Pot Luck

It's Saturday! (4.00 / 3)

And jeez, my legs are still pooped. So whazzup?

Act on Principles and make equality happen.

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by: atdleft @ Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 21:18:10 PM CST

Nada... (4.00 / 3)

I have a big night planned.  

Try to eat in a little while.  Then sleep.

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by: JayinPortland @ Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 21:45:59 PM CST

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It's pool time, everyone! (4.00 / 2)

Too bad the weather still isn't cooperating yet...

Today's the opening day for Wet Republic at MGM Grand, and as Vegas DeLuxe has previously reported, the promoters there have declared war! They've also lined up a star-studded guest list of weekend party hosts to ensure that the new clubs at the Hard Rock Hotel and Encore don't steal their thunder.

On March 27, it's the official media day opening with former The Girls Next Door and now Kendra reality TV star Kendra Wilkinson showing off her post-baby swimsuit figure to promote her E! Entertainment series, which returns to the air Sunday night. Then it's the industry opening of Daylife Sundays on April 11 with alternating superstar DJs Roger Sanchez and Sharam.

Expect media mayhem April 24 when Keeping Up With the Kardashians sisters Kim and Khloe jet in with a plane load of Hollywood celebrities and sports pals to celebrate Kourtney Kardashian's birthday.
The $100,000 Hot 100 celebration starts April 30, and special plans are in store for Memorial Day weekend with another big celebrity lineup.

Yes, my dears, even the pool parties are more outrageous here. Again, it's just too bad it's still so windy and chilly here. ;-)

Act on Principles and make equality happen.

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by: atdleft @ Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 22:17:59 PM CST

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It's Saturday so (4.00 / 4)

I watched a movie. Hairspray, the 1988 version. This film has more outrageously funny bits than Blazing Saddles.

John Waters seems like a normal person when I see him at the supermarket, but he obviously is a warped individual. I need to find some more of his movies. I always regretted that I didn't get to see Pecker in a theater.

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by: count @ Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 21:50:11 PM CST

"Gangs of New York"... (4.00 / 4)

Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York is on AMC right now, just started up.  I do believe I'm gonna watch it.  I've only seen this once, I think.  Right around when it came out.

If I can't sleep later, I think I'm gonna throw on my Taxi Driver dvd.

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by: JayinPortland @ Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 22:04:26 PM CST

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count, the first movie by (4.00 / 3)

John Waters I ever saw was Pink Flamingos, back in college.  We'd smoked some excellent weed first: highly rec'd if you ever see it.

Nevertheless, if you want to see more of his work, I'd suggest staying away from the earlier stuff and focusing more on the later pics.

Just sayin'.  ;-)  

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -- Calvin Trillin

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by: Youffraita @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 03:30:43 AM CDT

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I am a HUGE John Waters fan (4.00 / 2)

where does he shop???

My favorite John Waters movie..Serial Mom

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

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by: LeeN @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 13:29:03 PM CDT

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One place he shops (4.00 / 1)

is at a Giant brand supermarket, just like regular people.

I've heard Waters give various interviews, in which he might seem to strive for deliberate provocation, but based on Hairspray (the only movie of his I've seen) he really does have an original mind. Hairspray is highly stylized, but it contains much truth, some of it painful. I thought it very funny.

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by: count @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 13:55:32 PM CDT

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I've seen both versions of Hairspray (4.00 / 2)

and like them both.  I never saw the Broadway show, but I listen to the music. I'm 57 and grew up in Philadelphia home of American Bandstand. The Corny Collins show is loosely based on Dick Clark and that show.

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by: LeeN @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 14:17:14 PM CDT

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Buddy Deane Show (4.00 / 1)

American Bandstand was the granddaddy of those shows. I watched it sometimes in college (1959-1963), usually while playing bridge. In those years, according to the Buddy Deane Show wiki,

...Bandstand showed black teenagers dancing on the show (although black and white teenagers were not allowed to dance together.)

The Buddy Deane Show was cancelled in 1964, the year after I arrived here, because of race issues. Buddy wanted the show to integrate, as indicated in the original film, but he did not bail out because of that, as I remember the story. WJZ management received a lot of pressure to integrate, and they cancelled the show instead. Station managers might not have been the ogres depicted in the film, but the fact is, they chose not to give integration a chance. 1964, can you believe it? The management line was that white parents did not want their kids dancing with blacks, and they didn't want TV to show white and black teenagers dancing together. I could believe that, but I don't know the truth.

Waters says Rikki Lake would not have been able to appear on the Buddy Deane show because of her size. I don't remember if American Bandstand showed heavy kids.

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by: count @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 16:09:56 PM CDT

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Rikki Lake (4.00 / 1)

Rikki Lake says she was a version when Hairspray began shooting, but not when it ended.

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by: count @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 16:13:31 PM CDT

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Freudian typos now? (4.00 / 1)

"virgin", not "version". Yikes.

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by: count @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 16:14:37 PM CDT

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Nice day for an urban iditarod... (4.00 / 5)

Today was the tenth annual Portland Urban Iditarod.

I wasn't there, but here's a post from someone who was...

Because the event starts under the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge, active folks that were out for an actual training run or ride stopped and asked the costumed teams what was going. "It's the Urban Iditarod," people would say, providing basically no useful information to the curious passers-by.

