Along with the rhymed doublet: Flower Power. // There were 20,000 there to surge / in primary-color splendor / with the fine Pacific psyche-light / at last outshining / the Puritanical searchlight / form Plymouth Rock – Edward Sanders – The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg, 2000 p81
The fishing industry worldwide receives $27b in government subsidies – more than 25% of the value of the fish caught. There is currently a 50-60% oversupply in world’s fishing fleets and fish stocks are collapsing.
The rules of different sports confirm and consolidate the insulation that separates athletics from the everyday world. Each set of rules is meaningless except in an actual competition – Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht – In Praise of Athletic Beauty, 2006 p77
The GNP accounts for the production of government and that of non-profits by their inputs rather than by their outputs and this means that any increase in efficiency is recorded as a decrease in production. By definition any non capitalist economic process is inefficient.
The justice of industrial capitalism in America, said Andrew Carnegie, is that society ‘here’ will not fail to reward a man of talent – Richard Sennett – The Hidden Injuries of Class, 1972 p72
Three million cases a year of pesticide poisoning are reported resulting in approximately 220,000 deaths worldwide
Class is a system for limiting freedom – Richard Sennett – The Hidden Injuries of Class, 1972 p28
Don’t cry. Pretty girls are everywhere. Wish for me and wish me the best. The hot spot today is San Jose - North 101 … two cars … backup … heavy to ….The little antennae of his mobile phone finds its natural frequency, its in harmonic phase and his little fingers are tapping out the keys. He’s engrossed in a game. The antennae of mobile phones send out phonemes when they achieve their harmonic frequencies. A call is set up, owners mate and produce new mobile phone carriers. One nation united by telecommunication.
To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it the way it really was. It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger – Walter Benjamin
Thinking, he [Walter Benjamin] asserts “involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well – Michael Taussig – Mimesis and Alterity: a partucular history of the senses, 1993
Siracha - garlic blended with Serrano chilies. How many Scoville units? A fresh hard bite in the back of your mouth - then a low burn that builds to an eye blinking, hair-raising throb
A Scoville unit is a measurement of capsaicin level in a particular pepper or variety. It is named after Wilbur Scoville of Parke Davis Pharmaceuticals. It was devised in 1912. Scoville ground chilies in a mixture of water & sugar. He measured number of dilutions with water that it took before the burning sensation could no longer be detected
- pure capsaicin - 16,000,000
- Habanera, Scotch Bonnet - 100,000 to 350,000
- Serrano - 5,000 to 30,000
- Cayenne, Tabasco - 30,000 to 50,000
- Jalapeno - 2,500 to 5,000
- Poblano - 1,000 to 1,500
- Anaheim - 500 to 1,000
- Pimento, Bells - 0 to 100
Capsaicin stimulates the nerve endings in your mouth, fooling your brain into thinking you’re in pain. The brain responds by releasing endorphins.
This is primarily a horse camp but other campers are welcome – we have two troops of Boy Scouts in among the horse trailers. Trail Dog gives a bark and goes running off – a string of trail riders comes to a halt – the man on the lead horse warns his companions, that there is a small dog. I go and fetch him. I apologize, he don’t know that he is small. It’s kind of obvious, says the man. Not to him, I say. And they ride on. Maybe a hundred thousand Trail Dogs might have stood their own but not just one.
One in five adults admit to having peed in a public swimming pool
It’s not a straight nose and long eyelashes that a man goes for; it’s a certain special smell – Boris Akunin – Murder on the Leviathan, 2004n p112
If you can’t contribute at least don’t hinder (of course assuming what is gettting done was worthwhile doing and if it isn't then by all means do hinder)
The cow is green, the / flax is brown; brown life / of flies, cool color, sickness, eyes – Joseph Ceravolo – The Green Lakes is Awake, 1994 p94
The value of services performed by householders (cooking, cleaning, childcare, chauffeuring, home and auto repair) depending on how they are assessed can be valued at anywhere from 20-50% of GNP
How much a person has to take orders comes to represent inversely how much ability he has – Richard Sennett – The Hidden Injuries of Class, 1972 p95
Eat More Hot Potato Chips
Wow! A very strong jalapeno aroma cups up, and we were only opening a 1 oz bag
You don’t notice it a first, but it kicks in after a couple of seconds and packs quite a punch
Tim’s Cascade Style Hot Jalapeno artistically flavored potato chips - they’re really hot.
Really. You might just eat only one or two.
Dakota Style - Industrial strength Jalapeno potato chips - these don’t come anywhere near
the king of jalapeno chips - Tim’s Cascade Style
Kettle Chips - Jalapeno with Tequila and Lime hand cooked potato chips - Some nice heat;
a hot aftertaste that sort of burns in the back of the mouth
Tim’s still retains the title but these might be the tastiest
Miss Vickie’s Jalapeno Potato Chips - If you’re bold enough to sell 'em
in a green bag - they should pack a real wallop. These don't
Uncle Ray Potato Chips - double j pickle chips are bomb dude, you should hook up with 'em
at least once
Natural is less intense, more fully flavored
The only way to make the burning stop is to eat more
Potato chips
Or as the British call them - crisps
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