Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
Aaaah, now I can finally make ‘Seafood Paella’ the way it was intended!
Thanks to the good folks at PaellaPans.Com , I can now hold my head up in pride with an authentic pan… the size and style common in Spain. Heh heh, I think this is the single serving portion?
Roger Freberg
recipe and pictures to follow
Recently, Katie decided to share with us her wisdom on Iraq, the war and the Iranian Dictator. Here is a collection of some of her wit and disdain from her interview:
“The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States …”
So, Katie, what are you trying to say? Have you found a home on an independent island somewhere?
Couric referenced comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday’s “The Charlie Rose Show,” and said she actually agreed with Ahmadinejad on one point. “Oftentimes Westerners don’t really understand fully the values of this particular culture,” said Couric. “And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.”
Agreeing with Ahmadinejad on anything shows how guliable you are… fortunately ‘we’ are no longer amused.
Roger Freberg
I know it is hard to believe… but as this picture clearly indicates… and pictures don’t lie… O.J. Simpson was really a Bruin all along! Wouldn’t you know it was those dastardly Bruins who would do anything they could to besmerch the Good Trojan Name? How Low can you go?
“UCLA” Simpson seems to have come into the news with more problems. The latest is a claim by his lawyers that there is no evidence against O.J. Of course, I have been wrong before… I THOUGHT he was guilty the last time.
Another “PR Nightmare” ( as my daughter Karen would say) is Sally Field. Just as they thought it was safe to give her another award… Sally uses the mike to confirm that she is one step closer to a full time rubber room…. and trotted out the worn feminist rhetoric:
“Let’s face it. If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no god-damned wars in the first place.”
As for me, I will always remember Sally as the sweet nun who brought more sunshine into the lives of others than she was able to bring to her own… and O.J. as one of the greatest halfbacks of all time … but a street thug and no more. I still think he was a Bruin plant.
Roger Freberg
The game was far different that the score indicated. If it was close it was only in the beginning.
If the Trojan coaches looked at all frustrated … it was the failure of some of the second and third stringers sent in for experience letting them and the team down. Fortunately, they’ll get time to redeem themselves down the road.
Here’s what others are saying:
Maualuga’s Motor is always running
Staying in Omaha
Smash Mouth
Trojan Update
Stafon Johnson & student body right
Yahoo News
Irish-Trojan in Tennessee
Another great week.
Fight On!
Roger Freberg
Today, I received in the mail a little present from one of my daughters…. she’s at the University of Tennessee. I opened it up and this is what I found! It appears that this little pasta company — Pasta Shoppe in Nashville — cooks up some spirited pasta for the Volunteers, Gators, Tar heals, Tigers, Seminoles, Bulldogs, Yellow Jackets, Hoosiers (whatzers?), Hurricanes, Wolverines ( you know, the poor guys we beat last year that are still having severe trouble in the third quarter with the monastery of St. Give-it-up), Gamecocks, Badgers… but … alas… no SC Trojans.
On Game day, I’ll cook these up and pretend the “T” is for Trojan!
Fight On!
Roger Freberg