|
|
网络日志列表 【Eatery in US(舌尖上的美国)】 |
|
|
|
|
2024-12-14 More Good Today Day
【Carnet de Voyage I·An Odor from a Star (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Comes to my fancy, slight, Tenderly spiced and gay, As if a saraph's hand Unloosed the fragrant silk |
|
|
|
|
2024-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day
【Palace of the Babies (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The disbeliever walked the moonlit place, Outside of gates of hammered serafin, Observing the moon-blotches on the walls. The yellow rocked across the stil |
|
|
|
|
2024-09-14 National Coloring Day
【A High-Toned Old Christian Woman (1922)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, &nb |
|
|
|
|
2024-05-04 World Give Day 
【Stars at Tallapoosa (1922)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The lines are straight and swift between the stars. The night is not the cradle that they cry, The criers, undulating the deep-oceaned phrase. The lines are much too dark and much too sharp. &nbs |
|
|
|
|
2024-05-04 National Bird Day 
【Invective Against Swans (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind. A bronze rain from the sun descending marks The death of summer, which that ti |
|
|
|
|
2024-04-27 National Prime Rib Day 
【The Plot Against the Giant - Second Girl (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I shall run before him, Arching cloths besprinkled with colors As small as fish-eggs. The threads Will abash him. —— • —— • —— R |
|
|
|
|
2024-04-06 Jump Over Things Day
【The Poems of Our Climate - I (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Clear water in a brilliant bowl, Pink and white carnations. The light In the room more like a snowy air, Reflecti |
|
|
|
|
2024-03-10 National Landline Telephone Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XI (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words. But note the unconscionable treachery of fate, That makes us weep, laugh, grunt and groan, and shout Doleful heroics, pinching gestures forth &nbs |
|
|
|
|
2024-03-03 National I Want You to Be Happy Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-X (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The fops of fancy in their poems leave Memorabilia of the mystic spouts, Spontaneously watering their gritty soils. I am a yeoman, as such fellows go. |
|
|
|
|
2024-02-18 National Drink Wine Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-II (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A red bird flies across the golden floor. It is a red bird that seeks out his choir Among the choirs of wind and wet and wing. A torrent will fall from him when he finds. Shall I uncrumple this much-crumpled thing? &nb |
|
|
|
|
2024-02-18 Lunar Heaven Health Day 
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-I (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) "Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds, O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon, There is not nothing, no, no, never nothing, Like the clashed edges of two words that kill." & |
|
|
|
|
2024-02-16 Lunar Human Day 
【Gray Room (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Although you sit in a room that is gray, Except for the silver Of the straw-paper, And pick At your pale white gown; Or lift one of the green beads Of your necklace, To let it fall; Or gaze at your green fan &n |
|
|
|
|
2023-12-31 New Year's Eve
【Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu (1936)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) That would be waving and that would be crying, Crying and shouting and meaning farewell, Farewell in the eyes and farewell at the centre, Just to stand still without moving a hand.
In a world without heaven to follow, the stops Would be endings |
|
|
|
|
2023-12-08 National Brownie Day 
【Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The rock is the gray particular of man's life, The stone from which he rises, up - and - ho, The step to the bleaker depths of his descents...
