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Oh hello!
So, not gonna lie, very new to the whole house plant business. But now that I have started I am kinda of addicted. They are taking over my house. To business... I bought an Alocasia X from a department store here in Chicago. It was doing ok when i bought it, not the greatest, but not dead. I brought it home and after numerous googles decided to plant it in an equal mixture of Miracle Grow Potting Mix and an orchid bark based mix.
It is juts not doing good at all! The tips of the leaves are turning brown and one leave has a brown spot on it. IT has only put off one new leaf since I have gotten it about 2 months ago. I posted some picture (please excuses the dishes on the back ground =) ). Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated! THANKS!!
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- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Wed, Aug 24, 11 at 22:37
Hello Nanc..Welcome to the world of house plants and GW. Don't know if it's my computer, but the links don't work. Which direction is the window your Alo is in, facing? Your Alocasia really should have been placed in low light the first few days to a week after bringing it home. Make sure the water in your humidity tray isn't being sucked up through drainage holes. Water shouldn't be too high, beyond rocks/stones. About watering. Some Alocasias are big drinkers, but if your house is a/c or c/a, kept on the cool side, mediums should dry between waterings. If kept too wet, in improper conditions, (our climate) can cause root rot. As for leaf growth, Alocasias are slow-growing, especially in our part of the world. As Aug slips into Sept, Oct, etc, growth is even slower. Some bloom in autumn through winter, but foliage slows down and/or stop growing altogether. Wish I could open the links to your pictures. I clicked on all 3, but none worked. Sorry. Toni PS. Mind telling me which store you found your plant? If you'd rather not, I understand. |
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You won't find a lot of fans of Miracle grow (or similar) soil mixes around here, the main reason is because their mixes have a high percentage of peat which can lead to problems by holding too much water around the roots and not let enough air into the soil. Good start by mixing it with orchid bark, You could have gone up to 75% bark. Water it enough so that water runs out of the bottom of the pot and then let it sit until the soil it just starting to dry on top before watering again but don't let the soil get dry enough that it starts to pull away from the sides of the pot or begins to feel crusty when you touch it. These amazonica/"poly" type Alocasias don't usually take well to sun shining directly on them. Bright shade is best like off to the side of a sunny window. They also sometimes go dormant so if the leaves all shrivel up a die the plant may not be dead, just set it aside for a while and keep it just barely damp and it should start to grow after a few weeks to months. |
- Posted by alocasia_nanc 5 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 25, 11 at 11:36
I have been finding the MG is not all it's cracked up to be. I also dislike how all the soil and additives have "plant food" in them. I you were to make a mix I feel like it would have TOO much food. Does this seem right to you? I got my plant at lowes (I work there). And water is not getting sucked up thru the drain holes. I made sure of that! Lol. I am going to try doing the 75% bark and 25% soil of NON MG. is there anything else I should put in my mix. It is in a south facing window now, but I do live in the basement apartment so it's jot getting direct sun. Should I move her? Also, can reuse the bark mix I have now by rinsing it off? Thanks everyone! |
- Posted by alocasia_nanc 5 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 25, 11 at 12:00
ALSO, I think my pot may be too large. It was in a maybe 4 inch pot when I bought it. I repotted it into an 8 Inchon pot. Should I downsize? Would that help? |
- Posted by pirate_girl Zone7 NYC (My Page) on Thu, Aug 25, 11 at 12:31
Sorry but I have to ask, why would you double the pot size? The 2 times I've tried to grow this plant indoors it's gone dormant, which I didn't know might happen & thinking it was dead, I tossed it. That's my lesson in don't buy plants from florists as they only know cut flowers & not living plants. I did return to that florist tho' & give them an earful tho' for my lost $15 --- grrrr. If your plant starts to yellow, it's likely going dormant (if not overwatered). |
- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Thu, Aug 25, 11 at 13:24
Hi, Nancy. Here's a longish Thread on Alocasia Amazonica, with some excellent information: You can certainly rinse the bark and re-use, but it might be messy! ;-)
Josh |
- Posted by alocasia_nanc 5 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 25, 11 at 13:56
Pirate_Girl, She looked pretty Root bound when I bought her so I thought I was Doug good. When I switch the mix I will down size the pot. Thanks again for all teh avowed again everyone! |
- Posted by pirate_girl Zone7 NYC (My Page) on Thu, Aug 25, 11 at 16:25
Don't mean to sound harsh (if I did, I'm sorry). It's just increasing from a 4" pot to 8" pot is double, we often try to size this up a bit more gradually than that. |
- Posted by alocasia_nanc 5 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 25, 11 at 16:30
Oh no, I didn't take it as hash. Lol. I am gonna size down quite a bit. After i repot, I should keep it outta the sun for a week or so yeah? |
Karen, You're not alone, I bet I've tossed out three or four of these plants before I knew they went dormant. A 4" pot is approximately 12-1/2 square inches, an 8 inch pot is approximately 50-1/4 square inches. so it is more than four times as big. Pot diameter is irrelevant anyways. In the right grow mix and proper watering you can put it in as wide of a pot as you want. Depth is an issue if the soil holds too much water. Alocasia grow healthier if their roots are not cramped up in a small pot. You can use mushroom compost rather than potting soil. The manure compost I've gotten for my garden had not been completely composted so I wouldn't want that in my house but I can't make that decision for you but I personally would stick with the mushroom stuff. Keep it out of the sun for good unless it is early morning or late afternoon/evening sun, direct sun in a south window would be too intense. Bright indirect light is best. |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (email@example.com) on Fri, Aug 26, 11 at 17:44
Nance..First, I agree about down-sizing. 4-8" is a big jump. lol. Be careful when using bark. I bought an Alocasia recently, and decided to experiment using bark instead of my regular mix, 'mediums other Alo's are planted in.' Before I knew it, the Alo's leaves,'in bark' started yellowing, then died. I could have done something wrong, but if so, I don't know what it could have been. BTW, I use bark as an additive in other plants, w/o problems, but add other mediums, too. I am one who still uses MG, have been for years, and thankfully, never had problems. BTW, your Alocaia is nice-looking, and very healthy. Good Luck, Toni |
- Posted by alocasia_nanc 5 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 26, 11 at 21:45
things i learned from my Alo... do NOT!!!! skip up 4 inches in pot size!! i repotted her. in a bark, perlite, vermiculite, and soil mix. and spme new pics of my Alo in her new pot... |
- Posted by alocasia_nanc 5 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 26, 11 at 22:00
- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Sat, Aug 27, 11 at 12:42
Very good, Nancy! Toni, yellow leaves sound like either too much moisture or too little fertilizer (or both).
