Asparagus pee, Gooblek & Other Neat stuff
Time to take this bull by the horns and milk it.
You know how Al Franken’s Stuart Smalley character always told himself, “You’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and doggone it people like you?”
My inner voice keeps telling me, “You’re better than that! You’re smarter than that! But, doggone it, people seem to like you anyway.”
I’ve been waiting and wondering what happened to Last Comic Standing, and I’ve just learned that NBC pulled the plug and announced a winner without me! Boy, that’s the way to endear your fans.
For some reason, people are starting to find Asparagus Pee by searching for “Quattro™” and “5-blade razor” again, and the old link to The Onion article I think they’re really looking for has long since been moved into a subscription-only archive, so as a public service, I present this link to a completely illegal copy on somebody else’s site: Forget Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades – The Onion.
It occurs to me that one reason the placebo effect works so well is that it’s so easy to forget that we’re healing ourselves amazingly well all of the time.
I don’t want to say that I’m feeling overwhelmed by all the stuff I need to get done, but…
You know you’re in trouble when you find yourself prioritizing your life in terms of what you can least afford to neglect, and weighing consequences instead of rewards.
There are several major wildfires blazing in Northern California this week. Yesterday and today, there has been soot and ashes on the parked cars, it smells like a campfire, looks like a fog, and the sun has been bright orange. It’s very freaky looking, and breathing is not fun.
But here’s what I’d like to know. There’s so much smoke I can barely see across the street, so why aren’t the smoke alarms all going off?
Usually, if we’re cooking a pizza in the oven and a half a piece of sausage rolls off, I have to pull the battery in our smoke detector – shouldn’t it work just as well if the whole neighborhood were on fire? Another of life’s little mysteries, unsolved.
Critical Section used to be a daily read for me, but I was sure getting tired of checking when Ole took a four month hiatus from blogging. Asparagus Pee welcomes him back to the fold, and here’s a link to some interesting comments he just wrote up on Nevil Schute inspired thoughts on voting: Critical Section – In the Wet.
I love the suggestion that they should have test questions on the ballot propositions, and you’d have to pass the test for your vote to count.
This entry is just to make sure that Google will find a new website I’ve set up for a local school ballot initiative. It’s over at Measure V Blog, and it’s only of interest to people who live in the Auburn Union Elementary School District (AUESD). See how I got all those keywords in there?
This is the logo created for the committee by The Lady Janet and I like it a lot. I really like some of these new style sheets they’ve got over on Blogger these days too.
Tonight I tried white asparagus for the first time, and I won’t tell you what it looked like, but I will tell you that chlorophyl is not the smell ingredient. Everything came out just fine, in other words.
For a good laugh, here’s how they pack white asparagus.
Hats off to Brian Wilson for finally putting together the Smile package. I’ve listened to some of this, and honestly, it’s a little rough by Beach Boy standards, but I’ve decided that it’s good stuff, and I support Brian 100% in this, so doggoneit, I’m buying one and doing my Asparagus Pee best to help make it the best selling album of the year, and I encourage you to do the same.
I would love to hear what this would sound like if he’d had the support of the band back in the day, or even now. Thanks, Brian.
