So the SO got Alton Brown’s latest cookbook for Christmas. Every Day Cooking or something? I don’t know. Last March or the March before, I forget now, we actually went to his live show at the Pantages in Hollywood. I got him the tickets that Christmas before. But I digress. He got the cookbook.
In the last week he has made two of the recipes out of it and I have loved both. I will not say what they were because I am aware those that read this are very very fussy about food and I don’t want anyone to say “Yuck” or whatever. Suffice it to say, they were both delicious!
I’ve been thinking about the last few days how so many “hero” tales have the similarity of the “mentor/father figure’ dying on the hero. There are many examples and our Kelvin/AOS Jim is among them.
Luke Skywalker loses Obi-wan
Frodo loses Gandalf – yes Gandalf didn’t really die but Frodo doesn’t know that on his quest to return the ring.
Harry Potter loses Dumbledore
(you get Richard Harris because to me he made a far superior Dumbledore)
Jim loses Captain Pike
I’m sure there are others I am just not able to think of at the moment. But it’s a common theme in hero stories I think. Just an observation I had.
I’m up to about 5000 words on my T’hy’la Big Bang story. I think I check in March 03. It has to be at least 10,000 words and so if I do stick with that length I’m already half done. Pretty cool.
Tomorrow’s another flash fic day and you can expect a sad one.
February 23, 2017 at 2:09 pm
Dang. It’s not like there’s much to see on the pic or that you’ve actually mentioned any dishes, but now I’m hungry. And considering we’re an hour away from midnight, I don’t really want to make any food now. But I want someone to cook for me. I’m terrible in the kitchen and still I’m the one who does the cooking. How’s that fair? Anyway, lucky you that you’ve got someone cooking for you. And I raise my kids that they’re allowed to say they don’t like something, but nobody is allowed to say “yuck” about food because just because they don’t like it doesn’t mean somebody else doesn’t. Especially when it’s on our table, someone in the family likes it. 🙂 Well, no I digressed completely.
Poor boys, all of them for losing their father figure/mentor. But we should be grateful for them, at least great ‘old’ actors get jobs that way ;). And absolutely adore(d) Alec Guinness. Obi-Wan was awesome.
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February 23, 2017 at 2:24 pm
Midnight? you must be in Europe somewhere. Milo would agree with you about using yuck for food. It pisses him off when I say it makes me gag. He’s not amused.
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February 23, 2017 at 2:10 pm
Truth about those father figures in stories. It’s an excellent motivator.
It was last March 😉
Love AB!
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February 23, 2017 at 2:25 pm
It is indeed an excellent motivator! And adds such angst too! 🙂
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February 23, 2017 at 3:14 pm
I need a cookbook and to start planning meals. I usually just go ‘chicken sounds good tonight’ or something. It would probably save Grammy and I a lot
I’m guess none of what Milo made was steak? Lol
Liked your observations about the mentors..so true
Looking forward to the big bang story 🙂
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February 23, 2017 at 3:27 pm
One was meatless and the other had sausage
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February 23, 2017 at 6:54 pm
I had to smile at your “but I digress” remark, Oi! I love Alton Brown, I used to have a crush on him when he had his Good Eats series, I am a sucker for guys in nerdy glasses. It’s funny because Lee does not wear glasses. My boys were fans of his show, the science part of it appealed to them. We homeschool and they see math and science aspects in almost all the shows we view.
I didn’t think about the hero tales and the father/mentor persona in many of films we see. When I studied British Literature, we studied the Epic Hero saga of Beowulf and many other stories. I think many of our heroes today are those which have a hidden vulnerability, especially when you look at how they react in given circumstances as opposed to heroes of the early twentieth century in film. It was unheard of to show weakness in a hero back in the day, however it is not viewed as negative today.
Best of luck on your Big Bang Story. Looking forward to your flash fic Friday.
I really enjoyed your post, it gave me food for thought. See and you said you couldn’t cook. Ha! Enjoy my pun on words.
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February 23, 2017 at 8:52 pm
You all would have loved his live show because it was all on the science stuff. We own the DVDs of all the seasons of Good Eats. Milo’s a big fan.
The Big Bang story is going very well. I am excited.
HA HA, thank you. I can cook with words. Well, I wouldn’t say I can’t cook. I’ve made a few things over the years including pumpkin cheesecake from scratch several times, it’s that I don’t enjoy it. AT ALL. 🙂
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