2 slices white bread, crusts removed
4 large ripe tomatoes, peeled
1 bell pepper
1/2 cucumber
1/2 onion
2 cloves garlic
1/3 cup olive oil
2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground cumin
3 Tbsp cider vinegar
2 cups water
Soak the bread in the water while you prepare stuff. I have a food
processor, so I put veggies, bread, and olive oil into it in batches and
dump into a large bowl, then add the rest of the water and spices to the
bowl and stir. Mix the stuff together, (all the water). Chill it for
awhile. (once I forgot to add the salt and it tasted terrible). If you
don't have a processor or blender, just chop stuff really fine and use a
garlic press and mush up the bread. Sometimes I process some of this and
save some veggies out and just dice them and add for texture. Other things
I've added (but not put in the food processor) that are really good: kidney
beans or black beans and corn.
posted by geoff on 5/08/2004 12:09:13 PM
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so a few nights ago, michael had a few beers and started reading old material he had written for various crimethinc. publications. it was, at the least, an interesting new perspective on the often-tired crimethinc. debate having come from someone who was heavily involved in doing things under that mantle and believing in the prevailing message of emotion and experience driving action rather than didactics or intellectualised rhethoric. of course his writings where hyperbolic and cheesy and a bit adolescent from our perspectives now, but they seemed honest and heartfealt. one of the pieces talked about replacing notions of history (wars, leaders, politics) with the history of our daily lives (relationships, community, crushes, shared experience) and though i'm not sure if i would politicize this idea to such an extent, this sort of history is very profound and important to be celebrated. these daily histories, of shared stories and memories are the things that hold us together, that bind us to people and places, that dictate our decisions and aspirations.
i have been increasingly interested in graffitti projects lately having been introduced to ryan's friend nathan who is a big grafitti kid. having very little artistic skill for either traditional tagging or stenciling and feeling that wall space in any given place seems already too saturated with this stuff, i want to do something a little different. i like the idea of small graffiti pieces that inhabit a town and that people can stumble upon, be intrigued, and then look for as they move around their town, thus perhaps changing their relationship with the geography of the place that they live. this idea of childhood mystery and redefining relationships with towns/city/neighborhoods is really important to me. the idea of changing one's relationship with the place where one lives comes from when i was a teenager and skateboarded a great deal. my perception of my town became very different when i started looking at it in terms of skate spots and i think this caused me to have a much closer, fonder, and intimate relationship with the town where i lived. i started noticing things that i had missed before, i started exploring places i had never been before, and when i found places that i liked, i found comfort in the familiarity of creating routes between these places. if i could, through some sort of grafitti project, create this experience for others in some small way, i think that it would be great.
the town where i grew up in, having been at one time the frontier of colonial america and a wartime capital, is steeped in history and also covered with historical markers - blue and yellow metal signs describing the significance of a building, or a neighborhood. sometimes i thought these signs were superfluous, sometimes they were interesting, but in any case, they were noticeable and memorable. going back to the idea of everyday history, i think it would be neat to create "historical markers" where people document places that hold significant historical value in their lives - a favorite seceret spot, the place of a first kiss, the site of an epic schoolyard brawl, an adolescent drinking spot. one example that i think would be really awesome comes from a story told to me by my friend who is a lifelong bloomingtonian. overweight as a child, she frequented the city pool and was taunted and called "shamu" by kids there. a marker near the pool telling this story and talking about those feelings and her current perspective on them seems like something that i would find very interesting if i stumbled upon it. i'm sure that many residents, both longstanding and recent have similar stories that they connect strongly to places.
stories could be collected and through wheatpasting (or maybe using some kind of resin/epoxy to make it more permanent), writing in concrete, spray paint, and paint markers, "historical markers" could be put up all over town making for an exciting addition to the town's culture.
though this project could be initially handled by only a few people, collecting stories and creating the markers, its public nature has the opportunity to expand the project because random individuals, seeing the markers, may compelled to go out and create their own markers. similarly, i think the culture of the town is such that people from older generations or more conservative backgrounds could come to see the markers as something interesting and valuable and not as mere vandalism. the project could be even become legitimized thus allowing for much more diverse participation.
posted by geoff on 5/07/2004 12:10:10 PM
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i thought this might be useful for tree branch removal if it comes to climbing up the tree.
http://www.greatoutdoors.com/published/climb/howtos/makingyourownharness/
posted by geoff on 5/07/2004 11:38:05 AM
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Jobs I Applied For
Bloomingfoods (dishwasher @ deli east side)
Encore Cafe (server)
Kiva Networking (Client Support Representative)
I got a call back about this one. Chris Dickens @ 337.5070 #219 (W) or 322.3600 (M)
Bikesmith's (not really hiring but accepting applications)
Bicycle Garage (not really hiring but accepting applications)
Library (Page, Elletesville)
Grazie (Dishwasher)
Scotty's Brewhouse (Kitchen)
Shoe store in mall
Hot Topic
Pacific Sunwear
Jobs I could apply for
The IU Smoking Survey is hiring Research Assistants to track & contact study participants. Qualifications: excellent telephone skills, basic computer skills, attention to detail, & ability to work as part of a team. 10 to 20 hours/week; evenings and weekends. Send resume & 2 references to IU Smoking Survey, 1101 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47405; jtmacy@indiana.edu.
Deliver legal doc?s PT to individuals in Monroe County. Must be avail for am/pm rush jobs, be reliable, have a fax & cell ph. Earn $75+/- per wk. 866-221-8508 x 11
Bloomington City Jobs
Jobs in the Paper
School District Jobs
Library Jobs
Kiva.net
Indiana University
posted by geoff on 5/05/2004 04:42:57 PM
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add the line
'1=Standard' in the '[servers]' section
posted by geoff on 5/05/2004 10:29:07 AM
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http://www.geocities.com/majortaylorvelodrome/index.html
posted by geoff on 5/04/2004 06:14:20 PM
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michael said to check out this CMS: Drupal.
posted by geoff on 5/03/2004 12:05:55 PM
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