On second thought, maybe I don't understand the supernova scene.

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Link Wray died.

It's hard to use spinach in stir fries because of the water issue.

There are a couple of person-shaped holes in my life that are going to be hard to fill.

The butternut, it turns out, is a kind of walnut.

http://www.yiddishradioproject.org/exhibits/stutchkoff/curses.php3?pg=1

Cats like the corn starch that biodegradable plastic bags are made from.

I need to learn how to be alone.

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[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

My father got a big box of butternuts once from a fellow CR devotee with a butternut tree in his backyard. The problem was, the damn things were impregnable. My rats were the only ones who could open them, through a laborious process of repeated scraping with their mighty incisors. It took fifteen minutes per butternut. I still have the hulls of the nuts they scraped open -- they look like trepanned skulls from days of yore.

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The Wikipedia article on the walnut family says that the thing we call a "walnut" is a particularly easy to open variant, and that the others aren't fun to open generally, particularly the black walnut. One amusing detail is that black walnut shells are used to strengthen car tires.

Any nut shell that stops a rat for 15 minutes is worthy of respect.

[salome-st-john.livejournal.com]

I had rats too! My favorite was Brad.