[food/drink] Yu-Hsiang fish

From http://www.kitchengeek.com/2004/08/yushiang_whole_.html:

2 scallions
2 Tbsp pressed or chopped garlic
2 Tbsp ginger (the recipe said 'chopped', we grated it)
2 Tbsp soy sauce
2 Tbsp spicy black bean sauce ("available from just about any grocery store," except not the one I tried, nor the first one M tried)
1 tsp hot sesame oil
1 tsp vegetable oil
1 tsp rice wine vinegar

1 Tbsp corn starch
2 Tbsp water (but see below)

1 lb. haddock

( Fish! This turned out wonderful despite some snags. )

[books] WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS - Queer

The jump from first person to third for this second book of autobiography put me off initially, but it works. It works because the book is about a crush that gnaws away at Burroughs (or rather, at "Bill Lee", his stand-in) and having a first-person narrator, I think, would inject the question of how the author Burroughs feels, now, about the subject Burroughs. Dodging the issue means that he can describe both level-headed and desperate emotions in the same reportorial tone.

More than in Junky, though, it trips me up to have so much trouble imagining Burroughs young. It matters to the plot that he's older than many of his friends-- but not THAT much older, not the gentlemanly cadaver in the hundred iconic photos you see of him today.

I've already started on The Soft Machine and discovered that the 'radical fiction' and cut-up experiments make a lot more sense knowing some of the slang and drug-culture customs. This was worth reading in its own right, though, as a portrait of unrequited affection.