Thanks to a tip from an unexpected source, I headed over to the right side of the tracks in San Bruno and found Rolling Pin Donuts, a 24-hr extravaganza of donuts, deep-fried dough bars, crullers, and coffee.
Aside: Donut Plant?
Perhaps the most delicious double-chocolate donnut I've *ever* had. The chocolate was sublime (compare to the Donut Plant in the LES, where the $2 doughnuts are the talk of the town).
Oh, and the Lisa The Vegetarian episode of the Simpsons is on (thanks, tivo). It's not just the "Yes, I'm going to marry a carrot" line, nor the "Buenas ding-dong-diddly-dias", not even the sublime "... it's tomato soup served ice-cold" nor the majestic conga of "You don't win friends with salad", it's the whole episode, which happens to be the finest Lisa episode ever.
In a handbasket, probably. You've always suspect it, but I now know for certain thanks to this little test.
I've read several different editions of Dante's Inferno, although I've only read Bickerstaff's and Musa's editions of Purgatory and Paradiso; Inferno is by far the most exciting (in a stuff-blows-up kind of way) of the three, although the symbolism of the entire poem is phenomenal.
I have editions translated or edited by Dorothy Sayers (one of my favourite authors, who has written exemplary novels: Murder Must Advertise is in my bag right now, and The Nine Tailors is another); Mark Musa (in a wonderfully-annotated Penguin ed.); Allan Mandelbaum, a hefty illustrated ed.; and Ciardi.
[Sunday] Also a nice Briitsh edition of the American poet Laureate's translation; I do'n't think I have an edition with Wm Blake's illustrations.
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The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Very High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | High |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | High |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Very High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Very High |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | High |
Last night drove home from work around midnight, and found a parking spot at the intersection of Haight and Divis on the first pass! (It was a 10 AM spot, which meant that I could laze about (in theory, at least; I was answering pages until 9.30 or so) and then head to Cooper's.)
The only thing that would have made it better (better'n rock-star, even) would have been if the pizza store were open.
Arshad had his first Scotch Day. Sara made delicious, delicious tapas, which (amongst many other thoughts) spurred me to work on getting my food blog in apple-pie order.
