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elaine: 18th Apr 2005 - 14:06 GMT

Re: I Know: you wanna smell the drains in summer in Wapping (E1)

Peter: 18th Apr 2005 - 14:46 GMT

often, i tend to think that as opposed to how nice hte neighborhood/housing is, the best way to gauge teh quality of an apartment in nyc is:

1. does it have good water pressure?
2. is it near any stinky river-linked storm drains?

i used to live in a place where sewer gasses backed up into my apartment, which was actualyl very nice... i was glad to leave that place, as i was going throug ha can of lysol a week!

elaine: 18th Apr 2005 - 17:42 GMT

Re: I Know:yuk. See, wapping, being on the river, and downriver, there's a reason they say it's bad feng shui. In fact there's a whole sewage/cholera victorian story of how they discovered where germs really came from tale therein, however, though the germs are not IN the 'miasma' it still smells really rank and I am glad to be away from it, even though you did get a breeze off the river thrown in. I saw a bloke drown there once, too.

Marc: 18th Apr 2005 - 19:11 GMT

damn they figure out so much cool shit about humanity by sticking a million freaks together to poop in each other's drinking water!!

the 2nd largest chicken producer in the states, Tyson, kills something like 20 million chickens a week.. they live in these huge super warehouses. as chain reaction fallout from upton sinclair's socialist health expose the jungle, the usda has insisted that every chicken needs 1 cubic foot of living space, honest. So they get a million little 1 cubic foot cages and stack em all into huge monoliths of pissing/shitting (through the same hole, a chicken has a cloaca through which all matter passes, including eggs) into each others' food, mouths, etc. of course this would spread disease if they didnt feed the chickens mostly antibiotics, which also causes them to gain weight AND eat less! like farting under the blankets, it's the incubator for the super-nasty diseases- kept alive long enough to grow to that magic 3-4 pound fryer/broiler weight so we can then pass their muck into our bodies. something like 70 percent of all chickens have salmonella, and that's been recently surpassed by camphlobacter..

pics of my chickens back in san francisco, free-range +organic.

elaine: 18th Apr 2005 - 19:18 GMT

Re: I Know: I get halal chicken now, it's cheap and they've got their little faces and feets on, and you can see they havn't been pecking at each other and they ahvn't got the big blistery shit going on on the feet like the rank intensively farmed ones do

Peter: 18th Apr 2005 - 19:20 GMT

thanks to so much grodie-to-the-max-ness, i just gave up on meat. now i eat free-range tofu! :)

elaine: 22nd Apr 2005 - 21:40 GMT

there are 1000 city farms in the uk and 3 in walking distance from here. I go to hackney because they do food. the ducks are a hoot. i will post you some pics soon

Oscar Ramirez: 30th Jun 2006 - 05:07 GMT

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A collection of 14 short stories, all in Spanish and English, based on the author’s experiences of childhood before and after the Communist revolution. Includes Appendix for educators wishing to use the book in Spanish or English foreign language classes. Lots of nostalgia for those who knew Cuba in the 50’s and 60’s and plenty of humor for readers in general. Includes also many period family photographs that illustrate the stories and bring them vividly to life!

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Dr. Oscar M. Ramírez-Orbea, was born in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1955. He emigrated with his family to the US in 1966, after completing elementary school in his home country. He longs one day to return to his native city of Camagüey and to all the fond memories it holds for him. CUBA, I REMEMBER YOU/CUBA, TE RECUERDO is Dr. Ramírez’s first narrative work. More

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