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megapulse · Post by **megapulse** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:22 pm

i'll have to check isabelle out -- i'll do my best to remember it when i'm in my local record store and they're like no, i've never heard of that person.

so then do you think charlotessville is a good model city?

not that it really matters what you or i think, but virginia is such a precarious state . . .we've got mountains, coastal areas, big cities, little towns, farms, suburban sprawl, inner city ghetto, just a weird hodge-podge, i've lived in most of them or spent a chunk of time here and there, with oddly enough, the exception of charlottesville, it's the one place i don't know a whole lot about -- i also have not been to tangier island and am fascinated by it and think that it is a real shame and disgrace that i haven't as i teach English and it's sort of an oddity -- for the past two spring breaks it has been my plan to go there by myself and just see what it's like, i don't know why, i just want to, last year a little bit o surgery got in the way.

but today i went to see a lunch box exhibit which is on loan from the smithsonian; it was really neat and seems to sum up where we are in terms of transition here. the last peice was of course a plastic bag . . . the replacement for all those neat boxes. they had some really cool ones too, the yellow submarine. it wasn't my favorite though i think my favorite was this beat up folk art one, it had these really delicate patterns and flowers that someone had done by hand . . . it was very pretty and old and a little raggedy and reminded me of my town . . . i was like, that's us and behind it in line of course the generic ugly ass plastic igloo bag.

an earl grey bar, now that i would like to try. earl grey is my very favorite breakfast tea -- and i don't even know if it's supposed to be a breakfast tea or not, nor do i care, but it is the kind of tea that you know is cleaning your teeth. i mean it feels good to drink it.

i think we should have a what's your favorite tea thread.

question for pixie

pixie, i've been drinking this raspberry leaf tea, it doesn't taste like raspberries btw, but it's supposed to help strengthen the female system, if you know what i mean, have you ever heard anything about this stuff?

i started drinking it; after about three months or so, things were, whammo, healed -- sometimes i wonder how much of this shit just a placebo, then i think, who cares.

megapulse · Post by **megapulse** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:18 pm

Mark, this is really, really strange, but i asked one of the guys i know last night about the blood/cosmetics. He told me that hunters take their deer to a place that takes the organs out. They keep the blood and sell it to cosmetics companies.

But that is not the strange thing. The strange things is my friend was telling me all this, and then he explained, that i should hear what some folks do with pig blood (i'm thinking Carrie of course, but) he explains that there's an eatery around town where the owner heard his friend talking about slaughtering a pig, and then the owner requested all of the blood because . . . it makes the world's best chocolate.

weird.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:27 pm

Hell yeah that's weird. And tremendously nauseating, too.

Here's something else weird:

I went to a considerable amount of trouble to make this giant pitcher of iced red herbal tea tonight. I've had this type of decaf herbal tea lying around since summer because I was going to make it in the summer but I never did. So it doesn't exactly taste like raspberries, but it really is close enough, and it looks like a deep red too, I made it very strong, in fact, too strong, I'm going to have to add water to each glass. Anyway so I bought this cheap tea container thing but it leaked so I had to take it back and get another one and that still leaked, until I figured out just how to position the stopper so it wouldn't leak and I decided to just pour it out the top instead. It all took a lot of effort and time and I wouldn't have done it but I decided I can't afford to buy Perrier anymore and I have to have something to help me drink water when I get drunk. Anyway it is fucking great tea. But I normally never drink that kind.

It's Celestial Seasonings, a lot of tea bags of the Red Zinger type, and two bags of their Wild Berry mixed in.

But right now I am too sober and have been all night, so I need more wine. I went to see a movie last night of bands playing in Minneapolis in 1979 including Devo.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:28 pm

Also I think the only British band in the movie was The Monochrome Set but there was one other one I'm going to learn more about because they had the synthesizer gloom and doom thing down real well, just my kind of thing.

megapulse · Post by **megapulse** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:33 pm

"It's Celestial Seasonings, a lot of tea bags of the Red Zinger type"

yuck! i have a whole box of celestial seasonings, you can have it. i can not stand it.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 2:07 pm

Hahahaha.

Well like I said I never drink it. I used to just make ice tea of it in the summer time. Their green tea fucking sucks, doesn't even taste or look like green tea.