I think Muni is

retarded. Well, for that matter, BART, too. Today, or I guess technically, yesterday I walked to the Embarcadero stop to board Muni to ride the N-Judah to the Church/Duboce stop. To board Muni, I need to pay $1.50. Fine, but not enough quarters. The change machine for Muni was out of coins. So I go to a BART ticket machine that changes $20 bills to 4 $5s or $10 bills to 2 $5s. Fine, but there still is no way to get quarters because to get quarters from the BART machines you have to use $1 bills. So I ended up buying a postcard from the information kiosk just so that I could get a $1 bill to get quarters from the BART machine to board Muni.

Talk about lack of synergy - transfers from BART to Muni are not free. In terms of usage they are basically the same transit system, yet different tickets and costs. Why not streamline the whole system for the Bay Area? Allow people who are BARTing into SF to use the same cards on Muni. Why are there no monthly passes available? I am sure that they could make some money from monthly passes. I bet enough people would buy them and not use them enough/lose them.

The transit system here in Cali is terrible. Wonder why that is? Ford? GM? Chevy?

tired...Zodiac was too long and not as interesting as had hoped

Jumping

So I am tooling around YouTube and came across this style of dancing called "Jumping". Far as I can tell, it looks like skankin' to techno. Seems to be mostly done in the Netherlands or Belgium. But then again looks like an evolution of that one move Kid & PLay would do, whacking their ankles together. Guess it is called jumpstyle. Interesting how these things evolve. Duojump, what most people would call a unison duet. Interesting how specialized dance can become. Jumpstyle to me looks like a version of line dancing, just to different music and more time spent in the air. Wonder how those kids knees are going to hold out. Interesting, too, how most of the people in the videos on YouTube are male. Seems like everyone wants to dance. But why does art dance ( for lack of a better term) have such a stigma for men attached to it? I would postulate that dance for many people means graceful, light, and pretty, not hopping and stomping. Well, there was Stomp and that was hugely popular, and stepping certainly is not light and pretty but pretty damn cool. Well, this is turning out to be a half formed idea at 12:45 am. But art dance I think suffers from having an unbalance in the ratio of females to males. "Oh, their dancing like guys." I remeber hearing that in college. So then is everything else, "the correct way", dancing like women? Or should men just be marginalized in appropriate male dance forms - jumpstyle and steppin'? Or should men not be afraid to be beautiful, graceful, and pretty. Ha! Too many classes, trying to dance like women. Hmmm...

Condiments

If your were going to be stuck on a desert island, what condiment would you take with you?



I'd take ketchup.

Fruit, Fat, and Protein

We had some friends, J + S, over this evening. Drinking wine, talk about art, eating cheese. Good times, but now that I write that it sounds like a Starbucks commercial or something. At least there was no soundtrack from Starbucks playing. If you are buying your CDs from Starbucks, something is wrong with your life. Talked a lot about an article in In Dance the monthly newsletter from Dancers' Group- How Freedom is Killing My Creativity. More about that later, hoping to get off my duff and write a response to that article.

But to return to the title of this posting - Fruit, Fat and Protein. Or Sugar, Fat, and Protein, the three simplest building blocks of food. There is so much more to food as we, as an obese malnurished species, are learning. (Read Omnivore's Dilemma for more about that and NPK and micronutrients). The culinary highlight of the evening was figs, prosciutto, and chevre. Cut the figs in half, broil them. Top with chevre and prosciutto. Also did the same with dates, medjool dates of course. Noor dates are no good. The bellam pepato cheese(I think that was the name) was pretty good, too.

*do not look at post modernism through a modern/classical lens. Well, if you do, be aware of the lens. See attached photo

lost in translation?

Cheeseburger CO2 output

Was talking to a friend yesterday about SUV vs. dryer CO2 footprint. Came upon this-

" the greenhouse gas emissions arising every year from the production and consumption of cheeseburgers is roughly the amount emitted by 6.5 million to 19.6 million SUVs."

from here

President Bush had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day

Is this guy really still president? -

"Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit," Bush said to Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

Talking about Howard's visit to Iraq last year to thank his country's soldiers serving there, Bush called them "Austrian troops."

for article click here

Somehow this is related, this being Bush's lack of geographic knowledge, to Miss South Carolina. Similar symptom of American ignorance. Or maybe Bush really thought he was in Austria, who knows? He certainly doesn't seem to.

Dance helps tame the savage beast

'Prison boss says violence has ceased ever since dancing started. Accused mass-murderer inmate says dancing has taught him "love"'

from Cnn.com

CNN video

YouTube video

Mother Teresa

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3

Saw this photo on BBC

Contradiction? But then again most Christians ignore Exodus 20:4 also - You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Hmm...but if anyone had ever followed that commandment, Rome and everwhere else filled with religious icons would be empty of art.

