Monday, May 5, 2014
back in the Chips
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Actor Erik Estrada, born in east Harlem and riding a Kawasaki, put the California Highway Patrol on the map in 1977.
He returned in 1998 for a TV reunion movie, but this time riding a Beemer.
New York cops ride Harley Davidson...
...but BMW is the gentleman’s express around the world.
I found this BMW cop cruiser in Sydney, Australia.
But now the Arizona Highway Patrol is trying something different, and not for the reasons you’d expect.
They claim moving to the Victory “Stealth” is a cost cutting measure, but price reveals this may not be the real reason.
BMW’s are old-school-sensible, like Van Heusen slacks or NPR radio.
The Victory is "not like any other police bike,”
says Arizona Officer Bradley Clifford.
“It almost looks like a Transformer
or something a superhero might ride!”
Indeed.
They are switching to look more awesome.
“All of that flat black really garners a lot of attention.” Clifford enthused.
Could this be Erik’s next ride?
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Sunday, May 4, 2014
Back to Blake
Just as Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain before her, Amy Winehouse died at the age of 27 and joined the infamous “27 Club” on July 23, 2011.
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Born to Jewish parents, Amy was playing guitar and singing by the age of 13 and went on to such personal triumphs as TIME Magazines “Best Song” of 2007, Rehab, and charting the UK’s “best selling album of the 21st Century”, Back to Black.
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Her stormy and drug addled relationship with husband Blake Fielder-Civil landed him on life support and she slipped away with alcohol poisoning five times the legal British drunk driving limit in her bloodstream.
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But they were divorced by the time she died and he was excluded from her substantial will, estimated at the time of her death at almost $17 million dollars. Her estate went to her divorced parents, instead.
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A close friend said:
In fact his name never appeared once in her will, and so Fielder-Civil never visited her grave until last week in a publicity stunt that raised eyebrows and angry words from her Mother Janis Winehouse, in the Jewish Daily Forward.
He posed for squatting publicity pictures and gave a film interview in a Jewish Cemetery, not bothering to cover his head with a black hat at her grave, as is respectful Jewish custom.
Her Mother Janis said:
Her Father Mitch Winehouse only gave a Tweet.
Whatever Fielder-Civil’s aim, while this may put him back in the news he still has no claim on Amy Winehouse’s estate.
“Back to Black” was certified double platinum in 2008 and has gone on to sell more than 25 million copies.
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That could have kept Blake in respectful hats
for quite some time.
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Saturday, May 3, 2014
from ham to eternity
Well it wasn’t quite eternity,
but our Easter ham took awhile to whittle down to the bone.
We’ve eaten ham and hardboiled Easter eggs for weeks.
White beans are a neighborhood staple and more healthy than I realized.
Look at that: ZERO fat, ZERO saturated fat, ZERO trans fat, ZERO cholesterol and almost ONE FOURTH dietary fiber. And 10% rich in iron.
Let’s make ham and white bean soup!
I just made this up as I went along.
We had fennel and big onions, lotsa carrots and celery and tomatoes.
Crisp some bacon in a thick bottomed pot,
and chop up a nice, fresh mirepoix with fennel.
Soften the vegetables in the rendered fat over a low heat.
Keep stirring.
Add parsley.
Ground pepper.
Breathe deep.
Mmm.
Now start a small stock pot with cold water to cover the carrot peels, onion bits, parsley stems and fennel trimmings. Add a bayleaf and a few peppercorns and simmer covered for an hour.
We’ll strain this and add some of this stock later.
After the veggies softened I added two liters of rich chicken stock made earlier for the freezer, but the store-bought stuff works fine.
Not everyone has a frozen ham hock on hand either, but I did, so I threw that in there, too.
The ham bone, smoked hock and bacon will salt it just fine.
Cover it and bubble gently for two hours.
While it was simmering I cut some fresh corn.
Rinsed and stemmed some spinach.
Cut up some tomatoes.
And washed a can of white GOYA beans.
Then I strained off the soup and let the broth stand for awhile.
This step is a pain in the you-know-what.
But it gives you time to pick all the softened ham off the bone while the fat in the broth rises to the top.
I skimmed the fat off and then put the soup back together, this time adding some of the veggie stock we made earlier.
Taste and adjust seasonings.
We’re almost done.
Bring that back up to a simmer, return the ham, dump in the next round of fresh ingredients, wilt the spinach and it’s soup!
You ‘can’ too!
Friday, May 2, 2014
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