The rock is the stern particular of the air, |
|
|
|
|
2023-11-04 National Bison Day 
【July Mountain (1955)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) We live in a constellation Of patches and of pitches, Not in a single world, In things said well in music, |
|
|
|
|
2023-09-16 National Dance Day 
【Two Letters—A Letter From (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Even if there had been a crescent moon On every cloud-tip over the heavens, Drenching the evening with crystals' light, One would have wanted more—more—more— Some true interior to which to return, A home against one's self, a darkness, &nb |
|
|
|
|
2023-06-17 World Juggling Day
【The Planet on the Table (1953)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Ariel was glad he had written his poems. They were of a remembered time Or of something seen that he liked. Other makings of the sun |
|
|
|
|
2023-05-28 Pentecost
【Farewell to Florida·III (1935)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I hated the weathery yawl from which the pools Disclosed the sea floor and the wilderness Of waving weeds. I hated the vivid blooms Curled over the shadowless hut, the rust and bones, The trees likes bones and the leaves half sand, half sun. To stand here o |
|
|
|
|
2023-05-20 World Whisky Day
【Farewell to Florida·II (1935)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Her mind had bound me round. The palms were hot As if I lived in ashen ground, as if The leaves in which the wind kept up its sound From my North of cold whistled in a sepulchral South, Her South of pine and coral and coraline sea, Her home, not mine, |
|
|
|
|
2023-05-06 Intl No Diet Day
【Sunday Morning·VIII (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice that cries, “The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.” We live in |
|
|
|
|
2023-04-29 National Peace Rose Day
【Sunday Morning·VI (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, |
|
|
|
|
2023-04-19 National Hanging Out Day
【Sunday Morning·V (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) She says, “But in contentment I still feel The need of some imperishable bliss.” Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfilment to our dreams |
|
|
|
|
2023-03-18 National Awkward Moments Day 【Sunday Morning·I (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancie |
|
|
|
|
2023-03-12 National Girl Scout Day 【Tatoo (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The light is like a spider. It crawls over the water. It crawls over the edges of the snow. It crawls under your eyelids And spreads its webs there-- &nb |
|
|
|
|
2023-02-19 National Chocolate Mint Day
【Bantams in Pine-Woods (1922)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt! Damned universal cock, as if the sun Was blackmoor to bear your blazing tail. &n |
|
|
|
|
2023-02-12 Super Bowl LVII: AFC Kansas City Chiefs vs. NFC Philadelphia Eagles
【Youth (1918)】
Samuel Ullman (1840—1924) Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips, and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, |
|
|
|
|
2023-01-21 National Hugging Day
【Esthétique du Mal·XIV (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Victor Serge said, "I followed his argument With the blank uneasiness which one must feel In the presence of a logical lunatic." He said it of Konstantinov. Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics. The politics of emotion must appear |
|
|
|
|
2023-01-15 Festival of Kitchen God
【Esthétique du Mal·XIII (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) It may be that one life is a punishment For another, as the son's life for the father's. But that concerns the secondary characters. It is a fragementary tragedy Within the universal whole. The son And the father alike and equally are s |
|
|
|
|
2023-01-08 National English Toffee Day
【Esthétique du Mal·XII (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) He disposes the world in categories, thus: The peopled and the unpeopled. In both, he is Alone. But in the peopled world, there is, Besides the people, his knowledge of them. In The unpeopled, there is his knowledge of himself. Which is more |
|
|
|
|
2023-01-01 New Year's Day
【Esthétique du Mal·XI (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Life is a bitter aspic. We are not At the centre of a diamond. At dawn, The paratroopers fall and as they fall They mow the lawn. A vessel sinks in waves Of people, as big-bell |
|
|
|
|
2022-12-30 National Bacon Day
【Esthétique du Mal·X (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) He had studied the nostalgias. In these He sought the most grossly maternal, the creature Who most fecundly assuaged him, the softest Woman with a vague mustache and not the mauve |
|
|
|
|
2022-12-25 Christmas Day
【Esthétique du Mal·IX (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Panic in the face of the moon — round effendi Or the phosphored sleep in which he walks abroad Or the majolica dish heaped up with phosphored fruit That he sends ahead, out of the goodness of his heart, To anyone who comes — panic, because The moon is no longer |
