I'd thought this story was fake/parody when I first saw it, but this isn't some fringe right-wing extremist movement — members of the current administration as well as numerous prominent and established mainstream Republicans are pushing to make Bush “President” for life. It's really quite insane — I'd laugh it off if it wasn't so mainstream in terms of who's involved and who's backing it. The comparisons to Julius Caesar and idolatry of Bush are rather disturbing… I really wonder what would happen if Bush actually was made Emperor? Would people revolt, or simply accept it? Would someone assassinate him? What a strange place America has become.
In more pleasant news, I made a really nice butter chicken dish last night with rice and mixed veggies. I've been trying to figure out exactly how much a family of three or four can eat for (something I never really paid close attention to in the past for some reason) and I think that for about $20 a day you can really eat like a king (and obviously one could eat well for less — that's eating really well). This meal would have fed two to four people depending on hunger, and was really “cheaty” in terms of using a pre-made sauce, and over-priced because I used a nice organic free range chicken and it had a total cost of less than ten dollars…
I figure that if you raise your own chickens and have a couple goats for milk and cheese, as well as producing many of your own vegetables, cost of food can be cut down incredibly. I think I mentioned that over this winter I'm trying to get all the pieces put together for the good life so by spring I want my storage unit to have a nice big yurt packed up in it, and I've been watching Craigslist for nice woodstoves, and slowly amassing tools and so on… So this all has been on my mind a lot lately.
We made a toy lizard out of some masking tape and a used up roll of paper towels and painted it this afternoon… Simple craft play is the best. That said, I need to set up my saw and do the framing of the paintings I have here, and get to work on a few new ones.
I'm very tired because this morning we got up earlier than usual as I had a first-thing appointment at the fracture clinic at the hospital. Both of my vehicles are kind of messed up right now so Nefarious and I have been riding a ton of transit and walking like crazy, which is actually really nice — much nicer than driving in the city, to say nothing of being hugely cheaper. Anyway, she got to watch them take all the staples out of my leg and we had a hot chocolate and then walked down to
Chapters and got the pile of books I've been promising her since her favorites are down in California.
Saira is babysitting tonight and I'm going to go see
Superbad so I grabbed my tickets while I was downtown. We had time to kill so we spent some time at the coffee shop in the bookstore reading, and continued that at home after lunch — I finished with
The Lorax and it was actually incredibly difficult… Outside of the regular pain that I'm in, I somehow sprained my knee (I'm sure it's just temporary), and when I'm really sore I have a lot of trouble controlling my emotions, so my voice was totally cracking at the end of it! I just barely held it together, hahaha… I'm such a crybaby. Great book either way.
Anyway, I started my new pain meds, so hopefully this entry isn't too jumbled. General brain confusion is one of the potential side effects so how knows…
