Thursday, December 25, 2003


the nutcracker and other real things

of course we celebrate all holidays with chocolate, which is why today finds us baking our famed chocolate chip cookies.

use the above search to find the bccy recipe.

to speed the 4 dozen or so along, naturally, we enjoy baking to music: shirim's awesome psychedelic free-jazz klez version of tchaikovsky's nutcracker and a good mix of vince guaraldi's charlie brown/peanuts music.

today also finds us bidding farewell to the last of the gillies norwegian wood. although the coffee artist himself is presently on vacation, i think we here at bccy have enough coffee to squeak by before we perish of deprivation and despair.

waiting for said cookies to cool, we noshed on nova and fresh scallion cream cheese while perusing this silly article:

"guzzle double espressos while doing yoga."

message to the dallas morning news: what is supposedly antithetical about coffee and yoga? as i never tire of mentioning, famed yoga teacher p. jois drinks several cups of coffee every day.

since the article goes on to blather about various fake social constructs created by marketing professionals, and then ends by trying to make women readers ashamed of themselves for seeking authenticity, (since when is that a crime?) or as i see it, simply enjoying life more, i should giggle and have a cookie.

crucial yoga note: guilt is not involved. at every moment you have the option to start anew, to do it anew, to be who you are now. . .anew.

the consumerist commercial media just can't stand this idea.
while the article goes on to mock people for being who they are and making their own choices (mostly those of women), note how it uses guilt to slam the concept of authenticity in order to back-handedly extol its own idea of an acceptable and authentic identity.

but of course one that is set, regulated, owned and controlled by major media commercial outlets such as the dallas news. . .

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