Check the property of Gray's Landscaping on 5th street in Eugene. I once lived in a house on that property and my roommate injected a spot in the back yard with psilocybin cyanescens mycelium. The spot grew to be pretty big. We used to make tea. They ended up moving that house down the street, but not sure what they did to wipe out the psilocybin. I would not be surprised if it still comes up there. Careful, though, those things are strong.
Catherine Tate had a recurring character on her show -- her character and her husband were highly provincial Brits with thick Geordie accents who had been obliged to eat in a foreign restaurant and were scandalized by the unfamilar foods. Once they went to a Japanese place and were horrified to find "shit ache" mushrooms on the menu ...
Different growing media for different mushrooms. In the middle of the 1970s I spent 16 months living in Houston. After a rainstorm, a friend and I trespassed on Ima Hogg's property to pick psylocibe, which was growing from the cow patties. To combat "drugs" Congress passed a very bad law (I think it was 1981) and fungicide was added to cattle feed. I have no idea how it worked re shrooms, because I returned to NYC in '76 and never looked back.
Zyxomma, I'm trying to send you a card I think you'll like, but the address came back "insufficient". Is there an apartment number I should add? Milburn and Kate both say the address I have is correct...thank you! Have a wonderful day!
5F. We've been having trouble getting our mail for a few months. It's maddening. Meccalopolis spoke to a supervisor about it; I think the real problem is that we haven't had a steady letter carrier for awhile. This block is probably for trainees.
She was a heck of a woman. Donated a huge chunk of her families land to the city for a very large park close to the central city. It is a great park to this day and provides recreation and nature for all of us.
I know that’s a popular urban legend, but I’m wondering how much truth there really is in that. Along with the methods above, which, like the gif says, they’ve been doing for generations, there are mushroom caves around here that go back hundreds of years.
That's where those white, bland supermarket mushrooms come from.
Shitake grow specifically on oak logs. (I suspect one could just lay out slabs of oak bark in an indoor facility, but Japan has a thing about tradition.)
"Tree ears", obviously, are similarly specific. American oaks have a symbiotic relationship with certain soil fungi, so you often see their mushrooms popping up under oak trees and nowhere else.
Basic rule of evolutionary biology: If there's a niche, something will evolve to fill it.
Making a person relive nine months of unnecessary pregnancy when they were children. Preceded by several years of incestuous child sexual abuse for political benefit is wrong
The "Two Santa" plan is breath-takingly cynical and anti-democratic and explains a *lot* about how we ended up here. It's the butterfly effect. Small decisions 40+ years ago explain everything about where we are today
I just watched a CNN clip about Fetterman and the dress code. Besides all the OMG republican reactions, the funniest part was when they showed Ronald Reagan and talked about how he always wore a suit and tie -- and in the Reagan clip he was wearing a TAN SUIT.
Also, at the end, whoever was news talking said Fetterman said he wasn't going to ALWAYS show up in shorts but would use the relaxed dress code sparingly. This was after he did preside over the Senate in his shorts. So yeah, he made his point and that should be the last of the yapping. I learned that this started with him voting from the hallway in his casual attire -- but also that Ted Cruz often does teh same thing.
Holy moly, I am gobsmacked reading about the Two Santas. Turns out that "spend a bunch of money then blame it on the Democrats" is a specific strategy.
Here's hoping the Maine Coon cat at the local shelter has been adopted by the time my wife goes to look at her. We don't need a fourth cat! (fifth, if you count the outside stray that has been here for five years now, or sixth or seventh or eighth or more if you count the foster kittens that come and go, like the tides and magnets and such)
"Qantas CEO gets a 900 percent raise after he leaves the company in disgrace." Obviously all those lazy workers clamoring for better pay and benefits are at fault.
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there—good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea—God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." -- Senator Elizabeth Warren
I missed having Dewey the World's Most Interesting Cat greeting me at the door when I came home from errands, etc. Although I've decided to hold off on adopting a new cat for a while, I couldn't resist the temptation to look at adoptable kittehs on a local animal shelter website. OMG, it was wall-to-wall SQUEEEE!!! I may have to re-think this waiting period.
Shrooms! I’m talkin’ shiitake. Thanks to Noel Farms for the source video. A link to that is here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/the-sylvan-splendor-of-shiitakes
As a child I didn't like the texture of mushrooms, so I didn't eat them.
I've spent my entire adulthood making up for lost time.
Check the property of Gray's Landscaping on 5th street in Eugene. I once lived in a house on that property and my roommate injected a spot in the back yard with psilocybin cyanescens mycelium. The spot grew to be pretty big. We used to make tea. They ended up moving that house down the street, but not sure what they did to wipe out the psilocybin. I would not be surprised if it still comes up there. Careful, though, those things are strong.
I think the petunias there are hip to it.
Butthead: "Heh heh heh. She said shiitake. Heh heh heh."
Beavis: "Shut up, Butthead, you dill hole."
Catherine Tate had a recurring character on her show -- her character and her husband were highly provincial Brits with thick Geordie accents who had been obliged to eat in a foreign restaurant and were scandalized by the unfamilar foods. Once they went to a Japanese place and were horrified to find "shit ache" mushrooms on the menu ...
Guess shrooms have come a long way from the grown-in-100%-pure-horseshit days.
