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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Title: “Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan — and The Path to Victory”

Author: Anthony Shaffer

Rank: 65

Blurb: “Important Message for Customers: On Friday, August 13, 2010, just as St. Martin’s Press was readying its initial shipment of Operation Dark Heart, the Department of Defense expressed concern that its publication could cause damage to U.S. national security. The publication of the initial edition was canceled. However, after consulting with the author, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, St. Martin’s Press agreed to incorporate some of the government’s changes, which includes redacting classified text, into a revised edition, which is releasing on September 24.”

Review: “I don’t own this book — but obviously neither do most, if any, of the other reviewers.”

Customers Also Bought: “Zero History”, by William Gibson.

Footnote: Is it #65 because the Feds bought out the first printing?

Operation Dark Heart [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Really, Jon Stewart’s writers could not have come up with something this deliciously obnoxious.

Shelley Oh was giving a speech today in western Pennsyltucky with Laura Bush at her side at a memorial service for 9/11’s Flight 93, and Faux News randomly cuts in the middle of the First Lady’s moving remarks for no other reason than apparently there was no Koran burning to air, so that some fat white man could point out that nine years ago her husband was a “nobody.”

UPDATE: If you don’t normally watch linked videos, I’m saying this in honor of PromNight: “For realz, I’m not making this shit up, click the linque.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuL5RpT3Jfo

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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We’re not sure when Utopia turned into Dystopia, but at the time of the 1964 World’s Fair, everyone was still looking forward to a Jetsons future.

Everyone including Arthur C. Clarke, who narrates this BBC Horizon programme (to be linguistically contextual) from that year. It reminds us of visiting Disneyland’s EPCOT exhibit as a kid, when Tomorrowland was still a realm of miracle and wonder, and not just the corner to dump Space Mountain and arcades. (Really: Whatever happened to the rotating theater? We loved the rotating theater!)

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