Housekeeping
Sep. 10th, 2005 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumIt occurs to me, as I have been getting more traffic lately, that few people go to the info/splash page to see who, or what, I am.
Which means they don't know the rules.
So, for the hell of it, I'll post them, in brief.
1: This is Liberty Hall, where you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard.
Which is to say I have, for purposes of debate, no sacred cows. It has happened, in the past, that some see my picture, or read that I'm in the Army, and assume things about my worldview. The same happens when they read a single piece of my writing. That way lies madness, for no man is all of a piece.
2: If you want to hang out and enjoy my railleries, listen to the side-chatter and say nothing, feel free. You don't need to ask to friend me.
3: Be polite to my guests.
This is my place. I let others in because 1: I like them (if they are on my f-list, it's because something about them struck me as worthy of some sort of regular attention), and 2:I am hospitable. Which means I am extending hospitality. They are my guests, and as such they get some protections (even when they don't really need me to save them).
4: If you want to post, you need to let me know, in some way, who you are. You don't need to make a formal introduction (and having an Lj counts... I can find a little something about you from that). If you don't have an Lj, a name at the end of a comment will suffice.
I've been bending this rule since I made it (the most egregious case of bending being someone who insulted my honor. I can get prickly about that, see above, where no man is all of a piece), but the basic rule is: You want to be anonymous to the world, I can do that. But you don't get to come in here wearing a mask, shoot up my joint and ride out in a cloud of dust. You don't even get to come in and be polite, buy a drink and pay the tab that way. I can't shoot you dead at the saloon door, but I can refuse the right to enter. You want to be a mystery man to the world. Fine. I'll strip any identifying info, and repost for you (which will even hide your IP addy) but I won't let you not say hello to me. You can let me know (a deleted comment will work fine, I get it when you send it, and then you can delete it, heck, an anonymous comment will work, because they only get seen when I unscreen them), and we'll work out a way for you to let me know it's you, and the rest of the world will be none the wiser.
Yes, you can lie to me. You can give me a false e-mail, or a fake name, but that's the way the game goes. You could do the same in a real saloon. Keep showing up, the locals will recognise you. Piss me off (or cause me to feel you've violated my hospitality to my guests) and I'll refuse to serve you.
Those are pretty much all the rules.
Sit down a spell, put your feet up, take a load off.
The first round's on me.
Which means they don't know the rules.
So, for the hell of it, I'll post them, in brief.
1: This is Liberty Hall, where you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard.
Which is to say I have, for purposes of debate, no sacred cows. It has happened, in the past, that some see my picture, or read that I'm in the Army, and assume things about my worldview. The same happens when they read a single piece of my writing. That way lies madness, for no man is all of a piece.
2: If you want to hang out and enjoy my railleries, listen to the side-chatter and say nothing, feel free. You don't need to ask to friend me.
3: Be polite to my guests.
This is my place. I let others in because 1: I like them (if they are on my f-list, it's because something about them struck me as worthy of some sort of regular attention), and 2:I am hospitable. Which means I am extending hospitality. They are my guests, and as such they get some protections (even when they don't really need me to save them).
4: If you want to post, you need to let me know, in some way, who you are. You don't need to make a formal introduction (and having an Lj counts... I can find a little something about you from that). If you don't have an Lj, a name at the end of a comment will suffice.
I've been bending this rule since I made it (the most egregious case of bending being someone who insulted my honor. I can get prickly about that, see above, where no man is all of a piece), but the basic rule is: You want to be anonymous to the world, I can do that. But you don't get to come in here wearing a mask, shoot up my joint and ride out in a cloud of dust. You don't even get to come in and be polite, buy a drink and pay the tab that way. I can't shoot you dead at the saloon door, but I can refuse the right to enter. You want to be a mystery man to the world. Fine. I'll strip any identifying info, and repost for you (which will even hide your IP addy) but I won't let you not say hello to me. You can let me know (a deleted comment will work fine, I get it when you send it, and then you can delete it, heck, an anonymous comment will work, because they only get seen when I unscreen them), and we'll work out a way for you to let me know it's you, and the rest of the world will be none the wiser.
Yes, you can lie to me. You can give me a false e-mail, or a fake name, but that's the way the game goes. You could do the same in a real saloon. Keep showing up, the locals will recognise you. Piss me off (or cause me to feel you've violated my hospitality to my guests) and I'll refuse to serve you.
Those are pretty much all the rules.
Sit down a spell, put your feet up, take a load off.
The first round's on me.
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Date: 2005-09-11 06:49 am (UTC)I do have a version I'm pretty devoted to, and it's actually pretty bare of vegetables, apart from the expected ones like tomato. [er, cue for the "tomato is a fruit" discussion... oh heck, how do you weigh in on that one?], but always happy to read food porn from you... I'm not always meat-free, so your celebrations of carnivorous dishes make me sigh with wistful envy, until I reach my "carnivore period" - between Thanksgiving and the New Year. But I also still enjoy trying for veggie versions of a series of my childhood favorites (like shepherd's pie - what's your position on lentils?).
2: Be polite to my guests. ... This is my place. I let others in because ...I am hospitable. Which means I am extending hosptitality. They are my guests, and as such they get some protections (even when they don't really need me to save them).
I knew I liked your style, and this is yet another reason why. Thanks for being so clear, particularly about this issue. I've seen a lot of discussions of journal-space, and where is it on the continuum of absolute-1st amendment zone through to hermetic personal safe-space (on the internet? well, part of the discussion, too.) You've added several points of clarity for me, in applying to my own space. (Although I do, and must make my own peace with, apply a somewhat larger "comfort area" around my journal, re commenters and annonymity... for instance.)
Goodness, this is an awful chatty comment. *wan grin* Lack of coffee, no energy for the head-editor! Anyway last thing (I promise), I remember encountering you on
Thanks for your journal. I always look forward to what you have to say.
Crazy(and, uhm, feeling "special" in a "challenged" kind of way, sometimes)Soph
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Date: 2005-09-11 07:13 am (UTC)I understand (and agree) with the Supreme Court of the United States, that they are used as vegetables.
And I know that botanically they are fruits.
I use them as both. Out of hand from the vine.
With a drizzle of balsamic as dessert, and in sauces, salads and entrees.
And now to bed.
TK
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Date: 2005-09-11 07:25 am (UTC)I don't parboil the noodles, that's why one uses tomato sauce.
Layers of pasta sauce and cheese (romano and riccota, with large dashes of parmesan. For those with courage, use some gorgonzola).
In the cheese for some layers, mix black olives, chopped fine.
In other layers add capers (the small ones).
In other layers, used coarsly chopped basil (do not make this the last layer).
About twenty minutes before it's done, make a thick layer of mozzerella.
Serve with crusty bread and garlic butter.
TK
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Date: 2005-09-11 03:05 pm (UTC)On Tomatoes
Date: 2005-09-12 07:19 am (UTC)A wise man knows not to serve them with ice-cream.