Different growing media for different mushrooms. In the middle of the 1970s I spent 16 months living in Houston. After a rainstorm, a friend and I trespassed on Ima Hogg's property to pick psylocibe, which was growing from the cow patties. To combat "drugs" Congress passed a very bad law (I think it was 1981) and fungicide was added to cattle feed. I have no idea how it worked re shrooms, because I returned to NYC in '76 and never looked back.
Zyxomma, I'm trying to send you a card I think you'll like, but the address came back "insufficient". Is there an apartment number I should add? Milburn and Kate both say the address I have is correct...thank you! Have a wonderful day!
5F. We've been having trouble getting our mail for a few months. It's maddening. Meccalopolis spoke to a supervisor about it; I think the real problem is that we haven't had a steady letter carrier for awhile. This block is probably for trainees.
Don't you just hate when that happens?
Thanks so much!
One of my substitute teachers in high school said that he had gone to school with a girl name "Ima Genster".
Rocky Hill. Middle name Marciano
My mum's second husband had a daughter named Mary Christmas.
She was a heck of a woman. Donated a huge chunk of her families land to the city for a very large park close to the central city. It is a great park to this day and provides recreation and nature for all of us.
"Buk-kay"
I know that’s a popular urban legend, but I’m wondering how much truth there really is in that. Along with the methods above, which, like the gif says, they’ve been doing for generations, there are mushroom caves around here that go back hundreds of years.
I think they have, or used to, mushroom caves in Pennsylvania too.
That's where those white, bland supermarket mushrooms come from.
Shitake grow specifically on oak logs. (I suspect one could just lay out slabs of oak bark in an indoor facility, but Japan has a thing about tradition.)
"Tree ears", obviously, are similarly specific. American oaks have a symbiotic relationship with certain soil fungi, so you often see their mushrooms popping up under oak trees and nowhere else.
Basic rule of evolutionary biology: If there's a niche, something will evolve to fill it.
Oh yeah, for sure, but I think of foraging as a whole different thing from cultivating.
My parents said TABS are brought by a stork who leave them under a cabbage plant for Editrix. But I suspected they grew on trees. AND I WAS RIGHT!
When working in Spain, I asked one of my hosts about storks and babies. She said their version says that storks bring babies from Paris.
Paris. Where all the babies come from.
That’s just science
More shiitake talking
Money talks, shiitake walks.
Shitake is a cash crop that talks around here.
YSWIDT 😉
Making a person relive nine months of unnecessary pregnancy when they were children. Preceded by several years of incestuous child sexual abuse for political benefit is wrong
I've been posting a link to Thom Hartmann's 2 Santas thing for years here. Glad someone listened!
The "Two Santa" plan is breath-takingly cynical and anti-democratic and explains a *lot* about how we ended up here. It's the butterfly effect. Small decisions 40+ years ago explain everything about where we are today
I just watched a CNN clip about Fetterman and the dress code. Besides all the OMG republican reactions, the funniest part was when they showed Ronald Reagan and talked about how he always wore a suit and tie -- and in the Reagan clip he was wearing a TAN SUIT.
Also, at the end, whoever was news talking said Fetterman said he wasn't going to ALWAYS show up in shorts but would use the relaxed dress code sparingly. This was after he did preside over the Senate in his shorts. So yeah, he made his point and that should be the last of the yapping. I learned that this started with him voting from the hallway in his casual attire -- but also that Ted Cruz often does teh same thing.
Holy moly, I am gobsmacked reading about the Two Santas. Turns out that "spend a bunch of money then blame it on the Democrats" is a specific strategy.
Eric Swalwell nailed it, on the record 💙
https://crooksandliars.com/2023/09/eric-swalwell-taunts-jim-jordan-subpoena
OT morning Y*utube, listening to Robocop soundtrack on the way to work. Best incidental music EVER.
https://youtu.be/kXXMVsvg5XE?si=31ExOEqYIHR8DP9t
Here's hoping the Maine Coon cat at the local shelter has been adopted by the time my wife goes to look at her. We don't need a fourth cat! (fifth, if you count the outside stray that has been here for five years now, or sixth or seventh or eighth or more if you count the foster kittens that come and go, like the tides and magnets and such)
"Qantas CEO gets a 900 percent raise after he leaves the company in disgrace." Obviously all those lazy workers clamoring for better pay and benefits are at fault.
Today's Ruben Bolling! The government is your friend . . . if you're rich!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/21/2194491/-Cartoon-Hollingsworth-Hound-s-Guide-to-Government-Services-for-C-E-O-s
oh, for more than one like!
Quote of the day:
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there—good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea—God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." -- Senator Elizabeth Warren
Privatize the profit, socialize the cost.
Great description of the radical right-wing Republicans:
They've replaced their imaginary childhood friends with imaginary adult enemies.
This came from today's "Bizarro" comic strip and I think it describes the GOP to a T.
George Takei: Breaking: Sen. John Fetterman to wear a suit to the Senate but it will be a TAN one
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1704594708037619945
I missed having Dewey the World's Most Interesting Cat greeting me at the door when I came home from errands, etc. Although I've decided to hold off on adopting a new cat for a while, I couldn't resist the temptation to look at adoptable kittehs on a local animal shelter website. OMG, it was wall-to-wall SQUEEEE!!! I may have to re-think this waiting period.
May Dewey's memory always be a blessing.
September 21st!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk