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Green Is Me
Yesterday we received our 3rd box of vegetables from a local farm, as part of the CSA program. We received the biggest head of leaf lettuce I've ever seen, an equally huge batch of green onions, some kale, chard, tiny bit of spinach, fresh peas in the pod, a red cabbage, radishes, and 2 kohlrabi. I'm still behind on consuming kohlrabi, so those got ( Read more... ) -
So What About the Children?
Soon we will all be too tired of Michael Jackson articles, videos, programs, etc. to be able to stomach yet another. If you’re already to that point skip past this one ( Read more... ) -
THE CORONER'S LUNCH by Colin Cotteril
This is a mystery set in 1975 Laos, one year past the communist take-over. I always feel a pang of guilt over events that took place during my life, but which I ignored due to self-absorption. So I know little about Laos other than hearing its name go across the news, usually in the same sentence as Vietnam, which I couldn't ignore ( Read more... ) -
Safely Past the Ides of March
I've been quiet but there's no single compelling reason. I'm spending a lot of "head" time so I can stay on track with the novel, which is going slower than I'd like. But it is going forward and I am more sure about what I'm doing, so that's a happy place to be ( Read more... ) -
10 Albums
Today's meme is to list 15 albums that profoundly influenced your life or changed the way that you looked at it. These are albums that shaped your life no matter what they were thought of musically. No shame, no gain, right?
After working on this for a half hour, I decided to stop at number 10, a nice round number. I could scratch out 5 more albums ( Read more... ) -
Breaking the Rules and Who Made Up the Rules Anyway?
I'm not really going to examine the question of who sets the rules of writing and literature. I've just finished reading "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz (Pulitzer Prize winner) and before that, I read "The Winter Queen" by Boris Arkunin, a very different cup of tea yet with similar effects on me ( Read more... ) -
How I Wasted This Morning
As usual, I started the morning by opening my gmail. Nothing there to reply to, so I moved on to LJ. First friend post that I come across is by ccfinlay who posted a link to www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php. That killed a half-hour quickly, although I still had enough discipline to leave it alone, even after discovering an endangered language in ( Read more... ) -
"The Wrestler" (I finally saw the typo 4 days later)
Seeing this movie made me realize that I hadn't seen a really good movie in a long time. Unless I count "Slumdog Millionaire" but for some reason, that movie was good and gritty, but the feel-good ending detracting from the authenticity. I mean, I like happy endings, but I need to believe it. Can't say that I believed "Slumdog" but it was a ( Read more... ) -
Quote of the Day
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." ~ Mark Twain
