Got a pile of fresh green olives. Placed them in jars of water with a small quantity of edible lime. On Sunday afternoon (48 hours) I will wash them and soak in fresh water. Change water twice a day or more for the next week, tasting here and there. Once they are clean of lime, place in brine for a month, maybe more depending on taste ( Read more... )

Monday September 15th, 8pm at The PlayHouse! Michelle and I will be hosting a Moon Viewing Party in our lovely garden. Fire dancing, a dome, music, drum circle, moon viewing soup (traditional Japanese recipe*), friends new and old, old and young, everyone is invited. I'll be serving up a variety of patent medicines and ancient recipes** and a ( Read more... )

Joel's Army, the scariest fucking x-tian group out there. How bad are these guys? The conservative x-tians and Pentecostal groups are shitting them selves over their existence. Bestest yet, McCaine's VP is part of them!!! Hope you love breathing sulpher fumes and traveling in wicker containers. USA! USA! USA ( Read more... )

So I have this problem with costumes. Pretty much any time I design and execute a not overly large costume (that is one with out a 3 foot head/full face mask, stilts, 15 foot tall person), it immeadiately enters into my day to day wardrobe. So when it is time for me to go to a costume party, I have two choices, bulk up and admit I'm simply not ( Read more... )