A current meme on women running for President

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.


This image has been making the rounds. . .it originated on Common Culture (or, they added their name to it).

But where's Senator Warren?? Like Hillary, she doesn't probably have a *huge* shelf life either. If anything like this scenario plays out, Hillary will be a one term President. She will go one and done. Which leaves Elizabeth Warren in 2020, possibly thwarting the interwoven double dynasties of the Houses of Clinton and Obama.

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Pictures from Yosemite National Park, Part 3

By Jack Brummet, Travel Ed.

We only had one day in the Yosemite Valley (we were here for a wedding), but it was fantastic.

Link to Part 1
Link to Part 2

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Pictures from Yosemite National Park, Part 2

By Jack Brummet, Travel Ed.

We took a quick trip to the Yosemite area (specifically Bass Lake) last weekend.  We did get to spend an amazing day in the Yosemite Valley.  Unbelievable.  The photos just don't do justice to the scale and grandeur. . .

Link to Part 1
Link to part 3

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Pictures from Yosemite National Park, Part 1

By Jack Brummet, Travel Ed.

We took a quick trip to the Yosemite area (specifically Bass Lake) last weekend.  We did get to spend an amazing day in the Yosemite Valley.  Unbelievable.  The photos just don't do justice to the scale and grandeur. . .

Link to Part 2
Link to Part 3

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The dangers of startling the hypnotized or meditating

By Mona Goldwater, Religions Ed.

Jack texted me tonight from Yosemite:  Can't get to the blog due to spasmodic wifi connection.  But post this: /xoxo jack

You know, I have a lot of friends & family who are devout meditators.  When I was a kid I remember people telling stories about the dire consequences if you startle or arouse people in a hypnotic state.  A great pop culture reference to this is the movie Office Space, when Peter Gibbons is hypnotized.  His therapist dies of a heart attack before releasing him from the hypnotic state and his personality is transformed, with hilarious consequences.

I am at this family shindig in Yosemite and I realize you have to tread lightly if you walk into a room or somewhere outside and someone appears to be deep into meditation.  I mean, if you break their meditation, they could end up like being stuck in neutral forever, right? /Jack in central California

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"We're a happy family"

By Pablo Fanque

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Cook-off: David Lynch's quinoa vs. Robert Rodriguez's sinful Texas brisket and ribs

By Mona Goldwater, Cooking Ed.

This is strange.  Do other directors add cooking videos to DVDs? Other than Robert Rodriguez, who started it; he's released three or four of his Ten Minute Cooking School episodes on various DVDs—Puerco Pibil, Sin City Breakfast Tacos, and Texas Barbecue...from the GRAVE! (JT Hague, a character in RR's Grindhouse film Planet Terror, sucummbed to the zombies, but left behind his secret barbecue recipe). 

David Lynch's quinoa dish--unlike Rodriguez's--is a clean, but rather ascetic dish.  Different strokes. 

One of Rodriguez's Ten Minute Cooking Schools:

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Triavil advertisement (circa 1969): "Lady, your anxiety is showing (over a coexisting depression)"

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

This has to be the most pharmaceutical advertisement of all time (and it has some strong competition).

"Lady, your anxiety is showing (over a coexisting depression)" folder cover for "The Nervous System anatomical illustrations" published by Merck, Sharp and Dohme, West Point, PA. Circa. 1969. Advertises Triavil "a broad-spectrum psychotheraputic agent for the management of outpatients and hospitalized patients with psychoses or neurosis characterized by mixtures of anxiety or agitation with symptoms of depression..." 

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Poem: The Dream

By Jack Brummet

1.
There is no verisimilitude,
No character development
Or contrapuntal plotting—
Only shadowy acts and intentions.

2.
What the wind whispers,
The taste of metal in my mouth,
The riptide around Cold Island.

3.
The sound of footsteps,
In unison.
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Painting: The Allegory

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge

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Painting: the mortal flower

By Jack Brummet

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An awesomely bad B Movie—watch Bowanga Bowanga (1951) here

By Jack Brummet, B Movie Ed.

 Bowanga Bowanga is an amusing exploitation flick from 1951. I like B movies, and this one doesn't disappoint.  In particular, the moose that shows up in scenes in Africa.  You know you want to watch.  Just click the arrow.

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