Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007
lg coffee
egg/sausage/cheese sandwich on a long roll
lg coffee
bottle of orange/mango juice (17.5 fl.oz.)
2 pints of lager
can of coke
hot roast pork on kaiser roll sandwich (mayo/horseradish) plus
side pickle/peppers
lg coffee
pint of lager
glass of fountain coke
pint of lager
3 bottles of lager
2 pints of lager
glass of fountain coke
pint of lager
slightly more than a pack of cigarettes
loss leaders
yesterday while waiting for a cup of coffee at ING, saw a company advert for a money management seminar to be held at the cafe (free coffee) and the need to rsvp re: attendance. since I was there already, used one of their computers and answered 2 or 3 survey questions. They then let me know I was signed up for "families in disaster." will attend but will now *not* open an account with them. Wonder who was the corporate idiot that thought that one up.
Posted by Allan Smithee at 6:15 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Monday, Feb. 26, 2007
med coffee
hash brown
lg coffee
kaiser roll with butter
pint of lager
lager glass of lager
glass of fountain coke
lg coffee
pint of lager
2 bottles of lager
roasted pork bun
pint of lager*
slightly more than a pack of cigarettes
We're a full service gallery
saw a good show this past weekend. at first, thought you had to have the assistants turn the book pages but when walking back to the main floor noticed what I had originally mistaken (cursory glance) for a sculpture was a bowl full of surgical gloves on a pedestal. Next time, will look at the books.
*add four more
Posted by Allan Smithee at 6:41 AM 0 comments
Monday, February 26, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007
two sm coffees
3 glazed donuts
1 lg coffee
2 bagels (plain)
3 pints of lager
shrimp salad/lettuce/tomato/onion sandwich on a long roll
with side of peppers/pickle
3 pints of lager
2 glasses of fountain coke
1 pint of lager
2 sm coffees
sm cup of egg/chicken noodle soup
2 granola bars
2 sm "chex mix" type snacks (100 calories per bag)
sm granola/energy bar
slightly more than a pack of cigarettes
snow pics from yesterday:
Hey I know you!
recognized a female barkeep (Bonner's Irish Pub) who was walking down the street this a.m. talking on her cell phone. Was listening to the cd walkman so probably spoke louder than usual (headphones hidden by knit cap). She seemed sorta startled, yet non-plussed, rolled her eyes, gave a half-hearted wave and kept walking while talking on the phone. don't know whether she was also chewing gum.
Hey I know you! (part two)
the last time I recognized/startled someone on the street was about a year ago. (was one of the guys in the band the clockcleaners.) happened in Chinatown. told myself, don't ever do that again... people think its kinda weird.
Posted by Allan Smithee at 7:31 AM 0 comments
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007
2 sm coffees
2 hot dogs - plain (two dogs per bun)
lg coffee
2 pints of lager
lg coffee
2 pints plus a lager glass of lager
sm bag of pretzels/side of mustard
2 pints of lager
1 can of beer (16 fl. oz. - brown bagged)
1 ham/cheese breakfast taco
sm bag of potato chips (1 oz.)
1 apple
4 "oreo" type cookies
slightly more than a pack of cigarettes
purchases this past week:
3 used cds each priced under $8
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Radiohead - Amnesiac
next two cd purchases:
The Fall - Reformation! Post-TLC
The Foreign Press - Cramped Leisure (ep) via: westmaindevelopment label
Posted by Allan Smithee at 11:17 AM 0 comments
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Friday, Feb. 23, 2007
6-7 cups of coffee
sm cup of hot chocolate
2 servings of noodle/chicken/veg. casserole with
mashed potatoes
lg coffee
1 turkey sandwich (plain)
1/2 pack of cigarettes
place where I frequently get a late-night cup of coffee made the front page of one of the local papers today (Feb. 24) click here for story
editor's note: film updates are on hold until further notice
For the fourth consecutive day Allan Smithee has been scouting locations, filming preliminary shots, re-writing scripts, dealing with financial backers plus a tempermental cast/crew.
Posted by Allan Smithee at 7:17 AM 0 comments
Friday, February 23, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007
7-8 cups of coffee
2 sm cups of water
1 hot dog with ketchup
1 tuna fish on whole wheat sandwich
1/2 pack of cigarettes
editor's note: for the third consecutive day Allan Smithee has been scouting locations, filming preliminary shots, re-writing scripts, dealing with financial backers plus a tempermental cast/crew.
Yesterday, while on location, Allan Smithee was asked "Why are you living in Philadelphia?"
"Had been in Denver for about 10 days maybe two weeks. A large convention, pharmaceutical companies, came to town taking all the hotel rooms, literally. Didn't have a place to stay. So I took the shuttle bus to the airport not knowing where on the East Coast I would end up. On the ride to the airport there were a couple of attorneys sitting in the seat in front of me. They were talking about Philly. Had no destination so I thought "why not?" Bought a ticket, took the next flight, and here I am."
Posted by Allan Smithee at 6:25 AM 0 comments
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007
3 cups of coffee
2 honey buns
2 apples
2 sm cups of hot chocolate
4 cheese sandwiches (plain)
2 sm cups of veg/beef soup
lg cup of sweet tea
1 hot dog with mustard/ketchup
lg cup of coffee
1/2 pack of cigarettes
editor's note: for the second consecutive day Allan Smithee has been scouting locations, re-writing scripts, dealing with financial backers plus a tempermental cast/crew. Although in the eye of the film storm, Allan Smithee was able to send some more miscellany for today's entry.
photo essay - tribal artifacts on 20th st.
photo 1: 20th St./Callowhill
photo 2: 20th/Vine (Main Branch of Public Library)
(found) photo 3: 20th near Spring Garden
Posted by Allan Smithee at 6:40 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007
sm coffee
4 cups of coffee
6 crackers with peanut butter
lg coffee
6 "oreo" type cookies (vanilla creme)
tuna on whole wheat sandwich
lg cup of tomato/veg./chicken/noodle soup
two turkey/cheese sandwiches
1 granola bar (peanut butter/chocolate)
bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
1/2-3/4 pack of cigarettes
SNAPPY CHEESE STICKS*
1 stick pie crust mix
1/2 c. shredded sharp natural Cheddar cheese
1/8 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp. paprika
Prepare pie crust mix according to package directions. Add cheese, mustard and paprika until mixture forms a ball. Roll dough on lightly floured surface to 12 x 8 inch rectangle. With pastry wheel or knife, cut into 4 x 1/2 inch rectangles. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake in hot oven (425 degree) for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Makes 4 dozen sticks.
*note: this recipe is the closest one found that compares to the one that was used during holidays/for family treats. That recipe though used Cheez Whiz and a pastry gun. mmm, mmm, mmm... baked cheese sticks, a favorite.
obvious cooking tip:
when using frozen vegetables as a side dish, no need to defrost or nuke before cooking. just throw the frozen block/pieces into a pan and heat. while cooking, will defrost/thaw.
Posted by Allan Smithee at 7:29 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Monday, Feb. 19, 2007
lg coffee
fried chicken (drumstick/thigh)
sm plastic barrel of fruit punch
2 lg coffees
2 sm peanut butter cookies
fried chicken (drumstick/thigh)
2 corn on the cob
1 apple
slice of banana bread
1/2 pack of cigarettes
email cover letter and resume that receives no response from prospective employers:
Dear Sir,
I am writing with interest regarding the position of (blank) I found in (blank). I believe you will find my experience and work ethic an asset to your company. I have attached my resume and thank you in advance for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
(name deleted)
(name deleted)
(address deleted) Street Philadelphia, PA 19107
(phone # deleted) (name deleted)@yahoo.com
Professional Experience:
Project H.O.M.E. Philadelphia, PA
On-Call Utility 2006 – Present
• Cataloged library of donated books by creating a system of inventory management to maintain rotating library
• General culinary support at Project H.O.M.E.’s Back Home Café and Catering
• Respond to in-house custodial needs on an on-going basis
Book Corner Philadelphia, PA Volunteer 2006
• Stocked, shelved and maintained sections of the store
• Provided customer service as needed
• Cleaned all areas of the store
St. Mark's Episcopal Church San Antonio, TX
General Utility Worker 2004 – 2006
• Gardener for extensive exterior grounds
• Assisted with receipt of food shipments & stocked food bank
• Helped with kitchen/cleanup duties including serving clients, prepping foods
Steak 'N' Ale Restaurant Austin, TX
Waiter 2003 – 2004
• Served diverse clientele with efficiency and excellent customer service
ICI Deluxe Paints Austin, TX
Warehouse Associate 2001 – 2003
• Warehouse work including mixing paints & stocking retail store
• Provided customer care & service when needed
Madelyn Simon and Associates New York City, NY
Horticultural Technician 1996 – 2000
• Maintained interior and exterior gardens/beds of plants and flowers for commercial and residential accounts
• Ensured that all plants under contract would be replaced within a timely manner
• Ensured all paperwork to management was processed
Education:
San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA
Studied: Painting 1989 – 1991
San Antonio Community College San Antonio, TX
Studied: Painting 1986 – 1988
United High School Laredo, TX *
Diploma
*humorous aside: while growing up there, Laredo, Tx. made the "Book of Lists" as the worst city in the United States to live in. Very true
Many years later, Laredo, Tx. again made the "Book of Lists" though this time it was cited as one of the best U.S. cities to reside in... find the upgrade very dubious and not very crebible.
