teddy!

Teddy!

Heh. Had great fun as my 50th birthday was 02/02/02. Big party that year. Not sure if I want a party or a cave to hide in this year (the big 60).

…you’re next, Anderson Cooper.

Please not, Teddy…! ;-)

suz!

While I am with you on that one (actually, I feel the same about Kathy Griffin), it is only fair that we have to give equal time the the boys.

Lots of folks in our SF circle started having “cause”-related birthdays, where they rent a public venue for attendees to come and party with them, each donating a specified amount to the cause of choice. Perhaps those LGBT students you advised a coupla years ago would do the party legwork in order to honor your ends-in-zero birthday?

Considering that the Kathy-in-a-bikini sunbathing picture CNN showed of the two of them last night featured Anderson at his own home, lying by the pool in a gray t-shirt, I think we’re quite safe from any Gloria’s-boy nudity on television anytime soon…

Greetings, and happy new year!

Egads!
The mind boggles at the thought. I fear that I am far too staid for those young hellions. I do not care what inducements they offer, I am not doing drag! (Fat old men with mustaches should be allowed to maintain some small shred of dignity).

But also, tomorrow! Be sure to write some checks on 1.2.12.

Even if there’s nothing in the account? :) HNY!

Xīn Nián Kuài Lè!

Teddy, Teddy, Teddy.

How Could You Be So Stupid.

Leave the clothes on in public, shed them when kewl.

The rest of you just rattle yer jewelery up there in the balcony.

;-)

HNY, to you and yers Mr, Ted . . . . and to all FiwerBaggers.

;-)

*heh* And a Hau’oli Makahiki Hou to you too…! ;-)

Not for a few weeks yet, actually.

Hola from Cincinnati, folks. I hope all have had a great holiday season.

Banks are closed until the third!

I have to practice that one, as the first day of classes in Chinese New Years (and I actually have a Chinese student in one).

I haven’t heard that in ages, CT. Nobody around me understands me when I say Mele Kalikimaka, and there’s a song about that one.

Hey, BCT! How is life treating you these days? Coping with the whole long distance marriage thing?

It has been pretty good, but as they say, all good things must come to an end, and some of them may be followed shortly by comprehensive exams.

Aloha, BCT…! What takes ya to Ohio…?

Well, you seem to have the tones down…in print, anyway.

I am objectively pro-dignity for our class of human.

No drag required!

Spoken may be a bigger problem. My first wife’s father gave up trying to teach me Cherokee (in disgust, I suspect), because at the time I could not even hear tones. I have gotten better, but they are really hard for me.

Oh, no — nowadays that will result in an endless cascade of fees on top of fees!

Nobody’s even talking about filing, and we’ve had a good two weeks together. My school is offering an insufficiently large bribe to get us tenured folk to retire. If I can land a gig here in SW Ohio, I’ll accept the bribe.

Mrs. BC is filling out her first RPT packet and getting a little wound up about it. I guess its a good thing I’m here for another week or so.

To CT: My wife teaches here in Cincinnati, I’m still in New Mexico. If Kauai Community College was hiring a writing prof and a statistics prof…

That guy is funny.

And it’s true!

Luckily, Xīn Nián Kuài Lè doesn’t have any of the contoured tone. That one is much harder to do well.

Long time, BC! Haven’t see your pixels hereabouts, how is everything?

I’m a musician, I’m attuned to hearing tones … and trying to learn Cantonese was pure futility for me.

Unfortunately, it is all the rage with the young college Lambda set. You can only imagine what happens when young gay kids who grow up in rural Montana (shudder) and then come to the “big city” where they are free to be and do whatever they want.

Speaking of which, my Ph.D. student working with closeted MSM is almost done with her dissertation and should defend in February. She won a post-doc fellowship to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta for next year. If you are interested, I will send you a pdf copy of it when it is done.

Hope everyone had happy NY celebration.

Made goose for dinner party today. Last guests left not too long ago.

Fine time.

I do know for a fact that Hawai’i CC is desperately looking for lecturers of all ilk…! ;-)

Wow, congrats to her and to you. And yes, I’d really like to read it.

Working with the “I’m not gay” crowd was something we pioneered at the agency I worked for in SF. It’s an amazing subset, with a whole culture, taboos, and talismans — well, you know all this from your student, I’m sure. But it would be fun to read, to see stuff about this community documented.

