Tea and alchemy

In 2004, I took a trip to Hawaii and purchased a number of loose leaf teas from a Chinese herbalist on Maui. Two of them came in ziploc baggies; one of them a chai spice tea, the other looking suspiciously like a dime bag, except for the words written in marker describing it as "nutritive tea".

Tonight I have brewed the last of my nutritive tea combined with the last of my chai spices in an attempt to finally expurgate the last of this nasty respiratory virus I got a few days ago. I'm probably at about 85% right now after a good bit of rest, so hopefully the magical herbs of Asia will do the trick.

Dr. Sketchy's news story

The Alternative Press was at the Lucky Cat Lounge when I was being sketchy. Apparently my amateurish work made an action shot!

( Check it out, my arm and easel )

Photo by Bernadette Tuazon. Story is here: http://asap.ap.org/stories/1176851.s

There's Shit in your Meat

"In the USDA study 78.6 percent of the ground beef contained microbes that are spread primarily by fecal material. The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey agar, and so on. Behind them lies a simple explanation for why eating a hamburger can now make you seriously ill: There is shit in the meat."

- From Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser


Take note: e. coli has migrated from the enormous shit lagoons of cattle feedlots into the water table. We're talking about contaminating the environment just so you can kill yourself. GET INFORMED. TELL THE GOVERNMENT TO STOP THIS BULLSHIT (literally).