Josh |
- Posted by alocasia_nanc 5 (My Page) on Sat, Aug 27, 11 at 13:42
Thanks Josh! Just a couple more questions if anyone knows that answers... when, how, and what should i fertilize this little gal??? |
- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Sat, Aug 27, 11 at 16:00
After re-potting, keep the mix moist. I helped a buddy re-pot his last summer, and he watered his every day and fertilized every few weeks with some Miracle Grow that he had on hand. During the growth season, I would water and fertilize quite liberally. During the winter, when growth isn't as robust, allow the mix to go longer between waterings.
Josh |
- Posted by alocasia_nanc 5 - chicago (My Page) on Sat, Sep 10, 11 at 19:45
Hey, someone stuck some little green thing in your 'Poly'. . . Nice, it must be happy. |
- Posted by greyandamy SW PA (My Page) on Sat, Sep 17, 11 at 8:59
I too started to scorch mine, it was in a south window about 3 feet back. I read they liked "high light".... whatever that meant. "Bright shade" in winter?? I moved Poly to a corner between a south and west bright window (windows aren't too far apart), will that be enough light? Amy |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sat, Sep 17, 11 at 18:02
HEY Josh..Actually, I discovered MITES!!!! My poor Alocasia is now isolated and being treated. Boohoo. Before discovering Mites, I decied to add a second Alo with the first. The first had five or so leaves, so decided to make it fuller. Alocasia, great looking Alocasia. lol. That's more like it, and see, a baby leaf has made an appearance.. Amy, most likely, your south windows sun was too strong...in summer. Since you're in PA, that same window should be okay during winter. Toni |
- Posted by alocasia_nanc 5 - chicago (My Page) on Sat, Sep 17, 11 at 18:14
updated picture of the new baby =) toni, i had mentioned in another post about a possible sun burn on my alo. here are some pictures of her... |
Amy, they do indeed like high light but not necessarily direct hot sun. My first reaction, in your case, is to ask whether you hardened the plant off? If you just brought it from the store -- especially a BBS or supermarket -- and put it in front of your S window without slowly acclimating it to that light level, then leaf scorch is quite understandable. Typically those types of places keep their plants in lighting that can best be described as abysmal. Going from crappy store lighting to the bright, far more intense light you suddenly provided was "light overload". The plant may have simply needed to be introduced to that brighter light level more gradually so it could have time to adjust. As far as whether that corner is bright enough ... it might be. Time will tell. If nothing else, again assuming this plant is a new acquisition, the light in that corner -- which is almost certain to be an improvement over what it received at the store -- should be a good place for it to begin adjusting to better and brighter light. Toni, I believe you saw my Aloc. in bloom and mine is potted in mainly orchid mix with some soil mixed in as are my 4 baby ones (2/pot). All are happy with the mix. I suspect yours may have gotten either too waterlogged or too dry. I have never allowed mine to dry out. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Alocasia Amazonica
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (email@example.com) on Sun, Sep 18, 11 at 14:08
Paul, I suspect you're right. I repotted three Alocasias in my usual soil mix with added bark. So far, so good. I also have an older Colocasia. It's been in the same potting soil/container for years. I unpotted this summer to find its roots haven't grown much. |
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last month we went to the topeka lawn and garden show, that was nice!! i want to go to a botanical garden and an arboretum. that would be so awesome!!! i'll have to post some of the pics i took on my "site" **grin** LOL those were the one's of the stuff i so wanted!! talla and i talked about some of the water things, and how her fairies would love them. Lord knows, we have enough room, we just need to get a move on it!! LOL ~Medo |
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Armstrong is now the maker of this product. It was made under the Hartco name as Pattern Plus for many years, and the hardening claim was real. I put this floor in the oak species made by Hartco in a restaurant and the owner calls it his ironwood floor. However, I also installed a cherry species floor by Armstrong in a customer's home and I was disappointed by its lack of hardening. It seems that the acrylic impregnation process was either incomplete or defective. It dented real easy and both the homeowner and myself were very disappointed. I would suggest that you get a sample of the walnut flooring you are considering and give it a realtime test; drop objects on it, spill liquids and food stuffs on it, grind dirty shoes on it and do most any other thing to it that the floor might experience after being put in service. That will give you a real good idea what to expect as performance. Ask Armstrong to send you a representative sample or two for your consideration. They might just fulfill your request. Since I was disappointed by the recent cherry install, that is what I would do if a customer wanted the product. |
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I'm not sure you'd see the investment of the extra $$$ frankly. I had a customer who put the cherry in a boutique. Yes, a light commercial situation. Even so, I wasn't that impressed. |
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To those of you out there that read along these lines, to simply the internet space out there, to the energy of the world.. After so long of not keeping up with this page, I want to take just a moment to share how Peace Tree Africa is doing. This is me, this is my focus, this is what I have been called to do. And so here you are, a witness to the roots that I spend most of my free time nourishing.