Posted by Allan Smithee at 6:57 AM 0 comments
Monday, February 19, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007
1 honey bun
2 turkey roll/cheese sandwiches
turkey/cheese/mayo sandwich
3 hard candies (lifesaver type sweets)
sm plastic barrel of blue kool-aid
sm coffee
can of ginger-ale (12 fl.oz.)
med coffee (16 fl.oz.)
tastykake fruit & yogurt breakfast bar - apple/cinnamon (nt.wt. 2 oz.)
sm cup of noodle pasta
fried chicken (drum stick/thigh)
single corn on the cob
sliced sausage/cheese/mustard sandwich
sm box of fruit punch (6.75 fl.oz.)
pack of cigarettes
gig review/set list of rock band Chavez (San Francisco, CA 12/30/2006) as posted on the Silver Jews Bulletin Board by Potatoes Browning
Posted by Allan Smithee at 10:10 AM 0 comments
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007
sm coffee
plain hot dog (two dogs on bun)
10 sugar/oatmeal cookies
3 oranges
lg coffee
2 sm ham/lettuce/cheese/mayo on portioned french bread sandwiches
3 peanut butter/jelly sandwiches
bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
lg cup of veg./noodle soup
3/4 pack of cigarettes
Sunday Sermon: text excerpted from an evangelical tract*
What about 666? Let's take a shocking look.
On the Pope's official mitre has been seen the title "Vicarius Filii Dei," which means "Vicar of the Son of God." The claim that this is his official title has been stated publicly through the years.
In Revelation 13:18 it says, "Count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six (666)."
V = 5
I = 1
C = 100
A = 0
R = 0
I = 1
U = 5
S = 0
F = 0
I = 1
L = 50
I = 1
I = 1
D = 500
E = 0
I = 1
Total = 666
*National Sunday Law by A. Jan Marcussen
Eighty ninth printing - 2004
27.7 million in print
for further discussion and fun, click here (a bulletin board)
call me a heretic:
if you drink your coffee with cream and sugar...
instant coffee crystals, non-dairy creamer, sugar, and hot water makes an *excellent* cup of java. no joke.
Posted by Allan Smithee at 11:12 AM 0 comments
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Friday, Feb. 16, 2007
2 glasses of water
lg coffee
3 oranges
2 pretzels (plain)
1/2 pack of cigarettes
cartoons from an alt-weekly (the Valentine's Day/week edition) located in their adult classified section:
The Perry Bible Fellowship
Lulu Eightball
postscript: not that I read the personals/adult classified section. would you believe me if I said I only read Playboy for the articles?
Posted by Allan Smithee at 8:41 AM 0 comments
Friday, February 16, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007
bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
4 glazed donuts
6 crackers with peanut butter
2 sm coffees
2 servings of white rice topped with beef/veg. stew
2 slices of white bread
sm cup of baked beans
bologna/mustard sandwich
1/4 pack of cigarettes
sports facts:
rock skipping record - 40 skips by Kurt Steiner in 2003
longest continuous pogo-stick jumping distance is 23.11 miles (no, not just one jump, but many) set by Ashrita Furman in 1997. click for more records held by "Mr. Versatility"
long distance boomerang world record is 238 meters (1108.92 ft), held by Manuel Schutz of Switzerland. The boomerang's total flight path would have exceeded 500 meters (1640.42 ft). More boomerang info
records surprisingly not set or at least not found on the net:
can kicking endurance record
frisbee retrieving distance by a dog
yo-yoing marathon endurance record
number of successful/continuous paddle ball "hits/returns"
jump rope marathon record
addendum: in 19something or another, Ralph Malph, of "Happy Days" fame attempted the world record for "lowest jump". The Guinness Book of Records representative did not acknowledge it. Saw the episode. think he succeeded.
Posted by Allan Smithee at 7:01 AM 0 comments
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007
2 glasses of water
4 vanilla "oreo" type cookies
1 oreo
slice of fruit pound cake
2 vanilla "oreo" type cookies
lg coffee
2 mints
peanut butter/jelly sandwich
one orange
1/4-1/2 pack of cigarettes
actual craigslist advert:
*Make The Sequel*
Needed: financially fluid independent film-maker with briefcase containing $100,000
You: give homeless guy the cash and film the spending/investing of it for the next six months.
Me: Homeless Guy
note: will work out financial points/creative control re: film at a later date
following links are for comparative purposes only:
prequel
as seen on Oprah
tangent:
"$1 to post or blog about my sports site
If you have a sports blog or are a member of a sports forum I will pay you $1 to post or blog about my site http://www.(sitenamedeleted).com/ This is a sports news site so it will be easy to find a news related to your blog/forum and post about it.
After making the post just PM me the exact URL and your PayPal email for payment.
Please do not spam and post only in forums you already are a member. I will only pay for posts that look real not spam posts. The PR is not important as long as the blog/forum is sports related."
__________________
editor's note: make tomorrow's entry (Fri, Feb 16) sports related...
$1 incoming, $99,000 to go
Posted by Allan Smithee at 2:44 PM 2 comments
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007
2 lg coffees
2 glazed donuts
lg cup of tomato/veg. soup
bologna/cheese/mustard sandwich
sm snack-sized chocolate covered donut
chocolate chip cookie
sugar cookie
co-jack cheese (1 oz.)
Hershey's Dbl Chocolate candy bar (net wt. 1.6 oz)
2 chocolate cupcakes
1 orange
2 peanut butter/jelly sandwiches
bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
1/4 pack of cigarettes
found photograph by anonymous
Posted by Allan Smithee at 7:39 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Monday, Feb. 12, 2007
lg coffee
sugar cookie
6 wheat/cheddar cheese crackers
4 cheddar cheese crackers with peanut butter
2 lg coffees
sm bowl of pinto bean soup
2 bologna/cheese/mustard sandwiches
Nestle Crunch candy bar (1.55 oz.)
mozzarella string cheese (net wt. 1 oz.)
co-jack cheese (net wt. 1 oz.)
6 cheese crackers with cheese
1 apple
1 orange
caprisun fruit punch pouch (6.75 fl.oz.)
1/2 pack of cigarettes
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Monday, February 12, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007
bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
plate of baked chicken, rice, and black-eyed beans
turkey, cheese, mayo sandwich
lg cup of hot chocolate
4 crackers with peanut butter
4 oreos
turkey/cheese/mayo on kaiser roll
sm bag of potato chips
2 sugar cookies
1 chocolate chip cookie
bologna/cheese/mayo sandwich
reeces peanut butter cup
two oranges
can of pepsi (12 fl.oz.)
box of orange/tangerine drink (6.75 fl.oz.)
turkey/cheese/mayo sandwich
sm cup of mashed potatoes
1 orange
sm coffee
1/4-1/2 pack of cigarettes
create then be bought by the highest best bidder:
start a site with an esperanto word generator/translator...
the google, microsoft, yahoo money will roll in
or did that kind of computer bubble already burst?
more soft sell:
one practical application of owning an esperanto word generator/translator site...
future profits from the patented International Karaoke Machine:
sure, polka versions of your favorite songs are always fun, but can you imagine the added hi-jinx/hilarity, and beauty, of also singing that fave tune in the language of Esperanto?
note: serious karaoke lounge lizards or english only purists, pls move along
Posted by Allan Smithee at 12:34 PM 0 comments
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007
sm coffee
two plain hotdogs (2 dogs per bun)
lg coffee
bottle of fruit punch (16.9 fl.oz.)
bottle of lemonade (16.9 fl.oz.)
sm bag of potato chips
turkey/cheese/mayo on sm soft roll
sm plastic barrel of orange kool-aid
sm bag of bbq potato chips
ham/bologna/cheese/mustard sandwich
plate of baked chicken, rice, black-eyed beans
1 apple
bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
3/4 pack of cigarettes
things to do this week:
*locate/price specific carboard box
*contact ICA re: proposal/project pkg given them 4-6 months ago and retrieve if they haven't discarded it or literally thrown it in the trash
*start working on photograph/drawing/collage project for N. Brennan
*drink less
*smoke less
*eat healthier
*try to find employment
*start training for the NYC marathon by doing either a single sit-up or push-up
Posted by Allan Smithee at 10:13 AM 0 comments
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Friday, Feb. 9, 2007
6 cups of coffee
crumb cake donut
sausage/egg/cheese on english muffin
16 oz. can of beer (brown bagged)
2 pints of lager
lg coffee
3 bottles of lager
2 glasses of fountain coke
3 pints of lager
sm coffee
ham/cheese sandwich
slice of chocolate cake
pack of cigarettes
Comedy isn't pretty nor sometimes funny:
yesterday, or day before, saw public library security guard outside smoking a cigarette and talking to a woman while looking at a handful of dvds she was lugging around...
