Monday, June 28, 2004
Sunday, June 27, 2004
Saturday, June 26, 2004
Ferris Wheel / St. Gerard Majella
Ferris wheel, at the carnival at St. Gerard Majella church, on Inglewood near Culver.
Gerard Majella is the patron saint of, among other things, pregnant women and the pro-life movement.
Ronald W. Reagan is Still Dead
Revisit the past! Remember earlier this month when Reagan died and a MRJEFF operative took in the scene down at the funeral home? Other bloggers (1, 2) were also on the prowl, exploiting the national tragedy for their own selfish purposes.
Sunday, June 20, 2004
Mayhem at Braddock and Duquesne!
An accident! Excitement in Culver City!
Gosh - I feel like WeeGee!
But am I just exploiting these people's misery?
Well, it's such a nice day today. And I'm sure nobody was hurt, right?
Monday, June 14, 2004
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peckers
From the Peter-Piper-Picked-a-Peck-of-Pickled-Peckers department:
Here it is, 9:58 Monday morning. Somehow I just know that this is going to set the tone for the entire week.
Here it is, 9:58 Monday morning. Somehow I just know that this is going to set the tone for the entire week.
Saturday, June 12, 2004
Friday, June 11, 2004
New Product Review
At the ad agency where MRJEFF works, we were recently dropped off a large supply of herbal beverages from the Carpe Diem beverage consortium, with the suggestion that we avail ourselves of the opportunity to sample the three products Kombucha, Gingkgo, and Kefir.
Kefir, with its fermented elderberry juice base, resembled most closely a cherry or raspberry Tootsie Pop™ (in beverage form). Most of my staff agreed, this was theleast nauseating most palatable of the Carpe Diem drinks. It was very thick - the official MRJEFF suggestion is to use this as either a cough syrup, or to drizzle over pancakes. 4/10.
Ginkgo: most of MRJEFF's employees and associates decreed this to be vile and undrinkable. What do they know, these kids these days, with their Britney Spears and their tongue piercings? This one vaguely resembles a somewhat earthy sarsaparilla. Plus, it make MRJEFF mind work...uh...gooder.... 7/10.
Kombucha: I am sure that, in the proper combination, a beverage comprised of Hibiscus Bloom, Rose Hips, Blackberry Leaf, European Elder Bloom, Pepperming Leaf, and Lemon Balm Leave could be non-sucky. But in this combination, it basically tastes like a blackberry candy stick and a mouthful of toothpaste. Plus, it's got Lactobacillus casei ("Culture in LLV agar medium followed by ELISA using monoclonal antibodies specific for LCS was able to detect the organism in faeces. Using this method, we studied the faecal recovery of LCS in individuals who drank 125 ml of fermented milk which contained 10(10) live LCS for 3 days. The mean recovery was about 10(7) live bacteria per gram of faeces, indicating that LCS survived transit through the gastrointestinal tract after ingestion of the fermented milk." WTF?) Nevertheless, 2/10
Kefir, with its fermented elderberry juice base, resembled most closely a cherry or raspberry Tootsie Pop™ (in beverage form). Most of my staff agreed, this was the
Ginkgo: most of MRJEFF's employees and associates decreed this to be vile and undrinkable. What do they know, these kids these days, with their Britney Spears and their tongue piercings? This one vaguely resembles a somewhat earthy sarsaparilla. Plus, it make MRJEFF mind work...uh...gooder.... 7/10.
Kombucha: I am sure that, in the proper combination, a beverage comprised of Hibiscus Bloom, Rose Hips, Blackberry Leaf, European Elder Bloom, Pepperming Leaf, and Lemon Balm Leave could be non-sucky. But in this combination, it basically tastes like a blackberry candy stick and a mouthful of toothpaste. Plus, it's got Lactobacillus casei ("Culture in LLV agar medium followed by ELISA using monoclonal antibodies specific for LCS was able to detect the organism in faeces. Using this method, we studied the faecal recovery of LCS in individuals who drank 125 ml of fermented milk which contained 10(10) live LCS for 3 days. The mean recovery was about 10(7) live bacteria per gram of faeces, indicating that LCS survived transit through the gastrointestinal tract after ingestion of the fermented milk." WTF?) Nevertheless, 2/10
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
SPEED
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Come and get me, copper!
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Come and get me, copper!
Monday, June 07, 2004
Sunday, June 06, 2004
Half-mast
Late this afternoon, your pal MRJEFF went on down to Gates Kingsley & Gates Moeller Murphy Funeral Directors (aka The Little Chapel of the Dawn) in order to see just what-all was going on down at the place where Mr. Reagan's body is being kept until it is sent to the Capitol to lie in state. (I had recognized the building from some of the live shots on TV. It's on 20th Street in Santa Monica, which is a very hand route for north-south travel if you want to avoid Lincoln Blvd.) Both 20th Street and Arizona were blocked off for a block or so in all directions from the intersection, and various newsvans were there, ready for live shots just in case. There were around a hundred people there, most of whom were lined up awaiting their turn to be allowed past the police tape to place flowers, or a flag, or some other token next to the fountain in front of the funeral home.
Your humble narrator meditated upon the situation for a short while. And then went to the Gap.
