German Passive Home

At about 8:20pm my rice had just started, the beans and spices were also just starting up, at 8:30 I turned off all the light, fired up a couple candles, then started the bath water.  Candle light check of the food, still long way to go, water in the tub is hot hot hot, the minerals I put in the tub are now permeating the air of my apt.  I ease into the water, blow out the candle, and enjoy an long soak in the darkness.  That was the nicest thing I have done for myself in a long time.  I liked the idea of participating in Earth Hour, linking up with others in the world by action, as passive as that action was.  In the tub I did have lots of thoughts about the single life I have been living, you think about a lot during a dark dark bath.  But I came to this feeling that I should be sharing that moment with someone, not just the bath part, but the global action, the household move that was busted.  Dry off, stir the beans, rice is done, only 10 more minutes of the darkness.. and now i’m over it, I want to turn the tv one, sit down and have my dinner.  I wait, eat by candlelight, and enjoy.  Once the hour was up, and the TV was back on, I realized that I hadn’t missed anything, and that the TV should be off more.  Lets just think about that, think about a moment of dark realization.  Wait, I think the tournament games are on today, oh well.  I like to think that the planet was a little darker, or less carbon emitting for that hour, and it was good to be a part of that.  Now to get the green jobs for the hood idea I have in my head out of my head.

P90X sounds hard, I think i’ll start with P14C…. until I feel ready. What if my muscles are already confused? This last sentence has been inspired by Bill Murray playing Hercules on SNL.
Check it sometime.

Couple things,

My friend Mark Baldwin has the funniest name ever for his fantasy hoop team, I won’t dwell on this league for long, I”m in 4th place of 6 teams… not so hot.  But his team is called The Fastest Dribblers.  I’m actually laughing right now over those words.

Blackhawks… or as I like to call them, the Hawks.  Playoffs are near, and they proved an important point with last nights win over the Coyotes, good.  There was a bit of a slide since the Olympic break, and well… fuck that noise.  On top of the lame defensive play, Seabrook got knocked out on his feet, a game after Fraser got his ribs broken by Alex Ovechkin.  Tough times indeed.  Check out both hits.

The Bulls are just about out of the playoff race, they need for the Toronto Raptors to totally choke up, which they should.  Go Derek Roses, I mean… Bulls.

NCAA Tournament… not so into it, but I really enjoyed Kansas going down the way they did.  I might start watching if these scrub teams like Norther Iowa, Cornell, Saint Mary’s, and whomever else there is left to take out the top ranked teams.   I”m going with Kansas State to win it all, I guess.

Illinois Men’s team… well, NIT.. and well…. I hope they win it for sure.  It would be a nice ending to a lame ass year.  The words “wait until next year” are actually really ringing true with this team.  Top 5 recruiting for next season, and the really nice fella’s they have should add up to a serious final four type team.  I”m thinking Brandon Paul will really fall into the famed Kendall Gill realm, and Demitri McCamy will for sure be a possibly better Deron Williams.  Just talk though.

Dwight Gooden, your breakin’ my heart.  Again…

Just got to get these things off my chest, or shoulders, or lower back… wherever it is that I”m carrying these thoughts.

Rashida Jones is my celeb crush, Rashida… really?  why haven’t you called me?  It’s ok that your dad might not like me because of my non smooth soul sensibilities, but I think we could make this work.   Just think about it.

I loved the show Nip Tuck, mostly because i’m a giant perve.  What a slutty show.  So it ended, I won’t ruin the ending or anything, but really, a happy ending?

Star Trek episode… ( i don’t know the episode number, i’m not a fucking dork trekkie.  But I do know the title of the episode, Plato’s Stepchildren.  And it is a classic one, Spock, Bones, and Kirk are stuck on a planet where the local food has given these pretty normal type folks super Telekinetic Powers, you know this one, Spock is made to dance and sing, laugh and cry, and eventually get his kiss on with with a hot enterprise nurse.  These things are not the way of the Vulcan (whoa, I am a dork trekkie)  I believe the first inter race kiss, Uhura and Kirk… big time.  Nothing urgent here, just funny tv zone type actions.

What is up with the term Master Chief in the Navy.  Black folks don’t get down with shit that has the word Master in it.  This would include the golf tournament called….. The Masters.  Who wants to go to some place that might have a gathering of masters.  Fuck that old south shit.

youneedcollege.com, don’t go to this site, it’s stupid.   But pay some attention to the almost awesome commercial that plays for this site, it features a very dope new jack type sing song that I just can’t get enough of.  So unexpectedly nice.  “I went on the in ter net”

check it.

which cracked my ass up.  I love the the folks in the big house speak like normal people.  I’m a big time curse worder, and I like to also make up words like worder, you can have it.  Worder!  Worder uP!  So yeah, this Health Care Reform Bill that just got signed into law is a big fucking deal.  In the words of my friend Dylan and Jay Z…. “on the the next one”.

fucking cools right?

These bags/planters are the shit, fully all natural and modular.  Freestanding all by their lonesome or grouped up like a bed.  French company doing good things.  100% recyclable!   Make the garden wherever you need it.

I love that this kid is rocking this message, long overdue, and it really works because the wording is nice, and beats are smoothly rugged.  Smoothly rugged, that is just funny to me.  Been on a break, and back in full effect, much like a Mantronix song.  This might be posted in political blather, but there is no blather about this.

start up time.

This is about it.  Grown Kids Radio A nice mix featuring a nice Natural Self chunk of tunes and small interview.  It was the soundtrack for my stretch session today, which included the 7 stances of Choy Li Fut.  My legs are jello at the moment.  Time to wake with the sun folks, time to create and control your happiness inputs, turn em up.  Uhmm  Guda.

Race st, just east of damen.. couple blocks in.  This mural and space is on the west side of an old school or academy of some kind.  Wish I had the loot to rock this spot, bet a few good peeps could.  Community garden style.  The mural is pretty damn special as well.  There is a larger dirt/grass area to the west of shown area.  So… who does this?  The Jameson Group is selling the building, which is pretty dope.  There should be, and maybe we can get going, some open space flex lease kind of thing.  Cool breeze among the lavender and sedums.

This came to me when the Dutch company that made them, shipped them to Sprout Home with the wrong wiring, Euro… For whatever reason they never offered separate wiring for the North American Continent, I found this in the basement. Box all dusty.  Little single bulb light fixtures are not hard to find.  Niceness above my kitchen sink.  Stem Lamp be the title of the lamp, the box long gone, along with the name of the makers.  It’s like a trippy plastic lace swim cap on some nice flowers.