Red White Black
She had a messy dress,” she jests to Chester, the man who questioned her motives for pouring flour on her lap. She always spoke of herself in the third person now, a habit she took up to lessen the pain of accepting responsibility for her actions. The ketchup she spilled on her white dress while attempting to drown a fly seemed less obvious doused in flour. She liked to pretend it happened to someone else.
Food, Inc.
For an an up close and personal look at the American food industry, don’t miss Robert Kenner’s new film, Food, Inc. Movies like Super Size Me and King Corn first introduced me to our postmodern U.S. food monster––one of the many reasons I decided to plant a garden.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
There is an island in the Pacific Ocean, now reported to be TWICE the size of Texas, made entirely of floating trash. I’d heard about it, but this is the first time I’ve seen pictures. Fabien Cousteau (grandson of undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau) talked about the importance of keeping our oceans clean on Oprah last week. This isn’t just about the whales, people; this is about human health.
Heirloom Beans
Do you know Rancho Gordo? You need to know Rancho Gordo. Bean aficionado Steve Sando is bringing the romance back to beans, and he’s doing it with style. ¡Cuanto le gusta!
“Voice” by Rives
His poems are inspirational.
Westley
“Do you see the hinges?!” cried Westley, the hinge-repair-salesman. He was selling his wares whilst wearing his sales and shouting to unsuspecting passers-by. They looked at him in disbelief, continuing to watch out of the corner of their eyes as they walked past Westley, praising the virtues of a well-worn hinge, properly made to withstand the times. For three easy payments of $19.95 he would sell you his special WD-40 alternative, purported to extend the life of any antique hinge indefinitely, or he would sell you his soul too.
Vinegar & Baking Soda Recipes to Clean the Home
Top to bottom, distilled white vinegar and baking soda are THE ingredients I use to clean the Blankenship casa. Here are my recipes:
Orange Pirate
Smashing his mother’s pumpkins, Peter the perturbed pedantic pirate sought to alleviate his concern for oft over-looked 1990s bands. He thought it poetic to demonstrate such enthusiasm for their work by creating their very symbol on the ship deck in front of the young crew–minds daily shaped under his tutelage, burgeoning with ardor.
Live Green Living Lecture at Auburn University
Well, our lecture would have been live if AU’s firewall would let us record. Boo. BOO. Sorry, friends.
BUT you can see our lecture notes and slides here.
Melvin
Melvin Kelvin as he was affectionately known by his parents, was obsessed with the temperature of light. He gravitated toward the cooler-colored end of the spectrum, believing tungsten and daylight to be shades of the past. A man of halogens and fluorescents by conviction, he felt it an obligation, nay, divine ordination, to sing their praises in the streets, always at night, beneath a green or blue hue, so he didn’t have to wear temperature sunglasses in public during the day.
