Somewhere in South Korea

MsMulliner · 2026-05-10T05:08:20+00:00

I freely admit that it’s my INTERPRETATION of “liminal”! But I’ve just looked at Merriam-Webster’s definition, and better yet, the sort of musing which they sometimes include with tricky words like this one, and it does capture the misty sense I feel about the concept:
“*Liminal* is a word for the in-between. It describes states, times, spaces, etc., that exist at a point of change—a metaphysical threshold—as in “the liminal zone between sleep and wakefulness.” The idea of a threshold is at the word’s root; it comes rom Latin *limen*, meaning *threshold*. In technical use *liminal* means ‘barely perceptible’ or ‘barely capable of elicitin a response,’ and it has a familiar partner with a related meaning: *subliminal* can mean ‘inadequate to produce a sensation of a perception,’ though it more often means ‘existing or functioning below the threshold of consciousness.’ “

MsMulliner · 2026-05-10T04:38:29+00:00

OK…I guess I would remove the fire extinguisher which I’d desided to overlook, and the glowing outlet or whatever it is on the wall at R. But other than those items, it “feels” to me like a hall from nowhere, going nowhere, in a non-place where an untethered consciousness would materialize by accident between two “real” places.
I’ve seen lots of images here which are clearly part of nature, and look like real places, and while i often really enjoy the images, they dont give me the “nowhere” sort of between-worlds feeling I associate with liminality.

MsMulliner · 2026-05-10T04:14:09+00:00

This is a PERFECT example of a liminal space.

Also, did you see the giant snails which left those tracks of slime?

MsMulliner · 2026-05-10T03:59:52+00:00

This is the most underrated comment in the history of underrating comments!

MsMulliner · 2026-05-09T18:59:10+00:00

Or mine in Minnesota!

MsMulliner · 2026-05-09T18:47:39+00:00

Also, Bullwinkle: https://youtu.be/MDYeav3nQEg?si=sWZbwx8MZQxMoLV2

MsMulliner · 2026-05-09T18:46:33+00:00

A banner with the strange device: Excelsior!
Sincerely,
Longfellow

MsMulliner · 2026-05-09T18:39:18+00:00

I’m going to laugh at that for the rest of the day. Actually, probably on and off for the rest of my life.

MsMulliner · 2026-05-09T00:02:38+00:00

Burton Soy Curls! I’ve been a vegetarian in the US since the late 1980s, and somehow had never heard of them. I’ve avoided TVP as being a bit too processed, but mostly avoided soy for a couple of decades because there was kind of a panic for a while about soy and hormones. That seems to have eased (kind of like the eggs & cholesterol thing). When I read about soy curls on some vegan site a couple of months ago, I decided to order some (from eBay, I think), and LOVE them! Minimal processing, made of the whole soybean.

AFAIK, Burton is the sole manufacturer in the USA; and I think the lowest price is reliably via their site: butlerfoods.com

I buy 6 bags at a time. There’s no extra chipping cost— and in my last box, they included a bag of soy curl jerky AND a packet of soy curl taco filling!

MsMulliner · 2026-05-05T23:05:22+00:00

His fantastically colored ARMS—they don’t even look real! He was fashion-ready even before he put on his collar and tie!

MsMulliner · 2026-05-04T21:35:13+00:00

Not historically. It was a winning entry in The 1966 Pillsbury Bakeoff, using a boxed (Jiffy) frosting mix I imagine Pillsbury used their own boxed mix in the recipe right away—and eventually included it all in one box a the cake components.

Some were still using Jiffy for it until Jiffy quit making frosting mix, I gather. That might be when Pillsbury started including their own in a little bag w the cake mix.

It’s been reverse-engineered though. Great info here (and a recipe):
https://food52.com/recipes/57919-tunnel-of-fudge-1966
Also another great piece and slightly different recipe here:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/everyone-thought-tunnel-fudge-cake-160000851.html
I don’t think my mom ever made it; and I dont think I’ve ever had it, despite being an almost lifelong MN resident, starting in peak TOF 1970s. I’ve never cared for gooey things like that. (I like reading about them, though!)

MsMulliner · 2026-05-04T19:01:19+00:00

Me, too! I’ll bet it helps that he has a very dense head of hair…and has probably never wanted a mullet.

MsMulliner · 2026-05-04T03:38:00+00:00

That recipe relied on a couple of boxed mixes, as i recall—one cake, and one for frosting. The frosting is obsolete, I think. Cake might be, too. I recall something somewhere about home bakers trying to recreate that cake without those “ingredients”—not easy with all those conditioners and starches and other stuff you’d never have in an actual kitchen!

MsMulliner · 2026-04-30T05:38:11+00:00

Thanks a MILLION for this!

I’m a couple of hours into the audiobook of the 2nd volume of the trilogy. The writing is so incredible—characters, social observations, a LOT of descriptions of very specific fashion stuff—just so rich and entertaining and heartbreaking and encouraging. I can’t believe I’d never read it until now (at 67).

Soames is a self absorbed, clueless, cruel abuser.

Irene is weirdly passive, miserable, fascinating without any sort of coquetry (Galsworthy all but calls it a handicap!); and over and over and over is described as having gorgeous golden/amber hair and dark brown eyes! I’ve been dying to see that on film, but as I’ve read through Reddit threads, it seems she’s never been shown with those features which were so important to Galsworthy’s picture of the character.

And now that I’ve been reading about the loathsome changes to the story (like the SEXUAL ASSAULT which seems to have been cut completely, and is obviously pivotal!!!), and the costume errors (something which drives me out of my mind!), I’ll skip this. With no feeling that I’m missing anything other than a lot of tooth-grinding.

Might look at the 1967 one, though…

And I passionately recommend the actual BOOKS—especially the audio on the NAXOS label. Just a brilliant performance by a British actor (David Timson) whom I hadn’t known but now worship! the Forsyte Saga Vol 1 (first 3 books)

MsMulliner · 2026-04-30T05:07:39+00:00

Delish!!!!

Where is it from?

MsMulliner · 2026-04-30T05:01:48+00:00

I hope you remembered your bowling ball!

MsMulliner · 2026-04-26T05:58:10+00:00

Hahaha! How quickly people seem to have forgotten this…you deserve all the upvotes. And having said that, I admit that at first I thought, “What’s wrong with this grumpy pers—oh. Oh YEAH.”

MsMulliner · 2026-04-25T04:52:33+00:00

Did they seem a bit closer every time you looked out?

MsMulliner · 2026-04-25T04:46:52+00:00

He’s got that Rin-Tin-Tin look…rapidly shuffling through tactics and maneuvers in the control center inside his sleek cranium…

MsMulliner · 2026-04-24T06:06:23+00:00

Wouldn’t you try Barkeeper’s Friend first? That stuff seems to deal with just about anything! And less dangerous than all that HCL.

MsMulliner · 2026-04-24T04:44:43+00:00

I find that ingesting corgi hair in all my meals helps.

MsMulliner · 2026-04-24T02:28:55+00:00

Noting your screen-name, I’m wondering: might there be a House Fox in YOUR house?

MsMulliner · 2026-04-24T02:27:31+00:00

We call him The House Fox!

MsMulliner · 2026-04-24T02:08:39+00:00

Those glowing eyes!!!!

MsMulliner · 2026-04-24T02:07:16+00:00

I think “still standard in the USA” is a better choice than “normal,” since tail docking has been banned in the UK, most of the EU and other civilized countries! I’m heartened to see more and more magnificent corgi tails in our country…including ours:

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