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Mayonnaise
cures all ills.
And the heady smell of pepper after a long absence
(I ran out, but was avoiding the store)
reminds me of why India was a prize.
Only in the tropics
do such spices grow;
and only in the tropics, does the chile develop spicy flesh
painful to eat, intoxicating.
It is this hotness, ground up into cayenne or [...]

“You know you love the country; you just can’t stand the government. Get it straight.” — Utah Phillips
As linked to, Utah Phillips died last week. He taught a generation of us about labor history and the bum rush, riding the rails and organizing the masses. He taught a generation of us how to [...]

The Flaming Lips, Sasquatch 2008Originally uploaded by Aaron Michael Brown
was pretty great.

SASQUATCHOriginally uploaded by JASON ANFINSEN

R.E.M.Originally uploaded by joshc

DSC_1736Originally uploaded by Aaron Michael Brown

Michael FrantiOriginally uploaded by erikamatthias

off to the sasquatch festival with the lovely tonight. Hurrah! If I never come back … well, either my plane crashed or I had too good a time.

still bigger than jesus
still bigger than the beatles
not, however, bigger than porn.
Thanks to my coauthor for digging this out again.

Today I went to the farmer’s market for my dinner.
I got:
* salad greens, mostly spicy as the weather is getting hot
* chard, which always seems to me to taste of vitamins (in a good way; chard is healthy, and not ashamed to let you know it)
* peaches! some of the first; tiny and intensely [...]

The page history analysis tool is the best thing ever.
I think it just solved my five-primary-author problem for GFDL compliance in our appendices, which was driving me MAD. (Listing all the authors: not practical. Listing first five: not representative. Listing primary three: great, but how to get it? If this works the way I [...]