I want to thank all my buds who came to see Fruckus last night; and also, all the buds that tried to go but couldn't make it.

For Stew:

3 lamprey cleaned, peeled, and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
2 carrots, peeled and diced into medium size chunks
1 yellow onion, diced into medium chunks
2 stalks celery, diced into medium chunks
2 cups hearty red wine
2 cups fortified veal stock
1 bay leaf
2 tbsp. olive oil
salt and pepper to taste


Heat oil in a medium-size, heavy-gauge stock pot. Add lamprey and vegetables, then sear until vegetables are tender. Add the wine and reduce liquid by two-thirds. Add veal stock and bay leaf, reduce heat and simmer for 2 to 3 hours. Season with salt and pepper and serve on a bed of mashed potatoes as prepared below.

-Science News Online, "Food for Thought," August 10, 1996.

Ben and I just noticed that Little Pete's band The BlowHoles has a sitar-guitar player. I wonder if they borrowed it from Polaris.

It makes me want to put a buzzing bridge on my old Fender Squire.

I saw some folks from breathe owl breathe tonight and it was pretty. Aside from going there I learned how to One Man Jam which is not masturbating, it's more like playing paino and guitar and drums and rapping at the same time. Also, I saw other people and they were good. "It's later than you think."

My classes are all great so far, but aiming to be challenging. Poetry with Wakoski--Art History of China with Jing--Contemporary American-Indian Culture--and the Literature of the 18th Century with Arch. I think the two English classes will be the most time consuming, but the other two classes require almost as many readings. There are nine people in my Anthro class, the American-Indian class, so there's a lot of participation required: presentations, reaserch papers, and event reports (I plan on attending the East Lansing Pow-Wow of Love). I learned in my Lit class already that thomas jefferson never wrote his name with capitol T's or J's. It's undemocratic! That T and that J looming over the rest of the letters in his name so much like monarchs. in fact he wasn't for capitolizing the initial letters of sentences--same reason. also, I'm learning a lot about Neolithic Chinese culture from their pottery. the folks from the ancient city of Bopan made cool fish designs on their bowls, which may have doubled as urn caps. yep. in poetry, we're going to find our muses. and read our best poems tomorrow, which is scary. I know folks with five and a half classes, but I think all these intense classes are going to cut into my rowk time.

My theremin is alive and working and I can play all sorts of things on it, but it still needs some work. I'll get a picture up eventually and maybe a recording.

Over break I bought the new zelda game and I beat it today and was happy.

I found a tape recorder that had been lost for 6 months when I was home. Look forward to sound tapes friends...with theremin on them.

I read a really great short story over break, amongst other things. It's called 'after I was thrown in the river and before I drowned,' or similar, by Dave Eggers.

I had some F.ruckus things, which were great and La Remodea played with a drummer, Sandi's little bro, Ryan who could fit in nicely with us.