind of fatuous, eh?
I think that conversation also had a lot to say about what the concept of respect entails.
ReplyDeleteTo relegate complaints about the policy governing her comments' section (which is really one of the only distinguishing features about her blog) to a single post is very concentrated. It's almost cult-like.
ReplyDeleteYou may only complain once! Here!
Now eat your peas and continue not having anything negative to say EVER AGAIN!
Chicky, das ist widerlich, aber du bist nicht.
ReplyDeleteShould I post this link to Festivus' "Airing of Grievances" bit over there?
ReplyDeleteDoes the part about "Feats of Strength" also belong in that thread, on that blog?
Perfect Ritmo..perfect. I got a Festivus card from a client last year.
ReplyDeleteI thought this blog was for the "cool kids" or the "losers".
ReplyDeleteNow I'll have to rethink.
Pretty soon "Seven Nachos" and English bow-tie lawyer are going to show up and say Althouse is too "vulgar" for them.
Sorry, I meant "Simon" not some English Bow-tied pompous twit. That was someone else who acted the same way.
ReplyDeleteYou expat wound lickers will love this. In one of her polemics tonight EBL added to the list of mortal sins. As you know, boring, clutter, and flirting were the original sins. Well, in the category, you can't make this shit up, she added "sucking up to other commenters." And, the usual EBL suck-ups gave her a pat on the back..it's like I fell down the fucking rabbit hole!!
ReplyDeleteRitmo, well said.
ReplyDeleteSo, only sucking up to her is allowed now? How transparent is that new rule, bwahahahahahaha!
ReplyDeleteSpinelli, one pill will make you smaller, one pill will make you tall, but the pill that mother gives wont do anything at all.....
ReplyDeleteAllie, You have a Grace Slick quality to you.
ReplyDeleteI say that comment grievance blog post is nothing more than the sychopantasmigorical orgy I described the other day.
ReplyDeleteSo ask Allie, when you're ten feet tall.....
ReplyDeleteMaybe I AM Grace Slick, MamaM , you listening?
ReplyDeleteThe only thing about Althouse, really, is that it can take a while to figure what it is. Althouse isn't a person but a persona, and the blog isn't a community, it's a show. (This is by her own statements.)
ReplyDeleteI think that's the secret to why the calls for donations are met with such derision.
I think it's also why people get turned off very strongly when they realize their place in the cast.
Oftimes, the meta-blog—the interaction between cast-offs and apostates in different media—is way more interesting than the blog itself.
Ofttimes, dammit.
ReplyDeleteBlake: You nailed it.
ReplyDeletercocean: Simon is a very good guy. No reason at all you ought believe me. None. And that's fine and no more than I'd expect. Still, I'm speaking up for him, having spoken with him at length many times. Deeply fair, very open to dissent. Kind, too.
It sounds like this bitch thread at EBL's place is like a vain prima donna asking, "Does this dress make my ass look fat?" Any attention is good...just keep looking at me. Sounds like nd is holding his own.
ReplyDelete(BTW, the proper response to that question is "Not at all. Your ass makes the dress look small.")
Oops, sychophantasmicgorical. Misspelled my own word.
ReplyDeleteGood to see Ritmo here--a good commenter whose ideas are always worth looking at
ReplyDeleteAs for Jamie Lee Curtis--she could make me forget Allie in a second (sorry Allie--guys think with their small heads)
Oh Roger, how could you ?!
ReplyDeleteOK Allie--its Ritmo and me, mano a mano for your approbation.
ReplyDeleteLactobacillus acidophilus.
ReplyDeleteRuth Ann, Streptococcus Salivarius, yum, good stuff too.
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ReplyDeleteOk Ms Allie--a question for you. years ago i used to make my own yogurt in one of those salton yogurt makers--the first batch was always great but the longer you used the old yogurt as a starter the subsequent batches go more sour. Why?
ReplyDelete(revealing that I used to make my own yogurt is really embarassing)
Roger, you always need to use commercial starter, or yougurt with live cultures. Dont use your current homemade yogurt as a starter. Also the longer you culture it, the more sour, another thing is fat content of the mik, skim will make the most tart, mainly because to have to culture it longer than full fat.
ReplyDeleteI have a Eurocuisine yogurt maker, works pretty good. To make larger batches I culture it in a large glass jar inside the slow cooker, with the lid OFF. Keep at 95 to 110 degrees.
Roger did you see my deleted comment?
ReplyDeleteThanks Allie--much appreciated--I would go back to making yogurt, but Sgt Quincannon would have my ass. Real cavalrymen dont make their own yogurt. :)
ReplyDeleteUmm Allie--regretably no--if deleted comment falls in a forest does any body know?
ReplyDeleteThe little forest creatures would.
ReplyDeleteSlather those wounds!
ReplyDeletercommal, no doubt you're right about the real "Simon". People's internet persona differ from their real ones.
ReplyDeleteI get that, rcocean ...
ReplyDelete... except that Simon was a strictly Internet construct until I talked to him. Which only happened due to the humanity I detected in his earliest online persona and which therefore led me to initiate IRL contact, though it took a couple of years (and now it's been years).
Also, "Simon" is the real name of "Simon." Now, I don't hang that way, myself, and nor do you, "rcocean," but Simon always has. Which ought to count for something.
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