A.A.: This is sad. A man of the law buying boot-legged dvds while taking a cigaratte break.
Security Guard: Mind your own business!
A.A.: That was a joke.
end of "conversation". didn't know that really was the reality of the situation.
Posted by Allan Smithee at 10:24 AM 0 comments
Friday, February 9, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007
2 cake donuts
turkey/cheese/mayo sandwich
ham/cheese/mayo sandwich
lg cup of fountain coke
fried egg/bologna on roll
blueberry muffin
sm coffee
sausage/egg/cheese breakfast burrito
sm bottle of water
1/2 pack of cigarettes
A Short Film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFw0udppTWI
Corporate Secrets:
just got a free coffee at ING cafe. wear orange on Fri., get comped.
Attn: ING number crunchers, head honchos...
Chris (Philadelphia) needs, NO DESERVES, either a raise or a bonus. very good cust. service.
Posted by Allan Smithee at 6:18 AM 0 comments
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007
two cake donuts
lg coffee
turkey/cheese/mayo sandwich
ham/cheese/mayo sandwich
4 crackers with peanut butter
8-9 cups of coffee
2 sm glasses of water
small green salad with feta cheese, tomatoes, and peppers
slice of sour dough bread
2 pretzels
1/2 pack of cigarettes
old man enjoying elevator music:
was in Whole Foods last night, (Wed./8:55 p.m.), and the store "musak" being played was Pavement's Rattled By The Rush.
Man, Myth, Legend -
blogger extraordinaire, rock band dude, and now "officially"...
another recording by The Foreign Press - Cramped Leisure (ep) released by West Main Development record label.
Posted by Allan Smithee at 2:15 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007
lg coffee
granola bar
1/2 bagel with cream cheese
2 sm glasses of water
3 cups of coffee
2 pints of lager
4 tacos
3 bottles of lager
pack of cigarettes
Dead Boys and Heavy Seats
I had just gotten home from a funeral,
one that I was notified of at the last minute
inconveniently. All selfishness aside, it was
for a dear friend's two sons, a drowning
accident I was told. The classic, one trying
to save the other and both die,
tragic situation. The two coffins were
side by side and the priest spoke
twice as long than the last
burial I attended.
Upon returning home, my wife asked me
if she could pour me a cup of soup. She
asked if everything was alright, and how
the funeral was. "Yeah, thanks, sure, I'll
have a little soup, I guess," I said. She
didn't take her eyes off me while I took my
coat off, put my keys on the table,
and breathed out that glad to be home
and unwind breath.
She started in about her awful morning
at work, and the stress caused by the
senseless and dull personal problems
of both co-workers and clients.
I couldn't help interrupting her.
"You know I hate cooked broccoli,
even in soup, you
know this. Why would you offer me
soup with that shit in it, when you know
that I hate it?"
I thought of the boys in their coffins
and the young deaths
upon which they were handed.
My wife apologized and started picking
the broccoli out of the near boiling soup
with her skinny fingers. I watched her struggle
for a few seconds and then
I pulled the bowl away from her reach.
I looked straight in her eyes
and said, "I'm sorry honey.
I didn't mean to take anything out on
you. It's been a long crazy day . Tell me about
your morning, and here's the new battery
for your watch, here, sit down."
Nathaniel Brennan (2006-07)
Posted by Allan Smithee at 6:55 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Monday, Feb. 5, 2007
lg coffee
plain bagel
med coffee
2 pints of lager
2 lager glasses of lager
8 cheese crackers with cheese
1 pint of lager
1 mug of lager
pbr/shot of whiskey
1 can of pbr (12 fl.oz.)
2 sm coffees
cup of vegetable soup
1 granola bar
3/4 pack of cigarettes
page from notebook
humorous email:
of course i'll bring it.
the wedding was great, i ate a ton all weekend.
the tux was a tad on the small size, but i dont
think anyone noticed.
i dont have any black socks but fortunately they
provided some with the rental.
On 2/5/07, allan smithee wrote:
>Hey (name deleted),
>
>its Mon. afternoon... if you get this email today
>(feb. 5) can you bring your camera to (name deleted)
>tomorrow (tues Feb, 6)?
>
>if you forget, um, thats the breaks.
>
>(name deleted)
>
>postscript: how did the wedding go? was the tux two
>sizes or just one size too small?? also, I hope you
>took socks.
>
>________________________________
.
more still: band setting up (tues. feb. 6) while happyhour drinking ... seemed like decent guys.
Posted by Allan Smithee at 9:56 AM 0 comments
Monday, February 5, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Sunday, Feb. 4, 2007
lg coffee
sausage/egg/cheese on biscuit
hash brown
2 honey buns
sm coffee
bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz)
2 pints of lager
1/2 pack of cigarettes
Today (Feb. 5) In History:
1897 - Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel precipitated by a slanderous article Lorrain has written about Les Plaisirs et les Jours
1914 - William Burroughs (Naked Lunch) is born in St. Louis, MO
Found Poetry... A New Definiton Every Day
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Sunday, February 4, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007
2 lg coffees
1 pretzel
2 pints of lager
bottle of orange juice (15.2 fl.oz.)
2 pints of lager
2 mugs of lager
2 pints of lager
roastbeef/mayo sandwich
sm bag of potato chips
6 cheese crackers with cheese
bottle of water (16.9 fl. oz.)
pack of cigarettes
Mexico vs United States -
think traffic lights* in Mexico are superior to those in the U.S. In America, before a red light, and after the green light, you have a solid yellow light warning drivers the light is about to turn red. The old joke... yellow light means floor it. In Mexico, when the light goes yellow, it slowly blinks four or five times then turns solid yellow for very short time, then red. think drivers would instinctively slow down for a blinking yellow light. When the solid yellow light appears, doesn't seem like driver would floor it but stop knowing the red light will quickly appear.
*traffic light invented by Garrett Morgan who also invented the gas mask. info via cartoon "Jump Start" by Robb Armstrong. note: there is some controversary re: that statement. google for more info
interesting future ebay items
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Saturday, February 3, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Friday, Feb. 2, 2007
ham/cheese/mustard sandwich
turkey/cheese/mayo sandwich
med coffee
kaiser roll with butter
2 pints of lager
hot dog with mustard/raw onions
pint of lager
12 "oreo" style cookies
pint of lager
lg coffee
slice of veggie pizza
3 bottles of lager
single espresso
bottle of lager
1 bbq rib
lg coffee
pack of cigarettes
icicles: a tapering spike of ice formed by the freezing of dripping or falling water (addendum - stalactite structure)
current conditions: 26 degrees fahrenheit
pressure: 30.04
humidity: 26%
visibility: 10 mi
wind chill: 12 degrees F.
wind speed: 20 mph
wind direction: W
today's forecast -
High: 34 degrees F.
windy with plenty of sun
tonight's forecast -
low: 16 degrees F.
patchy clouds with a cold wind
updated : Feb. 03, 2007 12:25 p.m.
personal note: danger, watch for falling ice (esp. from glass box buildings). the dripping stalactite structures are growing in length, getting heavier.
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Friday, February 2, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007
sm coffee
bagel with cream cheese
4-5 cups of coffee
3 pints of lager
order of chicken wings (25)/mozzarella cheese sticks (10ish) split
lg coffee
2 pints of lager
2 cups of coffee
triple layered chocolate cake with dbl layer of cherry filling
1/2 pint of lager
pack of cigarettes
proposed thin volume - (self published diet book):
many blank pages with text --
Eat Less ... Exercise More
Volume Two (real life) -
cut down the amount of cigarettes you smoke...
hang out more in bars*
note: you will tend to drink more though cause you're hanging out in a bar (not talking about those with a well stocked bar/fridge in the home).
