ATDDTA(10) Fidgety Hat Band [286]

Tue Jun 5 08:24:17 CDT 2007

Frank dances Disco around the issue of bombing by introducing the  
possibility of a more effective 'system for concentrating gold ore.'  
Ellmore couldn't care less and suggests lunch at Lupita's.

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[286:22] "Lupita" = from the river of the wolf

          "menudo" = The soup menudo is a traditional Mexican dish; a  
spicy soup made with tripe. It is often thought of as a cure for a  
hangover, and is traditionally served on special occasions or with  
family. In pre-revolution Mexico, poverty amongst the campesinos was  
chronic and little if anything that might be prepared as food was  
left to waste. Usually, the best cuts of meat would go to the  
hacienda owners while the offal went to the peons. These leftovers  
consisted of organ meats, brains, head, tails, hooves, etc. As cattle  
and sheep are ruminants that require lengthy intestinal tracts to  
digest their diet of grasses and raw seeds, the stomach is one of the  
largest pieces of offal available from these animals.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menudo_%28soup%29
   http://tinyurl.com/2e7qe3

           "tripes" = Tripe is a type of edible offal made from the  
stomach of various domestic animals. Beef tripe is typically made  
from the first three of a cow's four stomach chambers, the rumen  
(blanket/flat/smooth tripe), the reticulum (honeycomb and pocket  
tripe), and the omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe). Abomasum (reed) tripe  
is also seen, but with much less frequency, owing to its glandular  
tissue content. Sheep and pork tripe are also produced.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe

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[286:24-25] "gray sombrero with a band of silver medallions inlaid  
with lapis and jasper, Zuni work by the look of it."

Lapis Lazuli - A rich blue opaque, semi-precious stone that has been  
used in jewelry since ancient times. Ground-up lapis lazuli was once  
used as a pigment for oil paintings. Lapis lazuli is often dyed to  
deepen and improve its color. It chips and scratches easily and water  
can dull its sheen. Swiss lapis is not Lapis lazuli at all, it is  
dyed jasper. Denim lapis is relatively pale, low-grade, inexpensive  
lapis from Chile; it is the color of denim cloth.

Jasper - A common, semi-precious stone that is found in many colors,  
including white, brown, yellow, red, and green. Jasper is found all  
over the world. Jasper has been used for carvings. Jasper is a type  
of quartz. It is often sealed with petroleum products. Jasper is  
sometimes dyed to resemble lapis lazuli and misleadingly called Swiss  
lapis.
   http://www.whodoneit.info/wdi_info_00001c.htm

Zuni artists have been perfecting the art of inlay for decades.   
Inlay involves precisely cutting stones to fit together, typically in  
a mosaic pattern.  Stone to stone inlay is a technique in which the  
artist fits stones directly against each other.  It requires great  
precision of cutting and design to avoid gaps.  Channel inlay is a  
technique where the stones are set into channels or shapes that were  
pre-molded from silver.  The best channel inlay is also very precise,  
with the stone exactly matching the border of the silver with no  
filler.  The old time inlayers in the 30s and 40s worked mostly with  
hand tools, but their inlay is anything but primitive.  The masters  
created inlay so precise and beautiful you can hardly believe it was  
all cut with simple tools.  Old does not mean sloppy or crude  
looking!  Contemporary artists often use modern powered tools, but  
the difficulty of their art is not diminished. Their inlay is usually  
beautifully precise with the added bonus that they have a wider color  
range.  The traditional stones are  black jet, red coral,  white  
mother of pearl, and blue turquoise.  Old pieces often used Blue Gem  
turquoise, which is uncommon now.  Many of the jewelry makers also  
were superb fetish carvers.  Modern inlayers have a wider color range  
using stones like green gaspeite, orange melon shell, and purple  
sugilite.
   http://tinyurl.com/2et7ht

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[286:28] "Pacific Street"

Pacific Street runs east and west on the south side of the  
Telluridian grid almost touching the San Miguel River to the west and  
the east while the river makes a southerly arc between those two points.
   http://www.telluride.com/useful/town_view.asp

Back on Pacific Street, The Senate, the Silver Bell, the Cribs and  
the madam’s stone residence in the back make up the restored  
buildings of the “sporting district.” The Senate was one of the many  
“female boarding houses” that was bustling with business between the  
1880s and 1930s. The old Senate closed in 1935. The Silver Bell,  
built in 1890, suffered a disastrous fire in 1923. It operated as one  
of Telluride’s many “soda parlours” during Prohibition and its  
numerous outside entrances hint at the other services offered. It  
closed in 1959 and was faithfully restored in 1991 as the Ah Haa  
School for the Arts. The three simple Victorian houses standing in a  
row on Pacific Street, known as the Cribs, are all that remain of the  
similar structures that lined both sides of the street all the way to  
the edge of Town Park. The Telluride Housing Authority saved these  
last houses by renovating them in 1983.
   http://www.telluride.com/about_telluride/Buildings.asp

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[286:29] "three-spring phaetons"

Phaeton is the son of the sun-god Helios. When Phaeton ("the shining  
one") finally learned who his father was, he went east to meet him.  
He induced his father to allow him to drive the chariot of the sun  
across the heavens for one day. The horses, feeling their reins held  
by a weaker hand, ran wildly out of their course and came close to  
the earth, threatening to burn it. Zeus noticed the danger and with a  
thunderbolt he destroyed Phaeton. He fell down into the legendary  
river Eridanus where he was found by the river nymphs who mourned him  
and buried him. The tears of these nymphs turned into amber. For the  
Ethiopians however it was already too late: they were scorched by the  
heat and their skins had turned black.
   http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/phaeton.html

The mail phaeton first appeared in England in the early years of the  
nineteenth century. The suspension was the same as that used on the  
English mail coach of 1805, i.e., with a combination of two side- and  
two cross springs, known as “telegraph” springs, at the front and, at  
the rear, a combination of three springs, i.e., two side elbow  
springs and one cross spring (a so-called “gallows” spring).
   http://www.caaonline.com/seabrook/mailphaeton.html

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[286:29-30] "buckboards"

A four-wheeled open carriage with the seat or seats attached to a  
flexible board running between the front and rear axles. [AHD]
   http://www.oldmesilla.org/postcard/pictures/buckboard.jpg
   http://www.bpl.lib.me.us/newsletters/issue11/Images/Buckboard.JPG
   http://www.bootscooters.com/04%20Old%20buckboard.jpg

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[286:36] "hardpan" = A layer of hard subsoil or clay. Hard, unbroken  
ground. [AHD]

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[286:39] "Cooking aromas"

The olfactory theme continues.

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