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October 12, 2006
Dots with Frost
- It's damn cold and I love it!
- You know what's unpleasant? Getting the skin of a bean stuck on the veryvery back of the tongue. There's enough suction that it's hard to just suck it out, but trying to fish it out with a finger is 1) not socially acceptable, and 2) a good way to throw up. The only way to losen it is to take a lesson from your feline friends and hack it up like a furball.
- I made a ton of applesauce yesterday and I'm selling it as part of a spiced applesauce muffin mix on Etsy.
- You know what's bad for blood pressure, aside from partaking in the salt lick in the living room? Going to the doctor and having the nurse freak the hell out because my blood pressure's off the damn chart. And I know my blood pressure's not off the damn chart, because I have a vein in the palm of my hand that pops up to alert me when my blood pressure's off the damn chart. It's sort of like those built-in timers on frozen turkeys. Anyway, when the nurse gets the astronomical reading three times in a row and goes to get the senior nurse, you'd think that would really cause a blood pressure incident. Instead, my pulse and blood pressure reading came back very, very low, I think because I had accepted that I was dying and had started the process.
- If you're a Wilco fan, go read Michelle's account of their Huntsville show. It's got me entirely geeked that I'll be seeing them a week from tomorrow.
- God, I hate that I have two airplane flights in my near future. Flying doesn't scare me; I just don't like it. Means to an end ... means to an end.
- I've been listening to the Dorcus Collection this week. Of course you've never heard of it. Only a few people have. It's a collection - and I use that word in the loosest way possible - of mix CDs I made 3-4 years ago. I made the first one around this time of year in 2002. They were all inspired by the Dorcus Menswear Collection. I haven't made a mix CD in months, mainly because I think I've run my course with them. You can only make so many mix CDs before the same songs start showing up over and over, or you start putting every crappy pop song that comes along on the mixes as filler. And what's the fun in that? Anyway, I'm reliving the Dorcus Collection, and I'm amazed at how well these CDs have stood the test of time for me. Would you like a sample of the wonderful songs I've listened to this week?
I'll Be You - The Replacements
Cruel to be Kind - Nick Lowe
Black Coffee in Bed - Squeeze
Electric Super Sex - Morphine
I Can't Stand Up - Elvis Costello
Desire - U2
Good Fortune - PJ Harvey
California Stars - Billy Bragg and Wilco
Come as You Are - Peter Wolf
One Man Guy - Rufus Wainwright
Loves Me Like a Rock - Paul Simon
Head On - Jesus & Mary Chain
Gorilla, You're a Desperado - Warren Zevon
Seed 2.0 - The Roots w/ Cody Chestnutt
Near Wild Heaven - REM
Heart of Saturday Night - Tom Waits
Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
The Passenger - Iggy Pop
The Whole World - Outkast
A Little Respect - Erasure
Rudy Can't Fail - The Clash
No Sleep Til Brooklyn - Beastie Boys
Sheena is a Punk Rocker - The Ramones
Dig for Fire - The Pixies
Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine - White Stripes
Pumping on Your Stereo - SupergrassAnd that's just the tip of the 10-CD iceberg. While this set might not do it for everyone else, I think I managed to nail not only who I was from October, 2002 - September, 2003 - a very interesting time, as it included a chunk of my pregnancy - I think I managed to nail who I am, overall. How cool is that?
- At dinner the other night, Angie and I tried to remember what we did with our free time before kids and knitting. Obviously, I spent all of my free time thinking about music. I miss that a little. Yeah, the things that take up my time now are much more fulfilling, but sometimes ...
- Clara Jane's back home. All is right in the world.
- I try not to get too political here, but ... I'm really concerned about the vast number of No on 2 signs I keep seeing. These signs are from a group that is against the stem cell initiative that's on the November ballot. Despite the fact that the initiative has very clear language prohibiting human cloning, the "No on 2" people have billboards all over the city, screaming, "No cloning! The gub'ment's gonna make new people! Run! Gub'ment zombies! Gub'ment zombies!" Okay, maybe that's not exactly what they say, but you get the drift. There's a lot of these signs in people's yards, and it worries me. Today I saw one of their bumper stickers on a car with handicapped plates that was making an illegal turn across several lanes of traffic. Dude. You drive like that, all the king's horses and all the king's men won't be the ones to put your bad-driving ass back together again.
It just pisses me off that so many people are buying into hype without reading and understand the actual legislation at hand. On the selfish plus side, if the gub'ment zombies get voted down, it'll make it a little easier to leave good ol' Missouri when moving time rolls around.
Posted by Robin at October 12, 2006 12:16 PM
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I was tinkering through the Dorcus collection last night when I was trying to organize my cds. I put them in a handy, labeled shoebox along with my Rock Your Punk Ass! collection. Lots of good stuff there...
Posted by: Exena at October 12, 2006 02:03 PM
Aw, thanks for the shout out, you little rascal! I am geeked to hear about your experience! I've also become re-obsessed with "Poor Places" and have listened to little else during the last 48 hours. GEEK!
LOVE the playlist. I swear, you are like my long-lost twin.
I'm actually researching the stem cell issue right now for a viability report I'm working on for a university in Pakistan. One of the things I've discovered is that the US is losing a lot of top talent in this field -- a lot of scientists are going to Asian countries with liberal research policies and state-of-the-art labs. In Singapore, for example, they've already developed stem cell treatments that rejuvenate damaged heart tissue in people who are post-heart attack and restore some mobility to paralyzed patients. I don't think people really get the long term implications of falling behind in biotechnology. It could be disastrous.
Also, no matter how hard I try, I simply can't understand why even the most hardcore pro-lifers object to using early embryos from IVF centers for research, embryos that would otherwise just be tossed in the dumpster. Does not compute.
Whew! Sorry for the novella-length diatribe. Aw shit, I think MY blood pressure just went off the charts. Damn!
Posted by: michelle/weaker vessel at October 12, 2006 03:07 PM
Applesauce muffin mix - mine! How the hell do I pay you? (I probably did something wrong. I always do that when paying for things. Like trying to pay for a hotdog in yen.)
Posted by: Moose at October 12, 2006 03:18 PM
Oooo. Iggy Pop. Since seeing "Almost Famous", every time I see his name in print I say a la Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs "Iggy Pop! A-MEN!"
And "Cruel To Be Kind". One of my favorite songs ever. So much a favorite I remember exactly what I was doing the first time I ever heard it.
There's something really ironic to me to hear of a car with handicap plates who wants to vote no on stem cell research. It makes no sense to me.
Posted by: Dixie at October 12, 2006 05:03 PM
I've read Michelle's account of the Wilco concert three times and cried every time. Can you imagine my dumb ass actually AT the concert?
Posted by: Katya at October 12, 2006 07:32 PM
I've contemplated getting/making "YES" stickers and going around and pasting them on top of the "no."
Posted by: Jane at October 13, 2006 08:41 AM
Forget what we did with our free time before kids -- what the hell was my house so cluttered with? I know I've never had a neat and tidy house straight from Martha Stewart Living, but what the heck was junking it up before stuffed things, toys and kids' books?
Of your Dorcus collection, I think I could hum along to three songs, and I recognize the names of five artists.
I Am A Dork With No Musical Knowledge. Love me anyway? :)
Posted by: Mary at October 13, 2006 09:56 AM