Working with the CDC will be great. Congrats to her!

Pretty well. I taught 15 hours last fall and I got wrapped pretty tightly around the axle. Just for reference, my contractual obligation is for 24 hours over 9 months (2 semesters), and I have a contractual 6 hour release to do the research that is required of me.

So my real teaching obligation is 18 hours over two terms. I am teaching 12 hours next term. No reduction in research expectations…

I love my job.

That’s really cool. Congrats to her (and you too!)

Sadly, not tenure-track.

If I’m giving up salary, I want security. So does she.

I will send you a copy when it is done. She really is one of the best graduate students I have ever seen and should go a long way. She is really committed to working with the LGBT community and on AIDS prevention, so I suspect you may be hearing about her in years to come.

Yeah, that can grind you down, depending on what you are teaching. There were a couple of years here where I was teaching 18-21 hours a semester (that is how badly we are paid here), though my contractual load is 15 hours/semester, with a one course (3 hours) release for my work with graduate students. Fortunately, I am rather better paid now than then, as that really burned me out.

It’s the big foot in the door, and, UH-Hilo and Manoa, are expanding at an exponential rate…! And the State does have one of the most generous tenure tracks around..! ;-)

Goose!

I did not know anyone cooked goose anymore. Sounds terrific.

Have you read Eisler’s Inside Out?

A spy thriller (i.e. “fiction”) that uses 5 leftie bloggers’ names as “fictional” characters. Marcy Wheeler, Juan Cole, Taibbi, Dan Froomkin, Scott Horton. Annoying in the sense that I know those people and in fiction I prefer to draw my own mental picture of what the characters look like.

A major subplot is how a the JSOC character is gay, thus closeted, tries to blackmail USG for $100 million over torture tapes which he possesses. Fakes his death during Benazir Bhutto’s assassination (140 killed, many who couldn’t be identified from remains). Figured out and tracked down thru his earlier visits to his lover in Costa Rico.

*heh* It tastes like greasy chicken to me…! ;-)

I did not know anyone cooked goose anymore.

Better than the alternative….

We’ll keep it in mind when we’ve both retired, or when she’s looking to change campuses.

Second of what may become an annual NY tradition. Last year I roasted it like a turkey, well done, but figured that, like duck, med-rare would be the way to go. Found an online recipe that agreed with me, and tried it this year. Not quite perfect, but worked out pretty well, so will need to try it again next year.

I really like it (a bird that is all dark meat!), but then I like goat as well.

Have you all seen this graphic? I wish I knew how to post it to my FB, one of my friends did.

Not at all. It is all dark meat, and if you poke hopes in the skin so that the subcutaneous fat seeps out during the roasting, it is self basting.

I’ve not had goat yet, but want to give it a try. I’m now plugged into the local organic meat network, so there will come a time soon, I’m sure.

I’ve enjoyed the Filipino adobo versions of goat, it’s really tasty…! ;-)

Goosie sushi just
Possesses jeu ne se quois
No satisfaction

Poking hopes, that sounds about right. I know what you mean.

It is a lot like lamb, but greasier and gamier/stronger flavored. I tend to like somewhat greasy meat and strong flavors, so it appeals to me (as long as it is not possum!). It is really good BBQed.

Think young goat.

Copy the image to your machine, upload it to FB from there.

*groan*

I had a friend in graduate school who threw a massive party/goat roast every 4th of July (which is I why I know BBQ goat is wonderful). Lived way out in the boonies and raised the goats himself. Would have about 200 of his closest friends over for the weekend.

…but greasier and gamier/stronger flavored.

Hence the need for vinegar and the Red Pepper concoctions…! ;-)

Be glad I couldn’t figure out a way to work German into it.

My bee keeper, who hunts deer on my property, will eat whatever he can shoot in the wild, including possum, though think he does not go out of his way to track them down anymore. I might draw a line at possum, but I’d give it a try first.

I love lamb.

And, of course, lamb & goose are now raised differently than they used to be. Domestically raised, they are much less gamey. Chris (bee keeper) also tells me that it is the adrenaline that gives the gamey flavor, so it you down the prey on first shot, it isn’t. That’s my experience from being recipient of largess of my very accomplished hunter friends: deer, moose, elk.

Curried goat is also really good. Had that in Aruba (where my parents met and I was conceived BTW).

