A single ill-conceived joke

Why bother with a dust buster...


























...when you can hire a busty duster?!

Carve It All Apart

A tiny , round pumpkin filled with seeds ready to burst forth. A stomach ripe with future. Insides so sticky and knotted by moist orange pulp. A knife begins to tear away the flesh; the art of mutilation. Create a face by pulling apart the perfection. Then fill the inside with all the spirit you can find - not love but candles. Round, supple life cannot be truly stolen. Jack O'Lantern comes alive again at night and frightens children. Without fail they carve it all apart.




There was once an Irishman named Jack who was so greedy and stingy that when he died even the devil would not grant him entrance into hell. So jack wandered the earth forevermore spreading his brand of evil whenever he could. He no longer needed to sleep so he travelled at night holding out his lantern made of... well, actually, squash. It's weird how these things end up being retold.





Happy Halloween!

Chubby Whole Wheat Waffles

Waffles. A diner classic. A college dining hall stand-by. A canvas for a mountainous glob of whipping cream and fresh berries. I like my waffles extra crispy with a pad of butter skating over the indentations leaving evidence of its trail in every nook it passes. Some maple syrup drizzled on top in fine strands that cling to the highest parts of the waffle like tightropes laid out across its surface.

What I don't like is super-dense, gooey cubes of batter hardened by lukewarm iron trays with little square indentations poked in at the end in a desperate attempt to create the facsimile of a waffle. Unfortunately, that is all I could do.

I bought a waffle iron one day on an impulse to further clutter my kitchen. More important in my purchasing decision was the price: Seven dollars!! How could I go wrong for Seven dollars? Let me count the ways. This grotesque abberation in cookware is almost certainly created with the play-doh crowd in mind. It is an Easy-Bake oven in drag and it caught me on the corner in a moment of weakness. So despite a fairly interesting. healthy whole wheat waffle recipe I am forced to suffer damp, browned-at-the-edges dough for years to come.

A word to the wise. In cookware there is often a reason for price discrepancies and hopefully this can serve as a cautionary tale to all those bargain hunters out there.

This is That Beach

You know that mystical aspiration of a beach that appears almost exclusively in daydreams as you splash through the slush of yet another chilly winter?

Milieu

Talk about Beautiful. This is my kind of milieu. I think of all the various terrains that I could live in, from desert to swamp to plains to valleys to forest to coasts and beaches I prefer a nice mountainous region.

a simple article

I found this article in my google perusing and thought it was very simply put. The facts are straight out of the United Nations study on world agriculture.

La Pura Vida

Tomorrow I head down to Costa Rica for 2 weeks to explore one of the most varied geographical landscapes in the world. I hope to encounter plenty of cloud-covered mountains, fire-belching volcanoes and lush rainforest. I'd like to learn a thing or two about the eco-tourism that they are supporting so strongly now and I also hope to have a few good recipes when i get back.

hasta la vista