http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/dining/25taco.ht...

The popularity of Kogi Korean BBQ-To-Go is an example of the emerging firepower of Los Angeles’s Korean food purveyors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovAcEBF5cUQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWyJJQbFago

"who are our enemies: who are our friends?"

america your head's too big, because america, your belly is too big. and i love you, i just wish you'd stay where you belong

in america, the land of the free, they said, and of opportunity, in a just and a truthful way.
but where the president, is never black, female or gay, and until that day,
you've got nothing to say to me, to help me believe

in america, it brought you the hamburger. well america you know where, you can
shove your hamburger. and don't you wonder, why in estonia they say, hey you, you big fat pig, you fat pig, you fat pig

steely blue eyes with no love in them, scan the world,
and a humourless smile, with no warmth within, greets the world.
and i, i have got nothing, to offer you
no-no-no-no-no, just this heart deep and true, which you say you don't need

see with your eyes, touch with your hands, please, hear through your ears, know in your soul, please. for haven't you me with you now? and i love you, i love you, i love you. and i love you, i love you, i love you.

- sean patrick morrissey

you and i are victims of a love
that lost a lot in the translation
when i think of all the time that i spent
sitting on the edge of your bed in anticipation
of you giving in and us living in sin
a hot day, the smell of hairspray
and the sound of a shower running softly
it's things like this that remind me of how i felt
the first time you came back for coffee
the way you took it amazed me
walking in the park, kissing in the dark
and my head against your pillow
late at night a lover sings
adam and eve are finding out all about love
i say adam and eve are finding out all about love
there is no real substitute
for a ball struck squarely and firmly
and you're the kind of girl who wants to
open up the bottle of pop
too early in the journey
our love went flat just like that
it doesn't matter the colour of the car
but what goes on beneath the bonnet
is there a flag that flies above your heart
and is my name writ there upon it
wedding cake and toothache
equals love and pain
walking in the park, kissing on the carpet
and your tights around your ankles
late at night a lover thinks of these things
adam and eve are finding out all about love
i say adam and eve are finding out all about love
adam and eve are finding out all about
adam and eve are finding out all about love
teresa and steve are finding out all about love

billy bragg

i was told that it was best to document dreams.  enclosed is a dream log:

april 21, 2008: approximately 4 AM
it was a strange dream, like many dreams are.  i dreamt of a resident assistant from college, drea wise.  she was driving a small, blue coup with license plate that had her name on it.  she noticed i was walking.  walking down a street i grew up on, ash street in flossmoor.  as i observed this, omnisciently, i was completely baffled because drea was not from flossmor (nor homewood).  nonetheless, she asked where i was going and if i needed a ride.  i told her i was going to work, but did not need  a ride.  i could not understand why i was going to my dry cleaners i worked during high school, since i was at my current age (and should be working at american cancer society).  after that point drea drove away, the dream faded and i woke up.

may 2, 2008: approximately 6 AM
bizarre dream this morning:  i dreamt this girl at work was bitching-out at me for closing an office door.  she was saying how it was wrong of me to close the door, that it was some sort of fire code violation.  simply bizarre bitchings from this girl four years younger than me.  there was a point of her bitchery, i felt disgusted with myself and ashamed of my petty behaviour (typical of my hyper-sensitive ways).  which is ironic, because her bitchings  never made sense, nor were they logical to be accepted by any rational being.

september 8, 2008: approximately 6 AM
it has been a while since i had dreamt something substantially frightening.  like usual, the scene was a familiar yet unfamiliar place.  it appeared to have a hyde park feeling, but it also had a simple generic landscape.  a town so easily named "home town".  this dream captured my constant fear of hidden agendas, the gnawing sensation that someone is doing something behind my back.  in this dream, i was brought to a strange tavern/cafe and was confronted with the actual truth.  the truth that the one being i was starting to love and trust was betraying me.  my heart shook from disappointment and emptiness as this person finally approached me and disclosed their hidden agenda to me (taking money i loaned and leaving with two other friends to mexico; or some generic fantasy escape, that most people dream in not dealing with "life" and it's mundane living).  i woke up lying next to the being i am starting to adore, with fearful empty baffleness.  yet, the only reaction was for me to hold him tight, with all my might.

Your Cheatin' Heart: It's Genetic
Randolph Schmid, Associated Press

Sept. 2, 2008 -- Swedish researchers said Tuesday what women have suspected all along: that marital woes can often be attributed to men's genetic makeup, according to a study linking a common male gene to relationship problems.

The gene variant, which is present in four of 10 Swedish men, can explain why some men are more prone to stormy relationships and bond less to their wives or girlfriends, a team of researchers at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute said.

"There are, of course, many reasons why a person might have relationship problems, but this is the first time that a specific gene variant has been associated with how men bond to their partners," Hasse Walum, one of the researchers, said in a statement.

The team found that men who carry one or two copies of a variant of the gene often behave differently in relationships than men who lack the gene variant, called allele 334.

"The incidence of allele 334 was statistically linked to how strong a bond a man felt he had with his partner," the statement said.

Men who had two copies of allele 334 were twice as likely to have had a marital or relationship crisis in the past year than those who lacked the gene variant, it said.

Their wives or girlfriends also noticed the difference.

"Women married to men who carry one or two copies of allele 334 were, on average, less satisfied with their relationship than women married to men who didn't carry this allele," Walum said.

He stressed however that the effect of the genetic variation was relatively modest and could not be used to predict with any real accuracy how someone would behave in a future relationship.

The study surveyed 550 twins and their partners or spouses in Sweden.

Martin Ingvar, a professor of neurophysiology at Karolinska Institute, said the results were "very exciting."

"These are original findings which shed light on the fact that all of our behaviors are influenced by both nature and nurture. Even complex, cultural social phenomena such as marriage are influenced by a person's genetic make-up," Ingvar said.

The gene in question controls the production of a molecule receptor for vasopressin, a hormone that is found in most mammals.

The same gene has previously been linked to monogamous behavior in male voles, a mouse-like rodent.

The researchers said they hoped greater knowledge of the effect of vasopressin on human relations could also help understand the causes of diseases characterised by problems with social interaction, such as autism.

The results of the study were published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

what a journey
so hard to describe
your harbour so small
the ocean so wide
spin the wheel, spin the wheel
go wherever she spins
surrender to this wave that's rolling in

homing fingers
starting to dig
raising expectations
lifting the lid
there's a show going down
going deeper within
i long to lose myself
inside your skin

what a feeling under the stars
my body's rotating from venus through mars
there's a war going on
between my head and my heart
i wonder how they grew so far apart

i'm so shaken, about to explode
the myth of kissing princes
is they turn into toads
there's a war going on
between the sun and the moon
before they come to terms
we'll be consumed

oh my god, please take me now
i'm ready for ascension
if i only knew how
give me wings give me wings
now i'm stuck on the ground
recieve this blood and bones
i'm homeward bound

see the statue growing wings
this singer was a virgin
until he conceived
god is love, god is love
and her lover i'll be
i long to leave the world in ecstacy

dance with me around this fire
the dance of bad angels who'd love to fly higher
god is love, god is love
and her lover i'll be
i long to lead the world in ecstacy

tim booth (and angelo badalamenti)

isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?
it's swell to have a stiffy.
it's divine to own a dick,
from the tiniest little tadger
to the world's biggest prick.
so, three cheers for your willy or john thomas.
hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake,
your piece of pork, your wife's best friend,
your percy, or your cock.
you can wrap it up in ribbons.
you can slip it in your sock,
but don't take it out in public,
or they will stick you in the dock,
and you won't come back.

- monty python