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(From Functional Ambivalent via kentuckyshade.)
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Vegan Lunch Box Fare: A Screenplay
FADE IN
The scene: an elementary school lunchroom.
TYLER (opening lunch box):
Oh man my mom is the best — ham and cheese and a bag of Lays! And a pudding! Awesome!
MANDY (extracting food from a brown paper bag):
Alright — peanut butter and jelly, nacho cheese Doritos, and some Oreos! I love it when my dad packs my lunch!
TYLER (turning to ZAK, who sits staring at his opened lunch box, looking dejected):
What weird-ass stuff did your mom pack for you today, Zak?
ZAK (shaking head, sighing):
Oh, you know. The same old vegan crap. Yesterday it was quinoa amaranth timbale. On Monday it was ‘ham’ roll-ups with a pumpkin carob chip muffin. Today it looks like a Tennessee corn pone muffin. Pure torture. Every day.
MANDY (laughing):
Vegans are funny.
FADE OUT
ROLL CREDITS
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Lighted Slippers
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Lee LeFever’s TwinF
Social design consultant Lee LeFever, whose site, Commoncraft, I enjoy (and who, I recently discovered, in a small world moment, has a good friend from my adopted hometown of Beaufort, SC), has just announced that he’ll be spending all of 2006 traveling around the world with his wife, Sachi. They leave their Seattle home in December.
To compile travel tips from friends and the public at large — as well as to document their travels from the road — they’ve launched a site called The World is Not Flat (no relation to the similarly-named Tom Friedman book). Lee gave me a sneak peek at the site and I submitted a pean to traveling in Vietnam.
Check out TwinF and, if you’re so inclined, post a recommendation or two. I think this’ll be an intersting experiment in grassroots travel advice and Web-based communications during their sojourn.
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The Killing Fields Cafe
PHNOM PENH – A new Cambodian cafe is offering diners a slice of life under the Khmer Rouge, with a menu featuring rice-water and leaves, and waitresses dressed in the black fatigues worn by Pol Pot’s ultra-Maoist guerrillas.
Newly opened across the road from Phnom Penh’s notorious Tuol Sleng “S-21” Khmer Rouge interrogation and torture center, the cafe is meant to remind Cambodians of the 1975-1979 genocide in which an estimated 1.7 million people died.
But the set “theme menu” of salted rice-water, followed by corn mixed with water and leaves, and dove eggs and tea at $6 a time is proving too much to swallow for many visitors.
(Via BoingBoing.)
UPDATE: Apparently the joint has been closed down by the government for operating without a license.
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If I Were Free Later This Month…
…I would totally go to the Arirang games in North Korea.
American tourists will have a rare opportunity this month to visit North Korea’s capital and see a mass sports festival. North Korea will allow United States passport holders to enter on visas from either Oct. 8 to 12 or Oct. 15 to 18 to go to the Arirang 2005 festival. Travelers will have to fly from Beijing to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, on the country’s airline, Air Koryo, and then will be able to attend the games and see other parts of the country.
(Via Gridskipper.)
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Typhoon Longwang
The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) suggested yesterday that people in Taiwan come up with alternative recreational programs if they had mapped out outdoor plans for the weekend.
CWB officials said Typhoon Longwang, the 19th-named storm of the western Pacific typhoon season, has been heading west toward Taiwan from the east, is expected to bring heavy rains to the island tomorrow and Sunday if it keeps the current course.
With maximum wind speeds increasing to 221 kilometers per hour, Typhoon Longwang was located at around 1,250 kilometers east of Taiwan while it was gathering strength on the way headed for Taiwan and China.
The center of Longwang (King Dragon), named after the god of water and rain in Chinese mythology, was about 873 km (543 miles) east-southeast of Naha on Japan’s Okinawa island chain at 9 a.m. local time Thursday, the Pacific regional Joint Typhoon Warning Center said, in the latest advisory on its Web site.
(Emphasis mine. I’m trying to suppress my snickering here…)
Don’t miss John Perry Barlow’s “The Pursuit of Emptiness.”
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This Sounds Absolutely Horrible
WaPo:
Unless you can afford a first-class seat on an airplane, you’re stuck in steerage — a cargo area where solo travelers have little say about the person who will become their seat neighbor — also known as the person you plan to claw your way through when this thing ditches in open water.
Now, a Web business, http://www.airtroductions.com, is attempting to ameliorate the undesirable seat-neighbor problem.
The AirTroductions tagline is “There’s Something in the Air.” I’ll say — I think it’s called desperation.
A bad date is one thing. A bad date while you’re strapped into a chair in a metal tube hurtling through the sky at 30,000 feet is quite another.
(Via Gridskipper.)
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Baseball: Comin’ Down to the Wire
I haven’t talked about baseball in these parts for a long time. Mostly because — and I wish I could explain why — I’m not as enthralled by my team, the Braves, as I once was. Perhaps it’s my proximity to RFK and the Nationals. The Braves are predictably and monotonously good-but-not-great once again this season; I’m resigned to the fact that they’ll disappoint, like they always do, this post-season. Why get excited?
At any rate, Mike W., a tried-and-true Red Sox fan, has been giving me a hard time for not mentioning how close the playoff races are in both divisions. In the AL, only the Angels have clinched; they’ll likely play the ChiSox. Then it’s looking like the Indians would play either the Yanks or the BoSox — but really, it’s anyone’s game, what with things knotted up with just five games to play.
Over on the NL side, the Braves and the Cardinals have clinched playoff spots, and Atlanta will probably play Houston, with the Padres squaring off against the Cards.
So there you have it. My reluctant and (if I may say so myself) rather uninspired baseball post. Sorry. I’ll try to kick-start my enthusiasm in the coming weeks.