Making Mom's Frittatta

Dave and I are hosting the bookclub here for brunch this morning. The host is responsible for the main dish - - - so I'm making my Mom's frittata recipe; and a vegetarian one as one couple that attends is vegetarian.

Mom McDiarmid's Classic Frittata

8 eggs slightly beaten
3 cups grated cheese (I use sharp cheddar)
1 cup diced mozzarella cheese
4 or 5 dashes of tabasco
1 medium size zucchini thinly sliced and lightly sautéed
2 chicken breasts, cooked and diced
4 strips of bacon, crumbled
parsley
1 tsp salt
paprika
1 & 2/3 cups half & half
1/2 C flour
pepper to taste
grated parmesan or romano cheese

In a 9 x 13 casserole (spray bottom) spread half the cheese, layer in the chicken, then the bacon and cooked zucchini. Add the remaining cheese plus the mozzarella. In a bowl combine eggs, salt, milk, parsley, flour and tabasco, blend and pour over chicken. Sprinkle lightly with parmesan and paprika. Bake at 350, 35-40 mins until custard is set in the middle and a knife comes out clean. Let sit for 5 mins before cutting. Can be served hot or just room temperature.

brunch!

Brunch with the bookclub turned out fantastic! Mom's frittata recipe turned out perfectly!

Placing Anti-Hate Speech Banners on our LJ accounts.....

Livejournal has been serving ads from the National Organization from Marriage. Goddamnit. Granted - I have a paid account so I don't see ads.... but its just awful to see that they are running the ads. greatbearmd reported it on his journal here - and it looks like a member of the LJ staff commented on his entry saying they are looking into getting the ad removed from their ad service. But as qnetter pointed out in a comment "...If you're running ads and accept whatever comes up from your "agency" (i.e., Google), you're responsible. You can't just outsource the responsibility. A real business with real ethics sells its own ads and manages whose ads it will carry and whose it will not..."

So what to do folks - - - part of me says that with adblockers you'd never see this content; or that if you paid for an account you wouldn't see the ads. But - it would subject non-LJers I refer to my journal to possibly seeing an ad from NOM or some other right-wing hate factory.

So - do we consider or discuss leaving LJ because they accept ads from NOM - if even through a 3rd party ad insertion company? Do we allow LJ to make a written policies about ads that come from this kind of group? Should we accept that while we live in the progressive gay corner of LJ - that there is undoubtedly a conservative anti-gay corner of LJ - - and would they want ads served from HRC promoting marriage equality on their ads?

Is it LJ's job to police ad insertion advertisers?

The broader question is - do we simply bail on LJ or do we try to formulate a response. Does LJ care what the gay corner of LJ thinks - are we inflating our "importance" to the LJ business model in any sort of response we might take?

Can we go anywhere on the web and expect an adversarial viewpoint not to show up? by bailing - to the next shiny supposedly 'free of hate-organization advertising' blog platform - are we holding LJ to high of a standard?

Surely - I am angry - and dislike that LJ accepted the ad at all - regardless of how it is served.

but - how do we make a wise response other than - FUCK LJ I'M LEAVING. How many times to we do that - before we find a more creative response?

One suggestion? Run banner ads of our own as permanent sticky entries on the front of our journals.

Like this one:


Now - this is an animated gif - just like NOM's - that I have installed at the top of my livejournal account declaring my journal a hate-speech free zone.

I just quickly bashed this out - so is it the BEST ad I could come up with? no.
It'll do for now - but I encourage everyone to put a sticky post at the top of their journal.

Journal--->Customize Style--->Text----> and there is a selection there for a "sticky post" - where you can write a permanent entry that shows up that the top of your Livejournal everytime someone LJ or not visits your journal.

But how about all of us put anti-hate speech banners at the top of our LJs - and showing the faces of the people NOM hates.

what do ya'll think?