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WASHINGTON - Vice presidential adviser I. Lewis "Scooter' Libby Jr. resigned Friday after being charged with obstruction of justice, perjury and making a false statement in the CIA leak investigation, a politically charged case that could throw a spotlight on President Bush's push to war.

And we know these people have no sense of descency or loyalty so hopefully they will all do each other in soon! The end to the Mad, Mad, Mad Reign of Stupidty could be near and nothing would bring me more joy.

Del Rio and Robert Frank

The new blog header is a photo of Mary Frank and the children, with their daughter turned away. The title is "US 90, en route to Del Rio, Texas". WOW! Robert Frank actually went through Del Rio? That is exciting. Just as exciting as when I read in Kerouac's Lonesome Blues Traveler that he had picked up El Debate to read. That was and is the newspaper in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. My great uncle founded and ran that paper until the early 90s. He was printing it at the time Kerouac picked it up. When I read that I got chills. That's the closest I'll get to Kerouac somehow and thought it was cool.

Kerouac Good Eats

Recipes:
Big Sur Roast Potatoes and Spam
Potatoes wrapped in foil and thrown on the fire, and coffee, and hunks of Spam roasted on a spit, and applesauce and cheese, from Big Sur

Burroughs' Rhubarb Pie
Filling: two cups of rhubarb, 3/4 cup of sugar, 4 tbls of flour, one egg yolk, from Patricia Elliot.

Desolation Angels Breakfast Special
Cold roast beef with Dutch sugar powdered raisin bread, followed by the usual bacon and eggs and pot of coffee, from Desolation Angels.

Desolation Peak Casserole
Marvelous pot of turnip greens, carrots, roast beef, noodles, and spices, from Desolation Angels.

Desolation Peak Spaghetti
Sauce: 3 cans tomato paste
12 garlic cloves
half teaspoon oregano
basil
onions (from Desolation Angels).

Henri Cru's Scrambled Eggs
Mix six scrambled eggs with a quarterpound of butter and cheese and spices, from Desolation Angeles.

Kerouac's Green Pea Soup
Two packages of Lipton Green Pea Soup
Bacon
Onions
Salt & pepper
Couple of envelopes of dried pea soup into a pot of water with fried bacon, fat and all, and stirred till boiling, from Dharma Bums.

Kerouac's Rice with Sweet and Sour Sauce
I make a crazy Chinese sweet and sour sauce on the hot stove, compounded of turnip greens, sauerkraut, honey, molasses, red wine vinegar, pickled beet juice, sauce concentrate (very dark and bitter), from Desolation Angels.

Kerouac's Yellow Cornmeal Johnny Cakes
Yellow corn meal, chopped onions, salt & pepper, and tablespooning out into sizzling corn oil, turning over to brown both sides of each cake, from Dharma Bums.

Lonesome Traveller Breakfast
Best prepared for 6:45 a.m. Coffee - '[B]oil water... throw some coffee in, stir it, French style, slowly... ...make my raisin toast by sitting it on a little wire I'd especially bent to place over the hotplate... ...the toast crackled up... I spread the margarine on the still red hot toast and it would crackle and sink in golden, among burnt raisins and this was my toast.- Then two eggs gently fried in soft margarine in my.... frying pan - the eggs slowly fluffed in there and swelled from butter steams and I threw garlic salt on top... when they were ready... I spread them out on top of my already prepared potatoes... boiled in small pieces and then mixed with the bacon I'd already fried in small pieces, kind of raggely mashed bacon potatoes, with eggs on top steaming, and on the side lettuce, with peanut butter dab nearby on side.' Eat. '...hustle out into the fog of the flow... to work ...the train is leaving.' From 'The Railroad Earth' in Lonesome Traveller. Thanks to Nelson Liddle, High School English Teacher, Denny High School in Scotland, for submitting this fine recipe.

Pate de Porc Gras
2 pounds of ground Boston pork butt (with all the fat)
2 onions
2 garlics
teaspoon dry mustard
Simply immerse the ground pork butt till water just covers it, in pot, with onions & garlic chopped in, and salt and pepper, and dry mustard. Let simmer slowly (say, 5 hours). Spoon & level into bowls; chill bowls in ice box. Next day, use as sandwich spread on crackers (preferably good French Bread)--from letter to Jacqueline Stephens, late December 1961, Selected Letters: Jack Kerouac, 1957-1969.

