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Saturday, May 10, 2003

All Done Now. No more Mayday Project pictures. They took possession of me. I did things I wouldn't normally do just to photograph them. That's true of all performance rituals. The performer becomes the Golem. Look at Madonna. Blogs do it to you too. You become the performance. It ain't all bad, maybe it's even healthy - like carrot juice. Speaking of healthy, Liz tells me that liver is good for you. For the longest time, I thought of it as poor people food. My mother would make liver for every Thursday night dinner and I hated it. Then one day I got a cookbook called Our Man In The Kitchen, written back when real men didn't cook. That guy said that you gotta "dredge" the liver before you cook it and that really confused me - it made me think of backhoes. But I learned the secret meaning for cooks and made some liver and onions and it was pretty darned good. See, I never liked steak growing up. To me, it was a thin piece of rubbery meat that had the soul of the cow cooked the hell out of it. I couldn't understand why some people said steak was their favorite food. I never tasted a strip steak until I was 26.2 years old. Then I understood. I'm having liver and onions tonight. It is comfort food now. When I quit smoking, I also fasted for the weekend. nil per os, well, except little sips of brandy when the time seemed right. On Sunday night, after 52 hours of not smoking, I went to the grocery with the intent of rewarding myself with anything I wanted for getting over the first hurdle. I looked at steaks, lobster, cornish hen, and dungeness crab. I chose liver. Liver and onions. The taste for it is more complex than the one for steak, IMO. I'm having some tonight. 9:54:30 PM    comment []

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10th at the Armadillo (update: when I read the title this morning, I realized it might be construed as my 10th Yuengling. It really means the 10th anniversary of the Armadillo, which I call "The Armageddon." The guy stringing the Telecaster is Kenny Roby, who with his unpaid roadie Tony entertained the few of us at the bar with wit and bon mots until The New Electric Combo took the stage on the street outside shortly after 3pm.) 8:16:07 PM    comment []

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Bummer. Now I'm LoserBoy again. Even another latte from A Southern Season couldn't inspire me to photograph anything at that dreadful asphalt hell Eastgate shopping center. Oh, there's a nice alcove back by Sal's Pizza, with fluttering twittering birds and all that nature boy bullshit but no good angles on anything. Besides, I went to the Radio Shack there and found the perfect speakers for $25 each - on sale! They can handle 100 watts of power and that's what I need. I could replace the 25-watt rear Yamaha speakers that would shoot their cone right into the kitchen if 100 watts hit them. $100 for four speakers was acceptable. Then I looked at the threaded mounting bushing on the back and asked if they sold mounts. Yes, indeed they do - but they cost $20 each. That puts the speaker bill at $180 total and that cooled my heels. The temperature must be pushing 90 already and the humidity is right up there with it. Nothing to shoot, dammit. I missed my 9:44 shot and now my 10:44 shot too. I am once again a dismal failure.   On the bright side, I did see lots of kinky mustards at Southern Season and that inspired me to try and duplicate some of them - especially the horseradish mustard. I saw horseradish root at Harris Teeter and maybe a bit of that with a mixture of brown and yellow mustard seeds and some Yuengling. That sounds good to me. Yuengling has that "old-timey" beer taste, heavy on the malt. Taste like the beer I used to drink at the Corn City Bar back before all this Budweiser rice beer craziness took over. Sounds good, even as we speak…hmmm, maybe I’ll take a picture of a glass of Yuengling and call that my 10:44 picture. Maybe another angle for the 11:44 shot…this just might become an oeuvre (and out). 11:26:34 AM    comment []

It's gonna get hot today (check out the weatherpixie). I'm making a third trip to Best Buy to see what I need to play my new Zappa "CD". Sony makes a single DVD player that does all the DVD+/-R/RW formats and has digital audio out. My current amplifier can't do DTS and I need at least 3 digital audio inputs, so the Sony STRDE895 looks like it will do the job. I'm set up for 5.1 surround sound, but need to find a pair of rear-middle speakers for 6.1. Best Buy doesn't have much in the way of single speakers, they want to sell you the whole shebang. So, the first stop will be Radio Shack because they always have speakers of all sorts. If they have something I like, I'll get 'em and wire them in before getting the rest of the new stuff. That way I can just plug a few wires and get blown away immediately by 6.1 DTS. The picture, BTW, is the brook out back. 9:24:56 AM    comment []

Now I'm getting burned out again, even though the caffeine jolt from the latte is still lingering. Maybe a couple more pictures, then a nap, then off to the 10th anniversary celebration at the Armadillo, where they will have 2-dollah Yuengling pints. 8:55:08 AM    comment []

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I'm drinking a cup of latte (now I'm not a loser anymore!) and on the wireless internet at Bean Traders at the Meadowmont Community. When I finish the upscale coffee, I'll go outside and take a picture. I still have to go home to upload it... 7:57:21 AM    comment []

Carrboro Farmers' Market. I'm not a very structured person. This taking a picture every hour is starting to become tedious. 7:27:57 AM    comment []

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I think I'm participating in the Mayday project. but I'm not certain. I registered and all that, but I don't need the hassle of putting the button in the vicinity of the WeatherPixie for just one day. What a loser I am! 4:46:04 AM    comment []

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