FYI, I am no meatlifter. Weightlifter, maybe . . . but not meat. But this article in Slate is both thoughtful and ultimately hilarious, as they end with the following sage paragraph:
“So, more innovation is required in the battle against meatlifting. Meat-sniffing dogs pop to mind, though some shoppers might object to having a Doberman nosing around their crotches in search of stolen steaks. But you know what they say about civil liberties in a time of crisis.”
Last night I acquired a righteous headache around 9:30 and settled on the couch with a cup of hot chocolate. What a nice surprise to find this hilarious show when I was thinking I’d just watch some home improvement TV and drift off. The show focuses on the home life of Ed Begley, an accomplished actor who’s appeared in several Christopher Guest movies, and his wife Rachelle Carson. They argue constantly: he is crazy and begins random and inconvenient home projects that make the house more green, and she is also crazy, but mostly because he’s always getting in her way and messing up the house with all the random projects. Given that it’s also clear that they love each other, it’s a very hilarious thing to watch, while at the same time teaching easy things to do around the house to make your carbon footprint more friendly.
Here it is. . . a friend put it directly in my hands a couple of weeks back. Force feeding, but I really needed to read something. I think it was about my speed – a little thought-provoking here, a little romance there – and a very quick read. I enjoyed it very much.
Within the past few months I’ve discovered that Wikipedia is my favorite thing to read. This, and the mullet page, are two of my most favorite.
Though then again there is also the Heavy metal umlaut page.
All week I’ve been exploring the insanely cool galleries of photographers at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. This is definitely a place to visit in the (hopeful) event that I take a trip there sometime soon.
