Old-growth forest
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 16
LOST & FOUND DEP'T.
Dog Finds Truffle Named for Dogs Finding Truffles
Recently Found in America
The official Dodge Charger pace car of the South Alabama Speedway, two-way radios, and headsets (behind a house in Kinston, Alabama, three miles from the speedway from which the car and equipment had been stolen)
A dead alpine forest of whitebark pine (on the Beartooth Plateau in Wyoming, where the trees emerged from ice that had covered them since they died in a cooling climate episode 5,500 years ago)
A black-and-white cat (in a backpack outside a building formerly used as a shelter by Humane Fort Wayne, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where a staffer found it in freezing weather and brought it to an active shelter, where it was named Mr. Satchel and successfully put up for adoption)
A New York City MTA R train (on storage tracks at the Forest Hills–71st Avenue station in Queens, after being driven there by joyriders who took the train from the station)
Two new species of truffle, Tuber cumberlandense and Tuber canirevelatum (in a truffle orchard in Allen County, Kentucky, and a municipal park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, respectively, by truffle dogs named Luca and Monza)
A food cache pit, lined with birch bark, dug some 960 years ago (by Upper Cook Inlet, on Dene land now occupied by the Air Force and Army's Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, in Anchorage, Alaska)
Recently Missing in America
Two compound bows and an 1,800-watt generator (from a locked shed at a camp in Armstrong Township, Pennsylvania)
A young African grey parrot (from a pet-bird store in a strip mall in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, after someone acting like a customer asked to see it and ran off with it in its cage)
Four guns (from parked cars around Renton, Washington, after more than 60 cars had their windows smashed in one night)
Nine air conditioner units valued at $63,000 (from Refuge Church of the Assemblies of God in Jonesboro, Arkansas)
An 18-foot metal slide (from a plant nursery in Richland, Washington)
A half-ton granite historical marker (from outside the Ocean Born Mary House in Henniker, New Hampshire)
WEATHER REVIEWS
New York City, January 26, 2025
★★★ Sun shone up the block, bringing warmth with it—not enough, a quick test found, to justify unzipping the coat, but the hat could stay in the pocket. It was a simple, straightforward day of respite in winter, nothing feverish or unsettling. The hard patches of snow were slowly giving off melt-dampness; men were hosing down the sidewalk in the cross street while the water could be trusted to stay liquid. As clouds and scaffolds cut off the light, the wind picked up a chill from the cold pavement. On the way back, the men were gone, but auto paint sparkled, free of salt and grime, where the hose-work had moved higher.
EASY LISTENING DEP'T.
HERE IS TODAY'S Indignity Morning Podcast.
Tom Scocca
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TOM SCOCCA
ADVICE DEP'T.
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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of sandwiches selected from A Calendar of Dinners, with 615 Recipes, by Marion Harris Neil, including The Story of Crisco, published in 1915 and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
Tomato and Horseradish Sandwiches
1 tablespoonful Crisco
1/4 cupful grated horseradish
1 tomato
Bread
1/4 cupful mayonnaise
Salt and paprika to taste
Parsley
Mix Crisco, horseradish, and mayonnaise together. Skin and slice tomato, sprinkle with salt and paprika. Spread thin slices of bread and butter with Crisco mixture, and put sliced tomato between, cut into fancy shapes and garnish with parsley.
Sufficient for ten sandwiches.
If you decide to prepare and attempt to enjoy a sandwich inspired by this offering, be sure to send a picture to indignity@indignity.net.
