Posted on 02/09/2024 5:53:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
It's National Pizza Day - so let's wrap ourselves in the warm, gooey embrace of cheese, settle into a heavenly array of toppings and chomp down on some delectable crust.
The celebration comes every February 9, but it's hardly the only pizza-positive spot on the calendar. Still to come: National Cheese Pizza Day (September 5), National Pepperoni Pizza Day (September 20), National Pizza Month (October) and National Sausage Pizza Day (October 11).
There's no doubt about it - folks do love their pizza in all its forms. Here are some absurd pizza facts, helpful tips and strong opinions to fuel your munching:
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Ha Ha. Will have a steak and salad tonight, pizza is for the weekends.
I did my part.
best za i ever had was outside the terminal on Manhattan side of the Staten Island Ferry...
Had a cheese steak from our favorite pizza/pasta & sandwich place. Wife had calzone.
Does that count?
Julia Cameron (ex wife of Martin Scorsese. The author of 40 books including The Artist’s Way, the Right to Write, Floor Sample and Answered Prayers):
“Bad writing—when it’s good— is like New York street pizza.
Sometimes it’s a little too crusty. Sometimes it’s a little too soggy, but the tang is undeniable. It has flavor. Spice. Juice.”
It’s funny how I remembered some lines from her writings like those.
You don’t miss it until you live somewhere where you can’t find any worth a damn.
Gotta go here for more FR conversation.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4216158/posts
We’re having my hubby’s amazing smash burgers tonight. There may be pizza on Sunday at a Super Bowl party.
*** The Artist’s Way***
Omg, one of my best friends sent me this for my birthday a month ago. Fabulous!
Glad you can benefit from her good ideas. She used to do live coaching and speaking sessions. Never saw her.
Oddly, one of her question and answer sessions on a recording was the only one all my life or in any self-help guru’s work who said a problem is being told too often by teachers and others while growing up you are a genius, you are so talented it should be easy for you-—but if it isn’t easy then you feel like a total loser. That happened to me a lot. Pressure and then no one to understand it isn’t always easy.
People on FR help me say grounded. I’m never overpraised here.
Your comment is very pertinent to me. I was smarter than the average bear growing up, but felt I had no artistic talent whatsoever, so I stifled that part of me, and always went on the brainiac/analytical way of looking at things. I learned much later that I do have a creative side also. I can’t draw worth a damn, but I can take decent photos, and I’m somewhat into poetry. The friend that gave me this book is encouraging me to stretch, to take chances, to fail, and to try again. It’s been good for me. I’m grateful. Learning to let go of those negative voices in my head.
Yes, I love FReepers, too. I learn humility when I least suspect it’s coming.
“when the moon hits your eye like a big-a pizza pie, ‘atsa amore!”
happpy lunar new year guys!
That sounds like something from Roseanne Roseannadanna.
I can barely draw a straight line most of the time but me and cameras get along very well, even a as teen with a Canon Sureshot.
Limited as it was, people as rule liked what they saw.
I guess that is how I wound up working in television for a number of years. Low level educational and state government stuff. Even after getting into another line of work, I produced stock footage clips for a number of years until it wasn’t worth doing any more.
Even with tools like Photoshop or GIMP, I’m not great at drawing something from scratch.
New Haven. Nothing more need be said
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