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First Catch Fish Market

Yesterday I drove past the "tea pot house" off Route 60 near Buena Vista, VA. Its a funny looking little place, and for the longest time it seemed empty.

Now, however, it is a fish store. So on a whim we swung by. They had a variety of fish, but I decided to go for the catfish, since Im thinking of getting some catfish for my polyculture outdoor aquaponics system.

Took the fillets home, coated them with chili powder, salt, and pepper, then sauteed them in olive oil.

My daughter prefers salmon. But I cant raise salmon in my backyard...

I served up the fillets with a crisp garden salad and fresh berries. Very lovely!

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two songs stuck in my head

So Ive been singing Gotta feeling by Black Eye Peas...for like five days.

The other song? Its a little kids song called Senor Don Gato and is about a cat that gets a letter to get married but dances himself off a roof and dies LOL

lyrics (en inglès)

Oh Senor Don Gato was a cat

On a high red roof Don Gato sat

He went there to read a letter,

Meow, meow, meow

Where the reading light was better,2

Meow, meow, meow

Twas a love note for Don Gato

I adore you wrote the lady cat

Who was fluffy, white and nice and fat

There was not a sweeter kitty,

Meow, meow, meow

In the country or the city,

Meow, meow, meow

And she said shed wed Don Gato

Oh, Don Gato jumped so happily

He fell off the roof and broke his knee

Broke his ribs and all his whiskers,

Meow, meow, meow

And his little solar plexus,

Meow, meow, meow

Ay Caramba cried Don Gato

Then the doctors all came on the run

Just to see if something could be done

And they held a consultation,

Meow, meow, meow

About how to save their patient,

Meow, meow, meow

How to save Senor Don Gato

But in spite of everything they tried

Poor Senor Don Gato up and died

And it wasnt very merry,

Meow, meow, meow

Going to the cemetery,

Meow, meow, meow

For the ending of Don Gato

When the funeral passed the market square

Such a smell of fish was in the air

Though his burial was slated,

Meow, meow, meow

He became reanimated,

Meow, meow, meow

He came back to life, Don Gato

XD

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Review of Fat Head

The "Fat Head" trailer

Since weve been on this kick, watching movies about the modern impact on diet, my daughter asked if Id seen "Fat Head," Tom Naughtons 2008 sardonic examination of the claim fast food is evil.

I had seen "Super Size Me" a few years ago, a 2004 documentary showing Morgan Spurlocks 30 day experiment with eating only McDonalds food. Spurlock gained a lot of weight and his cholesterol shot through the roof:


The "Super Size Me" trailer

If youre inclined to watch these movies, you should watch "Super Size Me" first. "Super Size Me" conveys a compelling message: fast food phenomenon isnt healthy. I really liked the experiment where they examine how long it takes fast food to decay - particularly the days, weeks and months where the french fries didnt appear to decay at all.

Spurlock presumes the ideal diet is vegetarian and organic. He consumed 5000+ calories a day of non-vegan food to illustrate the difference. As conveyed in "Super Size Me," Spurlock inferred the fattening part of the fast food diet was the sugar and fat and meat. That plus being so available and cheap and alluring.

In "Fat Head," Tom Naughton sets out to show that a reasonable person eating a fast food diet for a month can be just fine, thank you very much. Naughtons ideal diet is one moderate in calories (~2000 per day) and low in carbohydrates (<100 g per day). So Naughton necessarily avoided the sugary sodas and starchy parts of the McDonalds repetoire. Plus he walked 6 days a week (5 miles per day).

Naughton ends his experiment having lost 12 pounds and improving his cholesterol levels.

Throughout "Fat Head," Naughton mocks Spurlock. Its pretty amusing. Naughton also hits a theme that resonates with the warnings in "Food, Inc." and "The Future of Food:" the business behind corn and soybeans has been twisting science and law and policy to fundamentally change what we eat, and it hasnt been a good thing.

Naughton isnt preaching organics, however. Hes just pointing out that a low-carb diet is healthy and its entirely possible even while eating fast food.

I think both documentaries are worth watching. But Naughtons work reminded me of Woody Allens "Sleeper," where a man put in cryo-suspension in 1973 is revived 200 years later.

"...this morning for breakfast... [the Sleeper] requested something called wheat germ, organic honey, and tigers milk."

[Doctor laughs] "Oh, yes. Those were the charmed substances... that some years ago were felt to contain life-preserving properties."

"You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or hot fudge?

[Doctor again] "Those were thought to be unhealthy, precisely the opposite of what we know now to be true..."

I should call "Fat Head" thought-provoking, because it was. But I was giggling too much to feel as though Id been educated. If you like such things, enjoy.

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The Seventh Month is almost a Memory

Two Thousand and Eleven. Not long to go.... And to me, saying it seems like a mouthful. Remember when we had to start saying two thousand instead of 1999, it sounded so weird.

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a day blog about a day

So I took Danny to the park the other day. Was pretty spiffy. I taught him how to climb up things and how to swing. He didnt really get the swing part for 30 minutes later he ate dirt LOL.

We met a kid there. He was REALLY sweet. Hope he doesnt get picked on at school =

I have twin Sims...one named Ashley and another named Ashlynne. I totally forgot about them so I made one marry Tom and the other marry his nephew, whatever his name is. Whats the point of me saying this? Ashley and Ashlynne are their distant cousins =]

So I have decided to recycle genes because Im tired of making Sims that only want to pop out kids and then ending up with like...ten families...lol.

Anyway...today I was working on my uncles computer. I was trying to disconnect the power supply and cut my hand doing so. HP thought it was super awesome to have the connector of the power supply and the motherboard RIGHT under the hard drive...and very close together. I cut my hand on some random chip/screw/thing. Hope I didnt fry anything by bleeding all over it.

New found hate: Hewlett-Packard

-_-

So still debating going to Tumblr. Its still a maybe....lol

By the way...today is Yule. Merry Yule!!!

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