It's all Richard Wagner's fault

[robinmckinley]

 
It’s much later than it should be.  And it’s all Richard Wagner’s fault.  Tonight’s Live from the Met was Tristan and Isolde.  I find Wagner a little trance-inducing:  all those big voices going at one another hammer and tongs.*  And going and going and going, hammering and tonging.  And you know that, of course, what is the single thing everyone

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[jgtanthony]

***Hmm. If I left out the honey, I wonder if the hellhounds-?***
What have you got to lose? Give it a go and see if they like it!

Light candle at 1PM my time tomorrow for you. Noted.

[danceswithpahis]

"I’ve been (again) trying to scan in photos, for your delectation, dear reader(s),"

-- Thank you! We appreciate it!

"Collect dustpan full of dog hair and dog food crumbs again. The stuff breeds, like wire coat hangers and nanoparticles."

-- And dirty dishes. Don't forget the dirty dishes....

[anef]

Just to say, I think Sarah Caudwell is brilliant too (though I wasn't the one who recommended her). I managed to read the whole of the first book on the asusmption that Hilary Tamar was female - it took another friend to point out that you can't actually tell. I am so cross that the author upped and died! Why did she do that to us? In my weaker moments I think of writing a Hilary Tamar novel just so that I can read another one.

[blackbear88]

People shouldn’t want milk in their tea, and then these things wouldn’t happen.

WHAT?!?!! Now that's just crazy-talk.

I never drank tea, hate-hate-hated its horrible acridness for many years and couldn't fathom why otherwise normal-seeming people liked it. Then, on a visit to my English friends (the West Sussex ones,) they offered me tea with milk while I was helping shell peas in the back garden, and I took it to be polite. Imagine my shock to discover that it is a completely different beverage (and to my mind, a far better one) than tea without milk. The transformation is astonishing. Since then I've kept my kitchen well stocked with a variety of black teas--no Earl Grey, though, ugh--and drink it often. But always with milk. :)

[reading_angel]

Same here. I didn't like hot tea for years and years, until I went to Russia one summer and they had tea with milk every morning at the hotel I was staying at and one morning I decided to try it(there wasn't much else and sometimes the juice was weird - they combine all kinds of fruit juices)and while I was there I bought a few boxes and I'm still drinking Russian tea. I love it. Though, there is no sugar over here quite like the sugar there...

[robinmckinley]

ALL VERY WELL FOR YOU PEOPLE WHO CAN DRINK MILK. I DRANK TEA WITH MILK IN IT FOR **DECADES.**

[blackbear88]

Oh, nice icon! :) I like Russian tea, too--and the one tea I don't put milk in is Lapsang Soochong, which has a slightly Russian overtone as well as its dominant woodsmoke flavor.

[anonymous]

I had Tristan on this afternoon too. I had been looking forward to Ben Heppner but the Met has apparently been struck by the plague; at any rate the emergency sub made a very nice debut and did a good job. And "hammer and tongs" does work for Wagner as well as Verdi--plenty of them in the Ring, if not in Tristan

[robinmckinley]

These guys itch a bit, but not a lot. But they got taken off beef *pronto* because it turns them into scratching machines.

Kind of relieved to hear there are other toast-addicted dogs out there. As well as soppy owners who should know better than let their dogs bully them. :) But you think to yourself, so MUCH of their lives is WHOLLY my way . . .