ADHD +ADD

From Yahoo News

"Nearly 9 percent of American children have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but only 32 percent of them are getting the medication they need."

"Watching television more than two hours a day early in life can lead to attention problems later in adolescence, according to a study released on Tuesday..."Those who watched more than two hours, and particularly those who watched more than three hours, of television per day during childhood had above-average symptoms of attention problems in adolescence..."

I'll bet the two are related. Sure, not every kid who watched TV when younger ends up with ADHD or ADD, but probably the more suseptible kids did end up with attention disorders. But prevention is not the American Way. There is no money in prevention. Eli Lily and Pfizer make too much money from these meds to want to prevent more kids from watching too much TV. Big Pharma has a vested interest in creating more hyperactive kids.

Boxers

"Baggy Pants Bill"

House Bill 1626, also known as the “Baggy Pants Bill” states: “It shall be unlawful for any person to appear in public wearing his pants below his waist and thereby exposing his skin or intimate clothing.”

"It’s hard to legislate morality; you can’t really do that. It just comes to a point of plain old bad taste and it’s just gotta stop.”

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. ~Tacitus

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ~Lao-tzu

Senator Larry Craig

From Yahoo! news-
'His account contrasted sharply with the complaint in the case, in which an undercover officer said that Craig, while occupying a stall in the men's room, engaged in actions "often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct."'

So another Republican has been outed as a homosexual. Is the Republican Party really just filled with gays who hate paying taxes? Is that what really binds them together?

How does one communicate a "desire" in a stall?

-Morse code?

-"Excuse me do you have any Grey Poupon?"

-Banging on the door and yelling "Fuck me!"

-dropping your TP and letting it roll into the next stall "oh, funny meeting you here..."

Why can't that side of the aisle just shout out - Hooray we're gay, let's get over it -?

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Bunnies

Drove to El Paso and back today. As with driving in other desert environments, J- Tree etc., bunnies frequently jump into the road. Suicide bunnies. Bunnies on a dare. Just plain dumb donkey bunnies. Caught in the headlights.

I think the real reason is much more nefarious. The bunnies and other animals that jump into the road and frequently are run over are on a mission. The mission is to kill humans by causing them to swerve and flip their automobiles. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't.

Might not be the best plan, the best way to rid bunnydom of humans. But after all they are just dumb donkey bunnies.

Non ultra Joy

Saw that dish soap today at a friend's house. Why wouldn't it be just advertised as Joy? Seems worse than regular Joy, this non ultra Joy.

How are you?

I am well. And you?

Oh, I am experiencing non Ultra Joy. Just plain old bliss, nothing special.

Ron White

Just watched him on videostored.com. The dude is not very funny. Maybe if I drank as much as he did, I would find him funny. Not that I never laughed as I was watching him, but he seemed more like a funny uncle or friend of the family, who would hold forth after dinner. First heard about him in an article in the New Yorker (talk about a different market) about the Blue Collar Comedy tour or whatever it was called. Ron White didn't want to be part of Blue Collar TV series as he did not want to be typecast as "blue collar". It's going to take more than black suits and cheap scotch to not be typecast as blue collar.

Post Modern Shoe

Yesterday I was at Sears with Kelly and her grandmother. Betty needed some shoes for working out. 94 years old and going to the gym! While browsing the racks(Sears was a complete mess at 7 pm on a Sunday. No one puts anything back in the right place.) I saw a shoe made by Skechers. The tread and the materials of the upper were just like those of a tennis or running shoe. But the cut and shape was that of a dress shoe, a ballet flat it could be called. The hierarchy has fallen. Certain materials are no longer just for certain functions of shoe. But could you have a running shoe with a leather sole?

I am waiting for the denim tuxedo.

Pope Benedict lifts ban on Latin Mass

Not sure why so many Catholics want to have Mass said in Latin again. I would guess they really don't want to understand what the priest is saying.

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Be Enticed, Pop

Pop Been Cited

Been Tepid Cop

Bent Iced Pope

Unlimited Storage

Now that Yahoo! has unlimited storage are people going to keep all of their emails? Just how much data is that? How many harddrives somewhere in a warehouse, spinning away? And why do you think Yahoo! offers unlimited storage? To compete with Google? Storage now might be so cheap, but I think the reason is more sinister.

Weren't Google and Yahoo recently cited as not being so nice as they want you to believe?

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/china0806/5.htm

So...with all of this unlimited space, the government has unlimited data to trawl through finding out who knows whom, who is going where when with whom etc. And with the CIA just releasing all the illegal things they have done in the past 50 years...I am sure 50 years from now the CIA, or Homeland security(or whatever it will be called then - the Office of Peace, Happiness, and Global Safety) will release another report.

Am I being paranoid? You tell me