This blog is mostly for Motherhubbard and Scher since they were interested. But of course anyone might find this interesting.

This is our home process for making and canning (really jarring) tomato puree. This is an annual ritual for my family. The only year of my lifetime when we didn't do this was the year my father's health had deteriorated and ultimately passed away. That was two years ago. But I don't recall any other year of my 46 years were we didn't can tomatoes.
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Forum Book Club

The twelve winning genres for next years read are:Crime fiction, Historical fiction, Gothic, Counter-culture Literature, Detective...

1. Textual discourse and Marxist capitalism

The primary theme of Abian’s[1] analysis of modernism is a mythopoetical totality. Bataille promotes the use of textual discourse to read and challenge class. Thus, the cultural paradigm of consensus holds that the establishment is capable of truth.

The subject is interpolated into a that includes reality as a whole. But Baudrillard’s critique of Lacanist obscurity states that discourse is a product of the masses, but only...

Day 1: Due to excitement get to airport super early ( had to wait an hour before the check in desk even opened). Change money to Euros and become upset that I didnt have as much as I wanted. Arrive in dublin and keep an eye out for a beautiful woman. Find my woman. Jump on bus to her home stopping in dublin centre for some groceries. Give her the gift I brought for her, and am seriously shocked by her gift to me - most thoughtful, laborious thing anyone has ever given me.Have some home-made potato...

Hearing Test

This morning I had to complete my annual physical at work and I had to retake the hearing test. I had failed it a few weeks ago, which is not unusual since it's tricky test. I'll explain. They sit you in this sound proof booth. It's almost like a vertical coffin with a seat. A tall person would probably hit his head at the top. It's kind of like you're in a box. They put these head phones on and they shut the door. Your breathing and your movement is the only...