sputters forth from the simple mind

Professor R's Japanese film series is showing "The Army", the great wars propaganda film par excellence, tonight. I shall squeeze that between some reading (more about polygamists and misers in Ming-Qing fiction, yay) and some more reading.
In a sudden seizure of domestic desires yesterday, I made a pot of plain rib soup (no daikon at Safeway, unfortunately), spinache with garlic and sesame oil, and marinaded a small village of portabella mushrooms for grilling tonight. Perhaps I shall reheat the rib soup and make it springy wit a leaf or two of Chinese cabbage.