Java Mandala

I bring it to the people: Below is my sister's "Java Mandala" as it was originally presented, before it was unjustly censored by peevish, snooty anthropologists who wouldn't know art if it was ... well, right at their feet.

Food art

When my sister was in college, she created an art display made of scattered coffee beans. It was positioned in the hallway, between the art practice department and the anthropology department. At least it was, until the anthropology department faculty had a conniption, complaining that they could smell the coffee in their classrooms (oh horrors!). The art department declared that henceforth, food products shall not be used in art displays.

BOO! BOO! to uptight anthropologists!

Food is a natural medium for art - so natural even babies do it. Here are some examples that have landed on my del.icio.us list in the past few weeks:

The Twin Towers, rendeded in McDonald's french fries and ketchup ...

An anatomically correct heart, out of those chalky Conversation Heart candies that no one ever eats ...

Gassy Meat

Yet another not to buy meat propped onto styrafoam trays and smothered in plastic wrap ... it seems the FDA lets supermarkets pack red meat in carbon monoxide gas, making it appear fresh and tasty when it's actually old and nasty. The picture compares two pieces of meat of the same age.

That's why I like getting meat at the West Side Market. Meat actually looks like the animals they actually were.

I want to eat at ...

...The Giraffe Manor, a Kenyan hotel where giraffes can poke their heads into the second floor windows for a how-do-you-do and a little snack from you. How cool is that? Unless, of course, the giraffes have bad morning breath, in which case, ewww. Or they develop a taste for my Pringles, in which, BACK OFF! But I think they are herbivores and will mostly go after the vegetarian dishes, in which case, more power to ya, Giraffe-boy.

Giraffes, though, seem nice enough. Not like bears. Bears are dead to us.

Happy Ash Wednesday

Celebrate with a chocolate Sacred Heart of Jesus!
Mmm! I didn't see a rosary made of M but I'm sure Chocolate Deities is just getting ready to roll them out for a splashy Good Friday debut.