Part of an email dialogue with Earthbound Farms about their organic mini-peeled carrots:
EF: Earthbound Farm mini peeled carrots are cut from larger carrots, then peeled down to mini peeled carrot size.
Cracklaugh: But HOW is it done, by machine?
EF: Yes, by machine.
(Cracklaugh sighs, having pictured several hundred devoted folks carefully cutting and peeling carrots. Cracklaugh knows this is silly but the image persisted for too long.)
Gypsy Boots is at least 90.
From the Gypsy Boots website: �He is the ORIGINAL Nature Boy and "The Original Muscle Beach" with the original nature boy! He is a visitor to many celebrity homes in CA bringing them fruits, nuts, good health and energy bars and products. Many of the celebrities are his best friends, especially Michael Douglas!�
According to Googlism, cracklaugh is a mix of, and �cracklaugh is working on the page and will join us for this agenda item tomorrow.
Reverend Larry Love will have been dead for two years come this October. I still have not been able to properly write about this.
Missed opp:
Father-daughter adventure travel anthology seeks personal narratives 800-7,500 words. Deadline: August 1.
I got this far:
I was lost again, surrounded by piles of Turkishish carpets. A lurid rabbit and skulking coyote flickered nearby. It was impossible to know what time it was, how long I had been out here. The sun was not the sun but a series of long tubes of fluorescence---
"Dad?" I called into the buzzing morning. "Dad?"
"I'm right here," he answered. "In the next aisle."
In the Saturday morning trips of my youth with my Dad, our first leg was Lechmere where I watched cartoons on 25 screens across mounds of carpets. Then, we headed to the cafeteria for a quick bite of English muffins with grape jelly washed down with Coke. Back out into the world briefly before we touched down at a lumber yard and/or hardware store. I fell in love with dowels at eight, hinges at nine...
Island Hopping
Children's Island in July. Winter Island and Plum Island in August (for my birthday). Castle Island several years ago...(more to come)
