Completely snowed in, running out of normal food. Time to use all the shit that's been sitting in my pantry forever!

I also have some eggs, and an onion.

salmon salad! Canned salmon, hard boiled eggs, capers, onion. Not sure whether to use mayo or just a vinegrette.

I also have a couple apples, might put some diced apple in there too.

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/148565/index.phpImmigrants' Rights Protesters Block 12th St, Independence Ave ( Read more... )

So I've become kind of addicted to the new (now over, make that 'latest') Battlestar Gallactica, I'm watching all the episodes in order and can't seem to stop, spending way too much time watching TV ( Read more... )

Tried to make all links to somewhere you can hear mp3 previews, that was hard to find for some.

Bomba Estéreo / Blow Up

What Capitalism Was / Philip Glass on Accordion

Sonido Martines Presents: Nueva Cumbia Argentina, The Buenos Aires Implosion (or iTunesMS for more. This one is not to be missed. )

Golem / Citizen Boris

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble / ( Read more... )

Oh my, this is actually from a newspaper and not a Bruce Sterling novel. I did a double take while making sure of that ( Read more... )

So our mayor is on trial. Like actually, in a court. For purportedly taking $1500 of gift cards to Home Depot and shit, donated for poor people in the city, and spending them on herself ( Read more... )

from:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

As befitting their history, the digits (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) are also known as Hindu or Hindu-Arabic numerals. The reason that they are more commonly known as "Arabic numerals" in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the tenth century from Arabs of North Africa. There ( Read more... )

I am currently in love with these guys.

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....some people just can't afford to buy it.

This is the truth of global hunger. It's not caused by insufficient global food, it's caused by the fact that people without money don't get any food. As a general rule, nations experiencing famine historically are _exporters_ of food.

Yet even though the experts KNOW this, a popular theme is "not enough ( Read more... )

Next weekend my band will be at the honk! festival in somerville MA. It's seriously the highlight of my hear.

Check out a band from Rome (yes, that Rome) playing a brass band cover of Too Drunk to Fuck at the festival last year.

I'm not even kidding it's the highlight of my year to go to this thing, this will the the third time I've gone, once just ( Read more... )