*Philadelphia no longer allows smoking in restaurants/bars
conspiracy theory (gov./rest. assoc./diet industry) -
since you can't smoke while drinking/eating, customers tend to eat more but still drink the same because there is no food/stomach settlement time.
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Thursday, February 1, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007
lg coffee
sausage, egg, cheese breakfast sandwich
3 cups of coffee
2 lager glasses of lager
glass of fountain coke
fried rice (chicken, pork, shrimp)
2 spring rolls
2 bottles of lager
combo plate of chicken wings/tenders
bottle of orange soda
pack of cigarettes
preliminary sketch of modular home
photos of Allan Smithee by Chap Ambrose
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Friday, February 2, 2007
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
January - 2007
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007
lg coffee
sausage/egg/cheese breakfast sandwich
3-4 cups of coffee
tangerine
slice of pizza
pint of beer
2 bottles of lager
two tacos
pint of lager
two tacos
espresso
2 pints of lager
seafood soup, quiche, and salad
cup of coffee
chicken noodle soup
2 sm coffees
pack of cigarettes
healthy plants:
when watering a direct-potted house plant, only pour enough water, starting at where the plant is rooted and slowly water in a circular fashion, wetting all of the topsoil until the water starts to seep out and accumulate in the dish the bowl is resting in. Stop watering and wait till no more water seeps into the dish. then fill the dish with water. using this method, will only have to water once every week or every two weeks. when deciding when to water again, pinch some soil (digging down an inch or so and retrieving a small amount). squeeze between fore-finger and thumb. if no moisture appears in the soil in your hand, water. if there is moisture, give the plant a water break. most plants die from *over-watering* not under-watering.
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Monday, Jan. 29, 2007
lg coffee
sausage/egg/cheese breakfast sandwich
sm coffee
2 bottles of lager
single espresso
2 pints of lager
glass of fountain coke
2 mugs of lager
cup of veggie soup
2 sm cups of coffee
pack of cigarettes
oldie but goodie, click here
clandestine operations:
was told to go to this coffee shop but call first (had passed by the place before and probably purchased a cup or two previously) and tell them to save a copy of (deleted) magazine. If you just go in and ask for it (magazine), they will deny you.
anyway, happened to walk by, so went in and bought an espresso and asked for a business card. they didn't have any so I asked if they could write down the phone #. One employee didn't know it but the other did. Drank the coffee and asked for a copy of (deleted) mag. Cold shoulder. guess you really do need to call ahead and reserve.
impulse purchase (1/29): Fugazi - Furniture (ep) $3.99
also, thought it funny so started to tell record store owner about coffee shop/mag/phone reservation. Turns out the record store also carries the magazine.
addendum: ended up giving the magazine to the barkeep who added the Joos' song "Night People" to the jukebox at (bar name deleted).
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Monday, January 29, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007
bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
2 sm coffees
2 honey buns
cup of coffee
glass of fountain coke
2 egss overeasy (with tabasco sauce, salt/pepper), bacon, french fries, and two slices of toasted whole wheat bread
bottle of orange juice (15.2 fl.oz.)
pint of lager
3 taquitos
3 pints of lager
1 mug of lager
1 tangerine
bottle of water (8 fl.oz.)
1 ham/cheese/mustard sandwich
sm bag of sour cream/onion potato chips
slightly less than a pack of cigarettes
When it's snowing, the outdoors seem like a room - David Berman, author of Actual Air, and ringleader of the Silver Jews
last night, Philadelphia was covered by about an inch or so of snow. beautiful site sight. just sayin'
more tales from the sixth borough:
coffee cart vendor: large coffee?
A.A.: yeah, and an egg/sausage/cheese on a hero roll.
c.c.v. with quizzical expression: pita bread?
other customer to vendor: no, he means a long roll.
o.c. looking at me: you must be from New York City.
more squab:
also, saw the red-tailed hawk munching on another pigeon yesterday (1/28)
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007
sm coffee
2 pints of lager
double espresso
bottle of lager
bottle of orange juice (15.2 fl.oz.)
2 pints of lager
seafood soup/stew with side of tomatoes topped with blue cheese and some baguette bread
pint of lager
2 cups of coffee
2 mugs of lager
taquito
2 pints of lager
2 "tooters" (adult beverage pre-packaged in a tubeglass)
sm coffee
2 bottles of lager
glass of fountain coke
slice of pizza
pack of cigarettes
cool barkeep's band, click here
singles going steady:
The Beatles - Within You Without You
Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
The Pixies - Alec Eiffel
Roy Orbinson - Pretty Woman
Eddie Holman - Hey There Lonely Girl
five jukebox picks from last night (1/27)
There are two kinds of people, THE IRISH and those who think they are Irish - humorous signage on a bar fridge spotted last night
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
Food Stuff Comsumption And Miscellany
Friday, Jan. 26, 2007
lg coffee
hash brown
3 cups of coffee
kaiser roll with butter
bottle of orange/mango juice (17.5 fl.oz.)
pint of lager
pretzel with mustard
hotdog with mustard, raw onions
2 pints of lager
glass of fountain coke
two hard-boiled eggs with salt/pepper
lg coffee
two cheesburgers & med. fries (mickey d's)
biscuit
salami/cheese hoagie
bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
4/5 pack of cigarettes
new and improved
fyi: Book Corner (20th/Wood) is the new home of Chris' Corner, which means an expanded and very good children's and young adults section. Book Corner is a non-profit that works in tandem with the Free Library of Philadelphia.
visit an old school type old-man bar before it closes on Feb. 3:
Penn View Grill located on 13th/Race. Even has a large banner outside boldy stating "Cocktail Lounge". Will close cause the Convention Center is expanding. Been in business since 1976. Doesn't really seem that old, but that's a total of 31 years.
tiara sightings:
about an hour ago (1ish pm - eastern time) saw a girl/young woman (guesstimate age: 17-24) wearing a "crown"... thought that sorta funny/strange till remembering that Charles, the prince of Wales, and his wife, Camilla, the duchess of Cornwall, are in town for the weekend.
More pub/lounge info:
just had a pint at Las Vegas Lounge. when entering, the barkeep was playing Sonic Youth's "Teenage Riot". Not bad for an old man/mixed crowd type of place. Also their pints are larger than regular pints. They call 'em "royal pints" though I seriously doubt they accept Euro notes there. But why would they? American cash for tab/gratuity gladly accepted.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007
ham/cheese/mustard/mayo sandwich
5 cups of coffee
16 oz. can of beer (brown bagged)
2 pints plus lager glass of lager
3 cups of coffee
2 pints of lager
slice of cheese pizza
3 pints of lager
lg coffee
slightly more than a pack of cigarettes
Man and Beast
The front page of today's (Jan. 26) free daily spotlights the homeless, and because of frigid temperatures, homeless advocates have been working overtime trying to get them off the streets and into shelters. A Code Blue warning has been issued meaning if a homeless person refuses to go into a shelter, the police can and will be called at the discretion of the homeless advocates. serious and deadly stuff. Code Blue warnings are issued by the city when windchills drop below 20 degrees. This past Fri. and Sat. Code Blues were also issued though it didn't make the front page.
Its been really good hunting for the three or four red-shouldered hawks (wingspan guesstimate - 2 1/2 ft) I see around the parks. In the past week I've seen two of them snagging and eating well-fed, fat city pigeons. The pigeons are moving slower and looking/working harder for their food because of the cold and sometimes just standing still on the grass trying to avoid the wind. Also, noticed a new hawk in the area. It was a red-tailed hawk (slightly smaller than the other type of hawks) and it was also eating/enjoying a pigeon.
