Click images for desktop size: "The Gift Of Life" by Unknown I've never gotten why Christmas is so much more "celebrated" than Easter.
Probably its just that the gifts are better at Christmas. Maybe we're just more comfortable with birth than torture, death, rebirth.
I should have paid more attention in catechism school. I just thought it was cool that I got to leave regular school early to go to learn this Catholic stuff.
Of course I got restless and bothered the nuns and brothers with silly questions: "Brother,you're on a boat. Its a high holiday. You Don't take communion. Then ZAP! You cross the international dateline and its yesterday all over again. Have you avoided a sin?"
The answer I got to my well thought out bored questions was always the same. "Siddown, kid."
Maybe the nuns and brothers refusal to give torturously complicated answers to my bizarre minefield questions accounts for my spiritual health today. Its nice having someone to blame.

Yesterday was a good day.
Went to two used book stores. Got 3 new Destroyer books. Sinanju mind candy. People are amazed I read these. Some people are amazed I can read at all. I like them the same way I like comic books, fine art and monster movies. I'm plenty discriminating. I just like a book I can read in two hours and feel like I've had some fun.
I also got a Sara Peretsky "VI Warshawski" book. Philip Marlowe and VI Warshawski are the only fictional characters I've ever had a crush on.
One store had a nice long rack of new magazines. I got to look over "Film Comment" and "Sight & Sound", the "intelligentsia" film mags.
For some reason they've finally decided to acknowledge the Korean film industry . . . I used to think that the intelligentsia were the vanguard, but I realise that Preston Sturges, Laurel & Hardy, and Korean melodramas are too popular to be good, in their eyes.
There's going to be a retrospective of some Korean Films (note, a retrospective gets you capitalized") at the Lincoln Film Center.

Click images for desktop size: "Anime" by Reinsfelt They're too late. You can catch the new stuff at a few theaters in Koreatown.
We also went to the Farmer's Market. Cool bargins if you can buy in excess.
There was a "Mexican" stall. It was disappointing. Packaged tortillas when I was expecting fresh. It was more Chiliean than Mexican. It bothered me that somehow I could tell the difference. No salsa fresca, no arroz con pollo, just the same old same old stuff a step up from Taco Bell, but that's about all.
But did go into a big and cool Asian Market! Lots of cool food at bargain prices. Only bought a few things, rice sticks for 99 cents (compared to $2.50) and a big bottle of pad thai sauce for a buck thirty nine (compared to 5 bucks for a small can).
They even had Red Bean Ice Cream bars, coffee coated peanuts and THREE kinds of kim chee! As well as enormous sexual carrots and limes at 6 for a dollar.
They had plenty of stuff and then we discovered, just 300 yards down the road, an even BIGGER Asian supermarket. Next shopping day plan to add them to my mad quest to save money on foods.
The biggest surprise is that it was one of the only times in recent memory when we went out and DID NOT get anything for the dogs . . . to their credit they took this well.
So it was a day that I find pleasurable and nice. Some small problems with my back from standing too long but nothing to distract from the calm and simple niceness of the day.
The plan today is to take the "pack" on a walk through the woods. They'll try and act brave.
My little blind dog is hanging in. Two days ago he was staggering but still ate well and still followed me around everywhere I went. He gets aggravated if I don't stay in one place long enough for him to get a proper nap. I figure that's a good sign - him getting aggravated.
My puppy is still always hungry.
We're still in love with each other.