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[urbpan]

This weekend: Do all the stuff I said I was going to do last weekend, plus prepare for next week's mushroom class. (Translation: clean the kitchen table where the bills are getting mixed in with the junk mail and magazines.)

I have Al Franken's book "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: a Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" waiting for me at the library. It seemed like the right time to read it. Also for some reason, The Magic Flute. (Some reason=NPR told me it was about freemasons, and it's Mozart so it can't be excruciating even though it's an opera, right?)

I would like to write more here. Subjects in my mind waiting for a post: Corvids (I promise), Feral Cats (that post will probably winnow my friends list down to people that don't use LJ any more), Nutella (overrated, imo, but I'm not a chocolate lover--I'll let you know what the rats think), the search for a new place to live (have I posted about that before?), also relate: god DAMN it's been cold lately.

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[ruthling.livejournal.com]

I bought some nutella on impulse the other day and I haven't opened it yet, but I remember liking it a lot.

Why would your feral cat discussion drive people away?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Why would your feral cat discussion drive people away?

It's happened before.

[dragonwrites.livejournal.com]

i forgot all about that feral cat brouhaha! i will be interested in reading more. i didn't have a feral cat problem when you made that last post, but the old lady next door has started feeding kitties, and now they are *everywhere*.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

The Magic Flute changes your brain unless it's already good so be prepared! It's like an oil change for the brain. Whether you like it or not!

I'm glad Al Franken is around! I miss the old days of SNL. Political satire was SO GOOD.

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

Mozart was a Mason and he hid some of the Masonic symbols in his compositions. They talked about it on NPR recently. That same piece made it sound like the Masons were essentially Unitarians with a secret club.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

That's the piece that inspired me to get it.

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

The Magic Flute is my favoritest opera ever. It's the first one I ever got to know. Do you have a DVD of it? Whose recording is it? Because the one bad thing I would say is if it's Julie Taymor's production it'll come off as dumb and overwhelm the music :(

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I got a DVD from the library: Produced in 1999 with Director Robert Herzl and the Junge Bundeslander Philharmonic.

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

Please post what you think of it, I wouldn't mind seeing a good production on video.

[elizaeffect.livejournal.com]

Re: feral cats - I dunno, I'm a feral-kitten-trapping feline-fostering cat lover and I fully recognize that ferals are an environmental disaster wherever they show up (which is everywhere). I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject from both the pest-management and nature-guru perspectives.

[urimancy.livejournal.com]

Love Mozart & The Magic Flute. But I like opera.

Also think Nutella is overrated (very, actually), but I'm a chocolate freak -- it's the hazelnut part I'm not all that into. I don't hate them, but I prefer my chocolate without.

It's cold there?? It just turned pleasant here, about a week and a half ago!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's like 50 degrees when we walk the dogs.

[propaddict.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love the Magic Flute. I once attended a "Mozart Appreciation" Class wherein we watched a recording of it on a big screen, with a killer sound system. Each act corresponded to a type of food and had a prescribed alcoholic beverage. I remember starting with a wonderful single malt and ending with a nice tawny port. Divine.

[ssorca19.livejournal.com]

re: rats and nutella: mine have always rather liked it.

I'd certainly prefer it with less hazelnut.

[weofodthignen]

I'm not into opera. Music drama (Wagner) is my bag :-D I think The Magic Flute makes a little more sense if you know the silliness is supposed to be Masonic symbolism, but I won't say more because I don't know your stance on Freemasonry '-)

Yeah, feral cats are a divisive topic. But I thought you and your f-list covered it pretty well last time . . . ?

We'd still love to have you guys over here in the Bay Area. And yes, I think you'd love Santa Cruz. But it's way expensive. And as you know Cali is hell-bent on bankruptcy. And you may not be aware how hardcore the mountain highway is between Santa Cruz and San Jose, which is where the reasonably cheap foreclosed houses are. (Don't even think Scotts Valley - a colony of the super-rich. If you have a 4WD vehicle and can find a friend to hire you, there is vineyard/farming work, but I'm talking friend. Otherwise you can't get into the hills unless you win the lottery.)

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[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Silly me, I thought Wagner was opera. Anyway, it turns out that The Magic Flute didn't make me a fan. A large problem was that there were no subtitles and I don't speak German (although I did pick out the occasional "schnell" and so on).

The only thing I have to add on feral cats is that trap-neuter-release doesn't solve anything, and I know a couple people on my friends list practice this, and are good people with good intentions.

Yeah, Santa Cruz county real estate seems to be affordable for us so long as we stick to the mountains (Boulder Creek and Felton come up a lot) or Watsonville. I think we need to drive down there ourselves to see if the cost/benefit makes sense. I'd also like to see how Cali resolves the economic crisis (Massachusetts seems to be poised to cut all state run social programs, putting the crazies on the street like Reagan did in the 80s).