on calamansi

that woman at the farmer's market was right: calamansi are very nice with honey and a cup of tea. also, Pacific Super has calamansi soda on sale at 50 cents a can. sweetened with real sugar and honey! pretty tasty, actually.

things that make no sense

i bought a couple of new kitchen towels yesterday. the care instructions say to wash them separately in cold water and line dry them. who the fuck takes this kind of care of a damned kitchen towel? whose kitchen towels stay so clean that you can wash them in cold water?

i'll wash mine in hot water with bleach and toss 'em in the dryer. if it makes them uglier, oh well. they're kitchen towels, not objets d'art.

sheesh.

cryptic memeage

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( and another, eerily accurate meme )

from a conversation with boutell

tbboutell: true, being a 21st century human is a terrible strain on the critter we evolved to be.
gglibertine: i mean, it cracks me up that anyone thinks there's any way to prevent teenagers from having sex.
tbboutell: you and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals.
gglibertine: you can't argue with basic human nature.
gglibertine: we fight, we fornicate, we... uh... what's a word for "ingest recreational substances" that starts with 'f'?
tbboutell: we get fucked up!
gglibertine: i suppose one could just go with "we ferment"
tbboutell: ooh, that's excellent.
tbboutell: yeh. Cultures with access to nothing but tobacco willingly ingested megatons of the stuff to achieve a decent high.
gglibertine: and then there are the shrooms.
gglibertine: and the ayahuasca.
gglibertine: and the coca.
gglibertine: and the hashish.
gglibertine: and the opium.
gglibertine: and the spores.
gglibertine: and the canetoads.
gglibertine: and and and.
gglibertine: i mean, in tibet they drink fermented yak's milk, for christ's sake.
gglibertine: people are REALLY DAMN DESPERATE for a good buzz.
[...]
gglibertine: ah, i can feel the sedatives kicking in now....