December 5, 2012
(edit, 01/07/26 – I later learned that a good family friend – an avid home grower who was selling to then-new dispensaries – had grown paranoid the cops were following him one day and thought to stash it here. I kept mum to protect him and his young family, but … well, we weren’t good […]
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April 17, 2009
The fetish of packaging, the gloss of the new. Plastic lids for shaving cream come in two sizes – the simple quarter-sized button protector found on Barbasol or this full-bloat blowmolded cylindrical monster, which covered the can of Gilette I bought last week. With the earth’s carbon load trending toward the toxic, I worry about […]
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April 15, 2009
Or at least that’s what this blog points to. Wild cucumber tastes and looks nothing like its namesake. It is a 4-inch-long, order egg-shaped handful of misery, approved with cactusy spines that puncture your skin if you grip it too tightly. A taste of the juice inside (for they prove to be very juicy when […]
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April 11, 2009
Momordica Charantia, about which more here. *(ed. Original content for this HLO post was lost in the Great Script-Kiddies Bot-Hackorama of 2014-2025)
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