Liza

Mark Shea has a concise breakdown of the Englisch problem. Now, Mr. Shea is a decent and nice sort of fellow, so I am sure he doesn't share my final solution to the problem (Ah, London! Best viewed through the window panes of my Stuka cockpit!), but he gets it with the Englisch.

Anyway, I got very little sleep last night, as I was working until 4am. I thought good books were bad! Working on a deadline is even worse. Fortunately the Good Lord invented coffee and gave coffee to men. And eventually it came to the Italians who perfected it by inventing espresso. I could go on for days waxing on the glory of espress, and I have, so I will spare you now, when my self-control has been weakened by lack of sleep.

Speaking of coffee, a little bird told me of a possible return of the Ethiopian Super Natural coffee at Peet's. If it is true, and you are an espresso freak, mix Ethiopian Super Natural with Garuda blend, fifty-fifty. It will transport you to a time when all was good, when Franco was in office, and Pete Seeger on a blacklist.

Poor Pete. It almost seems mean to pick on him, now that he is in his nineties. It is just that, well, he is such a bastard, I really can't resist. I try (whereas I don't resist bashing that commie, ham-actor, minstrel singing turd Paul Robeson), but it is very hard. I still like his voice and even listen to some of his records. And I do understand that he is merely the faint shadow of the evil that was Charles Seeger. But there is something about his combination of smugness, Stalin sympathies, and half-assed denial of his own Party ties, that just makes me just about willing to consign him to the hard labor camp, even at his age.

"Well, this is a work song we sing as we chip rock...I learned it from Leadbelly, and, well, I thought I'd just go teach it to you!"

Anyway, this concludes this episode of Your Lunchtime Anti-Communist Rant. Join us tomorrow as we take on (that commie, ham-actor, minstrel singing turd...no, not him again, this time)...

Nick Nolte? Sean Penn? Juan Carlos? Stay tuned!

Actually a recipe (requested, so I better get it up here), will come shortly. Today, tomorrow, sometime.