Insane Gardener

To Be Hungry Is To Be Great

2010-04-07T13:31:00.000-07:00

Well, some 25 years after first encountering this William Carlos Williams poem...

To Be Hungry Is To Be Great

The small, yellow grass-onion,
spring’s first green, precursor
to Manhattan’s pavements, when
plucked as it comes, in bunches,
washed, split and fried in
a pan, though inclined to be
a little slimy, if well cooked
and served hot on rye bread
is to beer a perfect appetizer–
and the best part
of it is they grow everywhere.

...I made myself a grass-onion sandwich. Looking fat and ready in the ground, plucked just before cooking, slightly caramelized in olive oil, and slathered on toasted homemade bread, these easy pickin' weeds made the perfect midday meal on a summery spring day. It will surely encourage me to be more diligent in my weeding.

How high's the water, mama?

2010-03-14T09:34:00.001-07:00

The last time our bridge was under water was during Hurricane Floyd, back in the fall of 1999.

Over 4.5" of rain fell quickly yesterday, and plants are not yet at the stage of growth when they would help absorb it. Hence, these scenes. Happy Spring!

The future is Farmville.

2010-02-27T11:14:00.000-08:00

This is a chilling, and unfortunately, a likely accurate video about the future of consumerism. It picks up steam in the last 8 or 9 minutes, and for a short time you think the speaker may end up recoiling at the horror of it all, but alas, he ends with the naive notion that this nightmare world could make us "better" people, and encourages his audience to lead the way.

PC Games - E3 2010 - Guitar Hero 5

78 million people playing Farmville. How many of them actually farm? And is there any correlation with this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/fashion/25Therapy.html?scp=1&sq=motor%20skills%20occupational%20therapy%20children&st=cse