2008-11-09

Seeing the line "Slavoj Zizek on the financial crisis" in the London Review of Books is kind of like seeing "Lindsay Lohan on the implications of observing the Higgs boson" in Us Weekly. But it isn't really about the financial crisis. The first paragraph is good, correct, and understandable. Then it devolves into a weird rant about campaign politics and John McCain (though, to his credit, there's no mention of Lacan).

And, also, I've wanted something kind of like this kind of thing for a long time. People who are experts in something to write articles about learning about other things. Get an economist to write about natural horsemanship or a penguin-ologist to write about car repair or a bank manager writing about single malt Scotch. I think you would wind up getting a lot of great metaphors out of it.

My new bus-book is "Nixonland." As a matter of practicality, I now realize it is usually best to avoid the 900 page book when looking for things to read on the bus.

This is how make the correct pizza sauce: can of tomatoes, salt, sugar, oregano (crushed in fingers). Blend, but not too much - still need decent sized solids. Pulse on the lowest setting, probably. Then put in a strainer. Do. Not. Cook. Pre-cooked pizza sauce tastes like ketchup.

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