Cool Video Amongst Many

Here is a cool video of Yeasayer, a capella in the subway:


#87.1 - YEASAYER - No need to worry / Redcave
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The website is called La Blogotheque, some French concoction, and it has videos of various great bands making music out in the open, say the street or someone's house, the subway or a backyard. Something like that. You should check it out.

Everyone Should Be So Happy

My favorite video of right now.



Yessssssss.

Though You May Have Seen It...

Here is what a so-called "Happy Meal" looks like after 180 days:

Just search for "happy meal" on the Google and you will get the story, which is essentially the same as this picture, but with rabble.

Ways in Which One Can Make Food

As a follow-up to my previous post about the pathetic state of American eating, a state which could be helped immensely by the actuating of those common sensibilities built (though sometimes hidden deep within an overlarge shell) into each person with thoughts, I figured I would put up some recipes that represent vegetables as a main event. We are just coming into Autumn and as such many of the recipes are attuned to that season's fare. Each week, with our produce box, we get a sheet of recipes which more often than not has saliva-producing effects. The following are four such sheets.

 Each image can be clicked to enlarge and printed out. I would love it if someone made one of these recipes and commented (just below the post) with the results. Enjoy eating healthy.

Eating and Sleeping...

I have recently been looking at the New York Times' most popular health-related articles while vegging out before my computer. I find it funny and strange that there are so many fad diets and "miracle" pills when eating normally can be so easy. OK, normal nowadays is a relative term. Many Americans, most Americans, have a particular difficulty with looking back into their own cultural ancestral history and seeing what normal food eating looks like. Normal should be common sense but it no longer is. Common sense and normality have been violently blurred by modern day marketing, that apparatus of total deception. Processed food has taken the average American and run their entire system (beginning with digestive and continuing on to the cardiovascular, nervous, lymphatic, endocrine, muscular, skeletal and reproductive) through the proverbial mud. Flavorists can control taste and smell, fooling the mind into thinking that McDonald's fries (which never decompose) or Burger King's patties (guaranteed to be part feces) are good. They are not good. You are being fooled.

The common sense part: eat vegetables and fruits, walk around, sleep right. Meat, although extremely popular, is not the end-all be-all of food. It isn't very good for you. Eat some fish. Eating bad fats makes you fat. Period. Stop it already.

Here are those aforementioned New York Times articles:

• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/health/05brody.html?src=me&ref=health

• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/health/research/05behavior.html?src=me&ref=health

So, eat right and get some sleep already!
 

Everyone Should Read Banned Books!

In Springfield, MO, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Slaughterhouse Five was recently pulled from high school curricula because of the opinion of one man. This man is a professor at Missouri State University, my alma mater. He is part of education, ladies and gentlemen. Scary. He believes it is "filthy," the book that is. As well as others. Here is the link to the story in Springfield's "newspaper." And here is a good analysis of the action. The following is from the Vonnegut book in question. Beautiful, smart, peaceful. And apparently part of a larger more evil and pornographic work, if you want to believe a guy named Scroggins.

"The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored nearly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.

When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the rack and shipped back to the United States, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous content into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anyone ever again.

The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn't in the movie. Billy was extrapolating. Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed."