Ack! Almost forgot about this for today. OK, well here we go…
What are you growing? Where are you watching? Who are you seeing? What’s got you talking?
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Here’s my favorite quote from this week….”Homer was wrong in saying, “Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!” He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.”
Believe that’s D.H. Lawrence (by way of Christopher Hitchens)
What are we growing? This is our first year ever of trying to grow anything and we’re trying it on our plot at the Oakhurst Community Garden. The garden has been hit by wilt disease on a lot of tomatoes and we’ve had to pull two plants and two lemon cucumber plants to keep the disease from spreading. We’ve actually eaten some beans already and remain hopeful for our remaining tomatoes, squash, hot peppers, edamame, strawberries, and bush beans.
Who are we seeing? We saw Robert Earl Keen in concert last week at the Variety. Good show, but not as fun as earlier in the year when we saw Paul Thorn.
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. – Agnes Repplier, American essayist
Oooh! Travel quotes. Here my fav…
“…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.” – Mark Twain
But he was being sarcastic, wasn’t he?
I have a crush on Mark Twain.
Watched “For Your Consideration” the other night. More understated brilliance from the comedic geniuses who gave us “Best in Show” and “A Mighty Wind.” Of course, we can’t forget about their involvement in Rob Reiner’s “This is Spinal Tap.”
Finally got around to buying Cake’s “Showroom of Compassion” because I couldn’t get the song “Sick of You” out of my head. I just love that band.
My son’s vegetable garden is growing like mad. And the kitties are loving the cat grass and catnip he planted.
Have been listening to Sara Watkins new CD, Sun Midnight Sun. Heard her two Saturdays ago — with her brother accompanying — sing three of the songs at Decatur CD. Track #2 keeps getting repeated in my head.
The world’s shortest in-store.
Watched a pretty interesting documentary last night called “The Other F Word,” which was basically about a bunch of guys in punk rock bands “growing up.” Dealt with a couple of themes intertwined (music biz changing, bands not selling records so they have to tour relentlessly, which is ruining their home lives as they’ve got wives, kids, etc.).
And speaking of growing up, I can’t tell you what I’m growing.
OK, now I gotta know: What IS the “other F word”??? (Seriously…)
I’m teaching a doc film class, so I googled to see what the film is about. It’s FATHERHOOD. These guys never expected to live long enough to deal with middle age, parenting etc.
Not sure if I will show it to a bunch of high schoolers.
Ahhh…thanks!
Cherokee purple, green grape, black prince, red strawberry, roma, parks whopper and better boy. I think I’ve eaten at least one tomato a day for the last two weeks and I’ve had to give about half of them away I’ve got so many.
I volunteer to take any extras off your hands at any time.
Saw the District Attorneys at AthFest Saturday and brought their album home. Good stuff. Also enjoyed Reptar on Friday. Been reading the Irish novel Skippy Dies by Paul Moran.
My mother and I road-tripped to the Elberton town library to look up ancestors and found this not-too-flattering entry about my 3x great-grandfather in an 1893 Elberton Star: “Those who remember the character of Grandfather Smallweed in ‘Bleak House’ and were personally acquainted with Mr. Dye cannot help but wonder at the similarity of the two characters.”
HAH! That’s awesome!
While you were there did you go to see the Guide-stones?
What’s the deal with those things? I’d never heard of them and then saw a show about them on the history channel, and all the speculation about who commissioned them. Is it worth a day trip just to go see them?
Well, I thought it was worth the ride but I have a weakness for weird roadside attractions and places that are in the middle of nowhere. Plus we took a ride through Athens one way and had a nice lunch there.
The best piece of journalism I found on the guidestones is here:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones?currentPage=all
That’s what convinced me to check it out.
Parker! This is fascinating– I’d never heard of the Guidestones, but now I’m so curious I may have to go check them out. (Plus, anytime something incites fanatics to denounce it as “Antichrist”, I’m bound & determined I’m gonna go see it.) Thanks for sharing!
That does sound like a fun little day trip. Thanks for sharing that article, love me a good mystery. Had to do a little Googling after reading it.
Nope, but we did indeed search for stones — headstones. The librarians and a fabulous volunteer found an old rural map, so we set out to find the family cemetery next. After too many turns down unmarked dirt roads, we gave up (at least temporarily), but we’ll head back for another Elbert County adventure soon.