No, no, this post isn't about Brit-Brit, though she does look good in the hat. here are some of the best Aretha looks from the more recent years. I personally love each. and. every. one.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/31670148.html

Via Iconoculture:

"Part wall of shame, part blame game, part dark comedy — the online photolog ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com is straightforward data wrapped up in a complicated package of consumer emotions."

In the photo is a meatloaf cake, the frosting is (presumably) mashed potatoes, the decorative lettering atop? Ketchup.

I was so proud of my super healthy buffalo meat loaf from last week and after seeing this, I kinda wanna die. Ditto on the bacon-and-fudge danish I saw.

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

On solstices and equinoxes we do a 108 sun salutations in the yogic tradition. During medaitation, when I'm silently spinning the beads on my mala, I have 108 beads before my guru bead.

But why? When one of my student's asked, I gave a few of the stock answers I knew off the top of my head (proportionate distance between the sun, most common denominators, etc).

Here's a good read.

http://www.hknet.org.nz/108meaning.html

14th Street's getting a new coffee house, just above the not-quite-recently relocated Miss Pixies @ 1626 14th.

For those that don't know, I spent a good chunk of my early DC life as a barista/cocktail server at the Dupont South Cosi. We were the "other side of the tracks" Cosi, serving up scandal with our Double Oh! Arctic Mochas.

After becoming firmly disenchanted with my coffee options here in mid city, Daddy went out and got himself a french press and coffee grinder. Now I only grind freshly roasted beans every morning.

When I want a little treat, ACKC does a good job of filling my caffinated sweet tooth, but what about when I need to get off the couch and do some work? Where do I go?

Certainly not cruise-a-bou at 14th and Rhode Island. I'm excited!

http://amandamc.blogspot.com/2009/03/mid-city-cafe-coming-to-14th-street.html

Thanks, Joel!

Aside from being six-packed hot dudes, this video totally brings the clever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EUupnF02vo

I listened to this podcast on the way home from Jersey yesterday, all the while thinking of you!

http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/27256

Thanks, Towleroad, for the best headline of my morning.

I'm from a part of the country where joining the military is a very real opportunity for those who don't wish to be farmhands or make less than 30k a year for the rest of their lives.

Louis Sheldon and Andrea Lafferty make some absurd statements in their arguments to keep the mo's out of the mil. I like that they also are concerned about about Drag Queens joining, and (in the same breath) imply that they're the same as transgender folk. All I can think of is the Eddie Izzard bit about Drag Queen Paratroopers.

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2009/03/and-theyll-replace-guns-with-dildosaahhh-fear-aaaaaaaaaah.html

I really enjoy Patrick, the Yoga Garden teacher who is featured in this video. He's been doing periodic yoga vids for quite a while.

I'm not a surfer. I'd like to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WE34C2eiiI

I've been doing a lot of educational reading.

Yoga, yoga, yoga.

The topic of Batman managed to leach a few hours from me. Here is a round up/summary of whats been happening in the bat books over the past year.

I'm hoping Dick Grayson ends up as Bats, but thats just me.

http://comics.ign.com/articles/956/956858p1.html

Between the lavender for class and the etsy recommendations I've been sharing with my students, you've been swirling in my head.

Slumber party?

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30911272&ref=sr_gallery_5&&ga_search_query=lavender_essential_oil&ga_search_type=all&ga_page=&order=&includes%5B%5D=materials_exact