Too much caffeine IS possible

Have you ever wondered how much caffeine it would take to off yourself? The authors of this website have:



http://www.energyfiend.com/

What a Waste of Oxygen

Destroy yourself, loser, but why did you have to do this to your pets?

http://perezhilton.com/?p=4223

(of course it's true if its in the gossip rags)

So how killer does this sound?

http://www.herbsvodka.com

Separated at Birth?

This just in:

I was riding the green line (B) line from Government Center today when it stopped not once, but TWICE for about 3 minutes or so, because it was AHEAD OF SCHEDULE! I shared a rare, brief laugh with my fellow T-riders after asking, "Wait, the green line has a schedule?"

You are a true (or honorary) Bostonian if you can appreciate the irony here...

what's wrong with people?

In my graduate school class today we were studying the Boston school desegregation case(Morgan v. Hennigan, 1974). Yeah, busing may not have been the best decision on the part of the judge (W. Arthur Garrity) to solve the problem of school inequality and segregation, but it's no excuse for the embarrasingly racist behavior of Boston citizens. I mean REALLY! Last time I checked, everyone's blood ran red...

El Jaleo, John Singer Sargent, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum


This is currently my favorite painting. I dropped in to see it last Wednesday and it was as intense as I remembered it. This huge oil painting is at the end of a darkly lit mock cloister on the first floor of the museum which is decorated with cathedral tracery pieces and glazed blue and gold tiles. I had been thinking about this painting a lot after seeing a copy on the outside of a tapas restaurant in Brookline, MA:





I can't quite put my finger on why this painting has been on my mind. Maybe it's because I've been thinking more about becoming better-versed in Spanish and traveling to places like Argentina and Spain. Or perhaps it's just that Sargent has done such an amazing job capturing the passion, emotion and mystery behind flamenco. Maybe still, it's just an amazing painting that draws out the dramatic interplay of darkenss and light. Whatever it is, it has my wheels turning...

4 more 411: http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/El_Jaleo.htm

Note to self:

Bitter and sweet are just two sides of the same coin. As a former professional cook, this has special meaning; to balance flavors out, you may need a little sweetness to balance out the bitterness or mellowness to balance out harshness. The result is a harmonious whole that hits all the right notes. What works with cooking food also works in our every day lives. We take the good with the bad, the pretty with the ugly and whatever else is thrown at us and, hopefully make a harmonious whole. This blog's purpose is to remind myself (and, perhaps, others) of that fact.