Christine Valada

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 05:41 UTC

You know what's crazy is you could easily write a historically compelling op-ed about how Trump should end his campaign because he's a convicted criminal who tried to overthrow the government and is only on the ballot/out of prison because of extremely corrupt judges he personally appointed

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

It never ceased to amaze my sister what Republicans thought free to say at one of their events which she attended while doing some sort of election-based work in Iowa. If she was there, she must have been one of them, and all the vile, racist, sexist crap tripped lightly from their tongues. Awful.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:54 UTC

Not “Justices,” the one who wrote it and the ones who concurred. Be clear in your story.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 18:29 UTC

It is so funny when they can’t multitask, scary when they do.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

She is so not deserving of her lifetime position.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 18:24 UTC

Maybe he’ll have a massive coronary, which I would hate to miss.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 18:21 UTC

One of my college profs said it is in someways perhaps more accurate than some sources because it records all of the things that went wrong for the Jews. But, it is largely agrarian fantasy and I expect that the ACLU will file an injunction in 4,3,2,1.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 23:09 UTC

I have that one signed and framed. Read Little Fuzzy for the first time move than 50 years ago. Bought multiple copies of the large format kids book Michael and David Wenzel did to give as gifts to nieces and nephews and other babies.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

There’s a rash of crap going around, like adding a certain editor’s name to Len Wein’s creation of Wolverine and some other characters, expecting no one will notice, I bet. People notice and know a lie when they see it.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 15:33 UTC

Why are people such idiots. I’ve never had s problem with removing shoes. It SOP in some cultures, and not a bad one to adopt.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 15:26 UTC

Yes, the books which add things about culture and history are fun to read. I am cooking from Night + Market, which is a Thai restaurant here in L.A., but the book is also about his (the restauranteur’s) family and his story.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 17:42 UTC

Like I do with my cookbooks, I suspect you actually use a number of your guitars. They aren’t just dust catchers like the Teddy bears were.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 17:40 UTC

Also, I organized and managed a cookbook book club which started 8 years ago. I am constantly looking for books to use which cover all aspects of a meal, and we have had some truly great meals over the years. Deep Run Roots is our next book. I’m considering a Japanese home cooking book to follow it.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 17:32 UTC

The biggest group is for Italian food, my own ethnic background, followed by Middle-Eastern and other areas of the Mediterranean. I’m a completist of Ottolenghi, Ina Garten, Melissa Clark, Nik Sharma, Andrea Nguyen, Marcella Hazen, Lidia Bastianich. Lots of Chinese, Indian. I do cook eclectically.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 16:26 UTC

People did the same with teddy bears with Len. Before the house fire there were so damned many of them. Having two of something does not mean you collect them. Ten of something you buy for yourself might suggest it. I have over 1200 cookbooks. It’s fair to say I collect them.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

Happy anniversary.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 20:59 UTC

Thanks.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 13:21 UTC

I am not familiar with it. Where is it located?

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 13:20 UTC

It used to be that you could count on justices appointed by the right to actually grow into their positions to be less partisan. That’s how you got the Warren Court that right-wingers hate. It seems to have ended with Clarence Thomas and the nightmare Federalist Society holding sway.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 12:59 UTC

His fortune is based on paying artists next to nothing. It is a garbage model.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 01:39 UTC

It’s such bad type design.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 01:31 UTC

I switched to a British male voice and call it Jerves.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

My first photo in the Washington Post was from a then 25+-year-old, fixed lens, Kodak Retina. It was the camera I was carrying in my purse that day. It’s not the camera, it is the brain of the photographer. Or f/8 and be there, on the right day.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 01:21 UTC

Not everything can go into the dishwasher.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

I do not want pay for your own adventure. If I rewatch a movie, it’s because I LIKED IT THE FIRST TIME. AI does not have the fucking creativity that would make a bad movie work, and I’m not shelling out money a second time for something I did not like the first time. Let AI do the dishes.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

No doubt planning how to get taxpayers who won’t be able to afford tickets to foot the bill for these cricket venues. Billionaires should pay for their own toys.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 14:56 UTC

I’m not sure who did it. I know it’s the first panel that shows Wolverine in Hulk 180, which is Herb Trimpe over John Romita, Sr., I think it is Hugh in a publicity still or magazine cover from early in his run, and it’s Len in the last few years of his life when he became so painfully thin.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 03:09 UTC

Prosperity gospel is exactly the opposite of what Christ taught. So annoying.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 03:07 UTC

Can anyone tell me why I’m having trouble doing alt-text captioning?

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 03:07 UTC

I appeared on the Enter the Nerdom podcast on Wednesday night to talk about Len Wein and various things about his career. If you want to check it out, it is episode 42. It was fun.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 07:19 UTC

Ask Mark Asquith. I don’t know if he is here, but he is on FB.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 07:18 UTC

Cowards.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 07:13 UTC

My dogs love poached chicken, which they also get when they are ill and as a special treat. I swear Logan can smell it from the far reaches of the house when there’s chicken breasts in the steam oven. It’s like I’m cooking crack for him.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 16:34 UTC

Probably true, but even the plump ones continue to dry, depending on the container. I’ve been using glass jars with rubber gaskets for years in my pantry and they are really good for storage like dried fruit.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 09:02 UTC

I don’t think that Kagen or Sotomayor are married, so I think the percentage is 50% yes.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 08:56 UTC

It probably depends on whether sulfites are used.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 19:41 UTC

No. Just don’t do it.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 16:35 UTC

He’s pretty accessible, should you happen to go to a convention where he’s a guest, or where he’s an attendee, like Worldcon. Michael Cassutt sent the photo to Astronaut Mike Fink while we ate dessert, who shot a text birthday greeting back. Because of Michael, I’ve met several astronauts.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 15:11 UTC

Delighted to celebrate Joe Haldeman’s 81st birthday last night in Pasadena with Joe, Gay, and Michael and Cindy Cassutt. I think I first saw Joe at a Disclave around 1979 and immediately went in search of The Forever War. (Photo of Joe Haldeman, Michael Cassutt, and Gay Haldeman at dinner.)

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

I hear Mrs. Graham spinning in her grave.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 02:42 UTC

I am sad we do not see them here. It was the one thing I hoped to see when I was back east 5 years ago, and I did in my friends’ back yard in Cleveland. But I saw none in my area of the Catskills. Did not see them in the Carolinas this week either.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 09:52 UTC

Are you absolutely sure of your facts?

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 15:15 UTC

I am in Myrtle Beach/Ocean Isle for another family wedding & my sister & I hit up a few antique shops. She was the one who noticed the Trump swag in one show case & said under her breath “we are not buying from this dealer.” I did not see prices, but I do hope the artificial value tanked at 5PM.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 15:25 UTC

Remembering my favorite curmudgeon and PITA, Harlan Ellison, on what would have been his 90th birthday. I miss hearing him answer the phone with “Yeah?” and the great messages he changed daily on his answering machine. He was high maintenance, but the person you wanted to have your back. Miss him.

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Christine Valada @mcvalada.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 06:07 UTC

My sister has never read the books. She liked the first film, but thought the second dragged and she hated how it ended. I, apparently, fell asleep during the many battles. Still better than earlier versions. I love Zendaya, and agree with your assessment. Sis thought the movie was for teen boys.

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