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The White Goat. Brilliant.

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(A NEGATIVE SPACE)

Might be good to throw a song up here every now and then. Especially a song like this one.

The Good I Know You Know is track 3 on Hoots & Hellmouth.

“This bath tissue is packaged in environmentally responsible plastic wrap. It will expire in 18 months. Please don’t be sad for the plastic wrap. It’s reducing pollution.”

Expire?

Don’t be sad?

Environmentally responsible?

Well, Trader Joe’s, I’m confused.

(CITY FLY ATTEMPT)

In case you were wondering what people are working on in Bulgaria.

And by people I mean Martin Angelov.

Maybe he’ll come to LA next.

Coke Invests in Small Fruit Farmers

Not sure if I should celebrate this or fear the delicious, destructive product it might help create.

Thank you PSFK.

“They built giant, globe-spanning organizations, that employed tens of thousands of people working around the clock, to produce… sugar water, fast food, disposable razors, and gas guzzlers. Perhaps the defining characteristic of the paradigm of 20th Century capitalism was its astonishing lack of ambition. Rarely in history has such a void, a poverty of imagination been so deeply woven into the fabric of humankind’s economic systems.”

The 23rd century historian that lives in Umair Haque’s head wrote that.

Haven’t quoted Umair in a while. He’s a character. Excited to have him back on MPM.

“If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn’t have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives’ spits.”

Buck Mulligan said that. In the ninteen teens. Just a few pages into Ulysses. By James Joyce.

I guess the good food vs cheap food debate has been going on for a while.

Here’s to my first ever link to barbie.com.

Barbie the Environmentalist. Next step? Compostable Barbie? By 2015?

I’ll do a totally sweet celebration dance if it happens.

“There’s nothing like Roundup. I mean, a monkey could farm with it, you know.”

Luke Ulrich, a farmer in eastern Kansas, said that. He plants seeds that are genetically modified to be Roundup Ready. Buys them from Monsanto. Buys them, plants them, douses his fields with Roundup, and doesn’t worry about damaging his corn or soybeans.

The NPR story that quotes Luke focuses on the business of genetically modified seeds and the sneaky ways in which Monsanto puts their competitors out of business.

I just want to stop for a minute and consider the fact that the Roundup Ready trait is a technology that encourages more generous application of poison.

Wind Fired Pizza would sound better.