a pastiche
Steps of Disciplining your Wife as learned from this video:
1. Admonishment
2. Let the meat in front of the cat and don’t let him eat it.
3. Lightly beating, making sure you don’t scratch a meat or break a bone or slap a cheek. Siwak is best–very tender.
“Everything belongs to me because I am poor.”
Jack Kerouac
The situation is desperate for Hillary. People with hyper-ambition are fascinating and a bit scary to watch, especially when their future is on the line. Be ready for a complete Hillary breakdown after a NH loss. Running on inevitability, she has fooled herself into thinking she’s entitled to power. In her mind, all political losses are personal rejections, so a double-digit loss in NH would completely play havoc on her mental and physical health. It’s only going to get nastier. Bigger slip ups, bigger attacks, more desperation! I’m peaking through my fingers in anticipation.
Desperation:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4102345
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/civilrights/
I think this final clip is more interesting when put into the context of an article in last week’s Time (Why They Really Run):
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1699857,00.html
Never forget me I am Nirodh.
I’m going to Budapest this May. This wouldn’t have been my first choice a month ago, but after a weekend of discussion with my girlfriend, web searches, sitting in the travel aisle of Borders hoarding the Eastern European section, and searching kayak.com (which is an amazing site) for cheap plane tickets–it has been decided. Budapest!
My prior knowledge of Hungary amounts to the following:
a. Austria-Hungary
Austria and Hungary were teamed up and ready for carnage in World War Part One. You know, that trench war they covered for 15 minutes in high school.
b. You Did It – My Fair Lady
Sadly, this song is the second reference that comes to mind whenever Hungary is mentioned in conversation at social gatherings (more often than you’d think). I imagine a country full of people like Zoltan Karpathy. That dreadful Hungarian. That hairy hound from Budapest.
Never have I ever met a ruder pest.
c. Hungarian Paprika
We bought some at the Dekalb Farmers market and it’s fantastic. As fantastic as paprika can get.
Since this weekend, I haven’t learned much, but I have five months to work all of this out. We bought the Lonely Planet Hungary book and I’m ready to hunker down and expand my knowledge of what is no doubt a wonderful country. Until then, the following selling points get me through:
1. Hot thermal baths
Hungary is home to 1500 thermal springs and the largest thermal lake in the world. I will get to take a Turkish bath in Hungary. This will also knock off 1 of the 1001 Places to See Before [I] Die.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell%C3%A9rt_Baths
2. Bull’s Blood in Eger.
Eger is a village in the Valley of Beautiful Women in Hungary known for it’s red wine. Most of the articles I’ve read about the valley say that no one knows why it’s called the Valley of Beautiful women. I plan to personally look into this and see if there are actually beautiful women in the VOBW.
As for wine, there’s plenty. Supposedly you can walk up to any of the dozens of small wine cellars built into caves and purchase wine by the liter. The will literally fill empty plastic bottles; $1 for a half liter! The most popular red wine is known as Bull’s Blood, the name originating from the Turkish seige of Eger in 1552. During the seige, the Turks encountered Hungarian soldiers with red-stained beards and armor, and eventually, the rumor was spread that the Hungarians were drinking bulls blood to gain power to fight against them. In reality, the Hungarians were out of food and their commander Istvan Dobo had them raid the town wine cellars for sustenance. My kind of commander.
