Month: December 2003

Jim Rose, Slymentra Hymen

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I’ve always wanted to see the Jim Rose Circus. I still haven’t seen them yet… and they are way past being “edgy” now…. I dunno if they even tour any more

Once when I was unemployed and poor I had free tickets. But for some reason I forgot. I remembered the day after. Boy did I feel stupid; normally I’m not flaky like that.

Girly Freak Show would have been cool too… Kirby and I saw “The Artist Formerly Known as Slymentra Hymen” at the San Diego Comic Con, where she was promoting her appearance in Augusta’s Agent 15 as a whip-weilding femme fatale.

We were in the audience and we grilled her about Gwar… she gave us free swag afterwards because we were her groupies. She rocks. Check out these pictures of her in GWAR.

All gone now. It’s a good reminder to rush out an see these things when you can, because tomorrow they will be gone.

Cleaning the Bathroom

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BRIAN: Sweetie, I have some good news, and some bad news.
DIANE: Just from cleaning the bathroom?!
BRIAN: The good news is I vacuumed up a lot of your hair off the floor…
DIANE: Uh oh. You didn’t spill bleach all over the house again did you?
BRIAN: The bad news is there was so much of it I knit another fiance.
DIANE: …?
BRIAN: And we’re in love and running away together.
DIANE: THAT’S NOT FUNNY!!
BRIAN: Ha ha
DIANE: You’d leave me for a HAIRBALL?!?
BRIAN: It’s a JOKE sweetie… besides it’s YOUR hair.
DIANE: You’d leave me for a hairball you JUST MET?!?!

Act Now for 3 Extra Treasures

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I was looking for this variety of tea at the Chinese grocery store near here- it has dried flowers in it. It’s called EIGHT Treasure Tea.

Not four. Not five. Eight. For some reason I can never remember the number.

At one point I was in SF Chinatown and asked at a tea shop for Four Treasure Tea. The (second generation Chinese-American) girl behind the counter, in obviously natively spoken American English, asked wryly “you mean EIGHT treasure tea?” like “you big dumbass.” It’s good to have people around to kick your ass a little on things like this.

Maybe Four Treasure Tea is half the price or something. Or maybe it’s a factory reject. Or maybe the extra three of four Treasures come as part of a special promotion or something.

The eight “treasures” are specifically:

  1. Chrysanthemums
  2. Green Tea
  3. Jujube
  4. Chinese Wolfberries
  5. Dragoneye fruit
  6. Rock Sugar
  7. Raisin
  8. Tremella

Although there are different variants:

  1. American ginseng
  2. dried longans
  3. ‘kei chi’ (boxthorn fruit)

  4. chrysanthemum
  5. red dates
  6. rock sugar
  7. lotus seed
  8. dragon well tea leaves

Holy Crap

This bag I bought has individual bags full of single serving 8 Treasures Tea! They have all the ingredients including the monster rocks of sugar.

Here’s the brewing instructions, which I thought were entertaining. There are no typos in this:

  • In a cup. Open the teabag, pour the contents into a cup.
  • Add rock sugar to taste if desired. Then add boiling water.
  • Leave to infuse for minutes before serving
  • We can have seueral drinks.
  • At last, Longan jujube etc, can be used to have.

I think the last two are meant to convey:

  • You can use the same leaves to infuse several cups of tea
  • When you are done, you can eat the rehydrated fruits as a treat

Medieval in LA

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Jim Paul spills tomato juice on his white pants on a plane flight and goes into a 200 page digression on the evolution of how the common man viewed reality, causality, and the fabric of the universe.

This is actually a lot more interesting than it sounds, and a good primer to lead up / ease a reader into Solipsism.

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