Pisces by Walter Harris (Gitxsan)Friday, July 30, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Leonard Numoy / OnionAV
Nice article about the photography of Leonard Nimoy in OnionAV today. The discussion was a little more interesting than the images to me, but whatever. Spock speaks.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
the National / BAM / Youtube
This happened may 15th. I'm late.
Mistaken for Strangers
Anyone's Ghost
Bloodbuzz Ohio
Afraid of Everyone
Secret Meeting
Slow Show
Squalor Victoria
Little Faith
All the Wine
Vanderlyle Crybaby
Conversation 16
Apartment Story
Abel
Sorrow
England
Fake Empire
Mistaken for Strangers
Anyone's Ghost
Bloodbuzz Ohio
Afraid of Everyone
Secret Meeting
Slow Show
Squalor Victoria
Little Faith
All the Wine
Vanderlyle Crybaby
Conversation 16
Apartment Story
Abel
Sorrow
England
Fake Empire
Encore
Runaway
Lemonworld
Mr. November
Terrible Love
Monday, July 26, 2010
Lots of surfing posts today...
...might as well post the link to Liz Clark's website again. She's been in Tahiti for a while now.
Kook / NPR
Heard the word 'kook' on NPR last night. Crazy. It was a great story about what it means to be a surfer, including the joys of the dawn patrol. It's hard for a surfer to describe this stuff without sounding like Jeff Spicoli. The guy being interviewed had been an outdoors writer for awhile, so that helped, but he also went through the conversion abruptly and recently, so I think it was easier for him to relate to normal people. Blahblahblah...
Friday, July 23, 2010
RIP Daniel Schorr
There are a couple of articles on the NPR website I,II,III. I loved listening to him reviewing the week's news with Scott Simon. He wasn't on 6 days ago, but did his normal spot 13 days ago! So dedicated, and such an important career. The Scott Simon penned remembrance (#II above) is magical, I could quote the whole thing. The quote below is from #I.Schorr was surprised to find himself on the so-called Enemies List that had been drawn up by Richard Nixon's White House when he read it on the air. The list — naming hundreds of political opponents, entertainers and publications considered hostile to the administration — became the basis for one of the charges of impeachment against Nixon.Schorr, along with some other members of the list, counted his inclusion on it as his greatest achievement.
Lake Wobegone Curmudgeon-ly-ness
We were honor bound to raise our own food, we did not buy canned or frozen food, and only ate canned or frozen food that had been canned or frozen by someone who we knew personally. It was our honorable duty not to pay extravagant prices for things we could make ourselves.... Well, my people all left the country, they left the farm and moved to the city, and the opinion of strangers became more and more important to them.... But we did keep this one ban, never ever look at yourself in a photograph... never ever look at yourself in a picture.
From the compilation show this past saturday. It's funny cause my grandparents all made it to the pacific NW, they weren't stuck in the midwest. But they espouse(d) depression-era values, which I guess are the origin for Garrison Keillor's spin on midwestern values. The bit about the photo is also funny cause 1) I prefer the shadow self portrait, and 2) I briefly gave S Bee publishing rights on the blog but that caused the pic of me and Lou in the 'about me' section to disappear, so I revoked her rights, so I guess I do like some pics of myself...
From the compilation show this past saturday. It's funny cause my grandparents all made it to the pacific NW, they weren't stuck in the midwest. But they espouse(d) depression-era values, which I guess are the origin for Garrison Keillor's spin on midwestern values. The bit about the photo is also funny cause 1) I prefer the shadow self portrait, and 2) I briefly gave S Bee publishing rights on the blog but that caused the pic of me and Lou in the 'about me' section to disappear, so I revoked her rights, so I guess I do like some pics of myself...
Patricia Wells
In a post today, David Lebowitz has a link to Patricia Wells' website (she revised it, and started a blog in March 2010), and also a short interview with her. Let me count the ways that I love her. The bistro book she wrote got alot of use when we lived in Monterey. My dad made Basque chicken all the time. Her trattoria book is good. At Home in Provence is a modern classic. She's a good writer.
This nugget is from the interview: I wake up each morning and can't wait to get to the kitchen and create. I get most excited when everything from a meal can come from my garden! Can you see why I love her?
There are quite a few nuggets from the blog. Apparently Julia Child, when she left France, gave her stove to Patricia O,I,II,III. How cool is that? The most recent post is about apricot preserves, clearly a woman after my own heart... Alas, her blog isn't indexed worth a damn, c'est la vie.
Socca - chickpea flour crepes. Avo sorbet. On Keeping the Feast. Capers. Yum #1. Yum #2. Sawtooth coriander. Grilled lemongrass prawns. On juicing limes. Cute #1. Yum #3. Yum #4 pizza. Her first blog post. Ok, all caught up. I subscribed to her blog, so will highlight future interesting posts.
