depressing Brad red blather sure is depressing lately. How about some talk about lucky charms or big league chew or something? You guys could make a perfectly happy person want to kill themselves. 010919 ... downright perky even bubblegum 010919 ... silentbob today i was grabbing for a banana and i picked one off of the bunch and put it back in the cupboard. the banana, not the bunch. thast right. "Oops" i said, and my roommate craig laughed while holding his box of lucky charms. I traded the bunch for the banana and then i ate the fucker. 010919 ... chanaka was it an icky mushy brown banana, or a perfect yellow banana, or a green banana? wow...there are lots of kinds of bananas. am i spelling banana right? 010920 ... chanaka oh, and i think we should have a national utensil. we have a bird and a flower and a tree....why not a utensil? it should be a spork. and china's national utensil would be chopsticks, and france's national utensil would be that cheese slicer thingy. yeah. 010920 ... uow august 1988 the day before my birthday patch, the cat died when a man in his truck pulled into our drive crushing the cat i took it as a sign every year i get a little too sad i can't remember any really happy birthdays, i've tried 040827 ... DaVis Those aren't your grandparents' bananas... In the 1960s, Panama disease, a soil fungus, wiped out the Gros Michel variety of banana. We were then left with the less-tasty Cavendish variety--the current species we eat. Now Cavendish is threatened by black Sigatoka, a leaf fungus, and another strain of Panama disease. Now the Not-Depressing news...Genetic engineering can likely save Cavendish, else we might end up having to switch to a third-string variety--one of the costs of rabid luddites and fanatic environmentalism. (Interestingly, genetic engineering would increase diversity--the lack of diversity is one of the reasons the Cavendish is threatened, and something most environmentalists oppose.) And sporks are the best. 040828 ... unhinged when you go through the phone book on your cell phone looking for numbers to call so you can talk and after five people, none of them have picked up their phones so you just stop trying and go to sleep. what ever happened to 'call anytime'? 040828 ... silentbob The decision was between me and him. you chose him. but we still got along. and things were still good. despite myself i was still good to you. this was probably why you asked me to drive him to the airport. and it was because of myself that i told you no. 040829 ... Bespecked good. 040829 ... anomalous my nephews are moving even farther away now i'll very rarely ever see them this is how the forgetting begins this is how nations are made this is how wars happen if i ever have children, and i highly doubt i ever will, but speaking theoretically, if i ever have descendants, and my sisters and brothers have descendants, in the future, hundreds of years from now maybe, they could be fighting one another in whatever wars might happen, and they might not think "we are of the same tree, we came from the same family", but hopefully, they won't fight, hopefully they'll never forget, or if they do, hopefully they'll remember hopefully there won't be wars 050430 ... anomalous my crazy thoughts 050502 what's it to you? who go blather from