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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 4/8/2025: Salmagundi Vol. V [1]
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Date: 2025-04-08
Odilon Redon: Le Jour (1891)
Good evening, Kibitzers!
We’re under a “wind advisory” here until 11 pm, for almost-50 mph gusts. But, other than some rain in moderate amounts, that’s all we’ve gotten of the huge storms that have impacted the Midwest and South over the past week or so.
If I still lived in New Jersey and had this forecast, I’d be telling you not to expect me in the comments because surely the power would be out by the time this diary had posted. That doesn’t seem to be the way things go around here, though, probably owing to the absence of miles of aboveground wire passing through forests on its way to me. I liked the forests but I can’t say that I miss the outages. Or the bears.
No wonder I’ve got such a giant backlog of random, one-off videos — I haven’t done one of these assortment diaries since last summer! A bunch of these are of fairly recent origin.
I know you’ve probably read the book already, and it’s certainly not the light tone I try to keep in here, but I had to include this because both Snyder and Lithgow are so good. 20 Lessons on Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, read by John Lithgow. [10:27]
Okay, enough reality! Time for a cat video!!!
The hobbitkats channel brings us the adventures of a houseful of Oriental Shorthair cats who have a unique and rather entertaining appearance, in my opinion more reminiscent of Dobby the House Elf than any Tolkien character. Also, they tend to honk like those little bulb horns favored by clowns (especially their leader, Teddy). Here, the cats wait for their human to finish warming up the little house she obviously maintains specifically for them to nap in. [3:03]
Now we’re ready for the food section! The Insider Food channel visits an olive oil mill in Puglia, a region that produces a substantial portion of Italy’s oil, to show us how it’s made. [4:25]
It’s spring, and to some of us, time for lamb. Dimitra Khan, proprietor of the Dimitra’s Dishes channel, offers this Greek dish, Lamb Kleftiko, that slow-roasts a parcel of marinated lamb chunks, potatoes, and vegetables for pull-apart tenderness. [7:12]
This Canadian channel, a little calm, seems to be mostly about a little dessert, but that is hard to argue with. The recipe for these eye-popping Espresso Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Pie cookies (“pie” in the sense of “whoopie pie”) is printed on the YouTube page below the video. It makes 9 sandwiches/18 individual cookies. [9:08]
It turns out that the World Figure Skating Championships were held right here in Boston the last week in March. You guys know I like watching figure skating, so… The Japanese team won the Pairs Skating category, but the other three were won by the American team, and the video for those categories was consequently easy to find.
Alysa Liu had been skating since she was five, encouraged by her father. After numerous awards and various difficulties, she retired from skating in 2022, at age 17. Two years later, a skiing trip caused her to try skating again and decide to return to competition. (The subtext seems to be, she’s over 18 now and can do it the way she wants to.) Anyway, she came back to win this competition comfortably, with a beautiful program. [9:05]
I know I have posted Ilia Malinin before — he’s the kid who does quad jumps, turning 4 or 4½ times in the air. He’s trying to get to seven of them in one routine, but so far, he has only managed six in contests, including this one. On the other hand, almost no one else can do them at all, and some of them, literally no one else can do, so there’s that. He’s now 20 years old, so perhaps he’ll work it out. He certainly is a pleasure to watch — the backflip at the end is a nice touch. (Someone who hates him must have picked this thumbnail.) [7:46]
Madison Chock and Evan Bates have won three of these World titles in Ice Dance in a row. Ice dance is distinct from pairs skating, being more closely related to non-skating dance moves and disallowing the jumps that are common in “regular” figure skating. There’s still no shortage of exciting stuff, though. [7:13]
Turning to music, on the YT channel belonging to Weird Al Yankovic we find highlights of his contributions to the mid-March Let's Get L.Aid benefit for Los Angeles wildfire relief. Also appearing, according to his notes: Eric Idle, Nancy Sinatra, Al Jardine, Puddles Pity Party, Tim Heidecker, Peter Asher, Rufus Wainwright, and Paul Shaffer. [3:12]
Diana Krall: Frim Fram Sauce (from Diana Krall - Live in Paris, recorded live at the Paris Olympia in December 2001) [4:58]
From yet another very recent event, Dawg at 80! — David “Dawg” Grisman, featuring Billy Strings: Grateful Dawg (live at the Moore Theatre, Seattle, on March 25, two days after Grisman’s 80th birthday. [3:51]
I don’t always find political parodies that aren’t more sad than funny, these days. Also, I only post once a week, and I’m sure there's a limit to how fast you can put one of these together, so the available material is always from at least two any-other-presidency-ending scandals ago. Nonetheless, I have a couple here from the Signal-chat-group debacle. First, Rocky Mountain Mike starts with C.W. McCall’s 1975 Convoy and ends up with a NeoConVoy. [1:34]
And then, we have Dave Scheiber, turning the Eagles’ Lyin’ Eyes into Lyin’ Guys. [4:03]
Here’s a nice little video from Indivisible — just a slide show of Hands Off! marches around the country and the world. It’s gotta lift your spirits to see this. [3:00]
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