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007
turkey, cheese, mayo sandwich
ham, cheese, mayo sandwich
lg coffee
8 cheese crackers with peanut butter
6 "oreo" type cookies (strawberry creme)
sm coffee
3/4 pack of cigarettes
list of books (interesting titles once noted for purchase/to be read but as of yet, not)
Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire - Poe Ballantine (Hawthorne Books)
The Field Guide To Prehistoric Life - David Lambert (the Diagram Group)
The Libretti of Venice - Rodney Bolt (Bloomsbury)
One Way Street - Walter Benjamin
Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension In Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought -Tony Robbin
The Nimrod Flipout - Etgar Keret
public library discard found on the street:
Rays from the Rose Cross
A Magazine of Mystic Light
edited by Max Heindel
Vol. 8, No. 4
Feb., 1918
early "Australia Day":
click here for barkeep's band, a McCrossen Tavern production*
http://www.myspace.com/unlikelycowboy
*that was a joke. it's only one of her day jobs
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007
turkey, cheese, mayo sandwich
ham, cheese, mayo sandwich
5 cups of coffee
sm bag of ritz bitz
4 cheese crackers
sm hot chocolate (though drunk cold)
4 cheese crackers
1 Nurti-Grain blueberry cereal bar
Tastykake Graham pie with vanilla filler (net wt. 4 oz.)
4 peanut butter crackers
6 "oreo" style banana creme cookies
1 orange
ham/cheese sandwich
pack of cigarettes
gross income progressive flat tax proposal:
less than $25,000 - pay no taxes
$25,000 - (but less than) $50,000 - 2.5%
$50,000 - (but less than) $75,000 - 5%
$75,000 - (but less than) $100,000 - 7.5%
$100,000 - (but less than) $500,000 - 10%
$500,000 -(but less than) $1,000,000 - 15%
$1,000,000 - (but less than) $10,000,000 - 20%
$10,000,000 or more - 25%
response to the Mallard Fillmore cartoon published last month dealing with a flat tax
note: if found on the web, will post the cartoon
email sent to (dated tue, 12 dec 2006) but not responded by:
kfs-cartoonists@hearst.com
Dear Sir,
Would you kindly reply with the email address for Bruce Tinsley, the cartoonist who draws Mallard Fillmore?
Thankyou
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Monday, Jan. 22, 2007
3 lg coffees
peanut butter and jelly on whole wheat sandwich
bag of Mini Oreos bite-size (net wt. 1.25 oz)
6 "oreo" type chocolate creme cookies
1 tangerine
bag of teddy grahams honey cookies (net wt. 1.25 oz)
1 orange
fruit, yogurt, & granola parfait
6 cheese crackers with peanut butter
1 tangerine
sm coffee
1/2 pack of cigarettes
note: image cannot be made with one continuous line unless you backtrack/double over a previous line/mark. when self-published, will use this icon, or a variant, as the imprint design.
noticed when passing McCrossen's Tavern (20th/Spring Garden) this morn, a sign stated "Australia Day" - Friday, Jan. 26. Another good reason to hoist an extra pint or two.
click here for a philly ex-pat now living down under
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Monday, January 22, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007
1 honeybun
ham/cheese/mustard sandwich
turkey/swiss cheese/mayo sandwich
tropical punch juice cooler pouch
small glass of water
small bag of Chips Ahoy! Minis
sm amount of coffee
tangerine
cherry pie (net wt. 4 oz.)
peanut butter/jelly/nachos cheese flavored tortilla chips sandwich
tangerine
4 cheese crackers with peanut butter
sm box of raisins
Nutrti-Grain strawberry cereal bar
4 Chips Ahoy! chocolate chip cookies
caprisun mixed fruit flavored punch drink pouch
1/2 pack of cigarettes
good food alert (hawaiian dish)
one bowl of freshly steamed white rice topped with
two fried eggs (over-easy)
3 strips of crispy fried bacon and
add oyster sauce (to taste)
note: oyster sauce comes in a bottle and can purchased at a grocery store. if not, go to an asian grocer or your local korean deli/bodega. oyster sauce is semi-sweet with a consistency between pancake syrup and honey.
yin/yang of capitalism:
on Thurs/Fri plan to purchase-
cd discman (guesstimate cost: $30-$45)
one cd (unknown artist, will be an impulse purchase)
ticket for The Howling Hex (March 16) ... hope its not sold out
also, need to square my account with the coffee cart man. currently owe him for 2 sm coffees ($0.60 apiece) and 2 lg coffees ($1 apiece). will probably purchase a large coffee and give him a 5 spot to cover all bases/gratuity.
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007
sm coffee
med coffee
lg coffee
4 hot dogs on two hotdog buns
2 Hi-C tropical punch boxes (6.75 fl.oz. apiece)
1 turkey, swiss cheese, mayo sandwich
3 sm coffees
sm cup of green salad
2 Hi-C tropical punch boxes (6.75 fl.oz. apiece)
2 bologna/cheese sandwiches
6 cheese crackers with peanut butter
2 honey buns
pack of cigarettes
Lady Obsessions and Lady Insultations
The word on the street was that
this particular lady was insane.
I thought to myself that just because her
shoes didn't match, one being a high top,
and the other a low cut, didn't necessarily
make her insane. The car that she would one
day own would have two different license plates.
Still, that didn't make her insane.
My neighbors said she was trying to
visually capture
every possible angle, of every object
in the world.
I had seen her on the streets once
or twice. Maybe it was three times,
I had been waiting to approach her.
It was on the weekend that
I finally did. I figured she'd be in
a good mood on the weekend.
I told her she'd be dead by the time she
achieved her goal,
and if she did, by miraculously living
forever, I asked, what would the real
accomplishment be? She was silent
until she spit straight up, I stepped back.
I asked her what she defined as an object.
She said, "anything that stands as
it's own, like lithium carbonate."
I asked her if each picture in a family
photo album was an object.
She said, "an eye on a face, in a picture,
in a family photo album, is an object."
I was confused. I asked her how
it would be possible to live this way without
trespassing. She said that she was like air,
and was welcome anywhere.
In the beginning of our conversation I had
a little bit of sympathy for this lady. Any
sorrow for her dissapated. She had that
pompous glow and the curled up
in the corner of the couch while everyone
else in the room is focused on the weather
channel look on her face, bored.
Like her hobbies were the secret to an
everlasting life, like a spoiled house cat,
with a special never heard before animal name.
I rolled my eyes and mentioned to her that
while we'd been talking, she hadn't looked
at my shoes.
She replied that she had and that they
were ugly. She said that she needed me to
turn ninety degrees, and then turn a little
more, and walk away
for her to feel complete.
Nathaniel Brennan (2006)
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Friday, Jan. 19, 2007
sm can of chicken vienna sausages
egg salad sandwich on multigrain
MDX energy infused soda
bologna/cheese/mustard sandwich2 bologna/cheese on hamburger bun sandwich
turkey/swiss cheese/mustard/mayo sandwich2 sm slim jim
2 milkyway candy (fun size)
fruitpunch (caprisun) beverage pouch
lg hot chocolate
fruit, yogurt & granola parfait
3/4 pack of cigarettes
sample/slice of pi:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209
749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132
823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019
385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756
482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133
936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540
917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116
09...
note: when previewing this entry prior to publishing, pi is formatted correctly. after publishing, pi appears skewered though it's one continuous number. the preview is not giving an accurate published portrait. for those annoyed by the gap like me, just stop reading the entered number after 3.141... or the first couple of lines. thank you*
also noticed when working with firefox blogspot.com re: yestereday's entry was not able to format/add blank spaces where wanted.
*addendum: check comments section for interesting graphic link
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007
ham/cheese/mustard sandwich
turkey/cheese/mayo sandwich
bag of pork rinds
1/2 pint of lemonade
2 cups of coffee
4 bologna/cheese on hamburger bun sandwiches
1 bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
12 "oreo" style cookies
tastykake lemon pie
two oranges
tangerine
4 peanut butter crackers
sm coffee
fruit, yogurt & granola parfait
granola bar
very veggie sandwich (tm)
cherry fruit pie (snack size)
pack of cigarettes
lose wait-
weekend parking lot info for the Museum of Art*:
There are two parking lots. The larger of the two is located in a park near the main (southside) entrance. After parking your vehicle you then walk 235 paces (med. stride), cross 2 two-lane streets (39 paces), 84 paces to reach the steps (think Rocky, the movie), 104 paces upward (skipping every other step), cross a plaza/climb more steps (135 paces). You may now enter the museum. cost to park your car - $7
Northside parking lot near auxiliary/secondary entrance - from vehicle to Museum door... under 100 paces. cost to park your car - $5
questions addressed to Neal Pollack, author of Alternadad, during last night's reading/discussion at The Free Library (1/18)*
A.A.: At what age will you allow your son to pick the songs for the mix-tape to be played in the car? Also, when will you allow him to make a mix-tape for a girl? And will you help him?
