Roundup – Week Of Oct 20
Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 7:14 am
The weekly collection of interesting reads from around the blogosphere.
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And here we are again. The Roundup it turns out has one good feature going for it. It indicates the weekend! Whooo… well, for those who only work Monday through Friday anyway.
Let’s start off with Jestertunes’ Night Of Mystery. Nope, that’s all I’m sayin’. Don’t want to spoil nothin’.
This is what love is, Lou Gramm. (And for those who don’t get that reference, Lou was the lead singer of Foreigner who had a big hit called “I Want To Love What Is” which was their only #1 song on the US charts. Huh, Foreigner number one on the US charts. Ironic!)
Chris over at My 2 Cents posted this video that shows one bad side effect of pot smoking. Okay, I guess 99% would find it bad. Not that I’m judging (but secretly I am.)
Speaking of pot, farmers are trying to get the government to take hemp off their controlled drug list so they can cultivate it because it grows like a — well, like a weed. It seems that industrial hemp has thousands of good uses and it won’t get you high. I suspect a lumber industry conspiracy.
Dr. Jeff Masters has a blog on Weather Underground that I read regularly — yeah, I’m a geek. This week he posted some extraordinary pictures of a tornado crossing over Black Lake in Michigan.
Frogster over at The Frog Bog gave us an excellent example of how to rant without all the anger. He kills with kindness in the story of his move from Cali to Jersey.
Just Giblets has posted a Halloween safety video for you.
And finally, Just Jami’s son loves wearing pink since it’s his favorite color. I like wearing it, too, so it made me doubly happy to read this protest story about a school coming together in a nonviolent protest. It’s like they are all modern pink-wearing Ghandis. Hmmm, I’m not sure now that pink would go with Ghandi’s coloring actually.
Listening to: “Busby Berkeley Dreams” – The Magnetic Fields
October 26th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
You rock the Roundup for us. Thank you.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Ahhh, you’re welcome.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Yay! I made The Roundup! I was beginning to think you didn’t love me anymore…
October 26th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
LOL – I picture hundreds of hippies plundering the Hemp Farmer’s fields at night, with Foghat tunes blasting from their portable 8-tracks.
Pssst – i have the new experimental (hemp-free) caption contest posted.
October 28th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
good job pounding, i mean rounding up blog posts.
October 28th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Jester: Naw, I just have been cutting back on my reading with all the other stuff I have going, so something really has to grab me in order to read the full post.
Daveman: Excuse me? They have upgraded to cassette now. Jeez!
Mike: You’re naughty.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:43 am
Hemp is grown in the UK, neutered to remove the THC. And yes, it has countless uses. It’s used to make clothes and paper, the seeds can be eaten as they contain more nutrients and vitamins and fibre than just about anything else. It can be pressed into oil and makes a wonderful salad dressing, again commercially available in supermarkets across the UK.
It is said that the reason it was made illegal in the US first of all was because Ford made a car that ran on hemp oil but as hemp was a threat to the growing oil concerns, they lobbied government to make it illegal. It is certainly true that hemp offers a way forward as an oil alternative.
So, sadly, there would be no rampaging hippies. Of course the average weed smoker (we rarely use the term pot over this side of the water) is corporate, suited and booted. Not a drop-out.
In a similar vein – no pun intended given what I am about to write – it is said that there are many cocaine and heroin addicts in the City of London, but because they’re loaded and can afford to maintain their habits and the purity of their supplies, they go unnoticed. Only the poor get noticed when they have drug habits, because they either deteriorate, or get into crime, or both. Of course eventually such drug habits catch up with anyone… But with the rich it takes a while longer, that’s all… x
October 30th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Really great round up!
October 30th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Andy: I think more and more pot smoking is becoming as ‘accepted’ as tobacco.
Wakela: Glad you enjoyed.