i am drinking and i know things

[ironymaiden]

Meme time! rosefox gave me three things that I may or may not know or care about:

1. Cabbage, or cabbages.

my parents don't like cooked cabbage and so we never ate it at home when i was growing up therefore i am still learning to eat it.
my favorite use of cabbage is in Lion dance (according to the internet some places use lettuce instead and wow that is so much easier than cabbage) where the lion "eats" the greens that are tied up high with the red envelope that contains an honorarium for the dancers. the person in the head has to tear up the cabbage and spread it around like the lion is a messy eater.
cabbage is closely related to kale, broccoli, cauliflower, and turnips in addition to the perhaps more obvious brussels sprouts.


2. The Mona Lisa.

is very small and dark. it was kind of a disappointment to see it in person. i'd rather look at the Prado copy which has been restored and gives a better idea of the color and detail of the painting.
i dearly love the Mona Lisa cards (Excellent Forgery, Real Thing, Obvious Forgery) in Chrononauts and the Mona Lisa plot in City of Death.


3. Natural gas.

it's not common in western WA, which continues to make me sad. i don't really want the responsibilities of homeownership (and it's not financially possible right now anyway) but i definitely want to have a gas range again and that's probably the only way. yes, it's a fossil fuel and our electricity here is cheap and from sustainable sources and electric stoves suck.
natural gas is cheap and common back east; much more now than when i lived there because of fracking. Pennsylvania still doesn't have a severance tax on gas... a billion dollars of missing revenue that should be getting spent on the truly shitty and impoverished areas where the wells are. meanwhile the well water is poisoned and the roads are destroyed by heavy machinery.

Anyone want three things?

Comments

[buhrger]

that sounds like a band name :-)