worry of the day: what comes “up” the ascending colon of the large intestine.
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january 22, 2009
worry of the day: botulism. all this fuss about what not to do when infusing oil with garlic and herbs.
allen || alan
math does come in handy if you’re either Allen Ruppersburg or Alan McCullum doing a collaboration. you have to figure out how many of Alan’s pieces (he makes them by the gross, and they are shown in sets of a certain number) fit on one of Allen’s uniquely sized stations using a spreadsheet comparing number of frames to square footage. add gallery square footage to that calculation and you get a nice pivot table.
toilet rolls
out in the hills of Los Angeles is a bathroom with a sign which says: “Please! Only two turns of toilet paper allowed.”
what’s important to know is that two turns of a FULL roll gets you a lot more TP footage than two turns of a close-to-empty roll.
january 21, 2009
worries of the day:
did the chicken neck (from inside the chicken, the way they are sold) actually belong to THAT chicken?
did Obama have to pee before taking the oath?
one dozen eggs
it started with the italian meatballs. two eggs into the mix. then we had salt and herb encrusted onaga fish. recipe calls for 5 eggs whites. the next day with our five egg yolks we made soft yolk and lemon ricotta ravioli, using another egg to seal the dough. next morning with leftover ricotta we made lemon ricotta pancakes, which required 4 eggs and lasted two breakfasts.
the return of sourdough
underneath the cover of an indian cotton blanket the dough is purple and dotted with walnuts. the slow moving mass does not rise as predicted, it does not follow a narrative, nor does it have resolution. its main character fumbles and meaders, avoiding conflict and emotional revelations.
but then there’s more
consider john adam’s Grand Pianola Music, where he describes the piece as being in ‘two parts, the first being, in fact, two movements joined together without pause, that end up in a slow serene pasture with grazing tuba.”
when yoga props become farm animals
the brain falls into dense slow-roasted matter. shortly afterwards the idea that wooden blocks are bees or chickens and ropes are opossums seems and feels, relatively normal.
the same
is it possible there are those out there who believe the ‘world is flattening’ and that since the cost of living is so much lower in cities like atlanta, say, it makes sense to ‘see’ the idea of living there much “the same” as living in los angeles (if not better, since dollar for dollar you get better bang for your buck – square footage wise)? surely it’s “the same” if you consider the idea of “the same” being a completely subjective statement, and one can certainly put together a host of positives and negatives for both cities which only apply on an individual basis, making the age old statement of “it’s what you make of it” very sage advice.
i am reminded of a friend’s relative who often makes a rather large deal of the fact he (the relative) did not attend college, striking up conversations such as “I could’ve gone to school and spent $40,000, or i can go now to the library for free. It’s the same.”
As with the case with Atlanta, it’s only “the same” if you actually go.