Open Thread

My internet range is limited with a few bookmarked sites like Informed Comment for example along with NC and a few others with this site being my main hangout, not that it matters to anyone paying attention, and most no one is.

So an erudite few post their views and insights while some follow along.

I’m chopping parsley, cilantro and garlic at the moment trying to make a pesto while holding on to whatever I think is true. And what do I know?

Just this: nothing is solid fixed or real, so don’t reífy your experience even if your car breaks down in the middle of the road.

Dead skunk in the middle of the road.

What’s that in the road? A head?

Never mind. Love your mother and all sentient beings. Hate is not an option.

Oops, same Johnstone link 2x, no coffee yet this morning.

Real DD link is here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irgXYyhZcAs

Who here remembers Uri Geller? Several decades ago, Uri Geller was a bordeline-famous ” spoon-bender” who claimed and claimed to show that he could bend metal spoons and other things with the power of his mind.

So Johnny Carson invited Geller onto the Tonight Show to bend some spoons and stuff. Carson had worked with The Amazing Randi ahead of that show to learn how to frustrate and abort the various magic tricks which Geller used and would use. Carson did what no journalist or reporter ever bothered to do about the spoonbending claims.

Uri Geller got popular in the 1970s by claiming to have supernatural powers. Johnny Carson invited Geller on his show and worked with James Randi to set up conditions where he couldn’t use any trickery to fake his “powers.” [Reposted to comply with sub rules]
https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopleDieInside/comments/1wxdlx0/uri_geller_got_popular_in_the_1970s_by_claiming/

Uri Geller the spoon bender. Johnny Carson and the late night show. Sure. All down the memory hole along with Tiny Tim and his ukelele along with John Belushi of Saturday Night cocaine fame and that Russian chess champion whose name eludes me. Shit man, I remember but a fraction of what I once knew and it’s still a lot, enough anyway. In the culinary world same thing. I’ve forgotten more than many will ever know. And that’s just truth; there’s no bragging about it. Nobody cares and there’s no reason to. Although I once wished to pass the body of knowledge acquired over a lifetime to a younger generation, it doesn’t matter anymore. Life goes on even as we fade away.
Ciao baby.

There were many Russian chess champions over time. The only name I can remember is Kasparov, and that may be wrong.

As to food-handling knowledge not mattering, the various Indigenous Nations made sure to keep knowledge passing down to the younger generations and over the millenia they built up an ever-growing body of cultural life-living knowledge.

If any one person’s personal knowledge . . . food knowledge , let us say . . . is not passed down to a worthy apprentice, future younger people may be able to recreate for themselves some of that knowledge and then again they may not. If no worthy apprentice or cadre of younger learners can be found, then the knowledge will of course die.

But one wonders if the knowledge-info which can be passed down through and over to the other side of our current Digital Dark Ages will be the most valuable of all, and durable too; having passed through Darwin’s Digital Filter.

Speaking of ” down the memory hole”, here is an old memory from way down in the hole.

For a couple of years or so in the late 1960s, there was a TV SitCom called ” My Mother The Car”. The premise of the show was that some ordinary suburban guy’s dearly departed mother had re-incarnated and come back as a Ford Model A car . . . as I remember. And they talked to eachother through the car radio. What a strange premise, now that I think about it. But I thought nothing of it at the time.

My Mother the Car
https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A2RRNDYoWsRqwwIA0QdDDWVH;_ylc=X1MDMTE5NzgwNDg2NwRfcgMyBGFjdG4DY2xrBGZyMgNwOnMsdjpzZnAsbTpzYSxzYV9tazoyNwRncHJpZANSbWVobVJJNlRjbWJrZXN4Y2RGSFlBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMxBG9yaWdpbgNzZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tBHBvcwMxBHBxc3RyA29sZCBUViBzaG93IG15IG1vdGhlcgRwcXN0cmwDMjEEcXN0cmwDMTcEcXVlcnkDTXklMjBNb3RoZXIlMjB0aGUlMjBDYXIEc2VjA3NlYXJjaARzbGsDYXNzaXN0BHQyA3NlYXJjaAR0NANhc3Npc3QEdDVwb3MDMQR0X3N0bXADMTc5MTI1MzA0NQR1c2VfY2FzZQM-?p=My+Mother+the+Car&fr=sfp&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Asfp%2Cm%3Asa%2Csa_mk%3A27&iscqry=&d=%7B%22dn%22%3A%22yk%22%2C%22subdn%22%3A%22tvseries%22%2C%22ykid%22%3A%22e6e4349b-4183-4f83-8ba2-07c42dd67fce%22%7D&fd=%7B%22subtitle%22%3A%22American+fantasy+sitcom%22%2C%22year%22%3A%221965%22%2C%22genre%22%3A%5B%22Sitcom%22%5D%2C%22tvNetwork%22%3A%5B%22NBC%22%5D%2C%22short_desc%22%3A%22A+man+finds+his+mother+reincarnated+as+the+family+car.%22%7D&mkr=27

Americans did love their cars in those days.

Header: Garden Update and then Farmer’s Market visit

I got my hickory cane corn planted in early July after the Indian corn failure. In mid Sept. some of it started tasseling. In mid-late Sept. some started silking. By now more has tasseled, some more is silking, and a few plants are forming intro-baby ears. I doubt any ears will mature before kill-freeze, but at least the plants have a chance to grow a little before they die.

I have dug up all but one of the potato patches. Not yet dug up is the one based on the potatoes which did sprout but which had only one long sprout per potato and no other sign of any sprouting at all. They have all died back except one lonely plant still green. When some very imminent must-attend-to stuff is done, I can dig those up.

Beyond that, I have one potato plant growing from the very last planted potatoes of all . . . some redskin potatoes I had dug last November and which were still good just this last early August. Still firm, not squeezably rubbery limp, no sprouting. Thats about 8 months in amateur home closet storage without sprouting. And one of them has succeeded to grow and is looking green and okay so far.

Goldenrod has flowered and is fading. It drew many kinds of pollinators, several kinds of paper wasps, some other different wasps of same general size, some smaller wasps, some tiny wasps. Little bumble-looking bees. Other bees. Tiny bees. Conventional flies and a very strange looking fly. One golden rod beetle.

Striking by its absence were any of the shiny blue-black mud-dauber wasps which are constantly flicking their wings even when perched on flowers. This is the first year I have seen zero of those.

Farmers Market . . . one grower was selling some red la soda variety of redskin potatoes. I asked how long they could last in merely amateur closet storage before beginning to sprout and he gave it a month. Another grower with redskin potatoes of specific-variety unknown to me said that his type should hold in storage without any sprouting beginning for 2 months. So for me to have a redskin potato which lasted 8 months without even beginning to sprout, and is then growing successfully when planted, seems very hopeful; especially if it succeeds in producing some potatoes.
When it has totally died and dried out, I will dig it up and see what I have.

Here is a BlackPeopleOfReddit subreddit post called . . . ” I wish “certain” people did the same amount of research as she did ”
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleofReddit/comments/1x11y8s/i_wish_certain_people_did_the_same_amount_of/

The neat thing about the Internet is that “certain” people don’t have to do the same amount of research as the person featured in this post . . . because she has already done it. Now “certain” people just have to watch this post before it disappears behind the “Register For Your Reddit Account On Google” shitwall.

@mago,

Thank you for the kind words and for the encouragement. Sometimes I wonder if I am closer to being merely tolerated rather than appreciated. I do my best. I try to do better than just strictly the most minimal goal of “don’t get myself banned”. But it is hard to get oneself banned here. One has to really work at it here. ( Not like at ‘SOME’ blogs I know . . . )