Duncan's Blog

It's another dreary day at the walk-in clinic in downtown Los Angeles. Older guys are coming in to have their feet looked at and to receive their annual flu shot. I've been spending most of the day thinking about what I would buy for lunch at SUBWAY. Had I known things were going to be this slow, I might have brought my Christmas card mailing list to update.
What sort of things do you do to pass the time at work when there is no work at work?

Saw an Italian film this weekend called Il Postino. It's set on an island off the peninsula; presumably Sicily. One of the main issues that ran through the film was the lack of fresh water from which the island suffers.
I have often thought that there my be a correlation between places where there is no fresh flowing clean water and madness. I know I would not be of sound mind or body were I to rely on water coming in from the outside.
Hell! I live in Los Angeles where I'm not even too crazy about the municipal water that IS supposed to be healthy enough for us to drink without any sort of conditioning.
I wonder why there aren't plants set up to remove the salt from sea water. How difficult could it be?
Oh well... a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

It's not generally my "thing/bag" to market for a television personality, but I believe that a hippie gourmet is well worth keeping on television.

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Hippy Gourmet News Flash October 2007
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Dear Hipster,

Our new "Organic Living with the Hippy Gourmet" commercial TV series hit the airwaves two weeks ago, and our ratings have been amazing!


It seems people are as hungry for healthier, happier TV programming as they are for feeding their families better meals!

You've also probably noticed a whole new series of PBS shows that came out this fall! We are so honored and proud to offer our shows to PBS stations around the country, many of which have taken our satellite feed and are now broadcasting Hippy Gourmet from coast to coast!

We want to ask for your support:

Our new cookbook "The Hippy Gourmet's Quick and Simple Cookbook for Healthy Eating" (Hachette USA) is available wherever books are sold, and we appreciate you all helping us spread the word about our new book - tell your friends, pick some up for holiday gifts, go into your local bookstore, WholeFoods or TraderJoe's supermarkets and ask them if they carry the book, because every little bit helps!

Our book is all about healthy, organic, sustainable living that brings joy and happiness, so why not share this message with your community!

For our local fans in San Francisco, you can come meet us at the annual GreenFestival at the Concourse Pavilion Nov. 9 - Nov. 11 - we'll be signing books at the bookstore inside the festival and will be filming segments for upcoming shows!

Watch our recent appearance on ABC-TV preparing a healthy and delicious recipe from our Cookbook!

More exciting news to come in the upcoming Hippy Gourmet Newsletter!
Peace, Love and Organics!


Hippy Gourmet TV
www.HippyGourmet.com


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Sometimes I just wonder if it's my breath or poor English skills that keep folks away. I used to have some snappy repartay from folks here... we had email that would go back and forth or we would find one another on Yahoo!'s instant messenger.
Nowadays I feel as if I'm simply writing to Dear Diary on a webpage rather than in a notebook... and the virtual contacts are falling the wayside the way they did on the old BBSes of days of yore.

The title is a Hebrew sentence. I never formally studied the language, but I did have some of it when I went to Hebrew school in my pre-adolescent years. It means, "I am very unhappy."
Today it is raining in Southern California and shortly after 1:00am I got awoken to the sound of water drops hitting the bedroom carpet. Drops are forming and drops are falling. I have bowls on the floor. I spent tens of thousands of dollars in renovation and now I fear something totally dreadful.