Foto Friday: back to Nepal 12 September 2008 8:43 am
Posted by Tracy in : tea, potatoes, eggs, nepal, travel, people, pictures, breakfast, restaurants , add a commentI know, you thought I’d forgotten all about the Nepal picture project, and to be honest, for a while there, I thought I’d forgotten all about it, too. But New York’s American Museum of Natural History is food for Tracy nostalgia, and last week Peter and I had a visit from an out-of-town friend who provided me with all the excuse I needed to revisit the dinosaurs of my childhood. Hot diggety have those ever been updated! (Bear with me; I’ll bring this ramble back around to Nepal soon.) Not so very updated but still impressive were all the dioramas, which, as Abi (the aforementioned out-of-town friend) pointed out, are sort of a dying art form but which look very different once you think about all the work someone has to do to create and maintain them. I’d never thought about it that way before, but it made me consider those darkened halls of stuffed and mounted animals in a whole new (if dim) light. The displays of world peoples, however, were still just weird — even weirder now that I’ve seen more of the parts of the world that they purport to represent.
Which brings me to the Hall of Asian Peoples, where I could not find a single reference to Nepal. Lots about India, China, and even Tibet, to the point where I wondered when the displays had been created, and whether Nepal was on some kind of anthropological blacklist then. Next time I go back I’ll try to take notes on the exhibits and try to figure out where they fit on the Tibet vs. China timeline as I know it — they certainly seemed to represent a culture which I’ve learned think of as extremely endangered and better preserved on the Nepali side of the Himalayas. But I digress. The whole “no Nepal in the Hall of Asian Peoples” phenomenon was so weird that it made me want to get back to my long-neglected picture-posting project. So here I go. (more…)
Do me a favor, readers. 4 September 2008 4:52 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, not even vegetarian, history, meat, politics, eating, vegetarian, people , 1 comment so farI need your help.
Together, we can destroy the myth that Hitler was a vegetarian.
Seriously. I know it’s a funny thing to talk about and all — even Eddie Izzard gave it a go in the otherwise entirely brilliant Dress to Kill — but it’s not true. Hitler was no more vegetarian than I am, which is to say he was maybe a picky meat eater, but he definitely ate the flesh of dead animals. There is plenty of documentation of this fact (more on that in a bit). Please, everybody spread this idea far and wide, because I am entirely sick of hearing people snicker about the idea of a genocidal maniac who wouldn’t eat anything that involved killing animals.
I’m bringing this up now because (more…)
(Late) Monkey Monday: many goodbyes edition. 5 August 2008 11:56 pm
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, garden, weird, work, Morning Glory, people, eugene, friends , add a commentI’m posting this super-late on Tuesday, the day of my last Morning Glory paycheck. Last Wednesday was my last day at work, and it was a good one, and I don’t really know what else to say about it. Instead, I will try to write about my time at the café in more general (and even more glowing) terms…. but not today. (more…)
Monkey Monday: random RSS recipes edition 21 July 2008 6:15 am
Posted by Tracy in : meat, random, monkeys, recipes, people, cooking , add a commentI remembered what else I meant to post about on Saturday night! The wonderful randomness that my RSS feeds bring me, let me share them with you!
First, there was Warren Ellis on cooking steak (hint: “Man cook meat with fire.”) That was July 7. A day later, he clarified his position somewhat: (more…)
An open letter to Keith Knight. 25 March 2008 8:25 am
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, food snobbery, fast food, meat, travel, eating, books, people , 2 commentsDear Keef,
First things first: you probably don’t remember me, and that’s okay. I wasn’t expecting to meet you at the 2003 Alternative Press Expo or I might have been more prepared to offer a body part for you to sign. Or maybe I would have been just as starstruck as I was to run into you by surprise, at your table next to Stephen “Bob the Angry Flower” Notley’s. I remember that I totally flushed and couldn’t really make eye contact as I looked through your merch, wishing I had money to burn, since even then (holy cats, five years ago) I had been an admirer of your comics for many years. But I digress.
As a longtime reader of your fantastic strip, The K Chronicles, I thought I knew and loved your way with food. (more…)
