|
Author
|
Comment
|
dorisi
Registered User
(9/22/02 1:01:58 pm)
ezSupporter
|
Re: Dinner?
cpe -The soup sounds delicious, but I notice that you've omitted to tell us about the other items on the menu. Should we be worried?
|
Kate
Unregistered User
(9/22/02 7:09:05 pm)
|
Late
I'm chiming into this conversation late and must go back and reread all the wonderful comments, but I did want to direct anyone interested to Joy Williams's haunting and typically brilliant Baba Yaga piece in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. She accomplishes more for the tale in 600 words what I could never dream of accomplishing in 6,000 pages (let alone this little post).
My grandmother often used a Yiddish saying that, translated loosely, goes something like "If you don't shut up, it's the chicken leg for you." Not to eat, mind you. Waved hysterically in your face more likely with a Russian glare.
She also used the chicken legs in soup, of course.
Kate
|
Kate
Unregistered User
(9/22/02 7:12:15 pm)
|
Oops
Well, suddenly I'm an unregistered user and can't edit my comment . . . but of course I meant "ever accomplish," not "never." Sorry for the typo and this inane, and neurotic, correction.
|
fherman1
Unregistered User
(9/22/02 7:44:18 pm)
|
Baba Yaga Kung Fu
I'm sorry, the image is overpowering: two huts with chicken legs plomping around the field, going at each other with kickboxing and fighting leaps. Four Golden Drumsticks of Death! Devastating Architectural Shingle Strike! Kiai!
I'm going to go slink off now.
Fred H.
|
fherman1
Unregistered User
(9/22/02 7:48:51 pm)
|
What that was all about
Sorry, that last was intended as a tangential reply to dorisi's
Quote:
Midori, I loved your ‘choice of weapon' phrase. I keep thinking of duelling Baba Yagas - ‘ovens at dawn'. And in their tournaments, the Baba Yagas would have oven-shoving contests.
|
Helen
Registered User
(9/22/02 8:22:33 pm)
|
Pat Wrede connection ...
This is vaguely tangential, which I hope that none of you will mind ... the images of the contest/combat of the Baba Yaga's forced me to make one of those deductive leaps to ... Pat Wrede! In one of the stories in her last collection, she has "The Frying Pan of Doom" ... a decidely idiosyncratic magical object, to say the least. So, in order to bestow it correctly, they hold a tournament. Not just any tournament, mind you - frustratingly, I cannot seem to lay my hands on it now, but it includes things like the Barbarian's Bake-Off. Great stuff ...
|
fherman1
Unregistered User
(9/23/02 6:36:48 am)
|
Ear-Ringing Double Lump Frying Pan Strike!
I dunno, a frying pan seems an obvious object of power. It fries *and* it whaps, and in a pinch the back of it can probably serve as a mirror. (One of the more dopey scenes in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ comes to mind: Karen Allen, having grabbed a frying pan, ducks into a darkened doorway. Pursuing bad guy follows her. BONG!)
|
pinkolaestes
Registered User
(9/23/02 10:19:05 pm)
|
Baba Yaga's Kitchen
Dear dorisi and helen: I do not know how you knew about the waiter in the mortar. But we also do have the mortar and pestle ride out back, along with the fiery-skull ride, and the hut merry-go-round. The ferris wheel is made of bones of course, and sort of like tinkertoys, they have to be tightened from time to time, so the ferris wheel is temporarily out of order until to-marrow. Heheheheh. (where did that cackle come from??)
But, as you know, our real wait-staff is made up of the 'invisble hands," although they are demanding scale now and boy, these hand unions are becoming expensive.
Also on our menu we offer some very nice deserts; cinder of stepsister zabiglione, (we no longer know how to spell Zabiglione, we had an italian chef, but I think La Señora may have eaten him as a late night snack last week); we also have for desert, skull on a stick ( chicken ice cream shaped like a little calavera on a popsicle stick); then we have teary-misou, we have flourless, bloodless chocolate cake for the occasional non-vampire who stops by; we have knucklebone tarts and leech cobbler; and the piece de resistance, vanilla brainaroni, half baked of course.
I hope you all will stop by soon. Don Knotts, no Don Johnson, no Don whatsisname who represents the fighter Tyson is now representing the Fighting Yagas, and as you already know from other correspondents, that ten rounder promises to be a great night for all. You can sit on the patio sipping cafe-o-leg and cheer for your favorite Yaga.
hotelier, cpe
|
dorisi
Registered User
(9/24/02 1:33:17 am)
ezSupporter
|
Re: Baba Yaga's Kitchen
cpe - you forgot to mention the complimentary bread-time stories that come with every main meal.
|
