mmmm......donut.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Thinking...

Back when I started this, this was my foodie-blog. In the great blog consolidation effort of 2007, this became the "everything blog"

Lately, I've been cheating on the consolidation effort, and have been dribbling out bits into the old blogstreams.

But I got to thinking a bit tonight, and I've not yet shaken an idea. There are plenty of blogs about frugality. There are plenty of blogs about food. There is a subset that focuses on frugality on food quite admirably.

But there's also a lot of talk about quickly-inflating food prices, and after reading a few articles about dishes borne of necessity being served as "cultural luxury", I'm hung up over the idea of "Why would a meal that originated in making-do with scraps, or originated out of a culture of famine, demand a price here suggesting a gourmet palliate?"

I'm thinking a lot about that "making-do" ethic. I'm also thinking a lot about the "processed foods" being significantly cheaper than the real thing. My current inclination involves a lot of "Good job, marketing, you keep finding a way to sell us 'processed food products' that would have otherwise been tossed."

Sorry, I'm all over the place on this issue right now, but humor me for a while as I sort out some of these thoughts.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Hrm...

“This bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wonderous worlds Ive known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.”

-Shel Silverstein.

Oh, where'd I leave my Apple ][e emulator?

I know. I'm a dork. I still think about computer games I played 20 years ago and how I wish I had finished them.

But I've got fond memories of my childhood playing games like this on lazy summer days, up until the afternoon thunderstorm would roll in and I'd have to unplug the computer.