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Berkeley Notes
Dinner out:
It's hard to be impressed when the restaurant features Fully Belly Farm Greens and Organic Beets or Frog Hollow Farms Peaches on the menu when you shop at the same Farmer's Market. Because now you know that what is on your plate is exactly the same food you could have prepared at home.
An Inconvenient Truth:When Al Gore shows his slides ( Read more... ) -
Nonfiction
I've been enjoying some nonfiction recently, to cleanse the palate after tackling Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell-- I don't like to follow up enjoyable novels with other novels, thinking I'll either be disappointed, or overstuffing my brain past the point of satiety.
( Fun (nonfiction) reads on Google, con men, pre-Colombian America, and where our food comes from ) -
Meet Mr. Mucus
Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, the number six brand in the over-the-counter cold medicine business, has been spending kazillions of dollars in their marketing campaign, which features an animated, talking blob of mucus ( Read more... ) -
Had it. Lost it. Gone.
Maybe it's the sleep thing. When I stay up waaay too late online reading various journals, blogs, wikis, et cetera, and I only get five hours of sleep ( Read more... ) -
Ahoy Mateys! It's Captain Springsteen!
Bruce Springsteen, thanks to his new CD, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, has just added a heretofore overlooked genre to triple-A radio: the sea chantey ( Read more... ) -
when life resembles a sitcom
Mother and Father and toddler at dinner table ( Read more... )
