My father in-law loved big hams for holiday dinner. I don't get it. Great leftover sandwiches, but that's what ham was meant for so why add the extra main course stage?
I'm going without carbs, or at least without very many. I've already screwed up, but it was work related and would have been awkward if I didn't try a bite. Can you be damned for a single bite of an empanada? Does it lead to dancing?
And not only do I not remember that song, I don't think I've ever heard it before.
Happy Lent.
Applicability is fair, but I have a priest friend who, whether he agrees with you or not, would take that disagreement - any Tolkien quibble - as an excuse to expound at length. That man loves those books.
We talked in the book club about Tom as Nature. I'm open to that, but if he is, is he only part of nature? He seems to have boundaries. I don't know if they're self-imposed boundaries, but we all got the sense that he escorted the Hobbits through his realm.
I've got no answers, but the questions are fun.
[Smiling nod towards the Austen comment]
I don't know if you saw video of Fonda canvasing in Michigan for Harris. No way she's cold knocking on houses. They had to vet for vets or that pr clip could have been a pr disaster.
I didn't think about that. Some of the more absurd matchups aren't on betting boards because there's no predicting, but you're right. I wonder about other financial ties to the game. People put bids in to get concessions. That's competitive. How many hot dogs not sold does it take to move you into the red?
I think LSU's problem was tackling. There were several times when they'd get the hit in but the runner would bounce off. The Tigers were fast as all get out to the ball and very aggressive, but they didn't seem to know how to handle themselves when they got to the man. There was a second half play that stands out because it serendipitously happened as I was telling my wife, who wasn't watching and didn't really care, that LSU couldn't wrap up. They hit the USC player behind the line as he was running to the right, he bounced back to the left, got hit again for what looked like it would be a bigger loss, and then the would-be tackler slipped off. Guy got a three or so yard gain on what should have been a two yard loss and then a four yard loss. That was an egregious example, but there was a trend. As a guy that roots for LSU because of extended family, it's frustrating, but I'm hoping fixable.
A lesson might be, if you have an inkling you're going to die, don't write it down. At least not well. I'll listen to that Zevon album tonight. I don't think I have before.
You're right. I should have fessed up when I saw this yesterday but I spent a day resisting saying "Whoops" by way of acknowledgement. I failed. It was honk. Thanks, and Whoops.
I'm trying to be nice here. If you don't want it to be a spoof, I don't care. Feel free to say it isn't. I'll go with Alexander Coleman who edited Borges collections and wrote numerous articles on the man when he wrote "Borges described to Bioy Casares the outline of one of his finest literary spoofs, 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote.'" Let me and the man who made a living writing about Borges alone in our ignorance. Your wisdom is wasted on us. It was so kind of you to provide the corrective though.
If you don't think the story is a spoof, that's fine. You could Google Jane Austen and critical theory and see for yourself. I just did and found a collection of essays called Jane Austen and Critical Theory. Racial oppression is mentioned in the blurb, as it is in most reviews from her own time.
Critical theory readings of Jane Austin attempt to examine racial oppression. That’s a pretty good example viewing older works through a modern lens, projecting our way of looking at the world on a work that was conceived without such a considerations, at least without such considerations seen as we see them. Cervantes wrote in the sixteenth century. Menard is written as having rewritten Don Quixote word for word. Now the exact same words, written four hundred years later bear “the influence of Nietzsche.” If it’s not apparent, he’s spoofing the idea that a writer’s words are so malleable as to reflect later trendiness.
The timing was inconvenient because he made fun of them in the late 1930s, just when critical theory was establishing itself, finding homes in universities, etc. Critical theory looks for power structures in literature. In "Pierre Menard" he presents Quixote rewritten word for word by a modern author and then lauds it as enriched. "When Cervantes wrote X, it was simply as a sixteenth century... but when Menard writes X, note the rebellion against etc." and so on. It's a funny story.
It's great with strawberries. A friend tends bar around town and is know for her original cocktails. Her Tequila Mockingbird: tequila, honey, muddled strawberries, black pepper, and soda water.
I have a Roman cookbook that's got a black pepper and cantaloupe salad with feta, red onion, herbs, and red wine vinaigrette.
It's not always, but sometimes a black pepper craving gets me.
Nothing is immutable, but of course. Neighboring list prices would be only one, and behind neighboring sales price, of the many, including restrictions, bits of information that that bank's appraisers used to come to the decision that the property was adequate collateral.