It's such a time-consuming, learning, fulfilling, lovable process. There is always something to do, but as Will Smith says it, "It takes an obsession about what you're working for to really bring you to success" (by the way, I just discovered a beautiful video that sheds light on his philosophy, and I encourage you to look up Will's Wisdom whenever you return to youtube). We are at the Business Plan phase. In other words, if you thought that form 1023 would break down every aspect of the business, this document demands details broken down from those aspects, and you're asked to consider everything that a potential donor might consider. Milestones and goals. The vision! We have a Vision!
"We envision a sustainable Africa, free of hunger and poverty."
Isn't this wonderful, the fact that I get to put it all out there, the idea that one may find unrealistic, but what we are ultimately striving for?! I feel like a beauty queen behind the scenes, writing out things like that! Yes, behind the scenes, on the ground, getting my hands dirty, with ink for now, LOL... behind chapters that are about to unfold, because I know so-and so do several Cameroonian villages, my parents, the Small Business Development Advisor of Dallas, and Will Smith!
I'm inspired. So often I work my ten hour shifts, miserably, and in between calls I complete a task or two, or I go home at the end of the night and I ask Google to tell me what this business jargon means, and then my mind twists and turns until I figure it out. All this feels good, but when it's validated, and you're sitting there with your 22 page baby, in front of a knowledgeable expert in the field that gives you some hot tips and tells you you're on your way, you feel phenomenal. Like, Okay, I'm getting somewhere!
And you know how the universe sometimes will conspire with you to get what you want? That is happening too, in more ways than one. Some really great fundraiser ideas have been thrown into my lap, which will bring us to the NEXT phase- Funding that tour to Cameroon.
And how I miss it!! I am so emotionally tied to this business, it's ridiculous. The motivational speaker who spoke this morning mentioned the things we hear before we start work every morning. Well, I hear Ernest telling me that this will work because it is God's will, I hear the teachers of CEBEC telling me that they will always pray for me in life, I see Franck's smiling face, I hear gospel music from Sintia's church, and I feel the love and gratitude of the Badzuidjong people, for carrying out the water well project; and I feel a huge responsability to keep on loving this family I've been so lucky to have, and to help them in a huge way.
Ernest e-mailed to let me know that Franck is advancing into the next grade (4ieme) with what's an equivalent to a high "B" !! Proud mother here!!! And I called my good, dear friend Bakari last week. He's saving money for college again this year, working back in Manjo. This makes me a bit sad, as he's such an intelligent kid, who would contrbute so much back to this world if he were only given the opportunity. When I return for business, he is going to be one of my key coordinators to get the shipment together.
When I asked about everyone in my village of Bare, he ofcourse told me that most of them are mad at me, because I haven't called them or returned yet. This is what Cameroonians do, and I love them for it. What's better is, they are very quick to let go of grudges. I know that once I return, with a few gifts ofcourse, everyone in my Cameroonian family will open their arms to me. For now, I work obsessively toward that very vision.


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Georgia says NO to immigrants—Migrant farm workers say NO to Georgia
3 comments:
Now, if the government stops giving welfare checks to able bodied people, then the farmers could find someone to work the fields.
- June 7, 2011 at 6:50 PM
GA has 10% unemployment, probably 600K able bodied workers out there, many college students out for summer, bored prisoners with nothing to do.
many options - June 9, 2011 at 11:41 AM
You don't have to be a democrat to see the big mistake the republicans are making on immigration issues in this nation. On the flip side, the democrats just want the illegals to be legal so they can suck them into the labor unions and get votes for democrat's.
- June 9, 2011 at 5:21 PM


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City Officials, park supporters celebrate repairs to Lily Pond
Repairs cost $50,000
SAN DIEGO - The restoration of Balboa Park's iconic lily pond is a great example of "making lemonade out of lemons," City Council President Todd Gloria said Monday.
The Friends of Balboa Park, city officials and supporters celebrated the completion of repairs to the nearly 100-year-old lily pond between El Prado and the Botanical Building.
The long rectangular pool was damaged last summer when a nighttime water fight that attracted hundreds of people got out of control. The event was staged at a large fountain, but people trampled landscaping and piping when they ran to the lily pond to fill up their water gear.
The $50,000 in repairs included rebuilding 27 boxes that house lily pads and installing new pipes, according to Friends of Balboa Park spokeswoman Jennifer Jenkins. The project's cost was covered through donations of cash and services, she said.
"I'm so happy to see all the work that was done, not only to repair the damage, but to maintain and upgrade the lily pond," Gloria said. "This is a classic example of making lemonade out of lemons."
The restoration of the lily pond took place during the winter because the lilies are dormant. New varieties of the flower were added to the pond, according to Jenkins.
She said the city's Parks and Recreation Department also took the opportunity to conduct 25-year maintenance work, including relining the rim with new plaster, checking the concrete floor for cracks and replacing pipes
that weren't damaged in the water fight.
The water fight created an uproar that even reached into the mayoral campaign when then-candidate Bob Filner accused opponent Carl DeMaio's partner, San Diego Gay and Lesbian News publisher Jonathan Hale, of promoting the event in advance.
An online article about upcoming weekend happenings included a couple of paragraphs about the water fight.
The Filner campaign sent the media a statement that condemned Hale's "criminal actions," prompting DeMaio to describe the winning candidate's remarks as "mean-spirited divisiveness."
On Monday, Filner said he still wanted to see someone held accountable.
"I still hope that we can bring some of those people to justice," Filner said. He added he would like those people to do community service at Balboa Park.
Local residents are just glad to see the park return to its original state.
"I've been coming here for the last 43 years to admire this pond and it means a great deal to me," said East Village resident, El Dejae.
Ann Wilson, a board member with Friends of Balboa Park, said the koi fish will be transferred back to the pond in the near future. Right now, the fish are being baby-sat by a local company. The lilies are expected to bloom once again in a few months.


