O Canada
today an 80 year old woman asked me if i wanted to hear a story. here it is.
"i've been a nurse for over 60 years now, and a few years back i met another nurse from Vancouver, BC. she spoke of a young woman who came into the ER for an emergency appendectomy. this girl had purple hair, tattoos, funny clothes... and upon preparing her for her surgery they found her pubic hair had been dyed green! and above that there was a tattoo. it said 'keep off the grass'. so they prepared her for surgery, fixed her all up, and sent her off with a note written along her abdomen - 'sorry, had to mow the lawn'."
and just to be funny/gross i thought i'd find a nice pic to go along with this, but THIS is all i could find.
"i've been a nurse for over 60 years now, and a few years back i met another nurse from Vancouver, BC. she spoke of a young woman who came into the ER for an emergency appendectomy. this girl had purple hair, tattoos, funny clothes... and upon preparing her for her surgery they found her pubic hair had been dyed green! and above that there was a tattoo. it said 'keep off the grass'. so they prepared her for surgery, fixed her all up, and sent her off with a note written along her abdomen - 'sorry, had to mow the lawn'."
and just to be funny/gross i thought i'd find a nice pic to go along with this, but THIS is all i could find.
Honey Hole
Wondershowzen worthy, for sure!
Last night I joined Jarad, Jes & The Beard at Honey Hole. Jes & The Beard were chatting it up and Jarad was pretty hammered (J & J had already been to happy hour at CHAC earlier). I had a cherry popper, which was tasty - vodka, tonic, lemonade w/a lemon wedge and a maraschino. And I'm not much of a vodka person.
I watched Jarad down a sickening amount of chicken wings (he's paying for it today) and we all watched a little Daily Show for a bit.
Today is pretty stormy. There's supposed to be gusts of up to 40mph on land and 65mph on water! Made me think of my old Victoria Clipper days - near pitch-poling in an 8 foot CHOP in the Straits near San Juan Island. Beer bottles rolling across the upper deck and cleaning up pax puke. Good times. Those fancy jet engines on Clipper IIII actually STOP RUNNING when they're out of the water. So... all that... then the engines die. Keep Smiling!!! The pax are watching!
Tuesday Night Jig
I joined Jes and Jarad at Neumo's last night for a holiday party/Pogue's tribute/Sound Magazine promo party thingamajig. Some hot guy was hitting on Jes and Jarad was jumping up and down to the irish music. I joined them and promptly got trashed and started stomping around to old faves like "Heave away, haul away" and "Turkish Song of the Damned" played by about 8 musicians who were current and past members of Decemberists (current member Jenny Conlee pictured here), and the Eels, and Minus 5. There was no more than 100 people in the dancing crowd. It was very relaxed and a lot of fun.We then hit the Comet for more beer and Slayer, closed that place down, and walked to Dicks on Broadway with only $5. Jes got some food then we had to go get her car (get this - a convertible 2-seater Mazda MIATA! who woulda thunk?) so we could go to the JackintheBox drive thru. Yeah you're thinking "Hypocrite!" and you're right. There's sober standards and drunk standards, y'know. Jes hadn't had fast food in, like, years, I think. After all that I served up brownies w/ice cream, toasted almonds & hot caramel.
And now I'm at work again and they are out playing (in Ballard, I think). Ho hum :(
The Armada
Been listening to Groove Armada while traveling via foot & bus lately. They're really good for those activities.
Meat, Milk, and The First Amendment
Upon arriving at work today there was a copy of the Everett Herald, in which I found an article about students north of Seattle at both Everett High School and Cascade High School. The threat of censorship inspired them to create underground newspapers, and they're getting plenty of donations to operate the papers. That rocks. Yay for smart youth.
One of the articles they put in their paper was about the Everett Massacre, which I had never heard of. Shouldn't we have learned about this in Washington State History? Back in freshman year at high school? It was a shootout between Wobblies and local authorities back in 1916. Interesting stuff. Click my links. The photo was found at heraldnet.com
My big adventure of the weekend was a trip to Whole Foods for MEAT. I bought $50 worth of pig, cow and chicken edibles. I'd been waiting a while to make this trip. Later on I bought some milk (for the first time in a LONG time). Safeway has an organics label called "O Organics". I of course bought it because it was cheaper than Horizon but I was a little wary of a Lucerne/Safeway brand that calls itself organic, especially knowing that under the Bush administration the definitions and restrictions on what's called organic has been way tweaked for the benefit of large corporations (more slack in the processing requirements, for the most part). But hey, we were making brownies so I simply HAD to have milk. When I poured the glass last night, well I have some kind of aversion to milk in general that started with my freshman HS biology teacher showing us highly magnified globules of milkfat on a giant screen - wait, no, I think it started when my stepmother forced me to drink dyed green milk on St. Patrick's day at age 9. The idea of green milk made me sick at the time, so she sent me to my room and forbid me to go to my rollerskating party. ANYWAY... I decided to research "O Organics" and found that the main difference between real organic and these take-advantage-of-relaxed-labeling organic milk is that the Safeway cows probably don't graze. They are probably being milked 3 times per day, with no time to graze, so they're kept in a lot and fed grain, which isn't natural for cows (according to the articles I read). That explains why Horizon milk tastes better and "O Organics" milk tastes more like regular crap milk. But I'll probably still drink more of this one carton. My budget doesn't allow buying all-organic, but I'm trying to stick to natural animal products, at least. I'd rather spend $5 for one pound of more natural ground beef, ground in the store and sold bulk, and spread out over a few meals and a stew, than 5 jackinthebox junior bacon cheeseburgers.
