gleans + 2xaddenda at 4:30 PM MT, 09/26

 

Ghost World (Books)
The author of The Time Traveler's Wife returns with a gothic confection of identical twins and lonely spirits

 

The Other Bill Clinton
In the battle between leading the free world and raising his child, guess which won?

 

The Next Afghanistan? (The Well / World)
How Yemen has become the latest haven for al-Qaeda
 Photos: Conflict in Yemen
Videos released by the insurgents and the Yemeni government give two perspectives on a hidden war

 

 

There is no fish I can think of that doesn’t work with spinach. But where creamed spinach seems perfectly fine with a steak of halibut or haddock, the richer, oily fish such as salmon are more appropriately matched to the leaves in a simpler state.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/6222641/Nigel-Slater-recipe-salmon-steamed-spinach-and-a-lemon-salad.html

 

 

I use parsley in a pan of braised artichokes and pork sausage, whose brown depths I freshen up with Italian lemons and, at its side, some crisp and chewy greens.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/6222638/Nigel-Slater-recipe-a-casserole-of-artichokes-and-pork-for-deepest-winter.html

 

addenda #1

 

Cyril's short list of recommended kiddie movies (I am sure all of you out there in NetworkLand have been waiting for this):

 

-         Blackbeard’s Ghost

-         Both The Miracle on 34^th Street films (1947 (the better), 1994)

-        Both The Parent Trap films (1961, 1998 (the better))

-         Bridge to Terabithia

-         Candleshoe

-         Charlie Chan series

-         Explorers

-         Father Goose

-         Flight of the Navigator

-         Francis the Mule series

-         Jack Frost (1998)

-         Jumanji

-         Most Deanna Durbin

-         Most Fred Astaire musicals

-         Most of Hayao Miyazaki (other Anime too)

-         Secondhand Lions

-         Star Kid (1998)

-         The Astronaut Farmer

-         The Bishop’s Wife (1947)

-         The Canterville Ghost (1944 version – others not too bad)

-         The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Prince Caspian too)

-         The five Love Bug/Herbie flics

-         The Iron Giant

-         The Last Starfighter

-         The three George Burns “God” movies

-         Thin Man series

 

 

addenda #2

 

The US Sunday-paper supplement Parade has an article by
Nick Hornby about his favorite funny reads.  In addition to
praising the Molesworth books, he calls PGW "The best comic
prose stylist--maybe the best prose stylist--in the English
language."  I always knew he had good taste.  You can read
the story at <http://tinyurl.com/yamj237>.

Lenny (Sting)

 

Cyril thinks everyday that PGW is among the top 3 English prose writers - some days he thinks #1 - there is no question but that PGW is the #1 humorist