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I decided I'm going to unlink this old blog from my posterous blog. It seems silly post here when it's identical to the other blog. Well identical, except it's not grossly mis-formatted like this blog. Also, I'm two lazy to go two places and correct my many typos I notice after the fact. In the future just visit me at:

http://www.lindseybaker.net/

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

I've been reserving my judgement on 'Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution'
the upcoming television show touting my hometown of Huntington, WV as
"America's Unhealthiest City". Today when searching around for
information I found a preview for the show.

I'm torn. Huntington was given it's title of "Unhealthiest City"
because it was the most populated city in a study of five area
counties, some of which were in our neighbour states of Ohio and
Kentucky. So the fact that it's called the trumped up 'America's
Unhealthiest City' (downplayed from earlier title of "fattest city")
is suspect to begin with but I guess "America's Unhealthiest
Five-County Metropolitan Area" doesn't have the same ring to it. The
statistics for which the "Unhealthiest City" moniker were based came
out in November of 2008, after which numerous articles in the US and
UK painted a picture of Huntingtonians as being globular hillbillies
who don't know no better than to eat themselves plumb full of biscuit
and fudge.

The promo through the eyes of ABC's Extreme Home Makeover-style
editing this Huntington, West Virginia seamed very foreign to me. In
the hometown I was raised, pizza was not on the school's breakfast
menu and children were able to identify a veritable cornucopia of
fruits and vegetables. I even saw produce with MY OWN EYES when my
grandfather would take me to the farmers market when he went at the
beginning of every day. The reality of Huntington's makeup is quite
different than the beyond thunderdome wasteland of fast-food fatties
that some past-articles would have you believe live there. That being
said, Huntington has some very serious eating problems that need to be
addressed but not sensationalized and I think people are reasonably
sceptical of British guys pouring lard on tarps. Early reports from
my mother, a teacher in one of the schools which adopted Oliver's
changes, and from friends who have participated in some his cooking
classes have been good, I'm just interested in seeing how it all comes
off on television.

P.S.: People like that loudmouth "we don't want to sit around and eat
lettuce all day" radio DJ are a dime a dozen there, it's one of the
reasons I don't live there any more.

P.S.S.: Thank god for Andy Dick stealing the Huntington spotlight a
bit. I'm much rather people be like "Hey, your form the town that
Andy Dick touched two guys on the genitals" than "Hey, your form
America's fattest city." Andy, please come back and touch some
genitals to seal the deal after the show airs, I beg of you!

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What self-respecting real werewolf would call themselves “wolfy”, a name that lends itself to ZERO forest-cred.

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Two obsessions,one video...set heart cockles to warm.

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I'll give you my Tonight Show...when you take it from my cold, dead hands.

Just got done watching Leno on Oprah. Fascinating. It's so strange to me that he believes he plays the roll of a "boxer...gun slinger...and big time wrestler" in that situation and not roll of a selfish, desperate, lazy comedian too afraid to try something new. The worst part was his self doubt that "maybe I'm not doing the right thing" at the end led me to believe that he'd never thought about these things before, that it took being asked by Oprah Winfrey for him to think about some these things for the first time!

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Holden Caulfield rock block.

KEXP just did a Holden Caulfield rock block in which it seemed like they just put 'anything Salinger' in the database and hit <SEARCH>. I appreciate the homage but I'll take good music that's unrelated over "hey, here are some songs about things that are happening" any day.

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I'm home sick, and I've come to a decision.

I'm stuck here at the house going back and forth between cough
medicine fulled sleep, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch watching, and the
iPad announcement (I wasn't sold until the $499 price point and
keyboard dock) and I've come to a decision...Minestrone, you
constantly underwhelm me. Quite frankly, you're not a very good soup.
In the future, unless you come free with dinner like you do at the
Italian Spaghetti House in Lake City we are done....that's
right...D-O-N-E!

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I'm loving these new banana stickers.

via beckymartz.com

My friend Courtney turned me on to these new stickers that have been on Chiquita bananas lately...so cute!

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Labels: banana, graphic design, stickers

Early thoughts on Posterous.

I've been excited about using posterous! I'm going to do my interneting where I can give and receive the most information about what's important to me (friends and general BS) and that lately has been Twitter and Facebook. I appreciate the easy communication and instant gratification aspects of status updates and twittering but they've become enablers to my already lazy nature for not expressing bigger ideas.

The hyper-self-analysis that goes with looking back at what I've written has contributed to this and that combined with a fear of writing something worthwhile has accompanied the droughts or deaths of my long form blogs in the past. Posterous covers more ground which helps it feel like there's much more middle ground for updating, be it a youtube clip, pictures of Bryn, or a long missive I thought was meaningful at the time.

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Sounders.

So excited that there will be more Sounders news now the training camp has started! Who would have thought that the fond memoirs of youth soccer combined with a life long love wearing stylish scarves would have created a sports fan out of me. Speaking of...my Sounders bar scarf form roughneck that Heather's family pre-ordered me for Christmas should be here soon.

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