Update: I’m thinking perhaps the title is too subtle, so here’s the story I was thinking about:
Man using GPS drives in front of train, for indeed, this particular man has driven the wrong way, and a train awaits him…
Archive for January, 2008
Well, never say that Clumber ignores his critics. I was stung to the quick with a remark on my last Holiday PSA that it was too rich and too caloric. Okay, here’s the new and improved recipe!
Truth be told, this was the true original recipe, gleaned from the pages of a 1950’s magazine called “Ford Times”, back when Ford had money to throw around and treat its customers like they were special… It’s been handed down from dog mouth to dog mouth in our family, through the litters, and is presented to you, our tasteful readers. The other was grabbed from some web site, and, while similar, pales by comparison with this one. Note, this one also makes 2 cakes, so you can take one to a friend, and keep one for your greedy little self. So how come I didn’t post this one originally? It once was lost, but now is found.
Virginia Whiskey Cake
3 eggs
1 1/6 c. white sugar
1/2 lb butter
1 1/8 c brown sugar
3 c. flour
1/2 tsp mace
1/2 pint 100-proof Virginia Bourbon whiskey
1/2 lb broken pecan meats
Mix eggs and white sugar together, beat well. Cream butter with brown sugar. Combine egg mixture with butter mixture and mix well. Sift in flour and mace alternately with bourbon. Add nuts. Pour mixture into 2 or 3 well buttered deep 7-inch cake pans, preferably tube centered. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. The cakes should have a moist crumbly texture similar to a macaroon. Wrap in aluminum foil and store in cold place (do not freeze). The cake cuts easier when cold, but should be served at room temperature. It will keep for 2 weeks or longer. Slices about 1/2 inch thick are best. Save the crumbs for parfaits or sundae topping.
Clumber’s notes: I used to make 2 cakes. Note, this one has none of that sauce you pour over it. And of course, this gets the Good Clumber Housekeeping Award of Excellence!
From the local Press and Sun bulletin:
Hunting workshops, venison dinner offered
The First Assembly of God will hold its fourth annual Men’s Harvest Dinner and workshops starting at 2 p.m. Jan. 26 in the A/G Family Center at 249 Washington St., Binghamton.
The workshops will run in two sessions from 3 to 4:45 p.m. and include trapping basics, skinning and mounting game, fly fishing, the art of shooting a handgun, the wild turkey and in-line muzzle loader hunting. Following a venison dinner, guest speaker Richard G. Bernier — a hunter, consultant, writer, photographer and author from Maine — will speak on “In Pursuit of Big Whitetails.” The event will close with a drawing for door prizes, including a muzzle loaded rifle, compound bow and more.
The cost is $3 per person. Call First Assembly by Jan. 19 at 723-7417 to make your reservations. Seating is limited.
Hey, for all I know, this might be the way they do Evangelism. Trap ‘em, skin ‘em, mount ‘em for display. Good thing it’s just the men’s dinner. I wonder what they do for the women?
Look! Hawesome! (Can anything good come out of Texas?)
Published 9 January 2008 Episcopal 2 Comments
Well, Iowa’s over. New Hampshire has spoken. Elizabeth has weighed in. It’s time for Clumber to bark.
Yesterday I caught a quick clip on TV of Bill Clinton complaining about the MSM, Obama, experience, and a couple of other things. Let me just lay this out here so you know where I’m coming from. I don’t like the Clintons. I don’t trust the Clintons. It’d be a whole lot easier if we completely understood who we were electing. No, I don’t mean the candidate, I mean the entire team they were going to bring in to run things. I would like each and every candidate to disclose the team they have in mind. V-P, secretary of State, secretary of the Treasury, and so forth. I find the system of electing someone to run the coutry to be somewhere around the level of pandering. The MSM seems to be incapable of covering the election with any sort of intelligence or focus. That’s not to say I trust any of the other candidates much either. So on that note, here’s my candidate for President:
For 49 years, God has nurtured and fed us in this place.
Published 7 January 2008 Episcopal 6 Comments
Well, Clumber hears from a friend about a service of closing that happened nearby last night. Bishop Skip and the district Dean, Fr. John and a good number of the people who grew up at St. Andrews Episcopal Church gathered to close the church. By the account I’ve gotten, Bishop Skip was in fine form, with words of hope and encouragement for the faithful - to understand that although we may miss a place, our true place is with God, and we should keep our eyes on that.
We have enough Episcopal churches in the area that when St. Andrew’s imploded (one report has the last rector being called Attila the Hun - oh my!), they all had short drives to find new church homes, and the churches waiting there are the better for their presence. Tears and laughter were shared and the A-Frame known as St. Andrews is gone from the map. But maybe we should turn it into a bit of shrine to show people how important the search process is, that a misguided asshat with a misplaced sense of importance can steer a ship aground, taking the passengers along with him. The group formerly known as St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church now meets in a Baptist church nearby and all have taken on African passports. Vestal, when I was a pup, was known for its large percentage of IBM’ers, its excellent school system, and its forward thinkers. People who were baptized there, who married there, and who buried loved ones there were saddened and perhaps even maddened to have it come to this.
It should also serve as a reminder that good leadership is needed on vestries, even in the face of a tyrannical priest who is trying to stack the deck on what happens. Good people need to step forward and stand up and say no to asshattery.
Well done, Biship Skip and Fr. John for doing what was a difficult task and doing it well. A wag of the tail also goes out to the original priest (and served for about 30 years), Fr. Sites, who attended and spoke briefly, I am told.
Clumber must rest now, this has all been too sad.
As some of you readers have probably guessed by now, I am just in complete awe over all the good science that the last 20 years has brought forth, from genomics to anthropology to astronomy to neurobiology to evo-devo.
Well this story is just way too cool! A new planet being formed and found! Wow!
Wag of the tail to Primordial Blog!
Okay, it isn’t really Radio Clumber, but I just heard about this site, and figured some of you might enjoy it as well. I remember back in the 80’s when I first ran into WFNX in Boston and thought I’d found relief from the vast oldies/country/talk/etc crap that plays on our airwaves… well this feels like it might be something really cool… except I don’t seem to be able to qualify my radio stations with “Anything in the whole freaking world except the Beatles and U2″… well gotta get back to Radio Clumber!
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