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June 16, 2009, 7:30 AM
By Colby Buzzell
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The Tenderloin is the pot of shit at the end of the rainbow, and most of the people who live here have pretty much lived their entire lives in a recession. If you want to know where the TL is, go to the California sex-offender Web site, pull up San Francisco, and it's that area of the city where there's a huge concentration of those blue squares all stacked right on top of one another, that's where I live. It's the part of town that most tourist guides tell you not to go to.
Not long ago, on her deathbed, my mother told my sister that when she died she wanted her to look out for my father make sure he's okay, hang out with him, go on walks with him, eat dinner with him, etc. I'm assuming my mom didn't ask me to do this because she knew that I could barely look out for myself, let alone someone else. So when she passed away, without even hesitating for a split second, my sister dropped everything quit her job, broke up with her boyfriend, packed her bags, and left Orange County to move back to the Bay Area to be near our father.
She needed work, and as she was looking around San Francisco, I asked if there were jobs out there, and she thought about that for a second, and then she told me that there were some, not a lot, and that offices were taking three jobs, rolling them into one, and reducing the salary. "They're all paying a ridiculously low amount of money," she said. "Like, ten or fifteen dollars an hour for administrative work."
I asked her if that was enough to live on, and felt stupid when she laughed out loud. She's in property management for rentals, and she says the company is doing well because "people are losing their homes and they have to rent a house everyone needs somewhere to live."
Which reminded me, I was planning on being out of town for a while in the near future, and during this time my apartment would be vacant. So I offered her the keys to my place, told her she could easily walk to work, no prob, and because she's family: rent free.
"Hell, no."
"Why not?"
"You live in the fucking ghetto."
I respectfully disagree.
I wake up late one morning to my friend Cesar calling me, telling me that he is outside my apartment, and for me to come out so we can go grab breakfast.
Cesar used to work at a popular bar here called Whiskey Thieves, an establishment I used to go to nightly partly because the bar allowed smoking. When I bitched to my father, a nonsmoker, how the city no longer allowed smoking in my favorite bar, he muttered, "San Francisco liberals."
Anyway, Cesar was just as popular as Whiskey Thieves. It's impossible to walk around with him here in the TL without somebody giving him a hug, honking their car horn and waving at him as they drive by, or shaking his hand on the street. It's like walking around with a celebrity everybody here seems to know him, which is understandable, since he's a very likable guy and being a hustling bartender, he always says hello back, asks what they're up to, and invites them to his new bar. "Yo, I'm working tonight, you should stop by." A good bartender works even when he's not working.
But being a career bartender isn't really what Cesar wants to do. His dream is to one day open up a business here in the TL, be his own boss, and the vision that he has right now is of an old-school barbershop, with the red-and-white pole spinning outside the door, where men show up to talk about the weather and just hang out reading the newspaper or shooting the shit with the barber, who's wearing a white apron and sweeping the floor with a wooden broom. Sometimes when he's walking around the neighborhood, between greeting people he'll keep his eyes open for locations. But first he has to get through barber school, which doesn't cost a little money, and then save up on the side for the shop.
On our way over to a nearby diner for some cheap breakfast, I ask him how business is. "Not good," he says. "I think people are drinking at home nowadays instead of dumping a bunch of cash at the bar."
And he's noticed that when people order drinks now, they order them all at once and tip a dollar a round. "So typically when they buy a beer, they tip you a dollar or two. Now they're going to buy three beers at once and give you one dollar, you know? I'm still getting tipped, but I'm not getting tipped accordingly." We slip into a booth and order coffees. I look at Cesar, and he looks beat, maybe even depressed. I'm not used to seeing him this way. He studies the menu, folds it, puts it on the table.
"I'm lucky if I make a hundred a shift now," he says. "And that sucks, because for the first time ever I'm delinquent on my bills, I'm constantly getting overdraft fees, and I'm just playing catch-up now because people aren't drinking as much. Everybody's scared now. I'm able to make rent, but I'm always stressing: Am I going to make rent? And this is the first time in my life when I haven't paid my bills on time."
Cesar's looking more defeated by the minute. "I'm at the point where I don't care. I don't care if I'm late anymore. You'll get your money when you get it you know? I'll go three months without paying the electricity until I get that final notice."
After breakfast we decide to grab some midafternoon drinks, and so we walk over to the Geary Club, a total dive where the front door has four nonsmoking stickers on it, each in a different language English, Mexican, Vietnamese, and Chinese. Once seated, I ask for an ashtray, which is made out of tinfoil, and light up a smoke. We start off by ordering two Coronas and two shots of Maker's. "You know when I knew things had changed?" Cesar asks me. "A couple months ago, for the first time in my life I saw a black guy and a white guy standing with a bunch of Mexicans looking for work! And that's when I knew that shit had changed."
Just then Adam shows up. Adam's an artist who moved here from southern California. While attending the Academy of Art, he also works at a local gallery and tends bar where Cesar works to help make ends meet.
Andy Warhol once said that an artist is someone who produces things that people don't need. And even when the economy is good, it's hard for an artist, but right now, Adam says, "people just aren't buying art. It's a luxury, something to decorate your house with."
He works at a gallery in kind of a shitty part of the TL, where they show lowbrow outsider-art kind of stuff, which attracts a lot of Juxtapoz subscribers and hipsters who like to rebel by drinking Pabst in an alley. The joint is across the street from a seedy strip club that advertises $500 amateur nights every Sunday. Liquor stores and massage parlors fill out the neighborhood, and the whole thing just screams edgy and cool to those kinds of people.
Adam graduates from the Academy of Art in a couple weeks, and his student loans for that are six digits, and when I ask him if he's worried about that, he says, "I don't have a check coming in every week, so I just tell them, I don't have the money, I'm broke, I'm getting a bachelor's in fine arts I can't pay you right now, you know?"
We're joined by another friend. This guy lives in one of the many residential hotels, and his room is small. After a night at the bar, we drop by his place. He locks the door, and as we take a seat at the folding table in the middle of the room, he pulls out a glass pipe that's wrapped in toilet paper. "What the hell are you doing?" I ask.
