My relationship with Avocados

Who doesn't love avocados?  I certainly can't get enough of them, whether I eat them plain or prepare them into Midwestern™ Guacamole.  My problem with avocados is that there is a certain discipline required to eat them.  I have rarely, if ever, found them ripe in the store.  I buy them and wait for them to ripen.  It seems that there is a 24 hour window in which they are best to eat them.  You don't control the avocado, the avocado controls you.  I never know when the avocado is suddenly going to decide to be ripe.  This stern mistress demands that you eat her on her time table.  This can be when you planned to eat Italian.  Well, now you are eating Italian with guacamole...enjoy your dinner.  If you buy more than one, there is no guarantee that they will ripen at the same time....fickle and stern.

Now as for Midwestern™ Guacamole, I added the Midwestern™ because family members in California take exception to my method of preparation.  They like the chunky method with onions, tomatoes and jalapeños.  I was raised to make it by mashing it with salsa, lemon juice and Best Foods mayonnaise.  This last ingredient causes guffaws out of my California cousins.  "Why would you ruin avocados with mayonnaise?"  The question should be "Why would you ruin mayonnaise by adding avocados?"  I add avocados simply because it is socially unacceptable to eat mayonnaise with tortilla chips. 

In any case, people who try my Midwestern™ Guacamole are instantly addicted, saying things like "this is the best guacamole I've ever had" and "I can't get this in my mouth fast enough" and "Please god, make me guacamole!  I'll do anything you ask....anything".

Bloc Party - Mercury in Retrograde

This video starts out kind of silly and odd.  It then becomes oddly scary and relevant to elections.

Best and Worst of Reality TV

OK, so I don't watch reality TV, but I saw a show on A&E called "Intervention".  However, I think people have mentioned it to me before, pointing out the exploitative nature of the program.  They are totally right.  I'm so temporarily in love with this show.  Basically, they find various addicts and tell them that they are doing a documentary on addiction.  Meanwhile, the family and friends are planning an intervention.  The first episode I watched was of a woman addicted to computer duster inhaler.  Her mother came to visit her and she got so upset that she cut her arms with a razor and started inhaling computer duster from the can while she cried and screamed, "This hurts so much!"  
Her particular intervention involved telling her "sugar daddy" that they would tell his wife unless he cut off support.

Little Greg has said, "They should just let them do what they want.  It's their life and it is what they like to do."  I replied that is pretty much what an intervention is.  It is saying you can do what you want, but they are not going be a part of it anymore.  He said, "well, that's mean."  This coming from a man whose mother says things like, "Why is that cat screaming?  Give it what it wants."  Also, the same man that forbids me to become an alcoholic.  Seems like his threats are pretty empty now.  It's OK though, I'm not a drinker.

On the worst side, I saw a show on ID Discovery, called "Real Interrogations".  It is just what it sounds like, real interrogations.  On the episode that I saw, the police were very proud of their interrogation techniques.  They involved things like yelling, "Don't lie to me boy!" and "I know you're lying to me boy!".  Seriously, they stated that one of their techniques was yelling and being aggressive.  The other trick they had in their bag was "good cop/bad cop".  They showed two interrogations for this one case and in the end they arrested an innocent man and set the guilty man free.  A month later, the genius cops learned that the man they had arrested was in Brazil at the time of the crime, with a passport to back it up.  The best part is that in both interrogations neither of them confessed to the crime.  The guilty man lied at first and then finally admitted to having sex with the victim.  The innocent man, after being yelled at for an hour, claimed to have seen the other man kill her.   He claimed that he couldn't see well because there were a lot of trees.  They then arrested him because there were a lot of trees, but they were skinny and you can see through them.  He must have done it to have made such a lie of misconstruing the visibility through a large portion of trees!!  So, they arrested him....I'm guessing because he was a "fereigner". 

I know, I know, that sounds like a great show.  The majority of it was just cops yelling at teenagers, which is fun for about five minutes.  Also, the cops never really admit that they made a mistake, so there is no sense of "comeuppance". 

Carmensita and an allergy to kiwi

I can't imagine mkhobson not already having this song or not liking this song.  


In other news, I've developed a nasty sensitivity to kiwi.  It hurts my throat and makes me sick to my stomach.  I never pictured kiwi as a food that you can be sensitive to.  Live and learn.

Posting other people's stuff....easy!

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