Thanks, I pretty much imagine myself in indefinite detention. I have no hope otherwise.

One of my colleagues has a small pasture holding with a couple of horses. She acquired a couple of Nubian x Boer crosses to keep her horses company. One of her neighbors saw the goats and asked her when the barbecue was.

She said, “These aren’t the kind of goats you eat.”

Local [Hawaii] news is leading with a story about LGBT couples taking advantage of Hawaii’s civil union law, which became effective @ midnight. Touching. One lesbian couple said they’d been together 33 years and waiting for this.

At the end of the ceremony, the officiants [there were several] pronounced “You are legally joined as partners in life.”

Terrific!!

Mostly the difference in flavor is based on what they eat. Hogs that are allowed to forage in the forest have a much stronger flavor than those that are fed grain or commercial feeds. the same is true of chickens. I have eaten a lot of free range chicken over the years and it definitely has a lot more (and better) flavor than the grocery store variety. Of course, it is also not nearly as tender, either (did I ever tell you about eating the racing chicken?).

Good luck with it.

Sure they are! ;-)

Curried goat is also really good. Had that in Aruba (where my parents met and I was conceived BTW).

Thus may we conclude that curried goat is an aphrodisiac?

Teddy !

Happy New Year eCAHN !

We watched Jim Carrey’s “A Christmas Carol” on Christmas Eve and Cratchit’s family had Goose for Dinner; it reminded me of the last time we had Goose, many years ago.

The only way to eat Goat is Curried, West Indian style …

No, these are the kind of goats you read about in children’s books while buildings fall down in New York.

Awesome! I really do think that this is the wave of the future and we ill see it in most parts of the country, if not nationwide, in my lifetime. Speaking of which, I am quite proud to say that, based on posts to his FB page, my oldest grandson is a supporter of LGBT right (including marriage rights)!

Wouldn’t know about that, as I had the goat a few years after my mother died. My father took my sister and I down there to show us where they had met and lived.

BCT !

I was thinking about you on Boxing Day. Some time ago, you sent me a link about an experiment involving Monkeys & Bananas, which I was telling my nieces about.

I suppose so…! ;-)

Nah, a good BBQ, with lots of vinegar in the sauce, is wonderful as well.

No, I remember no racing chicken stories, so DO tell.

The neighbor who helped with dinner party has all sorts of farm animules. Including two goats. I have self-censored in asking her when the slaughter is bc her wife has them as ‘pets.’

They do have free range chickens, which they ‘adopt’ at an age when they can’t be sexed. The roosters are cacophonous, to be polite. Not a problem in the winter, but in the summer when I am reading outside, I’m ready to wring their necks myself and make chicken soup, at least.

Interestingly (prolly obvious) the more one eats natural food, the less one can tolerate anything from supermarket.

True dat.

When I was in my late teens, I went deer hunting in California with my dad and uncle. I bagged a couple of mulies — they tended to forage on acorns and the like. The flesh was very strongly flavored: so strong it required heavily flavored marinades.

When I went to grad school in Kansas and established residency, I went hunting a few times with friends. I bagged one grain-fed white tail — they tended to hang around the corn and milo fields and ate their fill. I understand it’s a different species and all, but the flesh was hardly gamey at all.

Diet matters a lot.

Precisely.

Most ‘children’ don’t want TMI about their conception. Well, speaking for myself, anyhow.

Hey, Petro. I hope the thoughts were reasonably fond…

I believe you, it’s just that I’ve never had BBQ Goat …

LOL … Always !

I’ve told that story a lot, though I lost the linky for it …

Ain’t that kewl, MM…? And, the State DHS had their website to apply, up and running, at midnite, last nite…! *g*

That is really a joke. Back when I was doing fieldwork among the Seminoles, one of the men I worked with was bragging about how he was going to be serving (actually his wife was going to cook and serve it) his home raised chicken at the next stomp dance (a native religious celebration). So, I was eating at his camp and had the chicken, which actually had quite good flavor, but which was so tough as to be almost inedible (I had a drumstick). I joked to my companion that he forgot to tell us he raised racing chickens.

*heh* You’re just predisposed in yer inclinations, Petro…! ;-)

Well, it’s midnight and twenty here in EST, and Mrs BCT is giving up on the portfolio for now. Hasta la later, folks.

Happy New Year to all, and remember to tune into the GOP Gong Show premiere Tuesday night!

