R.I.P. -- H. David Dalquist
Usually, by the time I blog news, all the other bloggers know all about it. I'm always late to the party. However, I believe that NOBODY else (at least nobody on my blogrolls) has, so far this morning, noticed that H. David Dalquist has died, at the age of 86.*
But I noticed it right off, in the obituary section of my paper, and am proud to be quick on the blog this morning to say -- farewell, oh, excellent person! Thank you for all you have done for us! We're grateful for your presence here among the living, and we mourn your passing.
I'm especially pleased at our timely acquisition of the rose-shaped Bundt pan, which I got for Christmas and intend to use on Sunday, when we host the second of the "Knitting Clinic and Tea Party" events, which we'll get Sam to take pictures of, so that you can observe various English professors and graduate students wielding knitting needles and eating treats.
Which will include a rose-flavored cake, baked in the rose-shaped Bundt pan. I have a cathedral-shaped Bundt pan, too, which I dearly love, though I don't make cathedral-flavored cakes in it.**
We're having the knitting clinic because I discovered that a bunch of my colleagues purport to be unable to read knitting directions. Right. So they can read Derrida but they can't read knitting directions. Oh, please.
Anyway, we're going to fix that problem.
And, as I mention, eat treats. Treats are an important part of the Knitting Clinic and Tea Party events, as they are at other English Department events, and I believe I speak for the entire English Department when I say, again, farewell Mr. Dalquist. We appreciate you. Really. And we would like for Dr. Brannen to bring more Bundt cakes to more meetings, especially those wherein we are forced to discuss Assessment Tools.
For those of you who, moved by the passing of Mr. Dalquist, wish to go use your Bundt pans but can't find your cookbooks, there is some helpful information here on how to use your Bundt pan, once you find it, and one hell of a bunch of recipes over at the Betty Crocker site. I'm especially pleased to find that it's possible to bake Sloppy Joes in my Bundt pans. Hmmm. Cathedral? Rose? Fleur-de-lis? Which pan suits that recipe best?
Well, in the case of the "Hidden Sloppy Joes," one would perhaps want to use the understated swirl Bundt pan, as, well, really, hidden sloppy joes are sort of scary enough already, don't you think?
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*Surely, you'd think, there'd be some news link out there that didn't require you to register if you didn't link through Google. But no. So I'll just tell you: he invented the Bundt pan.
**I could, perhaps, make a lavender cake in the rose-shaped pan. That would be amusing. But there are little pockets of orderliness in me that I can't override, alas, much as I try. Same thing with the fountain pens. If I've got red ink in a pen, that pen is red. Peacock blue ink in the peacock blue pens. One of my colleagues was very disappointed when he found this out. He'd assumed, he said, more creativity in me. Nope. Sorry.
But I noticed it right off, in the obituary section of my paper, and am proud to be quick on the blog this morning to say -- farewell, oh, excellent person! Thank you for all you have done for us! We're grateful for your presence here among the living, and we mourn your passing.
I'm especially pleased at our timely acquisition of the rose-shaped Bundt pan, which I got for Christmas and intend to use on Sunday, when we host the second of the "Knitting Clinic and Tea Party" events, which we'll get Sam to take pictures of, so that you can observe various English professors and graduate students wielding knitting needles and eating treats.
Which will include a rose-flavored cake, baked in the rose-shaped Bundt pan. I have a cathedral-shaped Bundt pan, too, which I dearly love, though I don't make cathedral-flavored cakes in it.**
We're having the knitting clinic because I discovered that a bunch of my colleagues purport to be unable to read knitting directions. Right. So they can read Derrida but they can't read knitting directions. Oh, please.
Anyway, we're going to fix that problem.
And, as I mention, eat treats. Treats are an important part of the Knitting Clinic and Tea Party events, as they are at other English Department events, and I believe I speak for the entire English Department when I say, again, farewell Mr. Dalquist. We appreciate you. Really. And we would like for Dr. Brannen to bring more Bundt cakes to more meetings, especially those wherein we are forced to discuss Assessment Tools.
For those of you who, moved by the passing of Mr. Dalquist, wish to go use your Bundt pans but can't find your cookbooks, there is some helpful information here on how to use your Bundt pan, once you find it, and one hell of a bunch of recipes over at the Betty Crocker site. I'm especially pleased to find that it's possible to bake Sloppy Joes in my Bundt pans. Hmmm. Cathedral? Rose? Fleur-de-lis? Which pan suits that recipe best?
Well, in the case of the "Hidden Sloppy Joes," one would perhaps want to use the understated swirl Bundt pan, as, well, really, hidden sloppy joes are sort of scary enough already, don't you think?
________________________________
*Surely, you'd think, there'd be some news link out there that didn't require you to register if you didn't link through Google. But no. So I'll just tell you: he invented the Bundt pan.
**I could, perhaps, make a lavender cake in the rose-shaped pan. That would be amusing. But there are little pockets of orderliness in me that I can't override, alas, much as I try. Same thing with the fountain pens. If I've got red ink in a pen, that pen is red. Peacock blue ink in the peacock blue pens. One of my colleagues was very disappointed when he found this out. He'd assumed, he said, more creativity in me. Nope. Sorry.
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