Note: All the menu items come directly from passages found in Kerouac books. You guess which ones if you like! I didn't mark them all, and could go back and find them, but if you're curious, here's a hint: most of these came from On the Road, Dharma Bums, Visions of Cody, Big Sur, and Desolation Angels. I began this project with the best of intentions (thinking I could get every single reference of food listed in all my books, but that's an ongoing project). I realized just how often Kerouac mentioned food in his books, and why not? He loved to eat. However, if you see that I've missed something important, and would like to send me another menu suggestion or recipe, just send it in, along with the source, and I'd be glad to add to the diner's menu, crediting you.

Thanks to:http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue7/menu.html

Halloween Costumes

When I was nine years old I went as Harpo Marx and made my brother go as Charlie Chaplin and my sister was Shirley Temple. This year I might be Frog and Wm Smokey from Smokey and the Bandit.

But I would also like to go as El Chavo del Ocho or Cantinflas because they seem fun. I was a French Maid for a very long time. The party is on the 22nd and not much time to really get into a costume being the perfectionist that I am. Sure Halloween is the 31st but it's a Monday, I work, not interested in 6th Street. Maybe next year I'll be Cantinflas or El Chavo. Those DEVO costumes at Target are cool too!.

Discovered

This awesome website to check out: Kiddie Records

And that this sort of thing exists: Mini Book Society

70s audio and video clips

Still ping-ponging from Yahoo mail to checking your myspace.com and Friendster accounts?! Can't think of anything to look up? Surfing gone dry?

Go here for a refreshing change of pace:
http://dt.prohosting.com/70s/70s.html

Le weekend

Had a tiny dinner party. It was fun but I was disappointed at how the pasta turned out. I made that dish last month and it was unbelievable but something went wrong this time. I think I added the pesto to the pasta too soon and it dried a bit. I liked how the turkey meatballs turned out. Got the recipe from my Pad book but improvised as well. My guest were fun-o-mite but I wished I had pulled my favorite 78s for the Victrola, connected the 8mm projector before I got tipsy and cleaned up my closet better and that was the perfect occasion for a Predicta TV set. Maybe I should start saving for one again.

Found a successful garage sale, success for me, that is. Lately, like the last 4 years or so, I've not liked garage sales toomuch and have avoided them. I have great luck at estate sales though. Anyway I got a cute wallet, one of those jello molds and some great cookie cutters and aluminum ice trays, a few cute polyester 70s shirts and old stock pillowcases that scream out 70s. Thanks, Claude! The bummer was missing out on a pile of mint calendar towels. Some woman found them and went all over the yard declaring them a higly saught after collectible. Checked Ebay-nope, not that highly saught.

Saw Thumbsucker. I would highly recommend.

Enjoyed DQ country with Wm. I never had a blizzard before.....mental notes taken.

All and all a great weekend because we had unbelievable weather!

Donuts and Peter Fonda

It's cool having a 24 hour donut shoppe:Mrs Johnson's Donuts on Airport is one of our favorite places. When the owner is there we each get a free donut with our order. Last night their credit/debit card machines were down so he said to take the dozen and 2 free donuts home and pay him later, that he trusted us. I had checks and wrote one out instead but that was an awfully sweet way to treat a customer. Don't get a whole lot of that around these parts but when it does happen it is like Xmas.

We took them home to eat while watching Race with the Devil, part of the Peter Fonda movie kick we are on. It ended much the same way Crazy Larry, Dirty Mary did though. I loved both flicks! Watching these genres after midnight with donuts makes every week night seem like early Saturday morning with a late night movie before cable took over the world. You don't have nutty local car and furniture store commercials though.

I'd like to watch scary 70s horror flicks this month. Let's start with those based on a true story like The Entity. OOOOOOOOOO Looks scary!!!! The Exorcist, which believe or not I have still not seen since the previews have scared me so much since I was a kid. Seen parts but not the whole thing because it's based on a true story! This year I WILL finally watch these scary movies. They don't have to be that scary to get a scream out of me.