N.P.: He's already picking the songs... and meeting girls.
note: Elijah is 4 yrs old
more Alternadad click here
*location - Philadelphia
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007
lg coffee
2 ham/cheese/mayo sandwiches
12 "oreo" type cookies
1 granola bar
tastykake (chocolate jr)
glass of water
3/4 pack of cigarettes
"You've used procrastination with success in your life, but this is no longer what you want to do. You're ready to create movement in that area that has been dormant."
"Enter into partnership with a buddy - all will go well."
"You might want to discuss something you feel is important in a relationship. Decide to approach the topic again, experiment with a different attitude. Be more in touch with postive feelings rather than anger. Tonight: see who offers what."
"Let me clarify your situation for you. Up until a short time ago, you'd been wandering through halls of mirrors, metaphorically speaking. Then you spied a hammer on the floor, got seized by a rash impulse and proceeded to smash lots of glass - again, metaphorically speaking. That was the first step to finding your way out of the labyrinth. Now you're ready for the next step: actually escaping. As you head out, I advise you to be careful that you don't cut yourself on all the shards. Liberation is near enough; there's no need to rush. Walk calmly and carefully towards the sound of the heartbeat you hear in the distance, metaphorically speaking."
three daily(1/18)/one weekly(1/18-25) horoscope for cancer (6/21-7/22)
other signs/complete zodiac calender click here
or check your local listings
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007
1 banana
turkey, cheese, mayo sandwich
6 "oreo" type cookies
6-7 cups of coffee
pint of lager
3 glasses of red wine
3 rolls (side of olive oil)
insalata (house salad)
5-7 asparagus spears
individual pizza (anchovy, garlic, onion)
coffee
2 bottles of lager
sm cup of coffee
3/4 pack of cigarettes
random words not necessarily in the dictionary:
adedict
bergin
cigaunkeeption
corricalums
diremicraffernatted
dision
langs
mondabled
onmusconerabet
othew
ragigaling
tenneccedpoulatrol
undecalcherous
wackfindertiveramblistraw
vample
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Monday, Jan. 15, 2007
bowl of chili
2 bread rolls
2 peanut butter/jelly sandwiches
2 bags of potato chips (onion dip/bbq)
2 granola bars
1 1/2 apples
can of sprite
1 orange
2 bottles of water (16.9 fl.oz. each)
small plate of noodles with meat
1/2 pack of cigarettes
"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
Martin Luther King Jr. *
Sunday, Jan. 14, 2007
two small coffees
two cake donuts
lg coffee
1 bagel stuffer (snack food as bad as it sounds)
1 orange
small cup of hot chocolate
plate of stewed chicken over a bed of white rice
2 apples
banana
assorted small candies
3/4 pack of cigarettes
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr. *
*quotes included in care/handout pkgs given to the homeless on MLK day
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007
lg cup of coffee
four hotdogs on two buns (two per/plain)
lg cup of turkey noodle soup
3 slices of bread
two small cups of coffee
jelly filled donut
orange
apple
small plastic barrel of grape flavored kool-aid
small plastic barrel of fruit punch kool-aid
peanut butter/jelly/frito sandwich
peanut butter/jelly/nacho-cheese dorito sandwich
two plates of white rice, black-eyed beans, and baked chicken (drumstick/thigh)
cheese sandwich
two oreos
1 small kit-kat
6-8 jelly beans
1 pack of cigarettes
found during pedestrian travels in the past week and a half:
Euro Note (5 value)
Wristwatch (working, keeps correct time)
very good 4"x6" photograph/snapshot (suitable for framing) of the mid-morning winter sun semi-obscurred/filtered by the leafless branches of several trees
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Friday, Jan. 12, 2007
4 - 5 cups of coffee
2 glasses of water
3/4 takeout order of cheese fries
roast beef sandwich with yellow mustard
1 large cup of coffee
1 large glass of sweet tea
1 bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
3/4 pack of cigarettes
Currently reading Dubliners by James Joyce
Also participate in a James Joyce book club that meets twice a month.
It used to be the James Joyce/Captain Beefheart Comparative Studies Society but the moderator dropped Beefheart because all we did was drink heavily and listen to music.
Best insight/point of departure into Joyce at the most recent meeting:
"My copy of 'Dubliners' (The Viking Portable Library, edited by Harry Levin) also contains an edited yet definitive version of 'Ulysses'. It only contains every 18th sentence of the book."
"Did you say 18 or 8?"
"18"
"Oh, I thought it was the Molly Bloom Soliloquy version. You know, another Joyce pun riffing on the eight lines."
"Actually I was joking. I just find it interesting that everbody is reading a different edition of 'Dubliners'."
There are five persons in the group with five different versions.
Note: Episode (chapter) 18 of 'Ulysses' is Penelope consisting of the soliloquy. Eight long sentences with the only puncutuation being the one period which ends the chapter and book.
Point, none. It's just fun getting together, drinking some alcohol, and discussing Joyce and his work.
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Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007
lg coffee
sausage/egg/cheese breakfast sandwich
3-4 cups of coffee
tangerine
slice of pizza
pint of beer
2 bottles of lager
two tacos
pint of lager
two tacos
espresso
2 pints of lager
seafood soup, quiche, and salad
cup of coffee
chicken noodle soup
2 sm coffees
pack of cigarettes
healthy plants:
when watering a direct-potted house plant, only pour enough water, starting at where the plant is rooted and slowly water in a circular fashion, wetting all of the topsoil until the water starts to seep out and accumulate in the dish the bowl is resting in. Stop watering and wait till no more water seeps into the dish. then fill the dish with water. using this method, will only have to water once every week or every two weeks. when deciding when to water again, pinch some soil (digging down an inch or so and retrieving a small amount). squeeze between fore-finger and thumb. if no moisture appears in the soil in your hand, water. if there is moisture, give the plant a water break. most plants die from *over-watering* not under-watering.
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Monday, Jan. 29, 2007
lg coffee
sausage/egg/cheese breakfast sandwich
sm coffee
2 bottles of lager
single espresso
2 pints of lager
glass of fountain coke
2 mugs of lager
cup of veggie soup
2 sm cups of coffee
pack of cigarettes
oldie but goodie, click here
clandestine operations:
was told to go to this coffee shop but call first (had passed by the place before and probably purchased a cup or two previously) and tell them to save a copy of (deleted) magazine. If you just go in and ask for it (magazine), they will deny you.
anyway, happened to walk by, so went in and bought an espresso and asked for a business card. they didn't have any so I asked if they could write down the phone #. One employee didn't know it but the other did. Drank the coffee and asked for a copy of (deleted) mag. Cold shoulder. guess you really do need to call ahead and reserve.
impulse purchase (1/29): Fugazi - Furniture (ep) $3.99
also, thought it funny so started to tell record store owner about coffee shop/mag/phone reservation. Turns out the record store also carries the magazine.
addendum: ended up giving the magazine to the barkeep who added the Joos' song "Night People" to the jukebox at (bar name deleted).
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Monday, January 29, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007
bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
2 sm coffees
2 honey buns
cup of coffee
glass of fountain coke
2 egss overeasy (with tabasco sauce, salt/pepper), bacon, french fries, and two slices of toasted whole wheat bread
bottle of orange juice (15.2 fl.oz.)
pint of lager
3 taquitos
3 pints of lager
1 mug of lager
1 tangerine
bottle of water (8 fl.oz.)
1 ham/cheese/mustard sandwich
sm bag of sour cream/onion potato chips
slightly less than a pack of cigarettes
When it's snowing, the outdoors seem like a room - David Berman, author of Actual Air, and ringleader of the Silver Jews
last night, Philadelphia was covered by about an inch or so of snow. beautiful site sight. just sayin'
more tales from the sixth borough:
coffee cart vendor: large coffee?
A.A.: yeah, and an egg/sausage/cheese on a hero roll.
c.c.v. with quizzical expression: pita bread?
other customer to vendor: no, he means a long roll.
o.c. looking at me: you must be from New York City.
more squab:
also, saw the red-tailed hawk munching on another pigeon yesterday (1/28)
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007
sm coffee
2 pints of lager
double espresso
bottle of lager
bottle of orange juice (15.2 fl.oz.)
