There's Beauty in the Bellow

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_06_30/article.html Good article, especially in light of Doug Wilson's commentary on food

Zinnias from the Farmers Market : Zucchini and tomatoes. The tomatoes look rather palid, but they are sweet with hardly any acidicity. Just lovely. My basil plant My rosemary

It was all figured out. His persona drew from the previous waves of the punk rock movement while defining the new. He picked a suitably raucous punk name for himself (Darby Crash) and a suitable rockous punk name for his band (the Germs--you don't want to catch them!). They would release just one album, leaving their fans tantalized and aching for a more tangible way to capture their punk rock experience. And then he would die, ensconcing him in the Young Dead Olympians (YDO for short) a shimmering star in a glowing world, the firmament of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean and Elvis (granted, a not-so-YDO, but we waive that point, we pass over it). And it panned out beautifully, except, that the young man got upstaged. Someone died right after him in a more dramatic fashion. John Lennon was murdered (by someone else, note) while Darby Crash could only aspire to the cliched heroin overdose. And the world, in their shock over Lennon, forgot to talk about poor Darby Crash, they forgot to