There is a definite difference in the flavor between the two species and mulies are much stronger flavored, but that is mostly a product of diet as well. A wild foraging white tail is much stronger flavored than one who has been poaching the farmer’s grain.

Night and a happy and prosperous New Year to you and the entire family!

Pleasant dreams, BCT…! Always a pleasure…! *g*

A Very Happy & Prosperous New Year To You & Yours !

One of my 2 hunter friends has served me wild turkey. Turkey tenders. Curried turkey. Claims only breast is edible. Legs way too tough. Reason: Wild turkeys prefer to run than to fly.

Similar discussion tonight on Canada geese, who also have same pref as wild turkeys and are real pests (no offense to Canada) and congregate in the fields at this time of year by the hundreds. So I turned down offer of Canada goose donation. Maybe in another year or two when I am a more accomplished goose roaster.

The main difference in Venison is if it was a ‘clean shot’ or not…! If not, the adrenaline ‘sours’ the meat…!

I was really surprised at the local news coverage — how positive it was. As you know, Hawaii’s a pretty socially conservative state: lots and LOTS of churches, all of which are conservative and I’m sure are tearing their hair out over this “abomination.”

The story was just what is needed to reach out to those unacquainted with LGBT: showed individual couples, clearly in love with and committed to each other, quite “normal looking” [I'm projecting re what the viewers might think]. Hopefully it will make the reluctant see the humanity in all of us.

I suspect that will take a bit of special preparation. Wild duck is the same way. The breast is the only really good part owing to all the exercise they get.

That may have some effect, but diet is the biggest factor in the flavor of any meat.

I should toddle off as well. Take care all and a happy New Year to you and yours!

Good point…! Do ya really want to delve into the swamp muck, that Moose, partake in…? ;-)

That’s exactly what my hunter friends tell me. I’ve never received a donation of venison (the fair exchange for my allowing them to hunt on my property) that was the slightest bit gamey. And their diet varies according to what’s in abundance in a particular year. Sometimes there a lot of pin oak acorns, sometimes a lot of hickory nuts. This year, with all the unbelievable amounts of rain, the nut crop was not particularly good. But it has also been warm, so my grass is still green and I often see deer grazing on it.

There is a magnificent 9-pointer who lives in the thicket between my house and my neighbors. My bee keeper had him in his sights several weeks ago but let him go bc he had already used his buck permit. I saw him for the first and only time right around 3p. I went out to get an armload of firewood, and he was grass grazing to the north of my woodshed. He heard me and turned in my direction, with the low winter south sun directly on his erect, defiant posture. It was a sight to behold.

More like this, please.

I figured Canada goose was above my pay grade right now. :-)

as she humps the vapid David Gergen on the phone

oh, my…

(drive by: bonne annee!)

Mon Ami…! Bonne annee, indeed…! *g*

Roman Numerals
MMXII

binary
11111011011

hexadecimal
7DB

88 years to 2100. Only 32,142 more shopping days!

It was a sight to behold.

They really are quite the sight…! *g*

Talk about alpha males. I have ‘issues’ (when did ‘issues’ replace ‘problems’ as a euphemism; rhetorical Q) with alpha males. But when you see one on display in nature in the right light, you can do no more than let your jaw hang down at the splendor.

Happy New Year Teddy!
Sorry I’m so late. Watched Portlandia tonight and laughed my ass off!

Most intellectual vanity license plate I ever saw was LXIX.

That’s also true of domesticated animals, which is why, in the Chicago Stockyards (and likely all of them) cattle were slaughtered by a burly male, straddling the cattle chute and swinging a big sledge nailing the beast between the eyes, killing them instantly.

Anyways, Happy New year and best wishes for Twenty-twelve to all the Lakers!

Amazing that people don’t think anymore about where their food or water comes from. My property line is the aqueduct that goes from the Ashokan reservoir to NYC. I have hosted my son’s Manhattan classes in kindergarten and again in junior year HS, and neither knew anything about NYC water supply. K, of course, could be excused, but by junior year in HS, yada (private school) thunk theyda known, but youda been wrong.

12/12/12 is the 12th anniversary of the US Supreme Court deciding who will be our President.

Oh, but that is NOT to be regarded as a precedent! /s

High school class of ‘LXIX here!
In binary that is ’1000101. Really not the same.

thank you