Mr. Budget is at it again:
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For years, grandma Mary Jo’s Spaghetti Sauce and Meatball recipe has been a family secret. Many have tried to duplicate, most have failed, some have died. Well the time has come to spread the joy. Below you will find the ingredients and cooking directions for Mary Jo’s Spaghetti Sauce and Meatballs. Remember, the beauty of Mary Jo’s recipe is its simplicity and flexibility. There is ample room for experimentation to find what best suits your needs. Enjoy.
In a good-size cooking bowl, combine and let simmer for several hours:
fresh, minced parsley
4 large cloves of garlic
¼ cup extra light olive oil
1 can tomato sauce (Mary Jo prefers Hunt’s Tomato Sauce or homemade)
1 can of whole peeled tomatoes (preferably Progresso)
½ spoonful of sugar
3 large bay leaves
salt
generous quantity of pepper and oregano
For 9-12 full-size meatballs:
1 lb of ground round beef (Mary Jo prefers a leaner beef)
1 egg
generous salt & pepper
McCormick Garlic Powder with Parsley
½ tsp of grated parmesan
Bread crumbs (Progresso Italian Style breadcrumbs or day old bread, moistened)
Combine ingredients, refrigerate 2 hours ahead of cooking time, cook in spaghetti sauce at slight simmer for 20 minutes
That’s it. Surprisingly basic ingredients, surprisingly simple recipe. What makes Mary Jo’s Spaghetti so special is the love you put in, folks. Love is the most important ingredient of all.
*Samuel wasn’t the only student instructed by Principle Adams to write me a note of apology for sneaking out of class. Brian & Mike were also a part of this gang of houligans. Below are their apologies, most sincere I’m sure.
*All names have been changed.
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“Dear Sub,
Im sorry for making a bad impression and taking advantage of you. I shouldn’t of done what I did. I honestly thought that we could shoot hoops in the gym, because one of my freinds said we could. You are a great man and a great sub. You should definitely come back to sub, but dont let my behavior change that. Im a great kid and I hated for you to see me do that. Again Im sorry and I HOPE to see you back.
Sincerely,
Mike Sharp”
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“Sir,
My name is Brian McGuire. I was one of the students who got in trouble. I am very sorry. I took advantage of you and that was wrong. As you know I was going to go to the councilers office and the other two were going to ask for a pass from the P.E. teacher. On our way down the hall Mrs. Thomas stopped us. The whole situation should have never happened, and it will never happen again. LTMS is a great school and I am honored to be a student here. I hope my behavior will not even tilt your opinion about this great school.
Sincerely,
Brian McGuire”
‘Cuz it ain’t. You get no respect. Sure, there are days you get to sub for a PE teacher and can include yourself in a game of dodge ball. But there are just as many days that your lesson plans have you watching “Dead Poet’s Society” 4 times in a day. Carpe Diem, my ass.
Here’s an actual apology note from 7th grader Samuel Richards* after he snuck out of my class and another teacher caught him and his gang roaming the halls.
*names have been changed to protect the punks
“Mr. Ward
I am Samuel. I was one of the three students that were involved in this simple misunderstanding today. As you already know, us three were just going to go get our homework from our teachers classroom. We didn’t have any homework that could be done in the choir classroom (needed research & certain equipment) so we wondered if we could go to the gym. Me & Brian (Brian – tall guy) waited outside the doors while Mike asked if we can. He secretly needed to go to counselors Office (I think he mentioned it to you). So you told us we needed passes so we went to the gym to get them, while Mike wanted to go to the counselors Office. While we were walking to the gym, we got stopped by Mr. Anderson. She noticed we didnt have passes to be walking in the hallway. (big mistake on our part, we forgot to get passes from YOU so that we can get a pass from the GYM teacher) So we got turned in to you looking like criminals. I admit, it was kinda stuipid on our part, we shouldve just wAtched the movie but we were BORED. SORRY for all this, it was, like I said, a simple misunderstanding.”
Well hey there buckaroos!
It’s my duty to point out that 2010 has already seen the release of three killer records filled with aural pleasures (and we haven’t even released our record yet!)…
I suggest you check out the banging new OK Go album “Of The Blue Colour of the Sky.” Yep, the tunes are as classy as you would expect from an album title using the ol’ English spelling of ‘colour.’
Perhaps you’ve seen the videos…?
Spoon has just released their most recent and rocking record “Transference.” (FYI: Spoon bassist Rob Pope hails from right here in Lawrence, KS. I had quite the geek out when I recently ran into Pope and Spoon frontman Brit Daniels at local hangout The Bourgeois Pig. I remember asking Brit a ridiculous question before immediately blacking out).
And Vampire Weekend has “Contra,” a funky little number. I’d stack these three records up with any of the best from 2010 (though I must admit, I didn’t listen to a single new record last year aside from “The Resistance”… I dropped the ball last year…).
We’re still answering both obscene and surprisingly sophisticated questions at www.formspring.me/thenoisefm
We’ll keep answering your questions until we’ve run that gimmick into the ground.
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Unfortunately due to unforeseen illness, we have to cancel our Chicago appearance at Lincoln Hall tomorrow evening.
We were all really looking forward to being back in Chicago for the past few weeks. Needless to say, we will be back really soon again. This time, we will all be 100% healthy.
We still suggest that you go to the show and see all of the other great bands! Support local music.
-The Noise FM
Happy New Year!
As you can see, we have a new website. We’re in the process of recording some new tracks for you to listen to, and we’ll be touring a lot this year. If you’ve been waiting to see us, this will probably be the year, as we’re going a lot of places we haven’t gone before.
(cue Star Trek music)
(the old 1960’s version, not the JJ Abrams version)
(that version was pretty great though)
You can always follow us on twitter at @thenoisefm or our cat, Mr. Budget @mrbudgetisacat. We were voted BEST LOCAL TWEETS OF 2009 by KC Ink magazine. Find out what you’re missing and follow us.
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See you in the future,
- The Noise FM