Well, Eagle in Exile was fun, but kind of overwhelming. I was not quite in the groove. Saw several people but didn't get a chance to talk to some of them as it got crowded very suddenly and I had to leave. I did, however, run into several local friends, as well as a hot biker I'd spent some time with at Sturgis a few years ago, and that was fun ( Read more... )

Going to be at Eagle in Exile at the Del Rio tomorrow. Hope to see some of you there ( Read more... )

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Got some nice yellow tomatoes on our way back home from the coast. Mashing, straining, and slowly reducing their juice till it's thick makes a really, really good sauce. If you avoid adding anything to discolor it, the color stays nice and bright. It's extremely sweet, much more so than the equivalent red sauce, and looks real good on a plate of ( Read more... )

An interesting article about the rise of lactose tolerance:

The rise of civilization coincided with a strange twist in our evolutionary history. We became, in the coinage of one paleoanthropologist, “mampires” who feed on the fluids of other animals.Rather perverted, was it not? You might even call it "against nature". This is why we humans ( Read more... )

I'm noticing a certain theme in politics lately - that if the existence of a complaint is evidence of a problem, the a lack of a complaint means the problem doesn't exist.

( More under the heading of 'Why I'm A Liberal' )

Jobs going begging in Willits and Ukiah Valley

(Excerpt from Ukiah Daily JournalWith unemployment still over 9 percent in Mendocino County, some employers are saying they are still having trouble filling the jobs they have available ( Read more... )

Joined a group of friends from the ranch at McNab Ridge winery, just down the hill from us, to participate in a wine blending contest. albear_garni came along, as well as his partner, Dave, who did the actual blending while we all argued about what to put in.


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Just saw The Graduate for the first time. Why is it that films from fifty years ago are totally brilliant, where every current release I've seen in the past ten years just plain sucks ( Read more... )

I know a lot of you don't care for Sullivan, but he has written a really excellent essay that summarizes exactly what I think about inequality in the US ( Read more... )