Webwise.
1. The Sony World Photography Awards.
2. The Guardian featured a series of portraits of people while alive and then while dead, shortly thereafter. It isn’t quite as gruesome as it sounds.
3. Have you seen Creature Comforts? Basically, they took audio clips of things people said and animated them…Wallace and Grommet style. In this one, they asked people about their self image.
The first 25 seconds of this one (below) makes me grin.
4. I am going out to dinner on Tuesday night to a particular restaurant, specifically to try sweetbreads.
5. There’s a company that makes hidden passageways in your home. Gallery here.
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April 17th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Hehe, that second video is cute. Dags!
4 – I love teh sweetbreadz. When I was down in Buenos Aires I made it a point to eat many a piece and part of cow. Sweetbreads was among my faves. You’ll have to let me know what you think. Then again, I’ll eat anything…
5 – For whatever reason the Street of Dreams (home show) last year had a secret passageway, den, cellar, panic room, whatever in more than a few houses. I suppose that trying to use 15K square feet of living space up leads you to do goofy things.
April 17th, 2008 at 8:18 am
For some reason, seeing that little bird pant like a dog cracked me up. I can see a little kid doing that.
I hope the texture of the sweetbreads doesn’t throw me because I like to try just about anything.
What other parts of the cow did you eat?
April 17th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Ahhhh sweetbreads. Could make life complete!
April 17th, 2008 at 8:56 am
3. Heh, I’ve seen that before, too funny.
4. When I read that, I actually shook my head and waved my hands violently…yuck! *shiver* ew. yuck. no.
5. At first I thought that was SO cool! Then I went to the site and the creepy-ass music started and I realized, oooooh, that’s where you keep the freezers full of bodies.
Love your little grab-bag posts, so full of goodies.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:03 am
QTMama – you like sweetbreads? I’ve never had them so I’m curious. So you like them, huh?
April 17th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Hi, Krystie Lee – Yeah, sweetbreads don’t sounds good on the surface. Even worse, I saw a picture of how they’re prepared. Lots of soaking to get rid of blood. That can’t be good. But…I’m up for an culinary adventure of sorts.
Have you read Devil in the White City? It’s about a serial killer in Chicago during the World’s far in …I think 1893. The guy built this house full of chutes and secret rooms; he’d fire the builders halfway through a project so none of them knew exactly what the layout of the house was. He’d drop dead bodies down the chute and into secret rooms, I think into acid. So…yeah, not so much on the secret rooms maybe, huh?
April 17th, 2008 at 9:15 am
I do hope you’re meaning the sweetbread that is not in relation to the pancreas of lambs or calfs.
The sweetbread I’m thinking of I had in Jamaica – long, long, long ago.
Of course, the pancreas makes life complete as well.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:54 am
RE: Just ordered it, thanks for the tip.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Wow. That first photo exhibit with the people who had recently died made me cry. Good thing you followed it up with the cute birds and cats
Never had sweetbreads…not much of a meat eater
But have you tried Haggis? http://www.vimeo.com/62896 Yeah, they pipe it in for the Burn’s Supper. Yes, I’ve been to one 
My grandparents had a secret passageway. I never knew about it until my grandmother died last year.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I think the portraits are lovely. I really like how he let the subjects retain their dignity in death. It was very nicely, and respectfully done.
As I’ve shared my food/texture issues with you I’m sure it’s no surprise I would NEVER eat sweetbreads. LOL… n-e-v-e-r
I’ve always wanted an old house with some kind of secret space, or even just a cool attic with one of those pull down ladders. I like the idea of it.
April 18th, 2008 at 8:50 am
randesq, you should come over to my house, i want to show you this chamber i have thats totally soundproof. i’ll even let you go inside it, and ill lock the door, just so you can see how soundproof it is.
dont pay attention to the fingernail scratches on the inside of the door though. that is from, um….
well its not important.
April 18th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I want a tunnel! I want one!
April 18th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Dammit, Janet. That comment started off so well and yet went downhill so quickly.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
QT – I meant the gland. Unfortunately.
Brenda – Never tried haggis before. Oy, I’m not sure I could cut upon an animal’s stomach and see all the food in there without paling. If this makes me a wimp…I admit as much. Have you eaten it? And tell us more about the secret passageway, please!
Tiffany – what other foods would you not eat based on texture alone?
MsSingleMama – See, I just knew you’d dig the tunnel/secret passageway idea. Because you’re as cool as a dude.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Pate’ (or however one spells it) which I accidently tried once. Honest to god thought it was chocolate mousse since my nose was stuffed up. Plopped a big ol’ mouthfull of whipped up beef liver pate’ in my mouth and seriously threw up immediatly in a nearby ficus.
Oysters
Sushi
Calamari
Okay…I have a serious seafood allergy – but even if I didn’t, no way am I shoving something that slimey and/or chewy into my mouth!
Cooked Spinach
Creamed Corn
Pudding
Jello
Oh I could go on. Really if it’s slimy or squishy, has eyeballs I don’t know. It’s not for me!
What’s crazy is that I LOVE that show where the bald guy eats crazy stuff from all over the world too. I adore watching other people eat. There is something so personal about it. Is that totally bizarre? I promise I don’t sit around in restaurants getting my jollies by staring at people or anything, but I like to see people’s faces when they really love something, and likewise when they don’t. That first instant reaction is very real – no pretense.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Tiffany,
OK, I can completely see how, if you shoved a mouthful of liver into your mouth thinking it was chocolate mouse, barfing would be the only real way to express your disappointment.
Oh yeah, major texture issues going on with you. I can understand that. Oysters are, in fact, like boogers. Cooked spinach? really? That one is interesting to me. PUDDING? OH come on! Who doesn’t like pudding?!
Yeah, that’s odd that you can watch Andrew Zimmern make those food smacking noises as he sucks down tree worms. You just inspired me to write about something. And you’re spot on with the instant reaction of people upon tasting something they either love or hate.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:47 pm
I think you just confessed to having eatten boogers…
YES! That’s his name, Andrew Zimmern. I love watching that guy eat. I know I’m a freak though…I think I just like to live vicariously through others. I actually enjoy looking at hundreds of vacation photos that other people take.
I need a hobby perhaps?
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
I must get out more. Here in the southwest the only sweet bread I know is ‘pan dulce.’
http://www.frugallawstudent.com/2007/06/02/cheap-treat-mexican-sweet-bread/
Have you tried tripitas (cow intestines), buche (pigs stomach), or morzilla (blood sausages)? hmm sounds ugghhh. I have tried the first two by accident …..i didn’t know what they were. The cow intestines are not bad, but I can’t get over on the intestine part. They also smell awful as they are cooked. Then again I enjoy liver once in a while and its probably just as gross.