Oops, that sounded terse, and I didn't mean it to be.
I posted it because I thought it is a funny parody.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62197,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
Theresa, if I thought the "respect bootleggers" site was serious, I wouldn't have posted the URL.
http://respectbootleggers.org/
Pretty funny.
Nightshades do supposedly cause minor inflammation. People with arthritis can find mild relief by avoiding taters, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and so on. At least, my friend's mother did.
sweet potatoes with chipotle peppers.
Those who dislike eggplant aren't missing much, nutritionally. It's kind of a filler food.
I love liver, especially if it's smothered in fried onions. Mmmmmm kissable.
I used to make giblet gravy to go with our Thanksgiving turkey, but we have to wait for the little one to get a little older before I serve it again.
Cilantro doesn't taste nasty to me, but it doesn't thrill me, either. What I can't bear to eat is melon in any form (except watermelon). "Casaba" might be fun to say, but don't put any on my plate.
I like the supertaster idea. I thought They Might Be Giants made it up for the song--didn't realize it was a real thing.
Next time I reject spicy-hot food, I'll be sure to say it's because I'm a supertaster.
What's her connection to Roger Zelazny?
I've decided to take one of the steps Ms. Doe suggests would help mid-list authors.
I've decided to "think."
Also, I've begun to "read" and "enjoy culture."
What a wonderful change of pace! A little taxing, though.
> Both aspiring musicians and writers would probably
> do well to disillusion themselves of rock-star
> aspirations.
I have found this day dream to be unkillable. No matter what evidence the world throws at me, no matter how many rejections, no matter how many times I close my eyes, wrap my imaginary fingers around the throat of this fantasy and squeeze, I can not destroy it.
I can chop it to pieces, throw it in a pit and bury it under rejection slips, but it always finds a way to sneak up behind me and whisper "That's award-winning work you're doing there!"
All I can do is shout: "No, it's not! Shut up shut up shut up!"
Fran is a Wordplayer from way back when and knows what Crap-Plus-One is:
http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp06.Crap-plus-One.html
And she ought to know the difference between "Maybe your work is not as good as the worst of what's out there" and "You should aspire to Crap-Plus-One."
It's not the "genre is junk" attitude that annoys me, it's the "If it's not junk, it's not genre anymore" attitude.
I once met a writing teacher (not mine) who talked about how much he had enjoyed _Interview with a Vampire_. Then he began to talk about how books are removed from genre categories when they are good enough. As he spoke, he made pantomimed lifting a baby ducking out of an oil slick.
At the time, all I could think was that he had been too embarassed to tell his colleagues he'd enjoyed a book about vampires, and was trying to redraw the boundaries to make his pleasures more respectable.
Not that this is a bunch of men in dresses, but this shop is less than a mile from me:
http://www.utilikilts.com/
Pics of men enjoying a cool breeze here.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2004/Jan/hour2_012304.html
Science Friday had a terrific show about building "green" building.
You would have thought that a tv movie would have solved all this:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0082169/
Child Bride of Short Creek (1981)
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