"If you're going to write about the Tenderloin, you're going to have to smoke some crack," he says.
"No way," I say I see what that drug does to the people here in the TL on a daily basis. I've seen people here crawling on all fours on the concrete sidewalk looking for a microscopic speck of rock that somebody may have accidentally dropped. I've seen people completely lose their mind on that drug. And then again he says, "How are you going to truly write about the TL if you don't smoke crack?"
No. That's retarded. That's like saying... shit. I had several shots of whiskey at the bar, and I think it's the whiskey that allows me to do absolutely nothing as I watch him put a couple of rocks into the pipe, and absolutely nothing as he hands it to me and says, "You truly enjoy smoking crack the most when you're going through pain." I think of my beloved mother, who recently passed away, and then how she would roar back from the dead and violently kick my ass if she knew what I was about to do. He holds the lighter as he tells me to hold the pipe at a 45 degree angle, bring it down slowly, hold it in for three seconds, and slowly exhale.
What the fuck am I doing? Have I gone completely mad?
"What do you think?" he asks.
I exhale. "Not bad," I say.
I feel numb, mellow, and no pain whatsoever, and I can see why people are hooked on this shit, because after the high, which doesn't last long, you go from feeling good directly to Give me more. I'm writing down the way crack feels and my new insight into why half the TL is addicted to it when he tells me to put my pen down, which I do, and he grabs it and my journal and writes, "To feel like they are loved."
I thank him for the crack and leave.
On my way home, a police car pulls up alongside of me as I am walking. I look over and nod, as if to say, "Evening, gentlemen..." They are stone-faced, and of course my dumb ass is not only high on crack but I'm drinking a beer. I quickly set the open container on the ground as they continue to drive and stare, long and hard. I quickly tell them that I live right around the corner and had a really rough night and I am just going to go home and sleep it off. They stare at me for a couple more seconds, not saying a word, and then they slowly pull away. At that, I go home, turn the computer on, take an online "Which Sex and the City Character Are You?" quiz, find out that I am Miranda, which is kind of a shock, and go to sleep.
I was surprised that I could sleep so easily on crack. I thought for sure I'd be up all night cleaning the apartment, but instead I drifted away immediately, sleeping the sleep of the stupid.
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28 December 2012 To Protect A Panther Posted by: Elizabeth Fleming | 3 comments | Share: Elizabeth Fleming, Florida Representative With only an estimated 100 to 160 individuals remaining in the wild, the Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi) is one of the most endangered mammals in the United States, and the last surviving puma subspecies in the eastern U.S. Though its historic range spanned eight southeastern states, today the panther is restricted to less than 5 percent of its original habitat, remaining as a single breeding population in south Florida. Animals like the Florida panther depend on the state's public lands for survival. While no one knows how many panthers once roamed the southeastern states, one estimate suggests 1,360 in Florida alone. Once European settlers arrived, clear-cutting, building and other human activities began to destroy and degrade panther habitat and break it up into disconnected fragments. Misconceptions and fear led to widespread persecution — the state of Florida even authorized a $5 bounty for panther scalps in 1887 — and panthers were practically hunted out of existence by the turn of the century. Not until 1950 did Florida end the bounty and begin to look toward the protection of the species. When the Endangered Species Act (ESA) became law in 1973, the Florida panther was one of the first species listed. The population at that time was only an estimated 12 to 20 individuals. Though it is still endangered today, in the decades since its listing, great strides have been made to halt the panther's downward spiral towards extinction. In 1981, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued the first Florida Panther Recovery Plan to prevent the species' extinction and to re-establish viable populations of the Florida panther in its former range. This spurred several years of progress for the Floria panther, in which it was designated the official state animal, and the Florida state legislature approved new programs to help fund panther conservation and research. The 1980s also saw speed limits reduced to 45 mph at night on certain key roads to protect panthers from being hit by speeding vehicles, and in the 1990s, the Florida Department of Transportation included wildlife underpasses and fencing along more than 40 miles of roadway. Since then, additional slow-speed zones have been designated, more crossings have been installed, and others are planned to protect panthers on dangerous roads. Slow zones help increase awareness of panthers on roads. The listing under the ESA also prompted federal and state agencies to purchase additional land to give panthers more room to roam. Today, Florida panthers can travel across several protected regions including Big Cypress National Preserve, Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve, Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, Picayune Strand State Forest, Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest and Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed, and the Spirit of the Wild and Dinner Island Ranch Wildlife Management Areas. This year saw the inclusion of American Prime as protected panther habitat — a critical piece of undeveloped land along the Caloosahatchee River where panthers have crossed to expand their range northward. While most Florida panthers reside south of Lake Okeechobee, in recent years several males have dispersed northward into central and northeast Florida, and one even traveled back into its historic range in northwest Georgia by using this connection to move out of south Florida. With such a small population to begin with and serious problems arising due to inbreeding, the FWS also had to look at how to increase the panthers' numbers before there simply weren't enough left in the wild to save. In fact, the IUCN Captive Breeding Specialist Group predicted that without some kind of intervention, the Florida panther population would decline by six to 10 percent each year, eventually reaching extinction. The FWS and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission made the bold decision to temporarily introduce eight female pumas from Texas — animals that Florida panthers used to breed with before they became isolated in south Florida — into the Florida panther population in 1995. A recent University of Florida study concluded that without the new genetic material that the Texas pumas provided, the Florida panther population would most likely have fallen below 10 panthers by 2010. Instead, thanks to a genetic restoration program that would not have been possible without the authority of the Endangered Species Act, a much larger, healthier panther population exists today. Despite being rescued from certain extinction, the Florida panther continues to face numerous threats due to an increasing human population and development in panther habitat. Collisions with vehicles take a terrible toll on panthers — 17 have been killed so far in 2012. And while the greatest threats to the panthers' survival are destruction, degradation and fragmentation of habitat — something we combat by advocating for additional habitat to be protected and restored — one of the greatest impediments to panther recovery is the lack of human tolerance for living with a large predator. That's why we have established a multifaceted outreach program that works to counter misinformation about panthers and provide people with practical solutions for living with this beautiful, wild cat so that all residents of Florida, feline and otherwise, can safely coexist. 3 Responses to "To Protect A Panther" candace wheeler December 28th, 2012 im only eleven and i live in florida but i am visiting my grama .i see my friends with panther skins in there houses and i think they need to stop hunting them. Reply david December 31st, 2012 candace, I agree with you 100% No one should have wild animal skins in their house. Fortunately, these are probably from Western Cougars or South American Pumas, and not Florida Panthers. Still, there are too few big cats left in the wild and they should not be hunted. daniella January 15th, 2013 It is nice to SAVE panthers Reply Post Your Comment Click here to cancel reply. 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Review: 'Parental Guidance' tolerable if uninspired
By Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter January 9, 2013 3:01PM
DIRECTOR: Andy Fickman
STARS: Billy Crystal, Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei
GENRE: Comedy
RATED: PG for some rude humor
RUNNING TIME: 1 hour and 44 minutes
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The schmaltz is piled on thick, and if the comedy were any broader it would require an IMAX screen.
