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Sunday, November 20th, 2005
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8:23 pm - omfg...its been a million years!
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| Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
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2:20 am
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I like this quote, from the New York Times, an article about chef tattoos *which i will be getting sometime within the next year* the hilighted parts are my favourite.
"Every profession has its rituals and idioms, but there is something especially tribal about cooking. Chefs spend years developing their craft, working nights and holidays in the celebrated pressure of a restaurant just so that a stranger may enjoy a passing moment of pleasure. The devotion is beautiful -- and a little lunatic.
Naturally, cooking ranks with the Navy and the yakuza as one of the great tattooed vocations, though the images sometimes differ. The most committed chefs are known to ink tools and ingredients onto their bodies -- a sign that they're in it for more than just the endless desserts. Not that chefs aren't already marked by their trade. Look at their hands, and you'll see cuts, calluses, scars; look at their arms, and you'll see burn marks from reaching into an oven in a busy kitchen. "
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| Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
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2:05 am
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ok pistons i forgive you for now
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| Monday, June 20th, 2005
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12:16 am
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good job pistons...way to fuck up.
current mood:  annoyed
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| Monday, June 13th, 2005
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4:44 pm
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| Monday, February 21st, 2005
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12:50 am
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| Saturday, February 5th, 2005
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1:36 am
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i've created a new lj for myself ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) xchefxjenx
its going to be completely devoted to my food obsession, so nutmegiv will still be my primary account...but feel free to add the new one to your friends list if you'd like to read about cooking, recipes, restaurants, food travels, photos, ect.
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| Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
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12:45 am
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FRIENDS ONLY
COMMENT AND BE ADDED
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| Sunday, February 22nd, 2004
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4:35 am
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OPINION: Gay couples help all find civil rights
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
February 20, 2004, Detroit Free Press
It's a little known fact that Martin Luther King didn't really lead the March on Washington.
What actually happened is that the marchers, a quarter-million strong, grew impatient waiting for the event to begin and stepped off the curb ahead of schedule. When they found out what had happened, King and other march "leaders" had to scramble to catch up.
Forty-one years later, that vignette from another era offers an irresistible analogy to frame what has been happening these last few days in San Francisco. Public opinion seesaws between tolerance and intolerance, courts and legislatures debate civil union and marriage and abruptly, thousands of gay and lesbian couples decide to stop waiting for other people's decisions.
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom makes the quixotic decision to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and suddenly gay men and lesbians are rushing as fast as planes, trains and Nikes will carry them, to the city where Tony Bennett left his heart. Critics say the mayor has acted in defiance of state law, but Newsom calls same-sex marriage "inevitable."
In the long term, he might well be right. In the short term, it's a dicier question. The issue is being fought in the courts even as we speak. Gay marriage may move forward to legality, may move backward to prohibition; it remains to be seen.
The one thing that seems beyond debate is that the issue is indeed moving.
There is something uplifting in the manner of that movement. It comes not at the behest of some charismatic national leader or the bidding of some strident national organization. People are moving, rather, two by two, moving upon decisions made at dinner tables and in front of televisions, moving upon a conviction that now is the time.
When you get past selective application of biblical injunctions and pious invocations of moral concern, that intolerance usually boils down to this curious bit of reasoning: Discrimination against gays ought to be allowed because, unlike skin color and culture, homosexuality is something people "choose" and therefore, can un-choose.
So, critics say, society ought not be required to extend civil rights protections to gay people. Rather, gay people ought to be required to change.
The most absurd of the many absurd things about that argument is this: It asks us to believe a man might have his choice of a sexuality that is accepted and celebrated and one that will leave him open to ridicule, estrangement, physical abuse, job and housing discrimination, and the loss of basic legal protections... and he would take the second one.
If that's not the dumbest thing I've ever heard, it's definitely in the top 10.
Granted, science has yet to figure out what causes homosexuality.
But ultimately, it doesn't really matter, does it? The people who have been flocking to Mayor Newsom's city did not decide to be gay. Anyone who is watching them with that thought in mind is missing the point.
What they have decided is that they are human beings worthy of human dignity. What they have decided is that they are tired of waiting for people to get that.
What they have decided is that it's time to step off the curb.
LEONARD PITTS JR. appears most Wednesdays and Fridays in the Free Press.
current mood:  thoughtful
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3:53 am
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anxious