|
|
|
|
2022-12-17 Wright Brothers Day
【Esthétique du Mal·VI (1945)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The sun, in clownish yellow, but not a clown, Brings the day to perfection and then fails. He dwells In a consummate prime, yet still desires A further consummation. For the lunar month He makes the tenderest research, intent On a transmutation which |
|
|
|
|
2022-12-02 World Futures Day
【Esthétique du Mal·V (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Softly let all true sympathizers come, Without the inventions of sorrow or the sob Beyond invention. Within what we permit, Within the actual, the warm, the near, So great a |
|
|
|
|
2022-11-24 Thanksgiving Day
【Esthétique du Mal·III (1945)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) His firm stanzas hang like hives in hell Or what hell was, since now both heaven and hell Are one, and here, O terra infidel. The fault lies with an over-human god, & |
|
|
|
|
2022-10-22 National Nut Day 
【The Auroras of Autumn·VIII (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place. Or if there is no time, If it is not a thing of time, nor of place,
Existing in the idea of it, alone, In the sense against calamity, it is not &nb |
|
|
|
|
2022-09-25 National Quesadilla Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·X (1942)】 〖Part II〗 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun,
Patches the moon together in his room To his Vir |
|
|
|
|
2019-09-19
【Erat Hora (It was for an hour…)】 Ezra Pound (1885—1972) 〖Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948〗 Thank you, whatever comes.' And then she turned And, as the ray of sun on hanging flowers Fades when the wind hath lifted them aside, &nb |
|
|
|
|
2018-03-08
【Aiden in English】
It's great when you can celebrate a birthday without going to school. I'm not skipping school, and it's just because there is a projected foot of snow. Furthermore, it's not my birthday, but my grandmother's. She's turning 81 today, which isn’t something that occurs often. Looking out the window while I'm writing this, it doesn't appear there will be |
|
|
|
|
2017-03-05
【Aiden in English】
My grandmother's birthday is coming up. I know, why would you care? So what…, but this event is unique. The day after today will be her eightieth birthday, which is monumental for anyone. However, I must say, these milestones in life are much less hyped now than at other times. Nevertheless, Grandma’s birthday deserves some recognition. So, as usual in this household, |
|
|
|
|
2017-02-19
【Aiden in English】
It’s that time of year again—my birthday. I don’t want to write about this since it feels personal. But sometimes, I think it’s good to jot down some ideas about being 14. When people turn 13, they are stepping over an enormous milestone. However, age 14 is a step in the direction of choosing. Currently, courses are opening. We are presented with many classes to choose from. The fact that we |
|
|
|
|
2017-01-27
【Aiden in English】
The Lunar New Year is the biggest festival in China. While American school kids always complain about their wimpy week of Christmas and New Year's breaks, Chinese students are at home, chilling with a month of rest. Yet in America, where there are many Chinese immigrants, most schools barely recognize Chinese New Year as a holiday. At my school today, no teacher, stude |
|
|
|
|
2017-01-01
【Aiden in English】
You know, Longwood Gardens feels like a tradition now. It has been, what, three straight years of seeing the park in the holiday seasons? Correct me if I'm wrong, but this place is beginning to grow on me a bit. Most of you may ask why Longwood Gardens hasn't gotten duller. Instead of answering, may I ask you a question? Why does Christmas never get old? If you think about it, it' |
|
|
|
|
2016-12-25
【Liu Ch'e】 Ezra Pound (1885—1972) 〖Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948〗 The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the court-yard, There is no sound of foot-fall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A |
|
|
|
|
2016-12-25
【Garden】 Ezra Pound (1885—1972) 〖Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948〗 Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anemia.
And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, |
|
|
|
|
2016-11-05
【A Pact】 Ezra Pound (1885—1972) 〖Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948〗 I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman — I have detested you long enough. I come to you as a grown child Who has had a pig-headed father; & |
|
|
|
|
2016-05-29 Memorial Weekend
【Aiden in English】
Pittsburgh is an excellent city in Pennsylvania that the great Philadelphia commonly overshadows. Come to think of it, the City of Champions is just as good if not better than the City of Brotherly Love. Pittsburgh has fabulous architecture, a spectacular skyline, old money, and natural resources. Not to mention, sports teams are meant to play in the major leagues. Every team in Pittsburgh holds a |