2 pints of lager
seafood soup/stew with side of tomatoes topped with blue cheese and some baguette bread
pint of lager
2 cups of coffee
2 mugs of lager
taquito
2 pints of lager
2 "tooters" (adult beverage pre-packaged in a tubeglass)
sm coffee
2 bottles of lager
glass of fountain coke
slice of pizza
pack of cigarettes
cool barkeep's band, click here
singles going steady:
The Beatles - Within You Without You
Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
The Pixies - Alec Eiffel
Roy Orbinson - Pretty Woman
Eddie Holman - Hey There Lonely Girl
five jukebox picks from last night (1/27)
There are two kinds of people, THE IRISH and those who think they are Irish - humorous signage on a bar fridge spotted last night
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
Food Stuff Comsumption And Miscellany
Friday, Jan. 26, 2007
lg coffee
hash brown
3 cups of coffee
kaiser roll with butter
bottle of orange/mango juice (17.5 fl.oz.)
pint of lager
pretzel with mustard
hotdog with mustard, raw onions
2 pints of lager
glass of fountain coke
two hard-boiled eggs with salt/pepper
lg coffee
two cheesburgers & med. fries (mickey d's)
biscuit
salami/cheese hoagie
bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
4/5 pack of cigarettes
new and improved
fyi: Book Corner (20th/Wood) is the new home of Chris' Corner, which means an expanded and very good children's and young adults section. Book Corner is a non-profit that works in tandem with the Free Library of Philadelphia.
visit an old school type old-man bar before it closes on Feb. 3:
Penn View Grill located on 13th/Race. Even has a large banner outside boldy stating "Cocktail Lounge". Will close cause the Convention Center is expanding. Been in business since 1976. Doesn't really seem that old, but that's a total of 31 years.
tiara sightings:
about an hour ago (1ish pm - eastern time) saw a girl/young woman (guesstimate age: 17-24) wearing a "crown"... thought that sorta funny/strange till remembering that Charles, the prince of Wales, and his wife, Camilla, the duchess of Cornwall, are in town for the weekend.
More pub/lounge info:
just had a pint at Las Vegas Lounge. when entering, the barkeep was playing Sonic Youth's "Teenage Riot". Not bad for an old man/mixed crowd type of place. Also their pints are larger than regular pints. They call 'em "royal pints" though I seriously doubt they accept Euro notes there. But why would they? American cash for tab/gratuity gladly accepted.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007
ham/cheese/mustard/mayo sandwich
5 cups of coffee
16 oz. can of beer (brown bagged)
2 pints plus lager glass of lager
3 cups of coffee
2 pints of lager
slice of cheese pizza
3 pints of lager
lg coffee
slightly more than a pack of cigarettes
Man and Beast
The front page of today's (Jan. 26) free daily spotlights the homeless, and because of frigid temperatures, homeless advocates have been working overtime trying to get them off the streets and into shelters. A Code Blue warning has been issued meaning if a homeless person refuses to go into a shelter, the police can and will be called at the discretion of the homeless advocates. serious and deadly stuff. Code Blue warnings are issued by the city when windchills drop below 20 degrees. This past Fri. and Sat. Code Blues were also issued though it didn't make the front page.
Its been really good hunting for the three or four red-shouldered hawks (wingspan guesstimate - 2 1/2 ft) I see around the parks. In the past week I've seen two of them snagging and eating well-fed, fat city pigeons. The pigeons are moving slower and looking/working harder for their food because of the cold and sometimes just standing still on the grass trying to avoid the wind. Also, noticed a new hawk in the area. It was a red-tailed hawk (slightly smaller than the other type of hawks) and it was also eating/enjoying a pigeon.
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007
turkey, cheese, mayo sandwich
ham, cheese, mayo sandwich
lg coffee
8 cheese crackers with peanut butter
6 "oreo" type cookies (strawberry creme)
sm coffee
3/4 pack of cigarettes
list of books (interesting titles once noted for purchase/to be read but as of yet, not)
Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire - Poe Ballantine (Hawthorne Books)
The Field Guide To Prehistoric Life - David Lambert (the Diagram Group)
The Libretti of Venice - Rodney Bolt (Bloomsbury)
One Way Street - Walter Benjamin
Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension In Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought -Tony Robbin
The Nimrod Flipout - Etgar Keret
public library discard found on the street:
Rays from the Rose Cross
A Magazine of Mystic Light
edited by Max Heindel
Vol. 8, No. 4
Feb., 1918
early "Australia Day":
click here for barkeep's band, a McCrossen Tavern production*
http://www.myspace.com/unlikelycowboy
*that was a joke. it's only one of her day jobs
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007
turkey, cheese, mayo sandwich
ham, cheese, mayo sandwich
5 cups of coffee
sm bag of ritz bitz
4 cheese crackers
sm hot chocolate (though drunk cold)
4 cheese crackers
1 Nurti-Grain blueberry cereal bar
Tastykake Graham pie with vanilla filler (net wt. 4 oz.)
4 peanut butter crackers
6 "oreo" style banana creme cookies
1 orange
ham/cheese sandwich
pack of cigarettes
gross income progressive flat tax proposal:
less than $25,000 - pay no taxes
$25,000 - (but less than) $50,000 - 2.5%
$50,000 - (but less than) $75,000 - 5%
$75,000 - (but less than) $100,000 - 7.5%
$100,000 - (but less than) $500,000 - 10%
$500,000 -(but less than) $1,000,000 - 15%
$1,000,000 - (but less than) $10,000,000 - 20%
$10,000,000 or more - 25%
response to the Mallard Fillmore cartoon published last month dealing with a flat tax
note: if found on the web, will post the cartoon
email sent to (dated tue, 12 dec 2006) but not responded by:
kfs-cartoonists@hearst.com
Dear Sir,
Would you kindly reply with the email address for Bruce Tinsley, the cartoonist who draws Mallard Fillmore?
Thankyou
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Monday, Jan. 22, 2007
3 lg coffees
peanut butter and jelly on whole wheat sandwich
bag of Mini Oreos bite-size (net wt. 1.25 oz)
6 "oreo" type chocolate creme cookies
1 tangerine
bag of teddy grahams honey cookies (net wt. 1.25 oz)
1 orange
fruit, yogurt, & granola parfait
6 cheese crackers with peanut butter
1 tangerine
sm coffee
1/2 pack of cigarettes
note: image cannot be made with one continuous line unless you backtrack/double over a previous line/mark. when self-published, will use this icon, or a variant, as the imprint design.
noticed when passing McCrossen's Tavern (20th/Spring Garden) this morn, a sign stated "Australia Day" - Friday, Jan. 26. Another good reason to hoist an extra pint or two.
click here for a philly ex-pat now living down under
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Monday, January 22, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007
1 honeybun
ham/cheese/mustard sandwich
turkey/swiss cheese/mayo sandwich
tropical punch juice cooler pouch
small glass of water
small bag of Chips Ahoy! Minis
sm amount of coffee
tangerine
cherry pie (net wt. 4 oz.)
peanut butter/jelly/nachos cheese flavored tortilla chips sandwich
tangerine
4 cheese crackers with peanut butter
sm box of raisins
Nutrti-Grain strawberry cereal bar
4 Chips Ahoy! chocolate chip cookies
caprisun mixed fruit flavored punch drink pouch
1/2 pack of cigarettes
good food alert (hawaiian dish)
one bowl of freshly steamed white rice topped with
two fried eggs (over-easy)
3 strips of crispy fried bacon and
add oyster sauce (to taste)
note: oyster sauce comes in a bottle and can purchased at a grocery store. if not, go to an asian grocer or your local korean deli/bodega. oyster sauce is semi-sweet with a consistency between pancake syrup and honey.
yin/yang of capitalism:
on Thurs/Fri plan to purchase-
cd discman (guesstimate cost: $30-$45)
one cd (unknown artist, will be an impulse purchase)
ticket for The Howling Hex (March 16) ... hope its not sold out
also, need to square my account with the coffee cart man. currently owe him for 2 sm coffees ($0.60 apiece) and 2 lg coffees ($1 apiece). will probably purchase a large coffee and give him a 5 spot to cover all bases/gratuity.
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007
sm coffee
med coffee
lg coffee
4 hot dogs on two hotdog buns
2 Hi-C tropical punch boxes (6.75 fl.oz. apiece)
1 turkey, swiss cheese, mayo sandwich
3 sm coffees
sm cup of green salad
2 Hi-C tropical punch boxes (6.75 fl.oz. apiece)
2 bologna/cheese sandwiches
6 cheese crackers with peanut butter
2 honey buns
pack of cigarettes
Lady Obsessions and Lady Insultations
The word on the street was that
this particular lady was insane.
I thought to myself that just because her
shoes didn't match, one being a high top,
and the other a low cut, didn't necessarily
make her insane. The car that she would one
day own would have two different license plates.
Still, that didn't make her insane.
My neighbors said she was trying to
visually capture
every possible angle, of every object
in the world.
I had seen her on the streets once
or twice. Maybe it was three times,
I had been waiting to approach her.
