Happy pizza day

Pizza has become taboo for some reason among much of my circle. Maybe it has to do with the white bread crust; white bread is now considered the chief culprit of many diseases. Maybe it has to do with the amount of cheese on most pizzas, loaded with fat, calories, and cholesterol. Maybe it has to do with the toppings; pepperoni, sausage, hamburger, Canadian bacon. It's all bad for you.

Above: it's not bad for you if you make it yourself from scratch.

Yet, as today's Funky Winkerbean cartoon indicates (select November 24), the post-Thanksgiving food of choice seems to be pizza, out.

I say, cold pizza is good hangover food.

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Kudos to Theriomorph. Her short story, A More Perfect Union, which previously had been Pushcart Prize nominated, has been named "Winner of Distinguished Short Story of 2005 by Best American Short Stories."

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L. Lee Lowe continues to turn out distinguished chapters in her Mortal Ghost serialized novel. She is now up to Chapter Nineteen of forty, and has proven to me abundantly her ability to write the heck out of a scene. I have expressed my yearning to her that it have more of a focused plot-- so far it is not about an overarching external problem, and action taken to deal with it, but about the inner drama of concealed and revealed psyches. Whatever your plot preference, MG is worth reading.

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Over at Genie Maples' artist blog, more of her original work scanned and posted for our viewing pleasure.

Her complex abstract canvasses seem to me frequently to focus on a "knot," or convergence of colors and textures that draw your attention and cannot be resolved. The "knot" gives the painting a 3-D quality where as you concentrate on it, the other colors seem to close in around you.

In this one, there seems to be a door in the middle of the knot, with a warm orange glow. Would that there be such a door in every person's own personal knot.

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At Thanksgiving dinner, I attempted to defend the utility and pleasure of food blogs over food magazines.

Someone suggested there was an erotic quality to holding a food magazine in your hand, and suggested it was like the difference between seeing a Brad Pitt photo on the Web, and having Brad Pitt himself there in one's arms.

I lost the argument, but I'm still looking for a good food blog to link out there. Please let me know if you find a good one.

Comments

[M Light]

Ummm... shouldn't the parallel be holding the food is like holding Brad Pitt? Although, I've never seen a Brad Pitt movie so maybe holding a magazine is similar to holding him...

My sister and her family will be stopping by this evening on their way back from visiting friends in Greensboro. Although we enjoyed the Thanksgiving dinner and the leftovers yesterday, we all eagerly agreed when my sister suggested picking up some pizza on their way here. It does go well after Thanksgiving dinner - maybe because it's more simple and straightforward.

And, I agree, homemade pizza is best - unless you've been spending the afternoon gardening and painting instead of cooking.

[DF]

I know... it sounded a little strange when they made the analogy. I still love the feel and heft of a good book-- and newspapers as well-- but food magazines I can now take or leave. Maybe because most of the time the writing is not worth the cover price.