|
|
|
|
2016-04-22
【Aiden in English】
And we’re back in the Lai-Lai Garden tonight. It wasn’t initially planned, as the first dinner plan was at the newly opened Madang Korean & BBQ nearby, but we like our food the Chinese way. You may be wondering, however, what’s the occasion? Mom is hosting her college folk and his wife, whom she has only seen once in three decades. That was thirteen years ago when I was carried around in a cradle. The couple jus |
|
|
|
|
2016-03-24
【Aiden in English】
In general, the word “indigenous” is used to describe a subject that is native to a specific location. Going back in time, the root derived from the Latin indigent, meaning “a native.” Add the English part of –ous to its end, and there you have the word. Hopping back to the present, New York is a melting pot of cultures on earth and has some Indigenous characteristics that the small county of Montgomery, PA, can’ |
|
|
|
|
2016-02-21
【Aiden in English】
Chinese Lunar New Year is fantastic because it's a holiday that is around 23 days long. You know what it means: more food, fun, and video games—this night combined Grandma's, Mom's, my birthday, and the Lantern Festival. Although the night is unique, I wish all these occasions were spread out more so I could enjoy everyone separately. Bamboo Szechuan Restaurant |
|
|
|
|
2016-02-07
【Aiden in English】
Super Bowl 50 is finally here! I'm a Denver Broncos fan, and you all may say I'm a bandwagon. I'm not for two reasons. First, the Broncos's kicker, Brandon McManus, went to the North Penn School District, where I came from. Secondly, when I was first introduced to football, I asked Dad who the best QB was four years ago, and it was Peyton Manning. Tom Brady was good, but this was right after the one whe |
|
|
|
|
2015-12-31
【Aiden in English】
A new year has arrived, and to be honest, 2015 was getting old. It feels like it turned 2016 ages ago, and we have to leave the glamorous life behind. But not yet. There are still seven more hours and two excellent college football semifinal bowl games. A family dinner was also added on New Year’s Eve as a split-second decision. Mei Ting Asian Fusion is a restaurant that o |
|
|
|
|
2015-12-27
【Aiden in English】
I'm not the biggest fan of flowers. Every spring, they take me through pollen torture that kills, and hopefully, that's a good enough reason. Well, after today, it might not be, seeing the Brookside Garden in Silver Spring, MD. It had been like my math test scores for the past few days of Christmas. They skyrocketed into the seventies, then plummeted into the forti |
|
|
|
|
2015-06-07
【Aiden in English】
A 4-star restaurant usually has ridiculously high prices in NYC and food that can be eaten anywhere. Pair it with some wine, and bam! The food just got a 4-star quality. The Russian Tea Room sounded like a different breed, and I was about to find out just how much. Russians enjoyed caviar. I’ll say it seems like their only condiment. So, going to a 4-star Russian restaura |
|
|
|
|
2015-03-21
【Aiden in English】
Hunger seems like an animal raging inside. A beast is waiting to eat itself if it must. At the time, my hand looked appetizing when I was hungry. Like a monster’s hunger, a meal can fill me up at the Chinese restaurant Margaret Kuo’s Dragon's Lair in Wayne, PA. We arrived at the restaurant just in time before I began biting off my fingers. Nothing was like tasting huma |
|
|
|
|
2015-03-07
【Aiden in English】
"The sunset is magnificent as dusk is approaching." The older you get, the more valuable life is. Life at this point isn’t just about living with happiness but keeping the quality with a strong, courageous heart as the ending creeps closer daily. In contrast, we are immature, like young, naive kids, and think life is long and tedious. However, when another year goes by, it seems shorter than before. |
|
|
|
|
2015-03-01
【Aiden in English】
Today, I just went to a piano audition for the Golden Key Music Festival of USA in Princeton, NJ, where I played Sonata in G Major, Op—49 No. 2 1st Movement by Beethoven. I didn’t write about it because there wasn’t much to mention. I was nervous, and my judge took forever to write her comments about the previous performance. But I don’t want to talk about it, in case of jinxing me. Afte |
|
|
|
|
2015-02-25
【Aiden in English】
The Year of Sheep has arrived, as it came happiness, celebration, and performances. Last weekend, I performed with my Chinese yo-yo at China Grace Christian Church (CGCC). Today, we were to do so again at the Spring Festival Gala of Guang Hua Chinese School (GHCS). The only difference in the performance was the number of people watching. At the church, there were about 100 or 150 people. When more than 60% of GH |
|
|
|
|
2015-02-21
【Aiden in English】
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) wasn’t just a learning opportunity and a daily exercise. Walking and standing for three hours gets you tired, you know. So, before our grand finale of a concert in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, we decided to have a delicious dinner to refill my batteries. Chinese cuisine gives energy to those who seek it and carve for food |