It was on the weekend that
I finally did. I figured she'd be in
a good mood on the weekend.
I told her she'd be dead by the time she
achieved her goal,
and if she did, by miraculously living
forever, I asked, what would the real
accomplishment be? She was silent
until she spit straight up, I stepped back.
I asked her what she defined as an object.
She said, "anything that stands as
it's own, like lithium carbonate."
I asked her if each picture in a family
photo album was an object.
She said, "an eye on a face, in a picture,
in a family photo album, is an object."
I was confused. I asked her how
it would be possible to live this way without
trespassing. She said that she was like air,
and was welcome anywhere.
In the beginning of our conversation I had
a little bit of sympathy for this lady. Any
sorrow for her dissapated. She had that
pompous glow and the curled up
in the corner of the couch while everyone
else in the room is focused on the weather
channel look on her face, bored.
Like her hobbies were the secret to an
everlasting life, like a spoiled house cat,
with a special never heard before animal name.
I rolled my eyes and mentioned to her that
while we'd been talking, she hadn't looked
at my shoes.
She replied that she had and that they
were ugly. She said that she needed me to
turn ninety degrees, and then turn a little
more, and walk away
for her to feel complete.
Nathaniel Brennan (2006)
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Friday, Jan. 19, 2007
sm can of chicken vienna sausages
egg salad sandwich on multigrain
MDX energy infused soda
bologna/cheese/mustard sandwich2 bologna/cheese on hamburger bun sandwich
turkey/swiss cheese/mustard/mayo sandwich2 sm slim jim
2 milkyway candy (fun size)
fruitpunch (caprisun) beverage pouch
lg hot chocolate
fruit, yogurt & granola parfait
3/4 pack of cigarettes
sample/slice of pi:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209
749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132
823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019
385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756
482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133
936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540
917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116
09...
note: when previewing this entry prior to publishing, pi is formatted correctly. after publishing, pi appears skewered though it's one continuous number. the preview is not giving an accurate published portrait. for those annoyed by the gap like me, just stop reading the entered number after 3.141... or the first couple of lines. thank you*
also noticed when working with firefox blogspot.com re: yestereday's entry was not able to format/add blank spaces where wanted.
*addendum: check comments section for interesting graphic link
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007
ham/cheese/mustard sandwich
turkey/cheese/mayo sandwich
bag of pork rinds
1/2 pint of lemonade
2 cups of coffee
4 bologna/cheese on hamburger bun sandwiches
1 bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
12 "oreo" style cookies
tastykake lemon pie
two oranges
tangerine
4 peanut butter crackers
sm coffee
fruit, yogurt & granola parfait
granola bar
very veggie sandwich (tm)
cherry fruit pie (snack size)
pack of cigarettes
lose wait-
weekend parking lot info for the Museum of Art*:
There are two parking lots. The larger of the two is located in a park near the main (southside) entrance. After parking your vehicle you then walk 235 paces (med. stride), cross 2 two-lane streets (39 paces), 84 paces to reach the steps (think Rocky, the movie), 104 paces upward (skipping every other step), cross a plaza/climb more steps (135 paces). You may now enter the museum. cost to park your car - $7
Northside parking lot near auxiliary/secondary entrance - from vehicle to Museum door... under 100 paces. cost to park your car - $5
questions addressed to Neal Pollack, author of Alternadad, during last night's reading/discussion at The Free Library (1/18)*
A.A.: At what age will you allow your son to pick the songs for the mix-tape to be played in the car? Also, when will you allow him to make a mix-tape for a girl? And will you help him?
N.P.: He's already picking the songs... and meeting girls.
note: Elijah is 4 yrs old
more Alternadad click here
*location - Philadelphia
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007
lg coffee
2 ham/cheese/mayo sandwiches
12 "oreo" type cookies
1 granola bar
tastykake (chocolate jr)
glass of water
3/4 pack of cigarettes
"You've used procrastination with success in your life, but this is no longer what you want to do. You're ready to create movement in that area that has been dormant."
"Enter into partnership with a buddy - all will go well."
"You might want to discuss something you feel is important in a relationship. Decide to approach the topic again, experiment with a different attitude. Be more in touch with postive feelings rather than anger. Tonight: see who offers what."
"Let me clarify your situation for you. Up until a short time ago, you'd been wandering through halls of mirrors, metaphorically speaking. Then you spied a hammer on the floor, got seized by a rash impulse and proceeded to smash lots of glass - again, metaphorically speaking. That was the first step to finding your way out of the labyrinth. Now you're ready for the next step: actually escaping. As you head out, I advise you to be careful that you don't cut yourself on all the shards. Liberation is near enough; there's no need to rush. Walk calmly and carefully towards the sound of the heartbeat you hear in the distance, metaphorically speaking."
three daily(1/18)/one weekly(1/18-25) horoscope for cancer (6/21-7/22)
other signs/complete zodiac calender click here
or check your local listings
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007
1 banana
turkey, cheese, mayo sandwich
6 "oreo" type cookies
6-7 cups of coffee
pint of lager
3 glasses of red wine
3 rolls (side of olive oil)
insalata (house salad)
5-7 asparagus spears
individual pizza (anchovy, garlic, onion)
coffee
2 bottles of lager
sm cup of coffee
3/4 pack of cigarettes
random words not necessarily in the dictionary:
adedict
bergin
cigaunkeeption
corricalums
diremicraffernatted
dision
langs
mondabled
onmusconerabet
othew
ragigaling
tenneccedpoulatrol
undecalcherous
wackfindertiveramblistraw
vample
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Monday, Jan. 15, 2007
bowl of chili
2 bread rolls
2 peanut butter/jelly sandwiches
2 bags of potato chips (onion dip/bbq)
2 granola bars
1 1/2 apples
can of sprite
1 orange
2 bottles of water (16.9 fl.oz. each)
small plate of noodles with meat
1/2 pack of cigarettes
"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
Martin Luther King Jr. *
Sunday, Jan. 14, 2007
two small coffees
two cake donuts
lg coffee
1 bagel stuffer (snack food as bad as it sounds)
1 orange
small cup of hot chocolate
plate of stewed chicken over a bed of white rice
2 apples
banana
assorted small candies
3/4 pack of cigarettes
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr. *
*quotes included in care/handout pkgs given to the homeless on MLK day
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007
lg cup of coffee
four hotdogs on two buns (two per/plain)
lg cup of turkey noodle soup
3 slices of bread
two small cups of coffee
jelly filled donut
orange
apple
small plastic barrel of grape flavored kool-aid
small plastic barrel of fruit punch kool-aid
peanut butter/jelly/frito sandwich
peanut butter/jelly/nacho-cheese dorito sandwich
two plates of white rice, black-eyed beans, and baked chicken (drumstick/thigh)
cheese sandwich
two oreos
1 small kit-kat
6-8 jelly beans
1 pack of cigarettes
found during pedestrian travels in the past week and a half:
Euro Note (5 value)
Wristwatch (working, keeps correct time)
very good 4"x6" photograph/snapshot (suitable for framing) of the mid-morning winter sun semi-obscurred/filtered by the leafless branches of several trees
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
Food Stuff Consumption And Miscellany
Friday, Jan. 12, 2007
4 - 5 cups of coffee
2 glasses of water
3/4 takeout order of cheese fries
roast beef sandwich with yellow mustard
1 large cup of coffee
1 large glass of sweet tea
1 bottle of water (16.9 fl.oz.)
3/4 pack of cigarettes
Currently reading Dubliners by James Joyce
Also participate in a James Joyce book club that meets twice a month.
It used to be the James Joyce/Captain Beefheart Comparative Studies Society but the moderator dropped Beefheart because all we did was drink heavily and listen to music.
Best insight/point of departure into Joyce at the most recent meeting:
"My copy of 'Dubliners' (The Viking Portable Library, edited by Harry Levin) also contains an edited yet definitive version of 'Ulysses'. It only contains every 18th sentence of the book."
"Did you say 18 or 8?"
"18"
"Oh, I thought it was the Molly Bloom Soliloquy version. You know, another Joyce pun riffing on the eight lines."
"Actually I was joking. I just find it interesting that everbody is reading a different edition of 'Dubliners'."
There are five persons in the group with five different versions.
Note: Episode (chapter) 18 of 'Ulysses' is Penelope consisting of the soliloquy. Eight long sentences with the only puncutuation being the one period which ends the chapter and book.
Point, none. It's just fun getting together, drinking some alcohol, and discussing Joyce and his work.
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