With July 4th closing in hotdogs, one of the holiday's staples, can't be far off. The above video tours America to find famous regional hotdogs. They are, as long as you don't spend too much time pondering how hotdogs are made, a delicious looking group.
Below is a video showing how to grill hotdogs. From the viewpoint of the cooking complexity scale grilling a hotdog is basically one step away from boiling water, but I suppose to some it is a new culinary adventure, So, in case you need a tutorial, there it is below.
All-Story Weekly
was an early 20th century pulp magazine. It was eventually bought by Argosy
and published under the name Argosy All-Story Weekly. It featured serialized adventure and science-fiction stories that were aimed at men. Its most famous authors were Edgar Rice
Burroughs, Max Brand, Rex Stout and Johnston McCulley, the creator of
Zorro.
Prior to the war he had been active in Cherokee political affairs. He was one of the signers of the contested treaty that relocated the Cherokee from Georgia to the Indian Territories. This led to a lot of conflict within the Cherokee Nation, with several of his brothers and friends being assassinated in the fighting.
Watie was a slave holder, and when the Civil War broke out, he raised a regiment of troops to support the Confederacy. He fought well at the battle of Pea Ridge, although the Union troops prevailed. He also later captured supplies which led him to eventually be promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. When Lee surrendered, he held out as long as possible before he laid down his arms.
After the war he increasingly stepped away from Cherokee Tribal politics and retired to his destroyed plantation to farm for the rest of his life.
Carl Randall is a contemporary English figurative painter. He lived in Japan
for 10 years where his first main body of work, Japan Portraits, was created.
Later he was to return to London, England where he continued where he created
his London Portraits series.
The images are taken from his website
Carl Randall where there are many
more examples of his work. You can also buy signed, limited editions of his
works at that site.
For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible
to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem
as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous.
If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the
greater. ― Bill Bryson ―
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is
usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every
six months. ― Oscar Wilde ―
Once upon a time You dressed so fine ― Bob Dylan ―
