Writer Michael Pollan will discuss his new best seller, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, in a Feb. 21, 2008, lecture at 6 p.m.
AAAAAAAHHHHHH nuts.
But family is first. Girls room has to be finished. And Sleep will do more good than the lecture (i can always buy the book).
Topping the New York Times Bestseller List for hardcover non-fiction, In Defense of Food explores the modern food landscape and its effect on consumer health. Pollan said Americans are increasingly consuming “edible food-like substances” – energy bars, chicken nuggets, drinkable yogurt in portable tubes – that are products not of nature, but the food industry. Pollan argues that in a rush to improve health, Americans have focused too heavily on nutrition, adding vitamins, whole grains, fatty acids and other “healthful” ingredients to food. But after a generation of “nutritionism,” Pollan notes that Americans aren’t any healthier.
Anyone who even slightly tacitly has read anything I've said about food must grasp the conflict. But, then, do I really need to go hear a version of what I've been saying all along?
I just hope the people who go, actually benefit and learn. It sounds like they are expecting such a huge crowd that the lecture will be simulcast from a second hall once the first one fills up. Crazy.
Ah well. I'm just heading home to paint. Plug myself into the iPod for a couple hours. Eat what ever I have left over (I think I still have one serving of linguini with linguica sausage cream sauce) and paint some more.
I really actually hate painting. Hate it with a passion. Not sure why. I like painting on canvas and stuff but painting a room is like a coloring book - completely void of all imagination and creativity. All that is left to master are the details. The mind numbing painfully obvious details. I ain't bad at it after all these years, I just don't like it. Oh well. Even not liking it, the room won't paint itself and I really don't like the color that it is and neither do the girls, and the ceiling looks freaking awesome all clean and painted - can't wait for the rest of it. I guess there is some suspense and curiosity to see if the color I picked actually looks like I think it will/hope.
I've got a few photos - at the end of the project I might put them together.
Time to ride home and hope that the wind hasn't changed direction or died down since I came in!
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2 comments:
If you want to come hate painting at my house when you're done, I'll give you the money I'm giving the painter I have... consider a contribution to the "G really really does want a new bike" fund.
i am with you on this one 110%. I have an unreasonable hatred of painting.
i think it has to do with my genetic lack of patience.
I bet in purgatory, for you catholics, people with A.D.D. get forced to paint rooms.
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