Desire or something like it

Where do you end and where does the pigeon you had for dinner begin?

Louie Psihoyos talks at the Q&A after the Japanese Premiere of his film, The Cove, last week at Tokyo International Film Festival. Read the entire interview here.

The silence of the great Buddha bespeaks volumes about how insulated his worshipers remain…

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Heading into secret testing trials for a few days…be back next week, if I’m back at all…

Feeling the need for a bit of a douche to cleanse out the rock n gritty roll, the sand-filled crablegs, the pizza crust and bottlecaps, broken glass for timid kittens, melted chocolate and whiskey bottles, too many tinfoil wrapping industry mavens flocking to gin-soaked hotels at sunset on beaches around the (one) third world, clinking and grinning like female hyenas high on testosterone gimlets fingering their clits and talking about Disney’s New Venture. Where is my scimitar-wielding sikh and other apt stereotypes to save me from a life of digital imprisonment at the hands of the more-mongers…car’s crashing, radio’s out of tune, more douche Scotty…make it a double.

Meat! But not for me…only for guests. I’ve been making meaty treats for sweet people for so long it’s second nature boning and skinning. Much funner with good Italian wine.

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My cousins at the best Mexican restaurant I’ve ever been lucky enough to live near…La Super Rica in Santa Barbara. They’re smiling like that because they’re beautiful people about to enjoy amazing food, but their dad is evil for sending me the photo without any chile rellenos attached…homemade tortillas and bohemia afternoons in the sun…read the blog

Girl looks up as 7.1 Andaman Islands earthquake triggers 6.4 Japan earthquake morning after 35 cm of rainfall from Typhoon Etau kills 23 in Kansai and two days after bigger 7.1 Japan earthquake and realizes that, “Hey, yeah, you know, the sky actually does seem to be falling…”