Asthetic - Blog Posts
Went mushroom hunting and New Hampshire and was not disappointed
Edible chanterelles, and a yellow Amanita! Wow
Just reread the Picture of Dorian Gray. Cool story behind it, he was bffs with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They had lunch together and a friend told them both to submit a story and they both had bangers.
Going to a party where an art ho does ketamine with an ex-nfl player next to an autistic racist who won’t shut up about the moon landing is not fascism, it’s just a good party; and fiction that is insufficiently progressive is still fiction, and should be judged on literary merit—it’s not “blah blah blah fascist influence
-Jordan Castro
South doing better than the west coast best coast at being libbberallllll
(Joking clearly)
Amazing map
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.
When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.
My mind is made up there’s going to be trouble. -Ginsberg
here’s all
these Millbrae and San Carlos neat-necktied producers and
commuters of America and Steel civilization rushing by with San
Francisco Chronicles and green Call-Bulletins not even enough
time to be disdainful, they’ve got to catch 130, 132, 134, 136 all
the way up to 146 till the time of evening supper in homes of the
railroad earth when high in the sky the magic stars ride above
the following hotshot freight trains--it’s all in California, it’s all a
sea, I swim out of it in afternoons of sun hot meditation in my
jeans with head on handkerchief on brakeman’s lantern or (if not
working) on book, I look up at blue sky of perfect lostpurity and
feel the warp of wood of old America beneath me - Ole jack
TWO KINGS
The introduction of new ingredients from the Americas, such as tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers, had a gradual impact on Italian cuisine over time.
Polenta, made from grains like spelt, rye, barley, and millet, was a staple in Italian cuisine since ancient times, often associated with the diet of the poor.
Legumes and nuts, like beans and chestnuts, were commonly used alongside grains to make bread, polenta, or soup.
Maize (corn) eventually replaced other grains as the main ingredient in polenta.
This movie is 30 percent color pallet 70 percent biggest ad campaign in 10 years.
Was it good? Haven’t seen it yet
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
Terence McKenna
I literally love that pork fat was sacred to Hestia. Goddess of Workin' the Grill, Goddess of Throwin' Some Honey Mustard On that Bad Buoy, Goddess of Autism Be Damned.
It was not at all by chance that Christianity, which grew out of Mediterranean culture, had adopted as its own alimentary symbols bread, wine, and oil, of the Greco-Roman tradition. (The first two became Eucharistic symbols and the third an instrument of sacramental anointing.) - Albert Sonenfeld
Old Books look so cool
de Flers, Robert. Ilsée, Princesse de Tripoli. Illus. Alphonse Mucha, limited ed. Paris: Léon Gruel, 1897. source: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA (not on view)
Invasive Ice plants from Australia. California also has problems with eucalyptus trees from the same damn place. Filled with flammable oils… not only is it invasive it increases fire risk.
Took these in Big Sur California.
Here is what iNaturalist has to say:
This is rad, its funny how they note it as a weed, something that grows in undesirable places.
Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/miniatures-from-a-12th-century-medical-and-herbal-collection
The Latin at the bottom reads: “Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing.”
