Tuesday, September 06, 2005

BCNSLOW

birthdaytimes over, nothing much to show, now lets get this wine selling into action, get those bottles in Whole Foods by Thanksgiving/Christmas so all ya´ll can buy em up and enjoy.

I have begun a new apartment cleaning racket, only friends thru friends sort of thing, tomorrow I am cleaning the apartment Lotti Lewis has lived in for 21 years. Yippee, I can´t wait to alphabetize her bookshelves!

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Blackberries

Blackberries in my head alltheday allthenight dream the prickly branches enter thru the windows of my little house on the the other side of the broken bridge buscando moras for 5 morning hours in the curves in the road hold my breath step into onto the brush carefully place vines aside some snap back catch on my jeans and sweatshirthoodback and hair and slow just grab that big mora there and get the hell out gotta fill my bucket or dont go home, Simon says the lessons from blackberries, come on someone must have written a song about this already

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

we're off, finally!

Off for august in a 1991 volkswagon golf convertible
for woods and lakes and trains and cities and adventures
Back to the whenever end of the month

Sunday, July 17, 2005

D3

Skin pigmentation changed long ago not only to protect skin from different levels of sun exposure--thats obvious--but also in order to regulate the amount of Vitamin D3 manufactured by the sun just under the skin. This is the theory of Professor Nina Jablonski, a paleoanthropologist with the California Acadamy of Sciences. So when the first swarthy inhabitants of modern Scandinavia confronted a lack of ultraviolet light, their kind quickly selected out for paler children whose skin would manufacture enough vitamin D3 to keep them healthy. Meanwhile, Eskimos arrived in the Arctic dark skinned. The local cuisine of seal and whale is rich in vitamin D3, so the skin was never summoned into action. Evolution has one big rule, if there´s no pressure on the system to change, then it doesn´t bother. So Eskimos remained dark.

When we look at the different races, according to Jablonski´s theory, what we´re actually seeing is not "superiority" or "good people", or "race". All that we are seeing, the only thing we are seeing when we look at skin color, is a meandering trail of vitamin D3 adaptation rates.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Post nit

Air-conditioned relief at the Mediateca, San Miguels on bikes, new LED night lights, WMFU at all hours time difference 6 hours.
Planning for France, for Asturias, for September no place to live, band for Luthea Salom, October and grape harvest, planning my escape to my double life

Sunday, July 10, 2005

Ctrl

Catalans do beach volleyball, on like the only day of the summer that BCN is not sunny, in a plaça converted into sand, complete with surrounding BBQ'S, watermelon eating contests and pop-radio jams. Sleep for two hours then back to the born for nighttime activities, last night cowgirls this night Californians. Tomorrow I'm gonna swim a couple Km for multiple sclerosis, well that because it's free lap swimming at Sara´s pool.

Friday, July 01, 2005

Brownietimes

Aaron, my housemate, makes the best chocolate brownie I´ve eaten in over 2 years. When he made it last Monday it got burnt. They all picked out the insides and I ate the carboniferous crunchies. But this time, oh my, moist, buttery, still warm from the oven, this isn´t a pastel de xocolata, this is a true brownie, American style. Could make it from the recipe hanging on the kitchen door but it's in Catalan, and I´ll never learn how to measure in grams. Sure, I can wing it, but it won´t be the same. So I'll just leave it to Aaron, the male housewife.