So, here's what it is. Take the Alaskan Iditarod, but replace the sled with a shopping cart and the dogs with runners. Add crazy costumes, turn the "aid stations" into popular bars and clubs, and a lot of people with a sense of humor.

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by: JayinPortland @ Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 21:59:56 PM CST

LOL! (4.00 / 3)

That sounds entirely too funny...I can imagine a Gay Iditarod along those lines running through NYC and San Francisco...except with lots of Big Hair, cleavage, and size-13 pumps.

ROFLMAO

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -- Calvin Trillin

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by: Youffraita @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 03:34:59 AM CDT

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Has everyone seen this? (4.00 / 4)

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by: Crider @ Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 22:54:11 PM CST

Too funny! (4.00 / 3)

I've seen that commercial too.

Gotta wonder who that company is trying to sell to, although I know there are a lot of gullible people out there, and a lot of people who don't know that they can save their own seed. And, yes, if you're feeling adventerous, you can even save hybrid seed, you just won't know how the next crop is going to be. Sometime it's great, sometime it's a bomb....

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." ~ John Wayne

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 08:30:53 AM CDT

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Sunchokes to the left of me, sunchokes to the right..... (4.00 / 3)

Got home from deliveries (I love delivery day!) and then did the afternoon feeding/watering and decided, what the hey, I'll divide those sunchokes and plant 'em in new rows.

Last year I planted one 12' row, and I've been harvesting sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes) off of that row for one subscriber and ourselves all winter. I didn't keep track of how many pounds of sunchokes I've dug from that row, but it's been a lot. So I figured that there would be enough of the things left for one 20' row.

So I commenced to digging, and I dug and dug and dug. I filled up one 8 quart feed bucket, then ran out of room and had to pile them along the trench for the new row. Got that row, 20' long, planted and had so many (actually 2 buckets full) that I decided to plant a new row in the location of the old row I had just dug all the sunchokes out of.

So I get the hoe out and start scraping another trench. And what do I find? You guessed it, more sunchokes. So now I have 2 20' rows planted and still have two 8 quart feed buckets full of sunchokes. I figure I have enough for around 100' more of sunchoke rows.

I should be able to keep all of my subscribers stocked with sunchokes and have some to sell at the produce stand this winter.

God only knows how many I'll be left with a year from now.... To say that the things are prolific is an understatement!

I also just posted the other two parts of the Farm FAQ in the diaries section -
Farm FAQ - plant crop section
Farm FAQ - livestock and poultry section

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." ~ John Wayne

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 10:19:19 AM CDT

Amazing sunchokes. (4.00 / 2)

Wonderful story, Joanne.

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by: count @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 13:13:53 PM CDT

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parable (4.00 / 2)

I said story, but probably I should have said a parable for our time. God tries to give farmers a head start in life by providing an abundance of resources. A farmer who is willing to accept that, and invest wisdom and effort in its use, can find the effort repaid with multiplication.

When farmers believe that nature is the enemy, no wonder the dominant North American ag model is so inefficient and unproductive.

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by: count @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 14:06:24 PM CDT

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soda pop prices (4.00 / 2)

Looking at weekly sales circulars:

Giant offers Coke varieties at 4 6-packs for $10, 16.9-oz (500-ml). $0.417 per bottle, $0.025 per ounce.

For comparison, SuperFresh offers Nestle Pure Life water, 24 16.9-oz bottles for $2.99. $0.125 per bottle, $0.007 per ounce. The bountiful supply of wasted plastic is free(?).

SuperFresh offers Pepsi varieties in various packaging options. In 12-oz containers, metal cans are cheaper than plastic bottles. That surprises me. 36 cans (3 12-packs) for $9.99, $0.278/can, $0.023/oz. 24 plastic bottles (3 8-packs) for $9.99, $0.416/btl, $0.035/oz, 52% more expensive. I wonder if people automatically buy the plastic bottles because they assume plastic is cheaper than cans. 18 24-oz plastic bottles (3 6-packs) for $9.99, $0.555/btl, $0.023/oz.

Shoppers, Coke for same deal as Giant.

I didn't know brand name chemically adulterated fizzy water was this cheap. A report released last week said consumption would be reduced somewhat if it was subject to a tax of at least 18%. I doubt that any federal or state legislature, or any city or county body, will impose an 18% tax. Any feasible soda tax looks like a revenue source, not a behavior modifier, but I need to read that report, which I haven't done yet.

Should bottled water by exempt from a soda tax? All the federal legislative hearings I've watched lately have been littered with it.

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by: count @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 15:08:04 PM CDT

anniversary (4.00 / 2)

I forgot to mention - yesterday, March 13, was my one-year anniversary here. One year ended, another begun. I've learned a lot, and I've been encouraged that all is not lost. I've found some good recipes. I still haven't tried making spaetzle, but any day now I will.

Perhaps best of all, I've met some good people. Knowledgeable, serious about their work, making the world a better place with cheerful determination.

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by: count @ Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 18:55:05 PM CDT

Happy anniversary! (4.00 / 2)

I was thinking, when planting peas this year on the 15th of Feb. that the second diary I ever wrote here was pea plantin' time, last year.

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." ~ John Wayne

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 10:31:05 AM CDT

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