But still there's something touching about how hard Billy Crystal and Bette Midler hustle to peddle the threadbare material that makes "Parental Guidance" a perfectly tolerable, if uninspired, moviegoing experience.
As "the other grandparents" who are given a golden opportunity to bond with their seldom-seen grandchildren, Billy and Bette's characters work double time.
The actors are well aware that it's not just the juvenile characters they have to entertain, but also the paying audiences who could count on both of them for a good laugh back in the day.
That they manage to pull their weight even when the achingly formulaic plotting threatens to drag them under is a testament to their "let's put on a show" spirit.
The end result should appeal to audiences including bonding grandparents and grandkids looking for a little undemanding cheer.
Crystal is Artie Decker, who has just lost his longtime gig as "De Voice of the Fresno Grizzlies" when the minor league baseball team decided to upgrade the outfit with the sort of talent that knows its way around a Facebook page or a Twitter account.
Already despondent, he's not exactly jumping up and down over the news that he and his wife, Diane Decker (Midler), have been recruited to baby-sit their daughter Alice Simmons' (Marisa Tomei) three kids when she and her tech-geek husband, Phil Simmons (Tom Everett Scott) get a last-minute opportunity to have some out-of-town alone time.
As expected, uptight Alice's no-sugar-allowed helicopter parenting clashes mightily with Artie and Diane's old-school approach to child rearing, not to mention the fact that Phil has programmed his smart home to be intuitive within an inch of its inhabitants' lives.
Also as expected are the resulting gags built around technologically challenged Artie.
Fortunately, old pro Crystal comes armed with an arsenal of rim-shot-ready rejoinders that hit the mark more than they miss.
While his character has been given more of an emotional arc than Midler's (unsurprising since the genesis of "Parental Guidance" came from a newly minted grandparenting experience in producer Crystal's life), it's still nice to see Midler strutting her stuff in her first on-screen comedy role in years.
And Tomei is always a welcome presence even when she's saddled with what's essentially a one-note character for most of the film.
It would have been nice if director Andy Fickman ("Race to Witch Mountain") and husband-and-wife screenwriters Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse ("Surf's Up") could have mined some fresher stuff from this frequently played ball game.
But at least when you have Crystal calling the shots, you can still count on the occasional changeup.
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Wet 'n' Wild • Bronzer in Goddess • Bronzers
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Average Rating. | 4.1 |
Would buy this product again. | 71% |
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jenny90 on 2/20/2013 5:07:00 AM more reviews by jenny90
Age: 19-24 Skin: Oily, Olive, Warm Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
It's okay, it's not amazing or a must-have in my opinion. Yes, it's cheap and pigmented but I find that because it has quite a pink/red undertone it just doesn't flatter my skin tone. I find that because it is so pigmented that if you're not careful it can apply patchy to the skin which is a bit of a pain to blend out. If you're fair skinned it might be too dark for you. In my opinion I think it's best suited for medium skin tones. I don't reach for it often and I can't say I recommend it. For the price, if you're curious it's not much of a finiancial risk to try.
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*TOP REVIEWER* BizzyBunny on 3/10/2012 5:14:00 PM more reviews by BizzyBunny
Age: 36-43 Skin: Combination Hair: Blond Eyes: Hazel
What a surprise. A great Matte Bronzer. I use a little because Im fair. But its highly pigmented. Its a bit of a pain to blend esp in use in the eye area. But for the price, its a great bronzer.
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billa2010 on 2/24/2012 8:11:00 PM more reviews by billa2010
Age: 19-24 Skin: Sensitive, Tan, Cool Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Brown
LOVE THIS BRONZER!!! This is a completely matte bronzer which is hard enough to find at the drugstore however this bronzer also has more a red undertone compared to the yellow undertone that is more commonly found. Absolutely love the way this looks with my winter skin for an everyday look. I bought this mid-July and have been using it pretty regularly and i've only just hit pan! Plus its cheap!! Definite repurchase :)
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miamu on 2/5/2012 7:21:00 PM more reviews by miamu
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Olive, Warm Hair: Black, Straight, Fine Eyes: Brown
I'm not too sure about this product, I think it's too light on my skin actually. That might be because i'm very tan, but it looks good as a very natural blush on my skin tone. It does however last very long. I would recommend this to a friend.
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*TOP REVIEWER* melinda_ on 12/18/2011 12:48:00 AM more reviews by melinda_
Age: 36-43 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Warm Hair: Other, Fine Eyes: Blue
I bought both 'Goddess' and 'Princess' so I'm going to compare the two.
