We Have Hit A Lull In The Conversation

Hope you all have a good holiday off work. I think I'm gonna watch Attack Of The Clones. I may also listen to Disintegration.

TOP 5

1. "The Ice Storm" by Rick Moody















2. Seeing both Adam and I thanked in here (Wally World by Wally Pleasant)














3. Hearing Chase say to a kid at the park today "Hi, I'm Chase...this is my friend Dad."



4. Longpigs - "On and On"






5. Making fun of these morons (except Deshawn who seems like a decent person in a sea of bitches)....The Real Housewives Of Atlanta.

Top 5 (11/19/08)

1. Black Cab Sessions


2. Ninjas!


3. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

4. Getting ready for the new season of Lost


5. Coverage, my new half-formed Descendents cover band

Now is the Time

This week I found out: one of my friends is separated, another one is getting a divorce, my pay is getting cut, some people I like here were laid off, and (apparently) my hair looks ridiculous. Oh, and Josh lives on the edge of Mordor.

So if anyone has any potentially troubling news to report, give it to me now. I can take it.

And if anyone still talks to Scott, tell him to break the news in the first paragraph, not after a review of Friday Night Lights the TV series, a report on his new tandem unicycle, and his take on the new Fall Out Boy.

This State Blows

So we took these over the weekend. One of the three fires burning now is really pretty close to us.

May I Come In?

A-ha!  Looks like I've successfully logged on.  Thanks for the Google advice, Adam.  

How about a Top 5 Top 5 list?  Meaning, what are the Top 5 lists you would most like to compile?  Actually, never mind.  That's kinda screwy and lame.

Since we're reminiscing about The Shamen, which is better?  "L.S.I." or "Move Any Mountain"?  

I think I have to go with "Move Any Mountain."

The Old Days

Adam called to today to tell me he had an old favorite of our's stuck in his head. This little gem by The Shamen.





That got me thinking about old alternative songs/videos. It also gave me an excuse to post some of my favorites.

I Like Food, Food Tastes Good

One thing that Katie and I have become more aware of this year is eating locally. For a while we've been concerned about what is in our food (pesticides, growth hormones, antibiotics, etc.) but we've recently become aware of where food is grown and how much it costs (the cost of travel and the loss of local, independent farmers) to get food to the grocery store.

One of my favorite things we've done is to join a CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and is basically a group of people who buy into a local farm, or in our case, a group of farms. We commit to a subscription fee and every week we get to go to the farm and pick up a supply of fruits, vegetables, and occasionally dairy products. All of it is grown locally without the use of chemical fertilizers. A lot of it is grown on this one particular farm, but they have also joined with other local farmers to add variety to our pick up.

The season began in May with asparagus, strawberries, and other early harvest vegetables and ended this week with squash, apples, pears, etc. We've had 26 weeks of local, organic produce filling our kitchen and it's awesome. It's basically a surprise each week when we go to the farm and an unexpected benefit is that it is forcing us to cook many things we may never have bought on our own. This year saw the first time that I have ever eaten beets, turnips, parsnips, and a few others that I can't remember.

Here's a picture of this week's pick-up:


From left to right: fresh milled bread, tomatoes, beets, brussels sprouts, broccoli, pears, red apples, green apples, Romanesco broccoli, carrots, turnips, and red cabbage. (the onions and butternut squash are left over from last week)

This is pretty typical of the amount of food we get each week, and we're pretty good about using it all just in time for the next weeks' pick-up. I'm going to miss it for the next few months. I'll miss going to the farm every Wednesday and I'll definitely miss the fresh produce. I'm very excited to be a part of this CSA, though. I'm proud to support local, independent farmers and I love eating healthy foods grown in a responsible, sustainable way. I can't wait for next spring.

Hey strangers!

Hey guys - Top 5 songs your listening to on your ipod lately

right now (changes every moment)

1. High School Never Ends - Bowling for Soup
2. The Killers - Are We Human?
3. Cheer - The Descendents
4. Tomorrow Wendy - (acoustic version) Concrete Blonde
5. American Idiot - Greenday

I need some new free music......send CD's!!!!!!

Did you see this about Prop 8?

Check out his special comment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVUecPhQPqY

Pixies and Law & Order

Did anyone see the most recent Law & Order?

One of the bad guys is "always wearing a pink Pixies shirt" and her email is Surferrosa@gmail.com or something. They then explain how that ties in. The world has come a long way since I got excited about Morrissey being on Saturday Night Live.

The episode is called Rumble for those with tivo.


In other news we just got let back into the building after a two hour anthrax scare. Super.

Top 5 things....

1. Obama's win in Grant Park.....

2. RadioLab

3. Hulu

4. Ghost Hunters video (this is for Adam)

5. Top five lists from friends.....

My Top Five (as of 11/6/08)

1. Descendents


2. Dallas Mavericks basketball


3. Severance Package, by Duane Swierczynski

4. The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac


5. The bad-ass kid in the center of this photo

My Current Top 5

My Current Top 5:

1. Pizza


2. Ralph Nader


3. A Graphic Adaptation of the Constitution


4. Faunts


5. Karmella


p.s. I've been blogging over here lateley, Talking Sweet About Nothing

My New Top 5

1. No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

2. Editors-"The Weight of The World"



3. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

4. The new Smiths cd set













5. "We Both Go Down Together (acoustic)"-The Decemberists

Where's Doug??? C'mon

Doug - we need you to join the blog!

The Original Incarnation of This Blog, Summed Up

1. Random Top 5 Post
2. Random Top 5 Post
3. Random Top 5 Post
4. Long Post By Scott Talking About Varsity Blues, Pop Punk, and -- oh yeah -- His Engagement
5. Random Top 5 Post
6. Random Top 5 Post
7. Random Top 5 Post
8. Adam Goes Somewhere Scary
9. Random Top 5 Post
10. Random Top 5 Post
11. Long Post by Scott Talking About Empire Records, Pop Punk, and -- oh yeah -- His Wife is Pregnant
12. Random Top 5 Post

And so on.

Back To Business....

Yay! I think we mainly used this for things like top 5 lists....so everyone start thinking of lists!

I have to look around here and figure out what changes they have made and what we can do now...it's better than it was back in the day. Is all of this public, on the internet?

For those not on Facebook, here is a picture....I donated my hair this weekend...chopped off 14 inches.....it was really long...to my waist!

Awesome!

I wonder what happened to the archives. I'd love to go back and read some of those. I bet there's some ridiculous stuff there.

Chase Video

There is a farmer's market every week a few towns over. She always wants to go and ride the same pony...Spirit.

So...Here We Are

So we are starting this up again.

Josh