Slight change of plans
It turns out that our car is leaking oil out of several spots in and around the motor block and fixing it would be, according to the car dude, a ‘very involved operation’ costing more than the car is worth. Short drives are okay, but he definitely discouraged going on longer trips.
Longer trips as in: driving coast to coast.
Well, that’s a bummer. So no cross-country trip this time, I think.
Meh.
So it’s the airplane again, I guess.
Pork Skins
Years after I last ate pork skins out of a bag in a car somewhere in Arizona I decided tonight to go ahead and order fried pork skins at a local bar. They were not what I expected.
First of all they weren’t crunchy. Really, the last thing you (or at least I) want in a pork skin is the chewy texture of actual skin.
Secondly, who smothers pork skins in chicken wing sauce? Even if they were crispy five minutes ago, they’re now gooey and gross.
So, this experiment didn’t go well.
I expected something better when I ordered “a round of pork skins” for my very skeptical and subsequently disgusted table.
Laibach Documentary from 1988
Too bad I missed the embassy in NYC!
(via The Documentarian)
Muscle Grease
It’s always fascinating to see how perceptions of what a sexy body is supposed to look change over the decades.
[...] if you were born anytime after the release of Conan the Barbarian in 1982, it may shock you to learn that as late as the 1970s, Americans were repelled by the sight of brawn. “I’d go to the beach, and they’d give me the wolf whistle, guys on a blanket wanting to fight,” says Eddie Giuliani, the 1974 Mr. America (short division) and one of the early legends at Gold’s. “Nobody liked guys with the lumps back then. They thought we were all morons and fairies.” George Butler, codirector of Pumping Iron — the landmark documentary that made a rock star of Schwarzenegger and almost single-handedly changed America’s view of well-built men — says, “I always liked to walk behind Arnold in the street so I could check out people’s reactions as we passed. They’d point at him and sneer: ‘God, look at that fucking freak. What a clown.’”
Interesting article about body building in America: http://www.mensjournal.com/muscle-beach-and-the-dawn-of-huge/print/
