>>>Even the potatoes taste better here. And it's not just us, playing localpatriotic tunes to our own ears. I've had american visitors over the last few years, and they all agree.
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>>Everyone knows the best potatoes on earth grow in Maine. Totally untrue, but I have to defend my home state.
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>And I heard the state of Idaho doesn't really exist, it's just a brand of potatoes for which the state was invented as a marketing gimmick.
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>>I believe you about fruit grown the old way. My next door neighbors are Polish (been here a long time) and have peach trees. The trees grow so heavy with fruit it's a wonder they don't collapse. They give me some of them, both fresh and jarred. You can't get anything like it at the grocery store.
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>My dad's yard looks like Acropolis in july - he has so many columns, namely sticks to prop the branches. He's got only two apricot trees in there, but they yield about 300 kg of delicious fruit. As daughter said "all this yoga for nothing - nirvana grows on a tree".
Nirvana grew in Seattle. My opinion remains that they were the last great rock band. Maybe he was nuts. I still think there was something too good about him for this world. I remember the day of his death even more vividly than 9/11.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkcJEvMcnEgAlmost 30 million views....
The best eulogy I read of Kurt Cobain, even better than the front page article in the NY Times, was from a young FoxPro guy who worked for George Goley. His first name was Mike and his last name started with I. He said he spoke to us. He said all our lives we have been told that we are dumb (another Nirvana song title), that we aren't smart or ambitious enough, that our SAT scores suck.
There was another Nirvana song, a cover of a Leadbelly song called "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" Cobain was crying out and nobody listened. The live album included several covers of songs about death. Nobody heard it. How unspeakably sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcXYz0gtJeM