The restrictions were likely way down on the list. With undeveloped comparable properties in the area it would be odd for someone who wanted anything but a golf resort to buy an existing golf resort to tear down and incur all those extra costs. If anything, the restrictions merely state that this thing you are buying must remain this thing that you are buying. That wasn't a secret to the buyers, appraisers, other involved parties, or even hidden from commenters on this thread. Finding comps for a 500 member turnkey golf course near a tourist destination and business hub with an international airport nearby isn't something I've attempted to do, but if you can find one for $18 million, start putting together investors.
This isn't working so hard. Offering a property for more than it's worth, for sale or as collateral (which is pretty much the same thing in most cases) is not fraud. The buyer did due diligence. Done.
If he committed other wrongs, why taint them by bundling prosecution with something that is obviously not wrong and part of almost every transaction involving real estate where the seller didn't get list or the tax evaluation differs from sale or list?
This is terrifying. $18 million is the price set by a judge on a property bought for a reported deal forty years ago for $20 million? The property is now famous. Real estate professionals in Florida put the price between $200 and $750 million. An undeveloped plot near to the 500 member golf resort that's only worth $18 million is listed for $150 million. The banks and their appraisers continued on with uncoerced business. Everyone involved but the judge and local tax assessors (as a former real estate agent I can tell you that tax assessment and worth are almost never in agreement) agree that this property is worth more than - as I saw someone put it online - 36 Hunter Biden paintings.
Go ahead and get Trump if you have the goods, but the Mara Lago estimate, an embarrassing strain on credibility, ain't it.
On “Easter with Family and Getting the Lamb Right”
My father in-law loved big hams for holiday dinner. I don't get it. Great leftover sandwiches, but that's what ham was meant for so why add the extra main course stage?
"
That's the stuff. At least that's the stuff we buy thinking it's the stuff.
On “Lent!”
I'm going without carbs, or at least without very many. I've already screwed up, but it was work related and would have been awkward if I didn't try a bite. Can you be damned for a single bite of an empanada? Does it lead to dancing?
And not only do I not remember that song, I don't think I've ever heard it before.
Happy Lent.
On “POETS Day! Why Is Tom Bombadil?”
Applicability is fair, but I have a priest friend who, whether he agrees with you or not, would take that disagreement - any Tolkien quibble - as an excuse to expound at length. That man loves those books.
We talked in the book club about Tom as Nature. I'm open to that, but if he is, is he only part of nature? He seems to have boundaries. I don't know if they're self-imposed boundaries, but we all got the sense that he escorted the Hobbits through his realm.
I've got no answers, but the questions are fun.
On “POETS Day! At Home with Edna St Vincent Millay”
[Smiling nod towards the Austen comment]
I don't know if you saw video of Fonda canvasing in Michigan for Harris. No way she's cold knocking on houses. They had to vet for vets or that pr clip could have been a pr disaster.
On “College Football, and I Didn’t Know You Could Do That With The Game Clock”
I didn't think about that. Some of the more absurd matchups aren't on betting boards because there's no predicting, but you're right. I wonder about other financial ties to the game. People put bids in to get concessions. That's competitive. How many hot dogs not sold does it take to move you into the red?
"
I think LSU's problem was tackling. There were several times when they'd get the hit in but the runner would bounce off. The Tigers were fast as all get out to the ball and very aggressive, but they didn't seem to know how to handle themselves when they got to the man. There was a second half play that stands out because it serendipitously happened as I was telling my wife, who wasn't watching and didn't really care, that LSU couldn't wrap up. They hit the USC player behind the line as he was running to the right, he bounced back to the left, got hit again for what looked like it would be a bigger loss, and then the would-be tackler slipped off. Guy got a three or so yard gain on what should have been a two yard loss and then a four yard loss. That was an egregious example, but there was a trend. As a guy that roots for LSU because of extended family, it's frustrating, but I'm hoping fixable.
On “POETS Day! Anthony Hecht”
I’ve got a collection of his essays on order, but I haven’t looked into his letters. That’s a good thought. Thanks for it.
On “POETS Day! Alan Seeger”
A lesson might be, if you have an inkling you're going to die, don't write it down. At least not well. I'll listen to that Zevon album tonight. I don't think I have before.
On “POETS Day! GK Chesterton Was a Merry Old Soul”
You're right. I should have fessed up when I saw this yesterday but I spent a day resisting saying "Whoops" by way of acknowledgement. I failed. It was honk. Thanks, and Whoops.
