f/k/a . . .

I don’t know whether there was a connection between tomorrow’s Cinco de Mayo

celebrations, and President Bush’s decision to address a Latino Coalition today about

Social Security.

 

Pinatas are often featured in Cinco de Mayo festivities.  Although they can come in  

all shapes and sizes,  I bet the White House will be going with the traditional Mexican

 favorite pictured above.   

 

I’m writing a day early about Cinco de Mayo, to remind you to prepare for the

celebration – with food, music and pinatas.  As part of their VIVA! Cinco de Mayo

celebration, San Marcos, Texas has a State Menudo Cook-Off.  Click here to learn

about the wonderful Mexican Menudo soup and find recipes.  This should whet your

appetite:

  “Every culture has great restorative stew of humble

origin and ingredients.Menudo is a wonderfully aromatic soup made

of tripe, hominy and chili, and is stewed for hours with garlic and

other spices. the broth is rich, red, papery, and glistens with fat. It

stimulates the senses, arms the insides, and clears the head.

 

“Menudo is served in big open bowls brought to the table steaming and

fiery.  It is usually eaten in the wee hours after a night out on the town

and widely proclaimed to be an antidote for hangovers.”

Maybe George or Steve in California could suggest a hearty wine to go with

Menudo.

 

 

Heaven’s River

     of stars

   in my soup

 David G. Lanoue 

   from his novel Haiku Guy

 

 

 

I lean

into the soup’s steam…

snow flurries

Gary Hotham 

from  breathmarks

 

 

 

 

pea soup fog

the sound of a map

unfolding beside me

Ed Markwoski

   from Haiku Sun 

 

 

his dusty cookbooks:

soup can

in the sink

     

             dagonsan

  

 

plum blossom scent–
slurping it in
with the vegetable soup

          ISSA 

             translated by David.G. Lanoue

   Even if you won’t be accepting any invitations to whack a pinata

with a stick, I hope you’ll take up George Fool-in-the-Forest Wallace’s

request to join The Stick – an exploration and confession about your

literary tastes.  Here are questions for The Stick:

1. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do

you want to be?

2. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

3. The last book you bought was…?

4. The last book you read was…?

6. Five books you would take to a desert island…

7. Who are you passing this stick on to and why?

 

  That whipper-snapper Sarni at Infernality seems to be suggesting that your

Editor is a “humbug”.    I will gladly cop a plea to curmudgeon.

 

  Blessed Are the Poor in Spirits:  Prof. B is begging for bucks again. 

I never noticed before how much “paypal” looks like “papal.” Just coincidence?  Of

course, if you ask “y?” he’ll say God works in mysterious ways.

 

 

Free that Poll:  On April 6th, we discussed the Poll at Priests for Life,

which asked “Should the United States Congress exercise veto power

over  Supreme Court decisions?“   Previous polls a PoL looked more

like leading questions for Catechism students on current events.  Today,

I tried to find out the results for the Veto poll, since they’ve moved on to

a new question on the home page, but the results are not (yet?) posted on

the PoL results page.  Maybe thinking participants failed to skew the results

the way Fr. Frank Pavone had expected.  I’ll check there again soon.