For reference, I am blonde with light-medium skin tone. Tan don't burn and even when pale am darker than your pale girl. but I'm still not medium skinned naturally. I have warm undertones to my skin.
I like this, but this is more of a blush than 'Princess.' Princess is more of a bronzer imo. Goddess has a rose undertone, but it's subtle.
Both colors are gorgeous and I'll probably never wear blush again, because these are like blush but better. They give you a glow that blush doesn't deliver.
I am in love with both products. HG.
@$2,99 a piece, just get both. If you don't like one you can return it -- you can even afford to NOT return it.
I just hope these don't break me out. I'll update if that happens.
I want to thank the MUA ladies for turning me onto wet n wild products, because I always passed them by, thinking it was crap. Oh, so far from crap!
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pinkbonanza on 8/3/2011 2:12:00 PM more reviews by pinkbonanza
Age: 30-35 Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
This is a nice bronzer for the price.
The color was a little too muddy/orange for my taste.
Very SLIGHT shimmer/sheen.
Strong cheap/powdery makeup scent.
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melikemochi on 7/27/2011 6:41:00 PM more reviews by melikemochi
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Medium Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
I love it! I buy the majority of my makeup from department stores but lately I've been trying to save so I picked this up at walmart. I LOVE IT!
Price: Even without coupons it's only $3, compared to my MAC Bronze bronzer which is probably more like $27 (can't remember exact price). I could buy 9 of these for the price of one MAC!
Color: The color looks intimidating in the pan. Just as intimidating as Mac Blunt. It looks almost too red. More red and it looks darker than the other color they had called Princess. I bought it anyways. Looks great on NC30 skin. Unlike Blunt, it goes on light and you can build to make it darker. It doesnt go on nearly as intense as it looks. As someone else mentioned, it looks very similar to Bare Essentials Warmth in my opinion.
Packaging: Two words: "It sucks." Unlike the sleek chic compacts of department store cosmetics that make me feel pretty just taking it out in pubic or just sitting on my dresser, I wouldn't want to show anyone this. It looks and feels cheap. And opening was a pain!! It was tape sealed in 3 places and it was challenging trying to open. I used my nails, scissors, blade. I gave up and let my sister work miracles in opening it. Nevertheless, if youre looking for something cheap that looks great and you dont care about packaging! This is your product!
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barigirl on 7/19/2011 11:48:00 AM more reviews by barigirl
Age: 36-43 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Black, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
Great product
Great color
Not too much shine
Just enough healthy glow
Brush sucks so bad! Use your own fluffy powder brush you won't be sorry!
Go easy, a little goes a long way! Have had to rub some off because I went too heavy.
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*TOP REVIEWER* DollParts7 on 7/13/2011 10:41:00 AM more reviews by DollParts7
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool Hair: Brown, Curly, Medium Eyes: Green
Well, lets start off with saying that I'm practically deathly pale. Bones are more tan than I am. The grim reaper is envious of my coloring, and the dead mistake me as one of their own.
So bronzers, and me, don't really mix. However, in my quest to further my beauty horizons, I decided to try it out, for contouring my face.
I went to the brand I trust the most in the drugstore, WnW, and saw two bronzers that INSTANTLY caught my eye. Goddess and Princess. I'd assume Princess would be the lighter of the two. (and hey, lighter bronzers are better for lighter people, at least...that's what I figured)
I looked at the pictures, and it showed that Princess WAS supposed to be lighter than Goddess.
But the pictures lie! They LIE.
Goddess was clearly lighter, and less bronzy/orangy/oompa loompa (compared to what I'm supposed to be using.
So I picked it up. I'll say that works decent for contour, it's a pretty color, with a good mill, and not too much shimmer (which is always a no-no for my very oily skin).
I don't reach for it often, but it's usable for me, and that's saying more than any other bronzer I've ever tried. (Boy, have I had some "Did you get mud on your face?" moments)
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Dannieee on 6/25/2011 7:31:00 PM more reviews by Dannieee
Age: 19-24 Skin: Acne-prone, Dark, Warm Hair: Brown, Kinky, Coarse Eyes: Brown
I use this bronzer over my foundation and it works beautifully. It is one shade off to being close to my skin colour, so it looks like I have nothing on... But I still have this nice warm undertone.
Great price, def. repurchase and just amazing overall!
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Moore points out that today, 400 Americans have the same wealth as half of all Americans combined. That's 155 million Americans combined.
"And I can see why. For us to admit that we have let a small group of men abscond with and hoard the bulk of the wealth that runs our economy, would mean that we'd have to accept the humiliating acknowledgment that we have indeed surrendered our precious Democracy to the moneyed elite. Wall Street, the banks and the Fortune 500 now run this Republic -- and, until this past month, the rest of us have felt completely helpless, unable to find a way to do anything about it."
Watch his video for more on what Moore has to say about America's wealth distribution:
Moore has a mere high school degree, but he did learn in economics that money doesn't grow on trees.
"It grows when we make things. It grows when we have good jobs with good wages that we use to buy the things we need and thus create more jobs. It grows when we provide an outstanding educational system that then grows a new generation of inventors, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists and thinkers who come up with the next great idea for the planet. And that new idea creates new jobs and that creates revenue for the state."


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Three months ago, Bill Gross thought he knew himself. Thought he knew where his life was headed. Thought he knew how people saw him. He knew that each morning when he woke up he would feed the cats. He knew that he'd eat some eggs and kiss his sleeping wife good-bye. He knew he'd get in his convertible and drive over to the office using his knees to steer the wheel, leaving his hands free to munch on the Special K he'd packed for the ride. He knew he'd sit down at his desk at and work in total silence. He knew that at 9AM PST, he'd sweat things out on the recumbent bike. He knew he'd avoid speaking to employees, or asking how their kids were doing.
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Brad Curry was named chief public safety officer for the Illinois Department of Corrections on February 8, 2013. In his new position, he will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the department's administration and implementation of Public Act 97-0697, which created Supplemental Sentence Credit. Curry is a 23-year veteran of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC).
