I was just sitting here freakwatching at Ruba and got the irresistable urge to hear “Scotland the Brave.”
Two minutes later, the Gordon Highlanders were providing my soundtrack.
The next pick on random was “Summer of Drugs” which was apropos for the environment.
ahhhlisaaah reports that:
Vince Neil, lead singer of Motley Crue, is headlining a three-night MOTLEY CRUISE in January that will sail to the Bahamas from Florida – he’ll be featured with his solo band on the ship.
Cruises, like second-rank Vegas hotels, are the natural destination of has-been entertainers. I’m not sure whether this one would be better or worse than the Styx Cruise, but it doesn’t have the wonderful cultural resonance of that one anyway.
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Blasts from the past in this journal:
It’s opening day here at the Panera Bakery & CafĂ© on 17th Street in Costa Mesa and folks we’re seeing a lot of unforced errors. I think that actually every order is being filled wrong in some way. Everyone’s cheerful though, both the very young employees and the very bland Zero Day customers.
The Wi-Fi works and is free. It tries to launch some PORTAL PAGE and fails, and you can’t get to Panera’s own site. This suggests to me that someone reversed a firewall rule.
I can see the sign of the “new” Diedrich from here. Waving good-bye.
There’s a patio of sorts and it’s open until 9. Coffee’s okay.
Women wearing Converse shoes are sexy.
Women reading books are sexy. The weirder and harder the book, the hotter.
Women over 30 with beat-up cars and weird t-shirts are sexy.
Women with excessively loud laughs are sexy.
Women who skateboard are sexy.
Women who speak in declarative sentences and directly without tilting their heads to one side or trying to look up at me are very, very sexy.
Does anyone have a good reference for Indonesian and Malaysian dialect and pidgin? I want my Talk like a Pirate Day experience to be authentic. Ideally I should sound like real pirates: boatloads of emaciated Malay drug addicts who swarm freighters in the Malacca Straits and hack up the crew with dull machetes, shrieking happily.
Or maybe Somali. Ships are supposed to stay > 100 miles off the coast of Somalia to avoid the local industry there, too.
I spent most of the day in a shitty state of mind but had a nice long coffee talk with becauseshewas at which dawn_michele unexpectedly showed too. Good blather was had.
Want to know what keeps me hanging on? Chili pepper, that’s what. Specifically, hot sauce made from my own chili paste which in turn was made from chipotles, chiles de arbol, ancho chiles, salt, and vinegar.
Maybe I should take a jar of the stuff to therapy tomorrow and hand it to Carol and say: physician, spice thyself.
I appear to have at least temporarily lost all interest in cars. How’d that happen?
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RUN BOTH WAYS
I got a chain letter which I will not reproduce here about how the spinach is just fine and it’s a big conspiracy and no one is really getting sick from the spinach and it’s the evil spinach-hating anti-raw-food forces spreading the lies about the virtuous spinach because “they” don’t want you to eat nice raw healthy spinach and live forever.
It was sent from a local raw food place which may well make very nice food themselves but will never get a goddamn dime from me after seeing this. Thanks for the dangerous tinfoil hat bullshit, goodmoodcafe.com
Please don’t forward crap like this. It’s not “just another side to the story.” It’s deadly paranoid garbage.
It’s bad enough that this country is trashing its public health infrastructure and letting Big Agriculture “regulate” itself. Let’s not make things worse. Hundreds of underpaid and underappreciated scientists and public health experts are working 24 hours a day to trace the source of this and every other food-borne disease outbreak and save lives. Calling them liars is nasty and irresponsible.
There is no anti-spinach conspiracy. If you want safer food, pay attention to things like this and why they happen. Super E. Coli bacteria exist because of brain-dead factory farming, and they get into the food because big food corporations wrote the laws that say they can wipe their asses on your food if they feel like it.
There’s your conspiracy and it’s right out in the open.
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