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Dreams

Tomato dreams

I bought tomatoes for the first time in a several weeks and last night I had a dream about them. It may have been also b/c Kara had taken her tomatoes out of her Double Double on Monday night at In-n-Out.

Anyhow, in my dream, I was eating with a few people on the coast or on a boat. One of the folks was Scott Carrelli and he had put out his tomatoes on his plate and it looked to me like he didn’t want them so when he went to the bathroom I took on half that he had and ate it.

When he returned he was unhappy with my tomato theft and I apologized and offered one of the five Hothouse Grown Trader Joes tomatoes that I had in the fridge.

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c’ville

Lisa
on the tracks
waiting
smashed penny comparison
I visited my sister in Charlottesville, which in email I had been referring to as c’ville, which I found out is what the locals call it as well as what one of the local weeklies is named.

There’s a train that runs through the old downtown there and we were down in that area a lot (Star Hill). Finally had a chance to place a penny on the train tracks to smash it and there were actually a few kids on the other side of the rails doing the same thing. I laid two down, but only found the one.

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gesundheit

I personally prefer this to the ‘bless you’ options since I’m not a religious person… Here’s the word of the day description I got today from M-W.

gesundheit guh-ZOONT-hyte interjection

: used to wish good health especially to one who has just sneezed

Example sentence:
“Gesundheit!” said the man on the bicycle as he passed a lady on the sidewalk who had sneezed.

Did you know?
When English speakers hear “achoo,” they usually respond with either “gesundheit” or “God bless you.” “Gesundheit” was borrowed from German, where it literally means “health”; it was formed by a combination of “gesund” (“healthy”) and “-heit” (“-hood”). Wishing a person good health when they sneezed was believed to forestall the illness that a sneeze often portends. “God bless you” had a similar purpose, albeit with more divine weight to the well-wishing. It was once believed the soul could exit the body during a sneeze, causing ill health, so folks said “God bless you” to ward off this danger. “Gesundheit,” at one time, also served as a toast when drinking (much like its English counterpart, “to your health”), but this usage is now mostly obsolete.

Dreams, with Photos

What Can I Get for Two Dollars?

what can i get for two dollah?

So I was kinda inspired by the line which originated in Full Metal Jacket and that the 2 Live Crew swiped for “Me so Horny” and then more recently M.I.A. transformed into her own song, “Ten Dollar”.

I’ve had this two dollar bill fetish for a while and like to use them to tip etc. So if you see one around, it might be one that I’ve been putting back into circulation. They really are quite useful now with the price of things, etc.

Anyhow, I’ve been inspired to do a photo project merging the two tentatively called “what can I get for two dollars?”

Not sure how it’ll work exactly, but I’ll get a signed release and the compensation for that will be a $2 bill (which is what I once gave Frank Chu when I took a street shot of him, so perhaps he’ll be my first in the series)…

Dreams

Strange Dream…

I was living with James Cook I think in some strange place in LA where our room was connected to a Chinese restaurant that had this dining area enclosed in our space so the windows to the restaurant looked out into the interior of our space. The backyard was grassy and there was a place where people kept their horses there.

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