i've got it

"i'm not afraid of you and i will beat your ass" -sounds like an album i can get behind.
just found out that yo la tengo got its name from people fighting over catching a pop fly.

wyatt thinks i should just give up and open my own restaurant and name it the glue de ew.

last night i delivered emergency cherry tomatoes to a restaurant in denver called duo. the chef goes to the boulder farmer's market every saturady to get his order for the week, but this saturday had some kind of farmer's market overload, freaked out, and left the market without his cherry tomatoes or invoice. so i am volunteered to take the tomatoes to him on my way home, which puts me in the restaurant at 8 o'clock on a saturday night, carrying two bins of cherries between crowded tables, sure that i'll drop everything and cherry tomatoes will go rolling through the dining room in slow motion. thankfully, i managed some grace in my task and got them back to the kitchen so that the mexican dishwasher could spill them instead. i was rewarded for my efforts with a free glass of wine from the owner and some lame conversation with bobby, the career bartender of duo. he was okay- just kind of a dork and not a very good bartender. i ate their 'summer vegetable gratin' because i was pretty sure i'd touched most of the vegetables that went into it at least once before. see- a good percentage of farming is just moving things around a lot. take, for example, the average japanese eggplant. it has a life span of about one week, during which time i might handle it about, i don't know, 15 times. i pick it, wash it, pack it for farmer's market, unpack it from farmer's market and put it into a box at the farm stand, take it out of the box for display, put if back- repeat a few days- then finally toss it in the compost. poor little eggplant.

and now, a question for the foodies: what does one do with scorzenera? a.k.a black salsify and/or oyster plant. i've looked it up and can't come up with anything that sounds even remotely good- especially since there is conflicting information about it's possible toxicity and deliciousness. anyone? scorzenera?

it's my day off and my body is loving me for not busting my ass working, and yet i'm restless and feel like i need to go lift something heavy. so i'm going to go do that....