http://lusciousity.com/wp Things that are luscious Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:40:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you noticed how there just isn't one first day of school anymore? This probably isn't a new development in the history of school, but I'm feeling it this year as I gather up my schedules and my notebooks and my one and only kind of black pen that I ... http://lusciousity.com/wp/?p=144 Long before I was a vegetarian, I was the member of my family who could be counted upon to order the reddest, bleedingest thing on the the menu. In my teen years this usually meant the prime rib, but my days as a meat eater began with the hamburger. Wherever ... http://lusciousity.com/wp/?p=143 There's a lot to be said for watching the rain come down. As I was carrying in some last minute weekend groceries earlier this evening, I had a sudden vision of what I would most likely to be doing this evening, round about 8pm. I saw myself sitting on the ... http://lusciousity.com/wp/?p=142 Lushes, summer is 'icumen in, and we all know what that means... it's time to start drinking summer drinks. As you may remember from the early days of Lusciousity, one of our first featured drinks was the Chelada or Michelada. The savory chelada (beer mixed with fresh lime juice and ... http://lusciousity.com/wp/?p=141 I'm going to rewind a couple of key luscious points made early in the life of lusciousity: All will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of thing will be well-- Julian of Norwich And when we can't see how it will be well or it is utterly impossible ... http://lusciousity.com/wp/?p=140 I've been a little slow in following up on this luscious tip from Frida, but today I finally managed to get my behind to the nearest Target and pick up a tin of Dark Chocolate Altoids. Yes, you read that correctly. Dark Chocolate (possibly my second favorite food on this ... http://lusciousity.com/wp/?p=139 You will love the Ray Bradbury short story "There Will Come Soft Rains." It is a haunting short story about our technological future. I was thinking about it last week when a coworker and I were discussing the relative merits of robots in our lives. Coworker was pro-robot, especially the ... http://lusciousity.com/wp/?p=138 But local food is catching on in a big way, and to that Lusciousity says yum and it's about time. Just today Salon ran an article about Georgetown Law's attempt to integrate local food into their cafeteria cuisine and I ran across a south Florida blog that is spreading the ... http://lusciousity.com/wp/?p=137 Asimo is the name of my new robot friend. You can see him do a jog here, but what makes him luscious today is heart-panging reverie he sent me on this afternoon when I watched him fall down here. Even though I know he is a robot and therefore just ... http://lusciousity.com/wp/?p=136 ...but as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would tell us, it bends towards justice if we all keep doing our little bits every day. Celebrate the lusciousness of fighting the good fight by checking out video of Dr. King here and write a letter to your Representative about the plight ... http://lusciousity.com/wp/?p=135