|
|
|
|
2015-02-21
【Aiden in English】
New York City (NYC) is one of the most incredible cities ever. People jostle around the streets. Every ten to twenty feet, there is a restaurant, and cars honk and beep as they rush to go somewhere. The Chinese Spring Festival also just passed, so going to NYC seems appealing. Mom also decided to share a wonderful day with my friend. Getting stuck in a car from the P |
|
|
|
|
2015-02-20
【Aiden in English】
On the 2nd day of the lunar month, Mom continued to take advantage of the festivity and had a holiday lunch with her colleagues at Bamboo Modern Szechuan Cuisine. Right after coming back, she took me back to Lai Lai Garden for a dinner party again. Lai Lai Garden is an impressive a-la-carte Chinese cuisine in our area in terms of food flavor, dining style, and cooking quality. Therefore, |
|
|
|
|
2015-02-19 Spring Festival
【Aiden in English】
Lai Lai Garden was undoubtedly a sensational experience on Chinese New Year’s Eve. It has been quite a while since my mouth was lit on fire like that, and I appreciate it. Mom took a break from work today, specifically for the Chinese Spring Festival. She joined a group of her friends from GlaxoSmithKline for lunch at Pin Wei Chinese Restaurant in King of Prussi |
|
|
|
|
2015-02-18 Chinese New Year's Eve
【Aiden in English】
Chinese New Year is the largest celebration all year round for any Chinese on earth. It’s when happiness spreads to every inch in China and abroad. Therefore, one of the best ways to celebrate the most fantastic Chinese holiday is to have a great feast. Lai Lai Garden in Blue Bell, PA, is a terrific Chinese and Japanese restaurant |
|
|
|
|
2014-12-28
【Aiden in English】
Vienna is Austria's capital city, famous for its lavish music concerts. “Salute to Vienna＂ brings joyful waltzes to the New Year and has become so popular that it has affected people all around the globe. This performance is being done everywhere during the holiday season as a gala goes on, like in Vienna back in 1899. Today, Salute to Vienna is on its grand stage at the Verizon Hall of the Kimmel Center for |
|
|
|
|
2014-12-17 
【Aiden in English】
Life in a city is so different from the one in the countryside. The town bustles with people, cars, shops, and vendors. Even the lively atmosphere flourishes so distinctly from my peaceful neighborhood. And best of all, it's always this way day and night, especially in a metropolitan city like New York City or NYC that never sleeps. NYC seemed chaotic. I stepped out of Penn Station and into another universe |
|
|
|
|
2014-10-26
【Aiden in English】
Dinner at a fancy restaurant with pals is always great unless the friends are your mom's friends. But it was fun since I had my trusty iPad by my side. It saved me from the long wait at Bacco Italian Restaurant. All fancy, and in tonight's case, Italian restaurants seem to have an extended period between dishes, so this sounded good for mom and her friend Kristine, my preschool pal Crystal's mom, who came back to PA from China |
|
|
|
|
2014-09-28
【Aiden in English】
I love spicy Chinese food. It fills me with warmth and melts away any of my worries. I could feel the spice burn the mouth with flavor. But there's a catch. Oh, yes, a huge catch. Sometimes, I overestimate my limits and somewhat burn my mouth. So, I must eat at my own risk. Other than that, I didn't care about the burn in the food. That said, Mom and I had dinner with friends from Guanghua Chinese School |
|
|
|
|
2014-08-24
【Aiden in English】
Ten years ago, at my first-ever birthday party in my house, Auntie Hongli and Uncle Henry came over to see me along with their two little daughters, Lynna, 7, and Jennifer, 4. A decade has passed, and we can finally have a reunion back in NJ from PA. This is more about Mom than me. Can you remember anything at the age of 12 months? Heck, I don't even recall most of my kindergarten friends. |
|
|
|
|
2014-06-26
【Aiden in English】
Mexican food is known worldwide. Many places have Mexican restaurants; one of the best is Chili's Grill & Bar. The Chili's is formal dining with a variety of Mexican selections. Tonight, Mom, a little sister, and I have to say, it has been a long time since we ate real Mexican food. The fajitas and tostadas are my favorites. The chicken and pork were roasted just right, the marinated veggies tas |
|
|
|
|
2014-06-22 
【Aiden in English】
Pizza is the most famous and popular food in the USA. It is so delicious and cheap that a slice of bread with tomato sauce and cheese makes a gentleman like me go nuts, and I could eat pizza all day. I experienced it at California Pizza Kitchen in Plymouth Meeting Mall today. Their simple pizza is turned into a work of art. Today's crazy, colorful pizza was the Spicy Chipotle Chicken Mexican Pizza. It consis |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
(0)
