What books did you read in 2011?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hey Imran, you can go down to Georgia, go native, go Christian, become a Southern apologist, assume southern mannerisms, marry a white girl, and try your damnedest to be a good ole boy but you'll never be one of them.

I wonder if Alby really thinks Atlanta is like the countryside in Alabama. His ignorance is almost breathtaking.

[Tupac Shakur]

Hey Imran, you can go down to Georgia, go native, go Christian, become a Southern apologist, assume southern mannerisms, marry a white girl, and try your damnedest to be a good ole boy but you'll never be one of them.

QFT

That's false. It's not about where you were born, it's how you act.

It's true. Imran's always going to be an outsider, no matter how much he defends slavery.

[PLATO]

I never thought to really keep track of what I read last year. I did just finsish "The Soviet Quest for Economic Efficiency" by George Feiwel. I wanted to do a little research on what the then current thought was on Soviet Economic reform was ( book was written in 1967) and to see if their were any parallels to the reform that is permeating the US today. One could draw some interesting analysis between the crisis in the capital markets a couple of years ago and the way the state handled the distribution of fixed and working capital, but in general it is pretty clear that, while being over regulated now, the capital market system is definately not being remade in the Soviet model (i.e. we are not becoming "communist" in economic thought).

Next up will be something on Chinese economic reform of the 1980s. I am looking for a source that I trust.

Some nice titles on your list KH...might have to pick a couple of those for myself this year.

[Al B. Sure!]

I wonder if Alby really thinks Atlanta is like the countryside in Alabama. His ignorance is almost breathtaking.

Dude look at your latest tweet:

Black eyes peas & collard greens with plenty of hot sauce - mmmmmmm!

Now you're Black. Make up your mind

[Imran Siddiqui]

Only black people eat black eyed peas and collard greens for New Years? Maybe in Philly...

OMG, look at how poor and black those foods are:

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/380

Whole Foods, the supermarket of the ghetto, has a recipe for a soup involving both!

[Al B. Sure!]

Only black people eat black eyed peas and collard greens for New Years? Maybe in Philly...

OMG, look at how poor and black those foods are:

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/380

Whole Foods, the supermarket of the ghetto, has a recipe for a soup involving both!

Are you cooking it with ham or bacon?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Neither - both out of cans. Had a ham sandwich yesterday so I think I'm covered on that .

[Al B. Sure!]

Neither - both out of cans. Had a ham sandwich yesterday so I think I'm covered on that .

Fine. Not Black then.

[Elok]

My wife is from NW Florida, and totally white. She wouldn't dream of cooking greens without a pig bone/part in the pot, provided such were available. Al, get real.

[PLATO]

Neither - both out of cans. Had a ham sandwich yesterday so I think I'm covered on that .

(Lesson on how to eat Southern on New Year's day)

Imran...

1.) It is turnip greens for New Year's...not Collards
2.) Hog jowl is what is needed...not bacon or ham. (Use the jowl in both the black eyed peas and the greens)
3.) Cornbread is the bread of the day.

[PLATO]

My wife is from NW Florida, and totally white. She wouldn't dream of cooking greens without a pig bone/part in the pot, provided such were available. Al, get real.

The hambone from the Christmas ham is an acceptable substitute for jowl in the peas, but you still need the jowl for the greens.

[Elok]

I don't know that she's that particular. Maybe she's from a different tradition. But she has told me, more than once, that most of our "black people's food" stereotypes are really about the food everyone in the South eats.

[Imran Siddiqui]

(Lesson on how to eat Southern on New Year's day)

Imran...

1.) It is turnip greens for New Year's...not Collards
2.) Hog jowl is what is needed...not bacon or ham. (Use the jowl in both the black eyed peas and the greens)
3.) Cornbread is the bread of the day.

1.) this is the first I've ever heard turnip greens rather than collard greens - all of the markets on Atlanta bring out the collards and sell out of them quick. In addition:

http://www.southernliving.com/food/holidays-occasions/new-years-recipes-traditions-00417000070440/

The recipes are:

"Easy Black-eyed Peas
Southern-Style Collard Greens"

2 & 3) I don't feel like going through the effort.

[MRT144]

Times like these makes me think al gwts all he deserves

[Tuberski]

From my Kindle:

King's X - Harper, Stephen T.
Alice in Deadland - Dhar, Mainak
The Sex Club: A Detective Jackson Thriller - Sellers, L.J.
Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warriors (A Duck & Cover Adventure) - Wallace, Benjamin
City of Rogues (Book I of The Kobalos Trilogy) - Johnston, Ty
Horker's Law (The Six Books of Magic) - Lee, Mike
Petrodor (Trial of Blood & Steel, Book II) - Shepherd, Joel
Sasha: A Trial of Blood and Steel Book One - Shepherd, Joel
To The Stars (The Harry Irons Trilogy) - Stone, Thomas
Right Ascension (Edge of Apocalypse) - Derrico, David
Sensei - Donohue, John
Dragon Ore (The Dawning of Power) - Rathbone, Brian
The Honour of the Knights (First Edition) (The Battle for the Solar System) - Sweeney, Stephen
Inherited Danger (The Dawning of Power) - Rathbone, Brian
Legon Ascension: Book Two in the Legon Series - Taylor, Nicholas
Legon Awakening: Book One in the Legon Series - Taylor, Nicholas
The Queen's Blade - Southwell, T C
Call of the Herald (The Dawning of Power) - Rathbone, Brian
Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files - Butcher, Jim
Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files - Butcher, Jim
Bubba and the Dead Woman - Bevill, C.L.
The Kinshield Legacy (The Kinshield Saga) - May, K.C.
Wintertide (The Riyria Revelations) - Sullivan, Michael J.
The Emerald Storm (The Riyria Revelations) - Sullivan, Michael J.
Nyphron Rising (The Riyria Revelations) - Sullivan, Michael J.
Avempartha (The Riyria Revelations) - Sullivan, Michael J.
The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations) - Sullivan, Michael J.
Sleepwalk with Me - Birbiglia, Mike
Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three (First Law 3) - Abercrombie, Joe
Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two (First Law 2) - Abercrombie, Joe
The Blade Itself: The First Law: Book One (First Law 1) - Abercrombie, Joe
The Crippled God: Book Ten of The Malazan Book of the Fallen - Erikson, Steven
Dust of Dreams: Book Nine of The Malazan Book of the Fallen - Erikson, Steven
The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two - Rothfuss, Patrick
Name of the Wind - Rothfuss, Patrick
Elegy Beach - Boyett, Steven R.

Haven't figured my paperbacks or hardcovers.

ACK!