True life - You called KEVIN?

Thanks to pilarcruz for this piece of amazement (link to her post here). It is epic, and complicated, and operatic, but totally and completely real, tragic and funny and awful. Could anyone write something like this? I almost think not. It's too wierdly authentic. There are reams of information about the characters and years and years of experience expressed here.

In the butt. On Myspace.

EDIT Thanks to morimur linking to a new Ladytron song here if you play this song low underneath the clip it's even more wonderful.

For my friends who enjoy such things

You know who you are.

A little girl falls off the stage.

Gardening

We did so much work last year and it looked great:





This year is about going for a less overgrown effect, moving the taller plants further back, and moving other things around to make them less crammed in together.

In the front of the yard by the house we had a vege garden, this year it's moving to the upper yard and the space:





Is going to have seating. Ernie wants to pave it over with two benches and have pots of plants. I see the two benches but I want it to be the "fragrance garden" - a couple of roses, heliotropes, tuberoses, and the herb garden. Is that gay enough? I think so.

The vege garden in the upper yard is freshly rototilled and mostly enclosed (we have decimating groundhogs.) It's about 20ft by 10ft. Along the wall we're putting two more bamboo plants with the goal of eventually having a good screen there. The large pipe structure is about 7ft; that's to hold the 6 or 7 tomato plants upright.





Based on what we've used before, along with the tomatoes we'll have:

- a few basil plants
- 6 or more Galician Padron Peppers. I've been getting these from local farmer's markets and they're amazing blistered in olive oil and then topped with some good crunchy salt.
- Brocolli. kenjallen grows brocolli and fresh from the garden it's a different taste entirely.
- red/purple carrots. Maybe. Carrots have never done well in our soil but I love the dark colored variety.
- Corn. It grew well last year.
- Arugula and salad greens - in a small dense patch that we just shear off with scissors. Yummy.
- Green beans. These are so easy to grow, but the only ones we like are the little french haricot verts. I have seeds.

I'm also thinking of pototoes, just to have something different.

I love this time of year.