captain lug adjoin

 "Accidents should stop being seen as something that is separate from the world and instead be 

   accepted as a part of the world and hence on equal footing with perfection."

Paul Virilio 

Crazy books dept.  Wish I would have had this 20 years ago.

So yesterday I finally found a little hoard of Blood Oranges tucked away in a basket at the most expensive gourmet food shop (and my last resort after searching FIVE other stores) in these parts.  Ya see, I invited 4 people to a dinner party for tonight but alas and alak one of the guys is terribly allergic to dogs.  My dogs are  nonallergenic and non shed, but the guy doesn't want to come because he sneezed at a Labradoodle who was supposed to be non allergenic.  I told him that dog must have gotten the Labra part as dominant, skipped the Doodle part.

I suggested that we go out, then I suggested we eat outdoors since evenings are lovely 

here now and my orchids are starting to re-bloom, bless their gorgeous hearts.

(but the leaves still look like hell).

ANYWAY, the problem was resolved by changing the dinner to their house, so I am taking some salads and my now-famous addicting Meyer Lemon ice cream which has taken me two days with having to make 2 batches and waiting for the container to freeze twice.  And the salad I wanted to make is fennel and blood oranges with slices of Pecorino and a few pomegranate seeds on top.  I panicked when I couldn't get the oranges so hauled home a whole bag of beautiful heirloom tomatoes as backup, so now will make up a quick Cabrese salad too since I made a jar of pesto the other day And 'my' dinner party has grown from six to ten because they asked a few other people.  

inappropriate doorknobs, the trigger unlocks it.

like shootiing fish in a barrel:

Singapore-based artist Keng Lye creates near life-like sculptures of animals relying on little but paint, resin and a phenomenal sense of perspective. Lye slowly fills bowls, buckets, and boxes with alternating layers of acrylic paint and resin, creating aquatic animal life that looks so real it could almost pass for a photograph.  He even makes the fish seem to protrude through the water's surface!  

 Those pesky Japanese are at it again, this time they are stuffing dogs into pantyhose and snapping their pictures to humiliate them.  This pair must have been the biggest they have in Japan to fit over all this fur!

Shopping Alert:  Speaking of 'snapping', apparently there is a new smart phone camera app that sends a picture and then zap-  removes it in ten seconds.  So, I said to my friend what on earth for?  Why bother?  She sort of rolled her eyes at my unsophisticated dismissal and said it would be good to take pictures of your dinner, but started laughing.  OR you can take pictures of your naked body parts and send them along without leaving a trail or having them picked up by the 'wrong' people!  I won't be looking for it to add to my collection.  It will put the guy out of work who adds all the pixels to the celeb photos that make it out 'mistakenly'  Yeah right.  

Early book illustration I may have to adopt as a banner!  Oh my, when on earth will I get to that?