1) Of Montreal. I picked up a lot music from my town library. It never ceases to amaze me what they stock on the shelves. Anywise I checked out Of Montreal CD entitled..."Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?" I promptly checked in the CD at the end of borrowing period but it still showed up as checked-out on my account. I was worried and so I brought it to the 70-year-old Librarian's attention who promptly read out loud the title from the computer at the top of her voice, "Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer?" and just kinda stared at me. I just shrugged my shoulders. Enjoy.
2) Gardening like a hippie. Well the gardening is doing well. And I've been reading a lot of garden books by radical small farmers and gardening folks like Wendell Berry and Gene Logsdon. In between the microwave and McDonald's we forgot about good food and what it takes to make it. Anywise I suggest everybody read the omnivores dilemma and grow some food. I am now stepping off my soap box.
3) Pickled Pig's feet. I've been trying to cook more so I bought Rick Bayless's Everyday Mexican. In my town is a large immigrant Mexican population which translates into some great restaurants and some really good places to buy authentic Mexican ingredients. So a couple weeks ago my wife and I were at Mexican market and there they were on the meat counter-- a big jar of picked hooves just bobbing away. You feel very primitive eating the hoof and all but what the heck they aren't all that bad. Really we all eat the butt of the pig without blinking. I suppose my great grandfathers ate much worse.
4) Actually not dressing up in some weird costume to ride a bike or, alternatively, not riding to increase your lactic threshold or to break some record. Just riding a bike to enjoy it. (Note Craig's Photo...you should totally buy it from him).
5) Being a dad. So we are expecting at the Dart household so I am technically not a dad yet but close enough. I am pretty excited I am going to start watching a bunch of Leave to Beaver, Father Knows Best and My Three Sons re-runs to really work on my dad-a-titude before the tike comes a long.
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Are you dishing librarians???
I think you should start smoking a pipe. Then, you could have your wife start wearing those early, 1960's-Jackie O-style dresses and have her start sporting one of those tall, astronaut's wife hairdoos.
That would be swell.
Can I play the quirky, neighborhood kid that keeps dropping by to stir the pot and cause moral issues in the household? Or maybe I could be the alcoholic uncle who comes over and drinks vanilla extract in a comical cry for help.
...oh, wait. That was "Family Ties".
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