Opium rice

Poppy seed rice with fried eggs, green onion and hella garlic
This might look like bland peasant food you'd find in rural China, but trust me, it packs a lot of flavor and makes a satisfying light dinner. Sorry, I'm not too keen on exact measurements. They're arbitrary and preferential.

rice
garlic
2 eggs
green onion
poppy seeds
lemon
olive oil
salt and pep

~cook rice with lightly salted water and a couple table spoons of poppy seeds, chop a bunch of garlic cloves into fatty chunks, on low-med heat fry garlic in olive oil until the kitchen smells awesome then fry eggs + salt&pep, for green onion garnish chop green onion and soak in mix of olive oil, lemon juice and salt, enjoy with chopsticks and a glass of tap water or cheap beer~

~can add/sub eggs for fried tofu, don't corrupt the garlic flavor with overzealous soy sauce additions~

Feliz cumpleaños, sailor.

It was my editor's son(Ray)'s birthday yesterday so I made him this mobile. I had to work with what was lying around: stick, trashed paper, thread, and old paint found in the shed. Before you tell me to wipe the brown off my nose, I'll have you know I've been living with his family on their farm in Chile's Andean foothills for the past two months, so I'd say we're all friends. At first I was afraid the mobile would seem too childish for a 13 year old, but the fact that I wanted it for myself after I'd finished quelled those fears. And apparently Ray is really into sailboats, which I didn't know before making this, so hell yeah.

To really appreciate this thing you need to witness it in flight first-hand, so once again I've provided a crappy video courtesy of my point-and-shoot. Musical accompaniment: Iron and Wine cover Postal Service. Watch the shadows.



...also made another crane mobile for Steve and his wife.

Name that vegetable

Okay, I found some more paint in the garden shed and got a little carried away with this plant marker thing.
Cebolla-Onion

Let's see a few in the garden...

Lechuga-Lettuce

Aji-Chili pepper

Pimenton-Bell pepper

...and yesterday the sky was being amazing. Times like these I wish I had a better camera. And my friends to awe at this with me.

"When you travel, you experience in a very practical way, the act of rebirth......you confront completely new situations,the day passes more slowly......so you are like a baby, just out of the womb......and since all things are new, you see only the beauty in them......and you feel happy to be alive."

-Paulo Coelho