Month: August 2011

Summer Supper

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I have a bowl of home-grown tomatoes sitting on the kitchen counter, not mine, mind you — mine are still on the vine showing no intention of ever showing up for a meal.  But ever since I had gotten the tomatoes, I planned on having BLTs and went to the store to buy what I needed.

I was behind three twenty-somethings in the check-out line. The group had a specific menu in mind featuring a sizeable bottle of Jose Cuervo Gold Tequila, limes, avocados and chips. Too bad for them, they’re probably tossing down margaritas and eating chips sans guacamole since their avocados ended up with my groceries.

Image from Closet Kitchen blog

When I got home, I mixed fresh salsa with the avocados and added a squeeze of lemon.

I decided to use guacamole instead of mayonnaise to anchor the bacon on the sandwiches. So there I had invented something really good  — a BLTG.

Sadly, I found out later that the BLTG has already been discovered — more than once. I did like the BLTG photo I found on Closet Kitchen , a blog written by Kevin who lives in Toronto, Canada.

It really looks quite like itself.

Whaaat?

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I just noticed on Facebook that my brother is on a yacht in the Bahamas with a couple of his friends. From the looks of it none of the rest of the family is there. Just Tommy and 4 or 5 guys only one of whom I recognize. Though truth be known,  I never really hung around with his friends — all at least 7 years younger than me.

The point is you can cruise along Facebook posts and see the same old 9 to 5. There’s the birthday party, the new dog, the pretty baby, weight loss, a new hat, the stand-up shot with a celebrity and so on and so on and then all of a sudden, Bam — there is something that is really unusual. Like having a brother traveling around the Bahamas on a yacht.

No, the real point is I shoulda’ paid a little more attention to his friends.

August 4th

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Happy Birthday!  President Obama, have a great day, there is nothing like turning 50 and listening to Stevie Wonder sing about it.

Man ‘n Moon

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If you are an astronaut and have a canon power shot or a smart phone, you could wake up, look out the window and take a picture of the moon. That’s what Ron Garan does. He’s aboard the International Space Station that orbits earth every hour and a half. So he gets to see this, oh — ’bout 16 times a day.

I don’t know what else he does with his day, fiddles with dials and beepers, I imagine. Makes me wonder if it’s too late to tweak my career choice?

Image from Nasa, July 2011

Everyone Is Doing It

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The Pope learned how to tweet this summer. His first message was pretty utilitarian letting people know about the Vatican’s web site.

Dear Friends, I just launched our site. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI

Here is the pontiff surrounded by his tech support team in a photo featured in Time. (Gotta admit those fuchsia accessories really make a photo pop.)

Writer Paul Rudnick couldn’t resist imagining a few more Pope tweets once the Man got comfortable and had an extra minute or two.

Sometimes, when I’m all alone, I like to put on my cassock and spin around really fast and pretend I’m a tepee.

I met the Dalai Lama and he was so nice, but all I could think was, Sandals? In January? Really?

It’s hard to tell all the cardinals apart, so sometimes I put different dinosaur stickers on their backs.

If people ask, “Why does God allow war and evil?,” I ask, “Why do the high-school students on ‘Glee’ look forty?”

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Less Is More

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This poster series includes a number of super minimalist riffs on popular children’s stories by artist Christian Jackson. He sells his work at Imagekind where you can have them matted and framed if you like. Posters start at 21.95, a big Bargain for these clever, modern graphics.