Nevermind the McCain in the basement.

Happy Halloween

Rise of the Natives, a Brooklyn Thanksgiving. Pic by Daniel.

Like Ted Turner I have a deep appreciation for the foods native to this vast North American land. Long before meatloaf, tuna casserole and the culinary depraved (northern Europeans), people relished in a tasty bounty, without additives and bad hot sauce. Unlike Ted Turner, I don’t have billions to spend promoting native sustainable foods and I can only hope to be half as crazy. One day.

In the meantime, I am content to toil in obscurity with mediocre pans using only fresh, organic ingredients. Here’s a Fall meal that both Magua and Ted could agree on.

Sage Rubbed Rooster and Roasted Butternut Squash with Buttered Apples

In loose terms, here’s what you’ll need. You’ll have to figure out what proportions work for you and who you’re cooking for.  I’m an idea guy, not a mathematician.

Breasts/Thighs (always on bone)
Butternut squash (1 lbs +)
Apple
Leeks
Garlic
EV olive oil
Butter
Sea salt
Black pepper
Bundle of sage
Bundle of thyme
Wine (I prefer a dry slightly spicey red)

1. Create a salve of roughly equal portions sage, thyme and sea salt. Rub this on the foul’s flesh by lifting the skins up careful not to detach more than one side. This creates a pocket that will better retain the flavor and juices of the delicious birdies. If you’re feeling wild, slip a crushed clove of garlic under there too, one for each. Put into baking dish (preheat 350).

2. Drink some wine.

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Campaign volunteer exposed.

The girl who cried wolfbait will now live out a life of persecution (or at least the next news cycle), hounded for being the most recent example of colossal idiocy and it appears she needs every second of it. We deserve better as sentient beings than to be inundated by rot like this.

After retracting her story about a black Democratic mugger who beat her and carved her face, she “told police that while she did not remember how the backward “B” got on her face, she may have done it herself since she was the only one in the car.” And she doesn’t understand what mirrors do.

Well, she may have prior mental problems and deserves a bit of empathy. McCain’s health insurance plan doesn’t do prior conditions, and if this doesn’t count as a prior condition, nothing does.

What about you?  That time you saw the doctor for that headache and rash might disqualify you from coverage for the therapy you’ll need if people like this decide the election.

Full update from PA.

McCain!

Obama!

Forest Fire.

Forget for a moment about idiots, liars and being broke all the time. Pick a warm day and go out in the woods alone as the leaves turn and fall.

Find a pile of them and jump in.

Commit this ballad to memory and play it in your head.

May it conjure a majestic montage of everyone you’ve ever loved, laughed and dreamed with.

Consider searching out and telling all those people that you were rolling around in the leaves thinking about them.

And definitely seek out this record Survival, by Forest Fire.  It is considerably more substantive than most.

Their shows are always real good too… I hope they have another soon.

One more to take you out.

1. Sunshine City

2. Fortune Teller

You should download those. You can download more, even whole releases from their myspace.  go go!

McCain was at the center of the S&L scandal of the late 80’s that cost the government billions and wiped out the life savings of thousands of people. McCain came out with a slap on the wrist, a penchant for making queer honking sounds when excited, and decades more to vote for more deregulation as a Senator.

And here we are. Good job John.

“How long have I been at this, five Weeks ?”

The conservative columnist David Brooks observed that “On Thursday night, Palin took her inexperience and made a mansion out of it.”

Agreed, but it is a tacky derivative eyesore that wastes too much heat on vacant rooms.  In an emerging landscape of environmental and economic consciousness, where sustainability is a keyword, and smart is valued over snappy infomercial one liners, let’s hope it’s foreclosed on.

Oah dernit Joe, I may not answer tha questions you or that funny Gwen may want ta hear, and dawgonnit not answer a single daggone question, but ima mainstreetor, so ya know… alls I have ta do is recite Karl’s talkin’ points and they’ll love mee.

She also likes Dick Cheney.

updated 10/3

In anticipation of the Vice Presidential debates, and tired of thinking about the collapsing economy, The Forlorn has obtained foreign policy preparatory materials from both of the candidates.

The following are their notes on the Middle East.

Biden’s prep work:

For you studious ones, full screen version is here:

*Brief Imperial history of the Middle East*

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Palin’s prep work: