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Friday, February 14, 2003

Guernica, unveiled 9:19:24 PM    comment []

This second mushroom kit is on the fast track. This small section, shown roughly actual size, shows a small cluster ready to burst into a spongy and deliciously edible mass. The last batch took nearly six weeks to get to this stage of civilization; this one took only four. The green ellipse highlighting that one against the plastic liner is not a halo, it is there simply because this mushroom is so bright that it had to be filtered to be toned down a bit - kinda like when you watch an eclipse - or it might cause permanent eye damage. To post it unfiltered would be irresponsible. Still, he maxes out the camera's brightness compensation, providing us with imagination fodder of his true splendor. Already, he is the largest of the lot, easily growing into the role of alpha fungi. I'm gonna keep an eye on him - with protection, of course - I think he has potential. It's fortunate that stomach linings don't have rods and cones, optic nerves, retinas, cornea, and all that eye stuff, because I've never been able to find a mushroom recipe including Hip Hop Sunglasses. Maybe when he gets sauteed he'll tone it down a little more himself, especially with an additional coating of sauce deglazed from his pan drippings. We'll see. 8:28:18 PM    comment []

We have nothing to fear but duct tape itself. Excuse me, I know duct tape jokes are getting stale already, but why doesn't the palpable fear itself have a shelf date? It has already outlived the span of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the "Black Monday" stock market crash, and the post WTC anthrax panic. It needs a release. Some people are withdrawing, some getting nutty, and some people are stoking it. Who would that be? Wanted Dead or Alive Man? He's more reclusive than Garbo. Saddam? He doesn't seem to say much of anything, he's certainly not waving any WMDs in our faces. Kim Jong Il? He seems to be threatening a lot of people with all out war, but only if North Korea is invaded or bombed. Yet the fear is refreshed nearly every news cycle. Someone is messin' with us, who would that be? War will not release the fear, though if the 1991 precedent holds, oil prices will plunge and the stock market surge the week that war breaks out. That would be because uncertainty is released. The cold war tensions were only heightened by Vietnam at a time when any brush fire threatened nuclear holocaust. For me, what releases the fear is the slightest promise of peace. It doesn't have to be tangible, like the fear now is. Just a slight bit of hope, a tiny shard of light that tells you there will be a sunrise. Robert Byrd gave that to me today, a sign that maybe not everyone holding positions of leadership in the government and the media has gone completely and irreversibly mad. One voice can become a chorus, if the melody is sweet. 5:09:17 PM    comment []