She also has all of her old food columns from the International Herald Tribune up on her site. Interesting.
From the 'reviews' section:
Q - You once said, "Americans eat every meal as if it is their last."
A - "And the French know that there will be more tomorrow." We [Americans] are still not a food culture. We don't have the respect for food. We still have a fear of food. When we sit down to eat, we have too many negatives: no fat, can't have carbohydrates. It's just no, can't, no, can't. We forget what pleasure food can give us. It doesn't have to cost much and doesn't have to be complicated. Just going to the market and buying an apple can be a wonderful experience.
Nice.
This nugget is from the interview: I wake up each morning and can't wait to get to the kitchen and create. I get most excited when everything from a meal can come from my garden! Can you see why I love her?
There are quite a few nuggets from the blog. Apparently Julia Child, when she left France, gave her stove to Patricia O,I,II,III. How cool is that? The most recent post is about apricot preserves, clearly a woman after my own heart... Alas, her blog isn't indexed worth a damn, c'est la vie.
Socca - chickpea flour crepes. Avo sorbet. On Keeping the Feast. Capers. Yum #1. Yum #2. Sawtooth coriander. Grilled lemongrass prawns. On juicing limes. Cute #1. Yum #3. Yum #4 pizza. Her first blog post. Ok, all caught up. I subscribed to her blog, so will highlight future interesting posts.
She also has all of her old food columns from the International Herald Tribune up on her site. Interesting.
From the 'reviews' section:
Q - You once said, "Americans eat every meal as if it is their last."
A - "And the French know that there will be more tomorrow." We [Americans] are still not a food culture. We don't have the respect for food. We still have a fear of food. When we sit down to eat, we have too many negatives: no fat, can't have carbohydrates. It's just no, can't, no, can't. We forget what pleasure food can give us. It doesn't have to cost much and doesn't have to be complicated. Just going to the market and buying an apple can be a wonderful experience.
Nice.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
le Tour 2010 #2
15:47 - Lambs In The Ranks...
Several sheep have just come onto the road as the peloton was passing. There are animals in the ranks right now...
15:49 - Goats... Sorry.
Ah, it could have been goats who came up to the road just as the peloton was passing. It was a mini mutton stampede and no one was hurt by the charge of the woolly ones.
17:10 - White Versus Yellow!
There is now the race that everyone expected: the man in the white jersey attacking the man in yellow. They are 40" ahead of Menchov’s group and either Alberto or Andy is destined to win this stage.
17:34 - Andy Wins The Stage! Andy Schleck has won the stage to the Col du Tourmalet. He crossed the line about half a bike length ahead of the yellow jersey.
Several sheep have just come onto the road as the peloton was passing. There are animals in the ranks right now...
15:49 - Goats... Sorry.
Ah, it could have been goats who came up to the road just as the peloton was passing. It was a mini mutton stampede and no one was hurt by the charge of the woolly ones.
17:10 - White Versus Yellow!
There is now the race that everyone expected: the man in the white jersey attacking the man in yellow. They are 40" ahead of Menchov’s group and either Alberto or Andy is destined to win this stage.
17:34 - Andy Wins The Stage! Andy Schleck has won the stage to the Col du Tourmalet. He crossed the line about half a bike length ahead of the yellow jersey.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Big Sur July 2010
An interesting trip. The last 2 years of high school I lived in Monterey, spent quite some time in Big Sur. Alot of time in college, too. Haven't been back in a while, and we (S Bee and I) paid the price. My plan was to avoid the summer crowds by staying up top; we came in from the Hunter-Liggett side cause I wasn't sure the Peanut could get up Nacimiento-Fergusson from the 1. This was all well and good 'cept it was 90-100 degrees out up top, hence S Bee wanted to be down in the fog. So we're cruising along the South Coast Ridge Road in her low clearance Honda Civic, slightly sketchy but ok. Turned down to come in to Plaskett by the backdoor, so we could camp in the fog via a dirt road (you can camp anywhere, legally, in National Forest if it's off of a dirt road). Everything was ok, minus some semi-minor ground clearance issues, till we reached a locked gate. Uh oh. Backtracked and carried on to the south -- I thought we might have turned down too soon or something. Many miles later I reckoned we were bound for the dirt road that comes up from Willow Creek. Her car was doing well. We nearly turned around, and then wished we had during a gnarly, washed out ascent. The Peanut did well, but we over-worked it.
