Thing of the Day...Broccoli Extract?

In Bala Cynwyd, healthy gentiles start their day with a cup of Brassica tea fortified with broccoli extract, and maybe a drip of straight of clover honey.

Even Jew Couples must agree, fine restaurants with computer reminder ticket systems may have good tea but the shit they serve does not excite me. Brassica is a name brand tea that mixes green tea with sulforaphane glucosinolate (SGS).

Now there is kryptonite, which kills, and healthy teas which thrill. SGS is thrilling because it's broccoli extract and basically sucks the cancer cells out of our decaying, polluted meat sack, or body. This is natural detox and creates morning moments of clarity.

Everyone's talking about it so don't drink it.

http://www.npicenter.com/anm/templates/newsATemp.aspx?articleid=4792&zoneid=8


Buy it here:

http://www.baltcoffee.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/2_17

Real Place of the Day...Catholic College Classroom?

It dawned on me as I walked into my first class 15 minutes late- maybe I should have shaved and brushed my hair. Technology in Education is my last offical class at this small Catholic College on the fringe of the Philadelphia metro area.

The program is pretty good; kind of a post-bachelor's masters in education program. Great instruction but so much new stuff to get used to and I'm still not used to it since I began this marathon back in '02. Nuns as teachers. Crucifixes in the classrooms. Teacher haircuts. There are teacher haircuts, no idea where they get them.

No big deal, really. I like feeling and looking like a heathen. You must establish it early in order to pull it off. Next week I wear horns.

Thing of the Day...Bad Directions?

I gave a guy bad directions this afternoon. It's been on my mind and I don't think there's anything worse one man can do to another.

I was running down the road and this brother yelled from his car, "Hey, buddy, hate to bother you but if I keep going straight will I hit City Line Avenue?"

I hate being called buddy. And I was running and who asks running guys for directions when you're in your car? So this annoyed me on several levels. I tried to think quickly if going straight would go to City Line Avenue but I couldn't visualize it right away. I blurted out, "Go left!" and kept on jogging.

Then I started to think about what I had done. Left would go north on Levering Mill Road which is nowehere near City Line Avenue and just leads to crappy traffic. Going straight would take him right there in about two miles. Why didn't I just say 'Go straight!" I was really bothered by my choice.

It turns out that passing on correct directions is basic. Ever since thirsty men sought water or robed camel riders sought the bazaar, men who know the way graciously guide their brothers. I owe one to the men, man.

Story of the Day...My Hate?

I really hate when other people are happy. Is that bad?

In my life there are illusions of incompetence, squalls of depression, paths of least resistance, control dramas and brief but cherished moments of clarity.

It's 4 a.m.

Story of the Day...Wawa -v- Sheetz (the quiet gas war)

Younger men and women may consume hot dogs and nachos and hoagies and candy for breakfast. Two places that do this well are Wawa and Sheetz. I've never met either that I did not love. But we always love our most talented kid more. C'mon, we do do, we really do.

Sheetz is better. Everyone is doing it. But wait, they're not. Pittsburghers and yinzers put down french fry filled sandwiches to utter "Whut the hell?" when I ask "Wawa?" is a sophisticated eastern Pennsylvania accent. To Wawa they respond "Sheetz" and what a sweet Sheetz awaits.

Brighter, cheaper, tastier, cleaner, bigger, better, sexier and every -er that makes you smile and not puke.

Wawa, I used to love you but I had to kill you. You are getting dirtier and meaner and saltier.

Sheetz has MTO which basically means that red-shirted, smiling Sheetz-ees will make you anything from scratch. Try the nachos, what the fuck they're insane. I sit in a straight jacket after these nachos, they're really that insane, serious insanity.

Last week after tennis, feeling hot and funky, Wawa had no fake slurpees. The machine was out-of-order.

Out-of-order ain't in the Sheetz-ees vocabulary. That's why Sheetz will take over the streets and Wawa, you better watch your back.

It is interesting to note that a Minneasota forum that tracks gas prices and convenience store current events (there's an organization for everything in America, it's offical) reports that a gas war between Wawa and Sheetz in northern Virginia is driving gas prices down an average of 40 cents. The blurry Pennsylvania line between Sheetz and Wawa superstores may be our petrol salvation.

http://www.mnssa.com/3-99-nl.html

Thing of the Day...Golden Tickets?

Were they really made of gold?

I did like the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie. Granted, it was a little soon to remake it because the Gene Wilder film is so beloved. I liked the Oompa Loompas and the overall feel of the chocolate factory better. The other kids who won the golden tickets weren't as fleshed out as in the old one. But that's enough about that because I don't want to be a movie reviewer because 99% of them are bad and ugly.

It is noteworthy to discuss Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, however, because it was such a powerful book and movie for my generation. Plus we're load with cavities from Willy Wonka candy. No joke.

Cheer up, Charlie, you're a gay horse vet and every little thing's gonna' be alright.

Real Place of the Day...Central America?

Here we go CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement). The House voted 217-215 in favor and Bush is ducking and penning his signature on that thing pretty damn soon.

Mexican workers, tapped after Clinton’s NAFTA, are way, way, way too expensive. The capitalist machine is skillfully targeting even poorer workers to fill sweat shops, glue together sneakers and package toys they won’t ever be able to afford to wrap in colorful paper for their own pequenos on Christmas.

Next is SAFTA, then ChiFTA, and maybe IndiFTA or hopefully AusFTA. But less and less likelihood of a JaFTA because Japan just put a 15% levy on importing U.S. Steel products.

In 1992, USA Today ran a headline saying ‘Japan and U.S.A- Enemies Again.’ I read the paper on a bus in Salzburg sitting next to my 18-year-old Japanese roommate. I was just doing one of those study-abroad programs at the time and was loving the world but not felling particularly patriotic toward the States. The late 80s and early 90s were the “Buy American” era, you remember it. My roomie and I laughed it off and she made vegetable tempura that night which was delicious. Let the big corporations wage their wars and sling their mud, wasn’t gonna’ faze us. I did suffer through quite a shit storm of diarrhea that night, but I’m sure it had nothing to do with the tempura.

Thank Buddha we don’t have to worry about Japan anymore because everything’s made in China now.