Question submitted by mopinko

friday night food movies with anthony bourdain on tcm

last week was eat drink man woman
tonight is one of my favorite movies ever, big night.

fun

please god let me live long enough to see an election cycle

without the true blue circular firing squad.

just fucking once.

please.

a fb friend suggested a practical joke.

so, we were discussing a certain rw, bloviating, pedophile, sack of shit, radio clown. (who, for purposes of this discussion SHOULD remain nameless, seeing how googlable we are here.) her suggestion was that someone float a fake obit. i wonder what it would take to start a bit of a rumor, complete with cause and place of death. you know, like heart failure during sex with………


i'm not sayin. i'm just sayin.
it would be fun.

movies you can't get out of your mind.

i have one movie that i always recommend to people. i don't recall it making a big splash when it came out, but i might have missed it. got shitty reviews. saw it much later when netfilx was discs.
just sticks to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronaut's_Wife

The Astronaut's Wife is a 1999 American science fiction/thriller film directed and written by Rand Ravich. It stars Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron.


While on a space-walking mission, Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp), a NASA astronaut, and fellow astronaut Alex Streck, experience an explosion from a satellite which results in a communication loss for two minutes between the astronauts and Earth.

yours?

Question submitted by mopinko

hey, i am participating in a tomato research project

a uic grad student is testing heirlooms v hybrids in gardens and urban farms across the area.
what do you think of these tomatoes?
Arkansas Traveler
Better Boy (F1)
Big Beef (F1)
Brandyboy (F1
Celebrity (F1)
Crimson Sprinter
Crnkovic Yugoslavian
Defiant (F1)
Dester
Early Girl (F1)
Eva Purple Ball
German Pink
Italian Heirloom
Mortgage Lifter, Halladay's
Mountain Merit (F1)
Mountain Fresh Plus (F1)

really looking forward to a couple. also a couple on that list that have not done well for me. which is a good thing i guess.

hey gardeners, check out this kickstarter

this dropped on me from the hive mind. like the other great gifts that the hive has given me, it is right on time.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024700667

friends with ptsd- how's it going? does anything help?

so, 5 years ago, our house was broken into. it wasn't that horrible of a deal to me. the guy was caught, all property returned, no violence involved. but my daughter, then 15, and struggling with plenty of problems, imploded.
she has been dx'd with ptsd. she has become highly paranoid and anxious. (redundant)

just wondering if there are folks here who can share things that worked for them, or didnt work. or tell me what is the stupidest thing i can say to her, so i wont.
any meds that helped?

she is in therapy, and has been for quite a while. has a lot of physical/pain issues to boot.
she even qualified for a psyche disability. she is just so sweet and talented. she had such a bright future. but she just got whomped by life.

who doesn't love fungi?

caveat emptor- this kickstarter somewhat directly benefits me, but i benefit it much more, i think, so...

i am very excited about this. mushrooms are an awesome perennial source of protein. they are also an awesome source of income for small farms.
i am so excited that once again the hive mind has delivered what i needed next. i have built a large scale hugel pile, and i know that i need fungi power to turn it into delicious, rich soil. i do have a couple of nice wild blooms so far, and i have a couple dozen nice inoculated logs.
but kevin gives us an order of magnitude more fungi, and fungi knowledge. he is already spreading fungi wherever he can. and collecting fungi anywhere he can. i am really proud to support his plan to cultivate local fungi as well as spreading reliable cultivars to home gardeners, community gardens and urban farms here in the greenest big city in america.

ftr, i have never run a fundraiser for my farm. and this is not really for my farm. just a stopover. but chip in for a good meal while these delights pass though.
the next frontier in local food.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/130207241/mushroom-gardens-for-chicago

if you like my farm, you can watch as we build our barn, and further permaculture in the big city.