we have a map of the piano


Like good phrenology, but geographic. Mirth and tranquility are too small.


Also, we have a map of the piano - live in japan.

> enter the window

You are in the kitchen of the white house. A table seems to have been used recently for the preparation of food. A passage leads to the west, and a dark staircase can be seen leading upward. To the east is a small window which is open. On the table is an elongated brown sack, smelling of hot peppers. A clear glass bottle is here. The glass bottle contains:

A quantity of water.

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(zork)

New Pickle

Interesing seeds at Seed Savers, including Red Malabar spinach, fat Oxheart heirloom carrots, Amish Deer Tongue lettuce, and Sutton's Harbinger peas (won an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1901, apparently).



I am anxious to try pickling a batch of West Indian Gherkin cucumbers (above). I think they would be a nice addition to a bloody mary with some kind of hybrid wasabi/horseradish.

stop yodeling until oktoberfest

maybe the funniest thing the New York Times has printed, ever:

A Rough Script of Life, if Ever There Was One

... "Caller from the 100 block of North Morehead Street requested to speak to animal control because caller felt that someone was coming into his yard and cutting the hair on his dogs. Dispatch advised caller to set up video surveillance on his house. Caller said he planned on it." ...

decorative




A great Soho design store, Moss...mossonline. Their Aphrodite pitcher reminds me of a plant I saw at Wave Hill in the Bronx,


the nipple fruit:



Not sure know why.

local eats

I had a great oyster from Duxbury, MA a little while back at B & G Oysters. I found these Duxburys at my local whole foods last night and brought a few home (something I rarely do because I can't open them without gouging my hand open usually). They were fantastic with a shallot-ponzu-rice wine vinegar mignonette.


The view from the back garden at B & G.








love the Ging Nang Boyz

Stick with it until 2:50.