Popcorn 1: Best Music of 2006

It's that time of year, yes, time for the annual best lists. Radio stations do it, book reviews and news organizations do it, so let's do it! My first installment, to be updated at will, is Best Music of 2006. In all these lists I include the best of my 2006 experiences in that genre, regardless of publication date. Get it? Okay, here we go.

Best Music of 2006

Emmy Lou Harris and Mark Knopfler -- All the Road Running

Kris Delmhorst -- Strange Conversation
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Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy -- Adieu False Heart

Smokey Robinson -- Timeless Love

Bob Dylan et al. -- Masked and Anonymous (soundtrack CD)

Bruce Springsteen -- The Seeger Sessions

Andrea Zonn -- Love Goes On

Laura Cortese -- Hush

Andre Zonn - Love Goes On

Prairie Home Companion folks -- PHC, the movie, soundtrack cd

November 25: warm day, hot music at night

Caleb was here for the week and left on Saturday the 25th, a day when the temperature got into the sixties and people went silly with raking and dogs barked at the activity. Cats lay in the sun, watching the doves and robins. My new neighbor raked and clipped all day. At night, the Blue Rags played an energetic dance show for old friends home for the holidays. "The Girl I Left (Behind Me)" got us tapping and jigging, and we never stopped till 1 a.m. Tom Sullivan celebrated his 56th birthday in the place where he'd had a skate party for his 6th, the Orange Peel. My car didn't get towed, as I knew it wouldn't. If it had, I'd have walked home, as I've done in two or three dreams, or gotten a ride. It's nice to live within walking distance just in case you have to walk. And it's good to have a dream image to inspire you.

Inside a Dog

Here's a neat site from Australia. It needs more growing but it's a beautiful start: http://www.insideadog.com.au/index.html

I took the picture from the site.

If you know some good dog books, you can suggest them there. They like other books too, but dog books are really good. I think I'll make my favorite dog book list now. See ya.

New Food Blog

Snap! Crackle! Pop! True to my Betty Crocker designation I have started a food blog. It's at http://talkingaboutfood.blogspot.com. When my replacement camera comes I'll take a picture of my Berry Crocker medal.

Family Dinner

So for the curious, here's what we really did have. All recipes are from Plovokian Treasures, a treasure itself as a book, but anyway, here was the menu.

Pitsas (Finger foods, to start)

~Smoked sardines, chuncked and served with strips of purple eggplant and yellow peppers
~Small cabbages stuffed with shredded beetroot and horseradish

Drinks
Black Plum Aperitif
Sparkling Prune Wine
Koffee
Prune/Peach Brandy
Bosjanje Beer

Main Course

Wild Boar, spit-roasted
Blatjit Wild Grain Pilaf
Beet Greens with Pickles
Black Potato, Prune and Pepper Hotdijsh
Bread: Twisted Loaves with Seeds

Sweet

Rose Hip Prune Jelly Kaks
Frozen Stirred Prune Cream served with fresh cream

Fish Last Course*

Smoked Eel Bites
Pickled Pearl Onions

Last Drink:
Pine Schnapps

* Plovakian Traditional meals usually end with fish, to clear the sweet from the palate and leave the diners with a good mouth

So Zack, you see you didn't miss any brains this time. But still wish you had been here.

Camera is on its way, last sighted in Baltimore. Like Ant and Bee's umbrella, it's on its journet.