AP calls it for Christine O’Donnell in the DE Republican Senate primary …

You may or may not recall that I have a love of architecture. You do not know that, after a horrible job experience in DC and before my move to Manhattan, I had a Lost Period and spent 3 months driving to various Frank Lloyd Wright sites. In April of 2000, I made a pilgrimage to Racine, WI to see the Johnson Wax building, perhaps his most impressive commercial building.

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Unbelievable – skip to 1:30 and watch this thing (sort of) go around corners.  It’s amazing that more of us aren’t dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qcLzHqoMq8

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I will post the next step in the nachos recipe now, in case anyone is cooking along. You need to make the guacamole now, or soon, so it can sit in the refrigerator and come together. As I progress, I will add photos and commentary to this post.

For reasons explained earlier, tonight it’s nachos. The recipe for the refritos, one of the toppings, is here.  Now, we move on to the quacamole:

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I was going to dive back into Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but the girlfriend wants nachos.  If you wish, go grab the ingredients and cook along with me.  I am cooking from scratch and making it up as I go along.

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Bach had a lot of mouths to feed – twenty children or so?  He wrote this concerto (probably by the light of burning Vivaldi manuscripts – he emulated a lot of earlier composers) as a violin concerto first, if memory serves, then transposed it down a key to D major and sold it off as a keyboard concerto.  This is the first movement, could not find a video of Gould doing the third movement, my favorite.

Used to be able to get thru the first Goldberg Variation … not so much anymore. Gould’s 1981 taping of the Goldberg Variations is still the most staggeringly impressive thing I’ve ever seen done on a keyboard. And he was using a beat-up Yamaha concert grand (instead of his usual Steinway).