Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner: Photos, esse

Sauteed chard with onions, garlic, garbanzos, a splash of balsamic and a splash of chardonnay. This was served with feta cheese, toasted pita, pepperchinis and hummus (I thought I had mixed Mediterranean olives, but despite being in brine, they smelled yeasty).


Entirely homemade tortilla soup (to-go version pictured below).


A bed of shredded lettuce, a sliced tomato, a sliced avocado (salted and peppered) topped with an egg over easy. Breakfast done unique (and with what was on hand).

Lesbians are very "in" right now, says 1985?

By coincidence, the last two books I've read were both written in the mid 1980s. "Jitterbug Perfume" was relentlessly recommended to me by Jon, and "Watchmen" is not only one of Time magazine's 100 best novels, it's the awesome basis for a really bad movie that just came out.

*note the obvious 80s paperback book cover design

I'm used to reading a lot of books from the same time period in succession. English 142b, for example, would have me read 10 novels published in the same decade or so in about 10 weeks (actually, I'm almost certain that English 142b was a Shakespeare class, but you get the point). When you do this, you can't help but find patterns or similarities that reveal some of the happenings of the times.

One thing that sticks out in these two books from 25 years ago is the seemingly unnecessary inclusion of minor lesbian subplots. The subplot was so minor in "Watchmen" that both of the women were cut out of the movie, and the lesbians in "Jitterbug" seemed even at the time (I read it before the comic book) to be lesbians only because it would be cool to have lesbians. And not even cool in the "that's hot" kind of way, but cool in a "I'm so edgy and topical" kind of way.

*interesting sidenote, searching Google Images for "watchmen lesbians"
doesn't get you porn till page 6

So this makes me wonder, were lesbians big in the 80s, or is this, like my reading of multiple 80s books, just a coincidence? Or were the plots somehow important and I just managed to miss the significance?

Keep in mind I'm not complaining about the plots, I'm just saying they struck me as being really obvious and not terribly organic.

Who would buy this?

Though clearly I did, I just wouldn't call it that.

From Wikipedia

Bizarro is a fictional supervillain (superhero in Bizarro World) that appears in comic books published by DC Comics.


As opposed to all the real-world super villains?

this is what my day is about now

We have advanced funds from your account(s) linked for Overdraft Protection to your Wells Fargo checking account XXX-XXX6123.

Account Source Account Number Advanced Amount
-------------- -------------- ---------------
Credit Card XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX $7,277.67

But mostly it's the checks totaling $10,700 written to Gabriel Smith and Doyle Johnson (fake names much?).

The music on the fraud report line is very peppy.

Holy Balls

I'm going to be 26 in two months. Cue quarter-life crisis... now.




Or maybe...



Or maybe...

Actually... after 5 minutes of trying to find a good picture of a drifter, I'm much better now. I'm actually quite alright with nearing my late 20s. Especially since that's still a year away.

Short-sighted pessimists

The past week, driving around San Francisco, I've seen the same thing a few times and it always makes me smile.

There's no way of knowing for sure that I've seen what I think I've seen, but I'm fairly certain I saw what I think I saw.

We've all seen the bumper sticker declaring the owner's political views by simply saying "1.20.09." Of course, there has also been, in the past 8 years, the more direct version of essentially the same message that said, "Not My President."

Well these stickers are now one week obviously past their prime, especially in this city. While 1.20.09 is still a fine day to remember, the people with the other sticker on their cars are now, pretty much screwed.

In my years of driving, I've seen a lot of super-faded bumper stickers on cars that range from super-faded to pristinely new. I can't think of ever having seen a bumper sticker that looks intentionally scraped off, and certainly can't remember seeing one that was partially scraped off.

Three times this week I've seen the sticky stuff left behind when you pull the top off of a sticker. The only thing I can think is that these people, eager to show their hatred of George Bush, either didn't think they'd ever see a president elected that was "theirs," or they didn't think their car would last long enough to see the day.

Or maybe they just never thought about how hard it is to get a bumper sticker off a bumper. Well, it's hard.