Lucky Adrastus - April 17th, 2006
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01:47 am
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Cheesy
More cheeses I've recently bought from the Cheese Store:
Old Amsterdam: A reddish aged Gouda. Mixes Gouda's creamy taste with a spicy tinge. Really great, and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) queersolitude loves it.
Montgomery Farmhouse Cheddar: A original style British Cheddar. Hard and white. So honest you can taste the grass. More expensive than it was worth, unfortunately. (Though fancy cheese in general is suprisingly cheap).
Chaubier: A semi-soft white cheese from France. Didn't make much of an impression.
Young Gorgonzola: Famous italian creamy blue cheese that I'd never had. Quite strong for my taste, but nice with some Chutney to fruit it up. :) Really spreadable. This is the soft stinky cheese in the Comic-Book Bone. (Geeks represent!)
Pont L'Eveque: Brie-like cheese with a funky, garlicky taste. Man, I loved this. My favorite cheese so far. It's Brie without the blandness!
Livarot: Basically a softer version of Pont L'Eveque. Also excellent. They were out of Pont L'Eveque...
Other cheese I tried but didn't buy:
Vella Dry Jack -- Eh, too hard for casual eating, and if you're going to grate something, why not use Parmegiano-Reggiano or Pecorino Romano?
Talleggio -- Italian Brie-like cheese. Supposed to be really good, but tasted to me like dirty sweat socks. Aftertaste was interesting, but too strong for my capacity at the moment.
Various bries -- There are so many that I couldn't ID one from the other.
Wensledydale -- Another Monty Python cheese. Soft white cheese, I didn't taste enough to nail it down.
Roncal -- Nice salty semi-soft white cheese. Probably going to try some more.
Conclusion? The big winners so far are Red Leicester, Aged Gouda, Gorgonzola, and Pont L'Eveque/Livarot. Next? Goat and sheep cheeses, Spanish cheeses. God I'm happy.
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02:02 am
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Watch the Watchmen
Pretty weak episode of Justice League this week. Introduces the Legion of Superheroes, whose upcoming cartoon series will more of less be replacing Justice League. Actually, more like it explores the Legion, since a different group of cartoonists will be making the new series.
Episode was pretty boring, and only gave meaningful time to two Legion members, Brainiac-5 and Bouncing Boy. Yes, Bouncing Boy. They didn't make anything worthwhile out of him. By the way, his magic flying ring makes his superpower pretty redundant.
The Supergirl/Brainiac romance was about as poorly motivated as the Anakin/Amidala romance in the Star Wars Episode 2. It was really that awful, though at least not as poorly written. "The sand is rough and gets everywhere. Not like you." Blech.
I'd like to register some disbelief at the idea that Cartoon Network is replacing JLU with Legion of Superheroes (LOSH). I understand that the Legion members are teenagers, but for goodness sake they're such a bunch of losers! They're replacing Batman, Superman, Flash, Green Lantern and Wonder-Woman with Bouncing Boy, Brainiac-5, Saturn Girl, and Matter Eater Lad? You've got to be kidding me.
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02:20 am
[Link] | Oh, and I really love Sunday nights right now. The final few episodes of West Wing at 8pm, the new season of Sopranos at 9pm, and the first season of Big Love at 10pm.
Big Love is really good. I enjoy it as much as Sopranos. And I really love Sopranos...
I like what's going on with Vito Spatafore right now. The best part is that even though his current dilemma is very sympathetic, he's really an awful, unpleasant character. It's like in "The Sun Also Rises" where you're kinda of supposed to feel sorry for Robert Cohn since he's the only Jewish cnaracter and everyone is prejudiced against him, but at the core he really is a schmuck. I love narrative tension.
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09:41 pm
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Back to Current Events
I don't know why it's strange to hear about the terrorist attack in Israel and Hamas' Tuesday-morning cheerleading thereof. Hamas was and remains a terrorist group, so of course they'd be happy. But it's been a year since the last suicide bombing of this magnitude, and I guess I'd gotten used to the idea that even the Palestinian Authority offically condemned these things.
Hamas won the recent election largely (primarily?) due to the fact that the PLO is made up of corrupt, dishonest crooks. But is it really good to have an "honest" Palestinian Authority that honestly points out it's glee at the murder of Jews? How exactly does Israel respond to democratically elected terrorists? I can't pretend to know, but it's very disturbing to think about.
I'd also like to point out the obnoxiousness of Hamas' claim about how this is just "self-defense" and "natural reaction to the continued Zionist crimes carried out against our Palestinian people." For the last few years Israel has been dismantling settlements and withdrawing from the West Bank. Ariel Sharon, long one of Israel's most vocal hawks, started moving his country towards dovishness, and the recent election confirmed the Israeli electorate's desire to make peace and continue to make substantive concessions to the Palestinians. For this the terrorists need to respond with "self-defense" and "natural reaction"? Just sickening.
Current Mood:  sad
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