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Lanttu continued from page 24 What arose my suspicion, after first getting caught up Book Review farmer’s market? Yes, they spread out wooden planks and unceremoniously roll rutabagas like bowling balls, in all the silliness and ridiculous assertions, interspersed with serious considerations, and some historical briefs Elena Marikova while pretending they are giant curling hockey pucks. The lanttus in my garden are squirming in their soil, as that might actually be true, was a denunciation of the rutablogger.blogspot.com, affiliated with Mr. Macaroon’s by Herbert Eggie I write, and every time that I bring up this topic. In fact, while telling someone on the phone about this, I looked Rutabagan newsletter. Mr. Coconut Cookie’s blog was accused of hurling “defamatory language at Finns.” Reviewed by Ivy Nevala out at my kaalikas patch, and all the leaves were standing Well, Mr.O’Brien did include a pleasant innocent- up in alarm. looking pastel painting, described as Ilmarinen sowing In present-day vernacular, this book is “a good read.” This only confirms what Raoul France, a Viennese rutabaga seeds, and then insultingly, outrageously, and It’s not the type of book you’d pick for leisure reading. biologist, asserted in the early 1900’s, that “plants have irreverently entitled it “Tuo on paskapuhette” (“This is The author has always written, as a pre-teen and as the attributes of living creatures”. The authors of The bs”). This was in his Sunday, March 25, 2007 Rutabagan. an editorial staff member of the student newspaper at Secret Life of Plants quote him further as stating that The first paragraph states, “In the Finnish Journal of City College of New York. Before writing his first novel, plants have “the most violent reaction against abuse and Ethnobotanical Studies for April, University of Jyväskylä a very ambitious one, Mr. Eggie spent many years in the most ardent gratitude for favors”. Professor Vittu Perkele Jumalauta suggests that preliterate research about these tenuous times pre- World War II. The already thrown rutabagas are then subject to rutabaga cults may have contributed significantly to early What prompted the author to write a spy novel involving further abuse by being hit by the next group that is rolled oral versions of The Kalevala, the Finnish national epic little known Finland being eyed by both Hitler and Stalin down the pike. I wonder where they throw them after poem (first published in 1835).” and intelligence groups in Finland and in the US State this barbaric contest. At this point I feel obligated to How dare this weirdo upstart so grossly defile the Department, with the United States in general being more contact the PETV, People for the Ethical Treatment of sanctity of our ancestor’s sacred song stories?? concerned about Hitler than Stalin? Mr. Eggie said he Vegetables, a branch of the PETPAT, People for the Ethical He has also invented a “Carved and Dyed Finno-Ugrian loves Finland, its culture, and people. He has been very Treatment of Plants and Trees. Incidentally, both of these Rutabaga Deity (c.270 B.C.E.)”. He positions this icon in sympathetic to Finland in its struggles and travails with organizations are in the process of trying to revive PETP, front of his news briefs. Well, there you go, another snipe its huge neighbor. People for the Ethical Treatment of People. at us, from Mr. Mary Juana Coconut Cookie O’Brien. He read numerous books about Finland in English, If the Ithaca’s Farmer’s Market was using this abusive Now it appears that all this joshing around may be a visited the country numerous times and talked to his practice as an advertising gimmick, once the cameras show subterfuge for his introduction of genetically-modified wife’s relatives and numerous others who had followed up next December, and the PETV demonstrators descend rutaba-gas, and if that’s a joke too, it’s a pretty sick one the historical events. Furthermore, as he researched his upon them, their name will be smeared. Their excuse is from a genetically-modified Frankenstein BS O’Brien. wife’s genealogy, he learned about the country’s history that it started out with the vendors trying to warm up, All I can do now is to send my expert organic farmer and culture. so they started hurtling frozen chickens back in 1997. friend from the foothills east of Albany, Oregon, to conduct The reader learns a great deal about Finland’s history, I suspect they stopped the chicken rolling, because the a special investigation. She’ll be able to get to the bottom from the days of being a vassal of Sweden. to the Civil PETA folks protested. of this chicanery. Or could it be marijuanery, or a hybrid War that divided the country, and tumultuous days of Supposedly, the chickens were replaced by the extra of the two. Well, you sir, Mr. O’Brien, have now beaten Finland’s leaders trying to forestall a war. Europe and rutabagas sitting around at Cornell University. Instead the Ithaca folks for the gold, and the bronze will be given the United States were worried about Hitler’s and Stalin’s of delivering their excess inventories to the poor, they to Mr. Gilhooly. plans to keep the US and Europe guessing when and decided to throw them around, under the auspices of a Mr. Hybrid O’Brien refers to a blog that jokingly brags how the two dictators would act. Timo Koskinen is a fake student organization, Campus Tirade (a bad-mouthing about the possibility of Rutaba-Gas. In the full article, Finnish intelligence agent who is given the job of trying to verbal abuse word) for the Holy Rutabaga. To add more written in 2007, the supposed CEO of Rutaba-Gas LLC, exterminate Stalin, the method to be determined by him. respectability to this brutal Romanesque circus, gold, impertinently states: “Nobody likes rutabagas. American Along the way he meets an attractive Russian translator silver, and bronze medals are awarded. farmers grow tons of rutabagas, but nobody really eats for the Russians when they deal with Finns. Romance The official anthem for this charade, sung by the them. They’re perfect for making fuel.” All this was ensues, and soon Koskinen’s marriage is in trouble. Vociferous Cruciferous Chorus, is Handel’s “Rutabaga supposed to be an April Fool’s jest. Further intrigue involves two US State Department men Chorus”, the melody of which they claim later was used Well, it’s no joke, folks. I’m