I'm usually immune to the food demonstrators at Costco. It's usually overprocessed crap that BLOGDE won't even sample. But they really got to me this week. First it was some French soft wine cheese on some great crackers that I couldn't resist. Then I sampled some of this antipasto, sampled it twice in fact, proceeded to check out, and I had a half dozen items on the belt before I suddenly threw them all back in the cart and careened back to get some of this antipasto. The aftertaste overwhelmed my shopper's resistance. A bowl of antipasto and a nice microbrew: "Heaven, I'm in heaven, and I . . . .".

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light_Dylan Thomas

Great film we watched on dvd last night.

Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squabbling. Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Playboy Interview - December 1963

Dead Flowers Tuesday

BLOGDE Sesame Pork Roast, recipe from local newspaper, easy and delicious.

•2 tbsp. sesame seeds •3 or 4 green onions sliced •1/2 c. ketchup •1/4 c. soy sauce •2 tbsp. ground ginger • 2 tbsp. molasses (any type) •1/2 tsp. curry powder •1/2 tsp. black pepper •1 c. water •2 tbsp. wine vinegar •4lbs. Pork shoulder roast •3 tbsp. flour for gravy, if desired (BLOGDE recommends, it makes killer gravy) Marinate overnite and throw it all in the crock pot in the am, and let it cook on low heat for 9 hours.

Saturday Meatloaf

I DROPPED OUT OF FACEBOOK BECAUSE it's one thing to require registration to post a page on the internet and entirely another to require the rest of the world to register to visit a page on their system. The internet should be a free and open forum for all users and once you accept this limitation from the manipulators of facebook, just because you like the inherent connectivity to other members that its software provides, you accept being a captured audience, in a closed system where unelected programing nazis can control content (or as in the case of facebook, make you believe you are controlling it). Facebook is to the internet, what tv is to reading. You're killing your own brain cells and your own freedom, when you spend time on facebook and paving the way for a small group of fascist owners of facebook to become billionaires when they sell this 7th grade slam book to MegaCorporation.