U=Umbrella Mushroom Omelette

1⁄2 lb. sliced mixed fresh mushrooms, such as criminis 
   and wild chanterelles- Mushrooms are one of those kinds of foods that just have to make people wonder about how they were first discovered to be edible. It's one of those things that are good but weird, like raw fish and vitamin C. Sometimes I really like them, and sometimes not so much.


1 large yellow onion, peeled and sliced- My mom always peels the onions, so I never knew how onions could make people cry.


1 tsp. sugar- A teaspoon or a half a cup all looks the same when mixed together. And more sugar never really hurt that many people. My aunt used to like adding sugar to food when she was little, and had to watch the sugar be stirred in to be sure it was indeed added. My mom played tricks by stirring the sugar in so that my aunt wouldn't believe there was sugar and would need to add more sugar to her food until it became supersaturated.


1⁄4 cup extra-virgin olive oil- It goes great with bread too; a fact that we discovered at Romano's Macaroni Grill.


3 scallions, trimmed and chopped into 1" pieces- I like seafood, but, as with everything I like, it's not good for my stomach sometimes.


2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced- garlic tastes bad, and I completely sympathize with vampires.


1 tbsp. red-wine vinegar- I always thought that things like that had too much vinegar, and not enough red wine. That was before I realized that alcohol is the worst tasting thing ever, of all time.


8 eggs- which, to this day, I still can't crack perfectly.


Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Leaves from 4–5 sprigs flat-leaf parsley, chopped- After finding out that they made no difference, we decided to save ourselves the extra effort for this and future recipes.


http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Mushroom-Omelette

Famous Poem Starters

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day; to when the trees bloom with green vibrant colors and the sky is unclouded and life synthesizes with the lines of pollen hung low in the summer air. I hate summer. There is only contempt for the ants and the flies and the bugs that come out and become infatuated by the idea of creating infestations of themselves inside my house when the circumstances for life and liveliness rears its head. It's ridiculous. Then there come the storms. Rain, which brings lightning, and lightning which brings hail to ruin all of the few pros that come with the liveliness of summer, such as flowers and swimming and being outside. Yet in light of all of the storms, the one thing to come out ahead is not flowers or the possibility of being outside, but bugs. Bugs escape with their lives so that they may meddle another day. And pollen and allergies, that's a story that won't even fit in this story. Summer is terrible. When you are cold, you can put on as many blankets as you want. When you are hot, you can only take off so much until you start considering whether shedding skin and bones and vital organs is worth it. And the days always deceive. It stays light well into the night to fool students into thinking that they still have time to procrastinate, when in fact they are already doomed. Winter sucks too. We would be lucky that all four seasons can't happen at once, but unfortunately they can, and it's called spring, and we're not even out of the woods with that season yet. So that's a year. Every year. Mars doesn't have this problem, I'm sure.

Nursery Rhymes ARE Relevant to Life

Three blind mice

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Three blind mice,
See how they run!
They all ran after a farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind mice?

This rhyme preaches the importance of thinking and common sense. It's relevant to life because it teaches people to not get their hopes up about false dreams and to watch where they are going. The mice were blind to the destination of the road they were travelling on, and thus they lost their tails. I, personally, find this rhyme to be very motivating and encouraging.

Turn an Inkblot into a Butterfly

Knowing

You never forget

what you do not know,

and you never do not know

twice in a row if you learn.

Well, there I was

face to face with the most

terrifying

history question

And I did not have a clue.

But, lo and behold,

the next time it showed, I did not 

not have a clue again.

Zack Kilmer

http://blog.timesunion.com/gamers/video-game-violence/1326/
http://blog.timesunion.com/gamers/zack-kilmer-gamer-extraordinaire/1291/

Zack Kilmer is a blogger for the Times Union who writes about his thoughts on various aspects of the video game entertainment industry from time to time. He is a self proclaimed "digital hipster" that dislikes "games that cater to gameplay clichés". His favorite part about video games is that gamers can "take a direct part in the action and narrative of a story". One of the topics he blogged about was a very ancient and controversial topic about violence in video games. Kilmer argues that it is a complete waste of time to argue about banning violent video games and that it is ridiculous. He states that "there is a reason that the... ESRB rates the games". He strongly believes that "Videogames are a form of expression, equal to film and literature." and uses the First Amendment as a main argument on why video games will not be banned successfully any time soon.

NYT Tuesday

Found Poem


In general, careful attention to 
choosing and 
combining language 
impresses us most — the 
thoughtful choices that make us
see something in a new way. We also 
loved the surprises: the poems that start off 
being
about one thing and
end up being about another; the poems that
comment on the article they came from; the poems that
smash together unlikely words and images, or a
clever combination of Times source material,
to say something new.







(original >14 lines)
In general, careful attention to 
choosing and 
combining language 
impresses us most — the 
thoughtful choices that make us
 see something in a new way. We also 
 loved the surprises: the poems that start off 
 being
 about one thing and
 end up 
 being about another; the poems that
 comment on the article they came from; the poems that
 smash together unlikely words and images, or a
 clever combination
 of Times source material,
 to say
 something new.