very alarmed that a Professor who come to the US Embassy in Moscow to see what they for the Messiah’s Hallelujah Chorus. They imply that Benning of my medical school alma mater, Michigan can do to forestall a Hitler-Stalin pact. There are intrigue Handel wrote it to honor the new root crop that potato State University, noted for its innovative progressive and murders in the US Embassy, which hires Russians afficionadoes were railing against. agricultural, medical, social, and rural and urban outreach, to work in its building. Mr. Eggie includes episodes of The silver medal for the worse travesty came in as a in conjunction with Great Lakes Bioenergy Research attempts by Russian citizens who risk their lives to try close second to the curler’s worst gold medal. I’m referring Center, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are to find ways to get rid of Stalin, a difficult task since he to David Gilhooly’s erotic clay sculpture entitled, Frog working on developing a genetically-engineered rutabaga has created such an atmosphere of fear and reprisals that Seducing a Rutabaga in an Overstuffed Armchair, 1974. that produces oil in its root, instead of carbohydrates. some people are willing to save their own lives even if This freak piece of rutabaga pornography is described as This is definitely a mistake, which veers away from the others are killed. His use of detail to describe walking in “Frog in blue jeans and a sleeveless shirt with a turnip on commendable traditions of MSU. Tampere, riding a train in Finland and the USSR, and the its knee in a stuffed rose-colored armchair with wooden The American gold medal for lanttu abuse now goes streets, buildings, and atmosphere in the USSR give the feet; made during the time Gilhooly was in Canada.” to Professor Benning and the honorary gold to Mr. Mary situations authenticity. Please tell me what could possibly have happened in Juana O’Brien aka Obie Coconut Cookie the Third. All parties included in the assassination attempt agree Canada, when he was there. Hello? Is this for real, or am This is making me sick, folks. Erika, it’s your turn to that the best way to get to Stalin is to use a beautiful woman I just seeing things that aren’t there? help me now. How can we continue to allow these foolish as the lure, since the dictator is a known womanizer. The Erika, help! Bring a jack-o’-lantern, and take me back narrow-minded scientists and pranksters, who have no plot thickens. to Chicago! vision of the future consequences of their franken-foods As I read, I felt that it would have been helpful to have Maybe if I go to Cumberland, Wisconsin’s August and franken-biodiesel oils, to prevail? How can we allow shorter chapters and more informal conversation. The rutabaga festival, my shattered faith in normalcy will be such freaks, who are completely out of touch with the conversations at times seem stilted, but neither of these restored. They respectfully laud our wonder root: “The basic harmony of nature that our ancestors were in tune criticisms kept me from enjoying the book. I recommend rutabaga is such a wonderful crop that in Cumberland, with, to chart the future of this planet for us? And why the book to get a flavor of those tenuous times in Finland Wisconsin, they hold a festival for the vegetable every do we need all this oil anyway, when there are plenty of and Europe. year. The Rutabaga Festival is a great celebration that safe alternatives around? The book is available from www.universe.com. The list honors the rutabaga.” Thank Suomi’s Kave/Louhi and Sapmi’s Matarakka, price is $31.95. ISBN 978-1-4401-6392-0, 636 pp. Crossing the border into Askov, Minnesota, one hopes and all the mythological men who worked together with one can attend an ordinary Danish-American laudatory them, that there are many very dedicated groups like lanttu gathering, and that they have been inoculated against the Ithacan lanttu abuse virus. Biodiversity and Food, Inc., who are monitoring and exposing Monsanto and Cargill and their GMO scientists, Alone Are you ready for another carnavalistic excursion into the belly of the beast? But before we enter this surrealistic realm, I need to ask a St Urho’s expert whether it’s possible that a Swedish/ Novgorodian St. Urho’s imposter might have taken a trip to Forest Grove, Oregon, a number of decades ago. I’m wondering if he might have accidentally fathered a genetically-modified son by the name of Obie MacAroon III aka M.J.O’Brien, “ARSI President for who are endangering life on this planet. Friends of the Earth, along with the European Union have also taken strong stances against franken-foods. However, how long the EU will maintain their stand remains in question, since they are a neutralized, rickety, weak-bodied structure, who are easy prey for the transnational robber barons and their rapidly metastasizing cancerous greed. Before my garden wilts, and I get sicker of this “You are not alone” Is what they tell me. Then why do only shadows stand beside me? “You are not afraid.” Is what they whsper. Yet I shiver and I cry. Life”. defamation of our beloved lanttu, I’m elevating it back “You are not empty.” I’m sure you figured out by now that the R in ARSI to the lofty status it deserves. I once again nominate it Then why do I not feel full? stands for Rutabaga. Yes, we’re about to enter into the Advanced Rutabaga Studies Institute. I’ll leave it up to you, as to whether you are entering a Rutabaga Chamber of Horrors, where nothing seems as it really is, and where to be Finland’s national sisu vegetable. I want to see our Balto-Finnic farmers get credited for their ingenuity. If it turns out Switzerland also has a valid claim to its creation, we can share in its creation. “You do not go unnoticed.” Then why am I alone? reality merges in with distortions, subterfuges, wild fantasies, and insults. Kathryn Linhardt ©Kathryn Linhardt, 2009 26 NEW WORLD FINN TAMMIKUU - HELMIKUU - MAALISKUU • 2009 TALVI
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Page 1 and 2: EXPLORING FINNISH CULTURE New World
Page 3 and 4: Independence Day Greetings From Pre
Page 5 and 6: Finnish Tapas Comes to Duluth Text
Page 7 and 8: the shore as the Moon began to shin
Page 9 and 10: Poijat Celebrates Twenty Years of P
Page 11 and 12: So this day finally dawned for me,
Page 13 and 14: Kotinurkka - The Corner of the Home
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