In other news, it's raining again...and.... Jesika comes up tomorrow! Yippee!
blogger & myspace = love/hate
blogger sucks and if i knew one damn thing about personal webpages and blogs and customizing them, and who's a better blog site to go with, i'd do it. but crap, i've written 2 novel's worth of junk on this page! blogger went "beta" and merged with google or something, and everything's kablooey.
i also hear that myspace is going to the dogs, which is no surprise, since myspace sucks too. it sucks, and yet i love it. seems a common theme in my life. here's a positive spin on that... yin yang, right? yeah but to such extremes?
ok i'll stop for now with the No Internal Dialogue problem. this is what happens when kim has such easy internet access AND daily coffee.
i also hear that myspace is going to the dogs, which is no surprise, since myspace sucks too. it sucks, and yet i love it. seems a common theme in my life. here's a positive spin on that... yin yang, right? yeah but to such extremes?
ok i'll stop for now with the No Internal Dialogue problem. this is what happens when kim has such easy internet access AND daily coffee.
rat tat tat
Seattle restaurant that I do NOT recommend: Jai Thai. I wasn't feeling very adventurous when I ordered phud thai, but they still botched that old standby. Slimiest noodles ever, except when my cook-boyfriend 10 years ago tried to make thai noodles at home and produced the most disgusting plate of squirmy yuckiness, and then got really ticked off at me for not thinking it was great. I couldn't eat thai for a YEAR after that. He was a good cook besides that, though. Oh yeah and ever since Fast Food Nation the idea of much meat intake makes me nauseous, and they put chicken in it instead of the tofu I requested. Jarad's been annoyed with my crap-quality-meat avoidance, which IS kind of a nuisance, considering our finances. After reading Diet for a New America at an early age, working in the natural foods industry, living in Seattle & Portland, then this year watching The Corporation and Fast Food Nation, it makes perfect sense that I would not only want to puke at the thought of eating mass-produced meat, not to mention the terrible KARMA that goes into that crap, which is made very evident in FFN.
Saturday we went to see Ratatat and The Faint. Ratatat is a little more my style. The Faint are very polished and flashy and professional. Very good, too, but not as much my thing. The Faint feel like heroin junkies from the '80's. In a good way....? Ha ha. I don't know. Ratatat's guitarists hid behind their hair and some blinding lights, and even altered their speaking voices with the echo effect. Except for the keyboardist. He was a neat guy. I instantly liked him for wearing an old wool sweater with holes in the elbows and dirty keds. He was also very into his playing, whereas a lot of keyboardists probably just sit there and plunk away - he moved in waves with each note towards the keyboard, kind of perched on a stool and hunched towards the keys. Later he danced around a bit, and shook some little rattle that nobody could even hear, but he seemed to be having fun. I thought I hadn't cared for the rest of their albums beyond "17 Years" but it all sounded great at the Showbox.
In bigger news, I HAVE A LAPTOP NOW!!!!! Nothing else needs to be said... other than my life just improved by, like 120% because of this development.
Saturday we went to see Ratatat and The Faint. Ratatat is a little more my style. The Faint are very polished and flashy and professional. Very good, too, but not as much my thing. The Faint feel like heroin junkies from the '80's. In a good way....? Ha ha. I don't know. Ratatat's guitarists hid behind their hair and some blinding lights, and even altered their speaking voices with the echo effect. Except for the keyboardist. He was a neat guy. I instantly liked him for wearing an old wool sweater with holes in the elbows and dirty keds. He was also very into his playing, whereas a lot of keyboardists probably just sit there and plunk away - he moved in waves with each note towards the keyboard, kind of perched on a stool and hunched towards the keys. Later he danced around a bit, and shook some little rattle that nobody could even hear, but he seemed to be having fun. I thought I hadn't cared for the rest of their albums beyond "17 Years" but it all sounded great at the Showbox.
In bigger news, I HAVE A LAPTOP NOW!!!!! Nothing else needs to be said... other than my life just improved by, like 120% because of this development.
Isabel Allende
Last night I stood in line for over an hour to hear a reading by my favorite female author of all time, Isabel Allende. She read from her new book, Ines of my Soul, which is about the only Spanish woman to travel with the conquistadors to Chile. Almost all of Allende's books are based on true historical events, as she herself was the daughter of a diplomat and served as a journalist back when Pinochet was in power. Many people have seen the movie "House of Spirits" which in no way does justice to the book. Anyway, she was a personable and fun woman to listen to and answered each of the questions very frankly and sometimes with cool stories from her past. There were at least 1000 people at the reading, in a huge old building perched on a hill near downtown Seattle. And she signed hundreds of books.
One thing she said that I liked, and know to be true, was this: "the less people have, the more they share". She was referencing third-world hospitality, but it's true everywhere.
One thing she said that I liked, and know to be true, was this: "the less people have, the more they share". She was referencing third-world hospitality, but it's true everywhere.