On “POETS Day! Jorge Luis Borges as Translated by Richard Wilbur”
I'm trying to be nice here. If you don't want it to be a spoof, I don't care. Feel free to say it isn't. I'll go with Alexander Coleman who edited Borges collections and wrote numerous articles on the man when he wrote "Borges described to Bioy Casares the outline of one of his finest literary spoofs, 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote.'" Let me and the man who made a living writing about Borges alone in our ignorance. Your wisdom is wasted on us. It was so kind of you to provide the corrective though.
"
Thanks for the advice.
"
If you don't think the story is a spoof, that's fine. You could Google Jane Austen and critical theory and see for yourself. I just did and found a collection of essays called Jane Austen and Critical Theory. Racial oppression is mentioned in the blurb, as it is in most reviews from her own time.
"
Critical theory readings of Jane Austin attempt to examine racial oppression. That’s a pretty good example viewing older works through a modern lens, projecting our way of looking at the world on a work that was conceived without such a considerations, at least without such considerations seen as we see them. Cervantes wrote in the sixteenth century. Menard is written as having rewritten Don Quixote word for word. Now the exact same words, written four hundred years later bear “the influence of Nietzsche.” If it’s not apparent, he’s spoofing the idea that a writer’s words are so malleable as to reflect later trendiness.
"
The timing was inconvenient because he made fun of them in the late 1930s, just when critical theory was establishing itself, finding homes in universities, etc. Critical theory looks for power structures in literature. In "Pierre Menard" he presents Quixote rewritten word for word by a modern author and then lauds it as enriched. "When Cervantes wrote X, it was simply as a sixteenth century... but when Menard writes X, note the rebellion against etc." and so on. It's a funny story.
On “POETS Day! Ovid’s The Amores”
What's funny is that I used the phrase "winding up" a few paragraphs earlier, but I'm defiantly dated in the most tubular way.
On “POETS Day! The Poetry of Ninth Grade English, Revisited”
Yeah, but you could say that about every post.
On “Refire A Classic: Deconstructed Salisbury Steak”
It's great with strawberries. A friend tends bar around town and is know for her original cocktails. Her Tequila Mockingbird: tequila, honey, muddled strawberries, black pepper, and soda water.
I have a Roman cookbook that's got a black pepper and cantaloupe salad with feta, red onion, herbs, and red wine vinaigrette.
It's not always, but sometimes a black pepper craving gets me.
On “POETS Day! Listening to Seamus Heaney”
That's a shame. It's pretty. I assume she would have appreciated the attempt.
On “POETS Day! Henry Vaughan and The Yellow King”
So, the book is a fizzle? I feel both robbed for having bought and vindicated for not having read it.
On “Another Legal Loss for Donald Trump (Stay Tuned for More)”
Nothing is immutable, but of course. Neighboring list prices would be only one, and behind neighboring sales price, of the many, including restrictions, bits of information that that bank's appraisers used to come to the decision that the property was adequate collateral.
The restrictions were likely way down on the list. With undeveloped comparable properties in the area it would be odd for someone who wanted anything but a golf resort to buy an existing golf resort to tear down and incur all those extra costs. If anything, the restrictions merely state that this thing you are buying must remain this thing that you are buying. That wasn't a secret to the buyers, appraisers, other involved parties, or even hidden from commenters on this thread. Finding comps for a 500 member turnkey golf course near a tourist destination and business hub with an international airport nearby isn't something I've attempted to do, but if you can find one for $18 million, start putting together investors.
"
This isn't working so hard. Offering a property for more than it's worth, for sale or as collateral (which is pretty much the same thing in most cases) is not fraud. The buyer did due diligence. Done.
If he committed other wrongs, why taint them by bundling prosecution with something that is obviously not wrong and part of almost every transaction involving real estate where the seller didn't get list or the tax evaluation differs from sale or list?
"
The banks determined on their own what the value was and moved forward. They didn't rely on Trumps numbers, so who was defrauded?
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Only the experts do disagree on the numbers. The banks have appraisers that were consulted. Did they commit fraud too?
"
This is terrifying. $18 million is the price set by a judge on a property bought for a reported deal forty years ago for $20 million? The property is now famous. Real estate professionals in Florida put the price between $200 and $750 million. An undeveloped plot near to the 500 member golf resort that's only worth $18 million is listed for $150 million. The banks and their appraisers continued on with uncoerced business. Everyone involved but the judge and local tax assessors (as a former real estate agent I can tell you that tax assessment and worth are almost never in agreement) agree that this property is worth more than - as I saw someone put it online - 36 Hunter Biden paintings.
Go ahead and get Trump if you have the goods, but the Mara Lago estimate, an embarrassing strain on credibility, ain't it.