Housekeeping

[pecunium]

It 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.

Comments

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

t has happened, in the past, that some see my picture, or read that I'm in the Army, and assume things about my worldview

((cackles))

Er, pardon me. That's just v funny.

Bastages

[adriang.livejournal.com]

where you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard.

They called William a bastard until 1066, and then they called him "William The Conqueror".

Adrian

Assuming things

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

In the newsgroup soc.politics a while ago, I responded to a European (don't recall which country) who believed that the US press was totally and completely subservient to the government.

A Canadian then explained that I was obviously a typical American who got his views from watching TV.

1) There are blind people who watch TV more than I do. Literally. (Okay; one I know has 3 percent vision and the others are even farther from total blindness.)

2) Three of my grandparents were Marxists; the fourth was an anarchist.

[lahermite.livejournal.com]

You're a riot!!

*chuckling*

Re: Bastages

[ad-kay.livejournal.com]

*snort*

[ad-kay.livejournal.com]

Works for me. Post foodpr0n now and again, and I'll really be happy. Oh, BTW, I'm hashing things out with my friend who used poor manners in my blog. (Funny thing is, y'all would get along great in person and could happily polish off a bottle of Shiraz between the two of you.)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Hrmn... I'll have to be reminded of the poor manners.

Food porn will happen. Tomorrow is stock and butchery. Tonight I am being lazy.

A chicken, butter between skin and breast, onion, cerley, and rosemary (maybe with some poppyseed) for stuffing. White wine to put inside with that.

All in a dutch oven, over coals, potatoes in foil. TInfoil under the rack (keeps the oven cleaner). Catch the drippings, a bit of cornstarch, and a dash of tarragon to make a sauce.

Drink the rest of the wine.

TK

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Granted. Now, what makes it funny?

No offense taken, but I am a curious fellow, and wonder how others see me.

TK

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

People just often tend to assume members of the military are super-conservative (as well as jingoistic or unthinking or non-individualistic or other stupid cliches) and it was just amusing to think of someone trying to strike up a conversation with you with that assumption. Not that you would be offensive or anything in response, but I just think the result would be v unlike what they expected.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to retaliate with the dreaded lasagne recipe, aren't I?

I just found the most wonderful hard rolls. They're divine. I got a wonderful beef roast, too---I'm thinking some sort of stew. I have to think in terms of lunches.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Fire away.

I make a killer veggie lasagne (I can't abide cooked spinach, so I use basil, olives and capers).

With the summer winding down I'll be writing more food porn. I actually have some left over from the, as yet unwritten, Utah trip.

Rolls are hard to find. We don't have any good bakeries around here, so it's high class commercial, and what I can make. Not having a professional stove my crusts are quite what I want.

But I get by.

TK

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I've had people say they weren't sure about friending me, when I asked, because they looked at my splash page and figured I'd be bothered by the politics on their blogs.

One was very nice about it, promised to not get offended if I left. Was worried bout my being offended/insulted by her extant friends.

As you may guess that didn't happen.

TK

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

Yer killin' me with the food porn.

BTW, I didn't get your email about the addy until too late.

I'll just have to pick them up when I'm in Cali on leave. ;-)

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

One was very nice about it, promised to not get offended if I left. Was worried bout my being offended/insulted by her extant friends.

Awww. (I think I figured if you were in such dissolute company as matociquala, nothing I would say would likely offend you, unless it was something involving frozen insta-dinners.)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

All right, piccies and presents when you get here.

I'm glad the wedding went well, and at this point I don't think you'll miss ours for being OCONUS.

I hope being back in the box isn't too hard to bear (I don't think I could have taken leave, the loss of focus and the pain of return would have been more than I could bear).

Be of good cheer. I'll send a care package, I promise. Maybe I'll send you the Baroque Cycle.

In which case you may decide to skip the wedding.

Love,

Terry

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

It wasn't you.

Hell, I've been a reporter, columnist, Opinion and Managing editor, security guard, interrogation student; and instructor: offense is hard.

I eat frozen dinners. Some of them are tasty.

Now, Coor's Light, you can drink it on the porch, but it doesn't cross the threshold.

TK

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

*ears perk up* Veggie lasagne? Veggie lasagne?

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 ginmar's journal, just after I'd encountered her (after "that" post that got her name spread to places like Making Light), and it was reading your LJ info page that clued me in and disabused me of *blush* yes, some of those assumptions of your opinions.

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

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Tomatoes, are tomatoes.

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

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

Coor's Light, you can drink it on the porch, but it doesn't cross the threshold

GACK

And I thought Rolling Rock in college was bad....back during my alcoholic days, when it got pretty low, I drank that beer that has the fish or the moose on it -- don't remember the name -- you used to be able to get a twelve-pack for about eight bucks.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Rolling Rock, before it was bought out by one of the BIG american breweries, was good.

They used a large percentage of corn (maize) in the mash and that gave it a distinct, sweet flavor.

Nowadays they use rice and it sucks.

It's not as bad as Budweiser, but praising with faint damns is still no real praise.

TK

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Ok.

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

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

What beer was the cheap kind I was trying to think of....SCHLITZ! oh sweet jesus that was bad.

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

We'll see about missing the wedding. The biggest problem will be with schooling. :-P If I miss school, John will shoot me. A lot. And then again.

I'm trying to be of good cheer, it's just hard and I've been having a lot of really odd church dreams.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

I rather like Budweiser, but that's because I live in Prague, and Czech Bud is something different altogether.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to hear the stock porn.

antiquated_tory and I are very fond of homemade chicken stock, but oh the yellow chicken grease that manages to cover the entire kitchen...