This week I have been

Reading

Campaign Ruby, by Jessica Rudd, for our online book club Better Well Read Than Dead. She certainly loves name-dropping her labels.

Watching

The Plan, which reminded me that I haven't dropped enough hints to C recently about how much I want the BSG box set on Blu-Ray.

Listening to

The Pogues

Discovering

...to my great disappointment, that Jared Leto is in 30 Seconds To Mars. Why, Jared, why?

Eating

  • Mee pok at Coconut House
  • Matt Stone's fresh, Spring-y quinoa salad from this month's Australian Gourmet Traveller. (I decided that dinner was more than a "light meal", though, so added some fried haloumi for a meat-free Monday.)
  • Suckling pig rolls at Collins Quarter, which are on for another three or four weeks on Wednesdays (and at $5 a pop are a bargain). They will be followed by Spring lamb!
  • Baguette with pork rillettes from Le Traiteur - the crunchy, acid pickles go so perfectly with the rillettes
  • Eggplant with minced pork from KL Bunga Raya
  • Ipoh Hor Fun (again!) at Gurney Drive. Perfect on a wet and steamy September Saturday.  C had the Hainanese Chicken Rice and the rice was beautifully flavoured.
  • Some sticky ribs and fish-flavour pork from Fucshia Dunlop's Sichuan Cooking
  • Compost cookie batter, with Lanka mix, wasabi peas - thanks to Penny for that idea! - Twisties, Mars Bar, Clinkers and Oreos. Oh, and some Special K.  That'll teach me to try to be super-organised for morning tea. (Some did make it to the oven, I promise)

Perhaps there’s not even a word for…

…how excited I felt when I found this:

Transcript of Palin, Biden debate

I particularly like this line:

Palin: “Now, what I’ve done as a governor and as a mayor is (inaudible)…” Or, perhaps, a void is indescribable.

And what does this mean? “…we need to be appreciative of John McCain’s call for reform with Fannie Mae, with Freddie Mac, with the mortgage-lenders, too, who were starting to really kind of rear that head of abuse.” (R)ear that head of abuse? Is that what happens when Putin “rears” up and crosses into Alaskan airspace?

I think this might be what’s called a Freudian slip: “It’s a toxic mess, really, on Main Street that’s affecting Wall Street.”

During the debate, I was confused when I heard this line: “John McCain is right there with an “all of the above” approach to deal with climate change impacts.” Having read through the transcript, and seen that the “all of the above approach” is mentioned three times by Palin, I am not much clearer. I’m guessing, though, that she likes multiple choice tests.

There’s more, but to finish: “Oh, yeah, it’s so obvious I’m a Washington outsider.” Please, American voters, keep it that way.

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