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So who the fuck makes chicken marsala without pasta? Apparently Esposito’s resturaunt in downtown Valhalla New York does. I guess having a horrible flash intro to their site is just a bonus to how shitty their chicken marsala is. We like to eat out. And being in New York you get to eat some of the best food around. However, serving chicken marsala without pasta seems like a crime to me. Or at least tell some folks “hey, we don’t serve our chicken marsala over pasta, so if you want it over pasta we’ll need to charge you an extra xxxx.”

Sorry esposito’s; your pizza is okay but you get -5 for bad service and lack of communication. We’ll make up soon, I promise.

ps. i had to cook my own pasta after you delivered the chicken to my door. Poo on you, poo on you.

So you wake up and roll out of bed and stumble to the bathroom, next thing you know you smell the delightful aroma of maple syrup. Is your better half already cooking a delicious morning meal? Not quite. As it turns out, there are two reasons why your sweat and/or urine could be smelling especially sweet - one of which is pretty scary, the other pretty harmless. The question is, are you an infant? If so, you may have Maple Syrup Urine Disease which affects 1 in 255,000 births in the USA and is completely genetic and inherited. It’s got some pretty nasty effects including neurological damage than can eventually lead to death if not treated. The latter case of syrup-smelling body odors is a direct result of ingesting fenugreek leaves or seeds. Popular as raw greens, in teas, or mixed into curries, even a small amount can cause pretty drastic changes in your body odor. You may or may not know already from our blog that we LOVE Indian food and recently we tried a new dish at the buffet that looked a lot like sag (spinach sauce) with chicken, but was actually fenugreek greens. I’m pretty used to the fact that eating Indian food changes my body chemistry, but I wasn’t prepared for this. At least I’m not an infant with MSUD…

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awesome.

Photo by Sue

It’s funny how in nearly all the pictures from this party I have a beer to my lips. I wasn’t even that wasted… or at least that’s what I think I remember.

sorta like flying, i guess.

kira + barb = big slide.

barb and i, squished.

death machine?

awkward

erect fire chief.

George carlin died sunday june 22nd of heart failure. the world is now a shittier place.

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Bribes start at $100.

Lara Logan, Chief Foreign Correspondent for CBS News, was on the Daily Show with John Stewart last night, not to promote a book or movie but to bring the issue of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan back into the focus. It was very interesting to hear her take on being a journalist and her “responsibility” to bring what’s going over there to the world and specifically the American people. They chatted about the numbness that has formed and how news organizations know that Americans are sick of hearing about the war and have begun tailoring their news cast to appease those sentiments. I think one of the most moving things Lara brought up was that she’s seen dead American soliders, but the majority of Americans at home haven’t, because we’re being sheltered and because gruesome images like that may actually resonate loud enough for people to really be infuriated and get passionate about speaking out against our government’s actions.

Do we all just look to electing a new president that’s going to come in and sweep the floors for us? Does it matters that years of apparent silence and ignorance to the rest of the world and our troops appears as consent? I think so. Lately I’ve gotten the feeling that everyone one I meet is more or less against the war, and I acknowledge that it has a lot to do with my circle of friends, family and where I live, but we don’t talk about it - as if it were old news, something that’s been hashed over so many times and that we feel helpless about since nothing changes. I logged on to myspace this morning and found this posted by a friend and it’s just so sad that we don’t have inspiration like his to look to anymore.

An awesomely innovative musical installation done by talking heads front man David Byrne.

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good ol’ camper on an exceptionally hot summer day.

Good ol’ garage on an exceptionally hot summer day.

Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.