Curry joined IDOC as a correctional officer in 1989 at Illinois River Correctional Center (IRCC). In 1993, Curry was named Correctional Officer of the Year at IRCC. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1994 and later became chief investigator there in 1997. Curry was named Employee Volunteer of the Year at IRCC in 1997 for his participation on the Cuba, Ill., Fire Protection District.
In 1999, he became institutional intelligence coordinator at IRCC and in 2000, Curry was promoted to correctional captain. Later that year, he was appointed IDOC District 2 intelligence coordinator. In 2001, Curry was promoted as IDOC's first Northern Region intelligence coordinator and law enforcement liaison and was charged with supervising IDOC's Northern District intelligence coordinators.
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Bill Clinton offers encouraging words to Lil Wayne
By Chris Richards
It's been a week of former presidents sending messages to superstar rappers. Earlier today, Click Track had news that in his forthcoming autobiography, George W. Bush cites criticisms from Kanye West as the low point of his presidency.
Now, over on BlogPost, we have audio of Bill Clinton offering words of encouragement to Lil Wayne as the superstar rapper prepares for release from Rikers Island.
Maybe it's time for Jimmy Carter to break his silence on why he thinks Dr. Dre has taken so long to release "Detox."
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The Vermont Resource Sharing Network, which is coordinated by the Department of Libraries, is the mechanism that provides the means for libraries of all types and sizes to share library materials through Interlibrary Loan. To be successful and fair, we view Interlibrary Loan as a partnership in which participants are willing to lend materials as well as borrow materials for their patrons.
A reminder: School libraries are required to submit cards or MARC records to DOL's Technical Services Unit at least once per school year (this year: between November 1, 2011 and October 31, 2012). New union catalog (VUC) participants must apply before October 31, 2012 or wait until the following school year to join.
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School Libraries that want to apply for a VUC symbol (the first step in the resource sharing process) or who have any questions about the VUC, may contact the DOL Technical Services Unit: firstname.lastname@example.com / (802) 828-2740.
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School libraries that make the yearly contribution of cards to the Vermont Union Catalog may participate in the Interlibrary Loan network and VALS (Vermont Automated Libraries System). Locations for requested materials (specific author/title or subject requests) will be supplied if an item is unavailable from the Midstate Library Service Center or the Vermont State Library. Libraries can then contact owning libraries at these other locations.
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Not that artifice and manipulation are out of vogue. Oh, no. As author William Poundstone explains in his recent book Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It), the design of restaurant menus has become a science and, increasingly, an industry. It turns out that the presentation of an item on a menu, its positioning, and especially the way in which its cost is communicated, can dramatically affect the amount of money a diner will pay for it. Many menus, for instance, now feature showstopping and exorbitant items, known in the trade as "anchors," whose function is not so much to taste good, or even to be bought, as to make neighboring items look relatively affordable. Giant platters of fruits de mer make for good anchors, apparently.
This sort of trick has been embraced with particular gusto, as one might expect, by the lower end of the restaurant world, those multinational fast-food and casual-dining chains with razor-thin margins and customer bases in the hundreds of millions. But it's "across the board" these days, Poundstone tells me. "Because this is how the human mind works. Whether you're eating at McDonald's or a really upscale restaurant, the way you make decisions is the same." From a psychological standpoint, he says, the prix fixe menu is just a combo meal in a rented tux.
Danny Meyer, the New York City restaurant legend behind Union Square Café, Shake Shack, and Maialino, among many others, says the key to a great menu is to make "wording, pricing, font style, and layout all consistent with the experience you are already feeling." It should be the focal point of a restaurant's décor and ambience, he says, where, through meticulous design, the various aspects of a restaurant's identity coalesce into a single "big, fat promise," a big, fat promise that, correctly executed, speaks to needs far deeper than those of the taste buds and the stomach.
By this point I have spoken to Kimball Chen in New York, a lifelong menu obsessive and collector. Chen caught the menu bug as a very young man, cruising on the long-gone and impossibly glamorous S.S. France, and pursued it as an increasingly-less-young man over a career at the pinnacle of the global energy sector, a position that entailed eating in more, better, and farther-flung restaurants than anyone. However, even he can't put his finger on what makes menus so elusively wonderful. "You've asked a very large question and you want me to give a brief answer," he observes. "I can't do that."
Nor does he. Pausing regularly for breath, Chen uses a full half-hour to isolate and consider various aspects of menu awesomeness, from their potential as fodder for "sociographic trend analysis" to the more sensual, elemental joys of acid-free, heavy laid paper. Clearly, for Chen, the thrill of menus is bound up to some degree with the thrill of travel; menus function, for him, almost as maps, repositories of unique data as to Where One Is Now. But just as clearly, what is really being informed and enriched is the larger journey of a man through life. "Food," Chen reflects rather wistfully at one stage, "doesn't last."
But menus do, and I think that's it. Even before the food has been served, even before it has been cooked, the menu represents the solid and objectively observable reality of an experience that will, that must by definition, be private and ephemeral—and in that we surely find a deep reassurance. A good menu, by its nature, is pleasure incarnate. It stands as proof, or at least a defiant declaration, that while dreams, beauty, and experience are fleeting and pointless to try and hold on to, on their ethereal passage through this brutal world they can at least leave some physical trace. And no wonder, then, that the menu inspires us to indecision, that something inside us doesn't want to make a choice. The menu is a list of dreams, and there is no more deadly natural predator for dreams than the awful human impulse to try and make them come true.
And so we resist that impulse. We hold on to the menu, and to those dreams, those glittering possibilities, for as long as we can. It's not just, as Clark Wolf puts it, that "menus save you having to talk to the person you're with"—though certainly, yes, that can be a factor. It's more that in our refusal to make a choice, we are in fact choosing.
We choose it all.