So we turned around. A low point. Hallelujahs for the pavement. Fog clearly visible below. There was some really cool evidence of the 2008 fires. Redwoods that had everything green burned off of them looked like sticks with green carpet glued to them. Kinda like how boojums look in Baja after it rains. Basically every bit of wood on the redwoods was resprouting. Really odd and cool looking. We pulled in to the tight turn with the creek and redwoods and things really began looking up. Washed the heat/grime/sweat off of ourselves. A semblance of joy was returning. Tempered by the fact that everyone and their mother was driving up Nacimiento-Fergusson to find a campsite cause the sea-level ones were all gone. No worries says the former Monterey County local. The Peanut was blowing smoke so we got some oil and cold beer in Lucia, then headed south for some commando camping. We turned up Plaskett Road and the painted sign said locked gate 5 miles -- guess the road washed out in the 2004-5 El Nino or something. What we ended up finding wasn't ideal, but it worked.
Dinner was grassfed beef Bratwurst from the farmer's market. After the long day of driving anything would have been good, but they were amazing. Breakfast next day included PB&J on a croissant which was unbelievably epic: 2009 was a good year for apricot preserves, plus it was on a croissant.... Lots of other tasty treats, too.
Sunday we tooled around in the redwood grove that is 1 or 2 valleys north of the big Salmon Creek grove, and then made our way back down the 1. Went to Montana de Oro for the first time, one of S Bee's favorite places. Hmmm, running out of steam on the write-up. Time for pics. The full albums are here and here. Will likely add S Bee's later, too.
full trunk resprout
green carpeting the upper limbs
more resprouting
char
charred madrone
sketchy digicam focus, but fun facial expressions; redwoods + creek area
1/30th second and slower and water looks awesome
self portrait. S Bee took a real portrait but I don't like pics of myself...
charred log
the Peanut in the bend
cotton candy water
post swim
temperature was about 40 degrees lower down below
girl and her beer
breakfast of champions
coolest spoon ever, freebin find
grove north of Salmon Creek.
Peanut is back there somewhere
cool mossy char
my fave pic of the lot
I'd rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log
lichen-y dead redwood
nice grain
dragonfly
Ragged Point area
South end of Montana de Oro, there are Bishop Pines on the hill with the fog on it
So we turned around. A low point. Hallelujahs for the pavement. Fog clearly visible below. There was some really cool evidence of the 2008 fires. Redwoods that had everything green burned off of them looked like sticks with green carpet glued to them. Kinda like how boojums look in Baja after it rains. Basically every bit of wood on the redwoods was resprouting. Really odd and cool looking. We pulled in to the tight turn with the creek and redwoods and things really began looking up. Washed the heat/grime/sweat off of ourselves. A semblance of joy was returning. Tempered by the fact that everyone and their mother was driving up Nacimiento-Fergusson to find a campsite cause the sea-level ones were all gone. No worries says the former Monterey County local. The Peanut was blowing smoke so we got some oil and cold beer in Lucia, then headed south for some commando camping. We turned up Plaskett Road and the painted sign said locked gate 5 miles -- guess the road washed out in the 2004-5 El Nino or something. What we ended up finding wasn't ideal, but it worked.
Dinner was grassfed beef Bratwurst from the farmer's market. After the long day of driving anything would have been good, but they were amazing. Breakfast next day included PB&J on a croissant which was unbelievably epic: 2009 was a good year for apricot preserves, plus it was on a croissant.... Lots of other tasty treats, too.
Sunday we tooled around in the redwood grove that is 1 or 2 valleys north of the big Salmon Creek grove, and then made our way back down the 1. Went to Montana de Oro for the first time, one of S Bee's favorite places. Hmmm, running out of steam on the write-up. Time for pics. The full albums are here and here. Will likely add S Bee's later, too.
full trunk resprout
green carpeting the upper limbs
more resprouting
char
charred madrone
sketchy digicam focus, but fun facial expressions; redwoods + creek area
1/30th second and slower and water looks awesome
self portrait. S Bee took a real portrait but I don't like pics of myself...
charred log
the Peanut in the bend
cotton candy water
post swim
temperature was about 40 degrees lower down below
girl and her beer
breakfast of champions
coolest spoon ever, freebin find
grove north of Salmon Creek.
Peanut is back there somewhere
cool mossy char
my fave pic of the lot
I'd rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log
lichen-y dead redwood
nice grain
dragonfly
Ragged Point area
South end of Montana de Oro, there are Bishop Pines on the hill with the fog on it
Thursday, July 15, 2010
People Get Ready
Today I found a download for the 5 disc gen-u-wine basement tapes, the Bob Dylan and the Band stuff from '67. Stoked. It's hard to evaluate songs I've never heard before, but I really look forward to reading the Greil Marcus book about the songs and how they fit into the american collective mythology. blahblahblah. People Get Ready I do recognize and it's pretty awesome.
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