Steve Berlin

Atty/ExecDir @ChicagoEthicsBd, Past President @COGELinfo /dad/mugwump/piano/baseball/cooking/hiking+flâneurie/film📷+pinot noiriste. Opinions mine unless noted.

[Steve Berlin @EthicsSteve]

This sentence struck me: there is a "catalog of worlds" maintained by the International Astronomical Union. https://t.co/Isi4ZHwOhR

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As a total aside, I think the correct result was reached here. But it’s a bit scary, really. And fascinating, I say as a lawyer.

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Reasons to love Chicago ##1,818-1,825: a special Juneteenth shout-out to the curators of the rose garden at the huge McDonald’s, LaSalle + Ontario, Chicago. A gem. 🍔🌹🥀💐

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@brittyknows Toff is too twee and too British for the Spelling Bee arbiters.

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Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan populate their novels with toffs.

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Reason to love Chicago ##1,942-43: little gems at the Art Institute, taken June 17, 2018.

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Elegiac, and pompous.

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Reasons obscure have brought me back to Sir Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Cicumstance Marches. I adore each of these.

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@VoiceCandy @WFMT Wow!!

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Poulenc (I do not know this will work well but it’s fun) followed by Britten’s Gloriana dances. Reasons to love Chicago ##1,216-19: @WFMT and @VoiceCandy

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@VoiceCandy @WFMT I do not know what that ragtime piece was, or who wrote it, but it sounded like an inverted Maple Leaf Rag.🍁🎹

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I love roasting thick asparagus. It has been difficult to find this Spring. But oh so good when do you finally find it.

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Michigan asparagus. Der Spargel (green, not white).

Roasted with lemon, salt, pepper, chile (here hot Hungarian paprika powder plus little roasted fresh orange Thai chiles) and olive oil.

A cure for whatever ails you.

Like Mozart.

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Add garlic or other allium as you please. 🧅🧄

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Reason to love Chicago #19: we can handle rooting for two baseball teams.*

It’s good to see Rate Field pretty close to full.

*Having two venerable baseball teams to root for is a total joy. Not many cities have this luxury.⚾️⚾️

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Oh c’mon, Spelling Bee. 🍔🌮🥗🍒🍦🥓🍇

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Baseball can be an exquisitely beautiful sport.

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@OhioBikeLawyer @nut_history Touché.

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@nut_history Nice photo! I was there in 2021 to see the Cubs. It’s a lovely park. I walked to it across the Roebling Suspension Bridge.

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@FundacioMompou I am way overdue for a visit to Catalonia. My last visit was in 1999.

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Do you ever have that feeling where you must listen to Mompou’s Música callada? I’m having it now. These pieces are wise and serene. And, on this recording, you can hear Mompou turn the pages between pieces.