I'm currently getting ready to place another big order with my favorite supplier, Majestic Mountain Sage (and yes, part of the reason I love them is their totally hilarious name) and I have to tell you, I'm having a lot of fun with my new soapy life. I make hot process soap, which has a many advantages and a few disadvantages when compared to cold process soap. The disadvantages mean I have a few issues and small problems that need creative solutions, most of which I'd like to solve with this next order. To that end, to prepare to make my purchase order I reviewed the pro/con list that I put together when I was trying to decide which ...

Oh God, here we go again - another chance to unseat Sen. Gordon Smith, another chance for Oregon Democrats to blow it. Now, just between you and me, I think Smith won the general election at the same moment Steve Novick lost the nomination. I mean, Jeff Merkley is a progressive and all - he’s signed on to the Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, which pleases me greatly - and I’m sure he would be a damn sight better than Smith (60 seat majority, y’all!) but Merkley ran one of the most pathetic campaigns I’ve ever seen — and ol’ Gordo is pulling out all the stops this year.

So far, he's run an enviro-pandering ...

I've been feeling pretty quiet this week, sorry for the lull. I've been busy playing with my rad new food processor (which I bought with some of the $600 that GWB decided to borrow from China so that I would have the supreme pleasure of stimulating the Chinese economy by purchasing $600 worth of plastic crap at the mall). I also spent some of it on Radiohead tickets for their show in August (yay!). But seeing as my soap business is about as fledgling as they come, I'm saving the rest. I mean, I wasn't even going to buy the food processor, to tell you the truth, but Will talked me into it by pointing out (rather pointedly, if you'll pardon ...

So Will and I are trying this method of hilling potatoes to (hopefully) grow a crop of taters in a garbage can on our porch. We planted them yesterday - and while I don't have very high hopes for this project, it sure would be rad if it worked. Either way, the seed potatoes have already made the whole thing seem worthwhile; before we planted them, they sprouted and grew some of the weirdest shit I have ever seen, check it out:

Breaking OMG: Dennis Kucinich is reading Articles of Impeachment against Bush today! I mean, I know that his impeachment bill won't go anywhere (which is why they made him read it on C-SPAN at 10pm) but it's still really gratifying to see at least ONE Congressman standing up for the rule of law, right? Seriously, I freaking love Dennis Kucinich. I went to his P-town rally in '04 and it was unforgettable. So many bearded, strident liberals in one place! It was like a homecoming for me. There was even a 9/11 Truth table! Seriously: the only sad thing about voting for Obama this year was not getting to vote for Kucinich.

Because "change you can xerox" was her "a few too many of Mr. Graham's crackers?". In real life, though, Clinton-as-Salini doesn't get the award -- although her stated rationale for why she should was strikingly similar ("Brilliance upsets people. It makes them feel inferior. Better that people should make do with [my] blustery hoopla!").

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Grr. I wasted approximately half of my day futzing around with my sporadically broke-ass internet connection. Therefore, I got very little accomplished and I'm feeling somewhat pissy about it. I have consoled myself with delicious pasta and merlot, the internet is finally working again, and my blood pressure has (hopefully) returned to normal. Time for a bath, methinks. In more upbeat news, I am excited about the following things:

• Montavilla Farmers Market on Sunday, w00t!
• Eating lettuce from my container garden
• Going camping this month
• Seeing Radiohead in August
• Planting my seed potatoes this weekend (ooh and also this sweet bonus tomato plant that Will brought home tonight - it's huge!)
• Pulling an all-nighter tonight just for the sheer hell of it
• Picking out some new essential oils ...
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In honor of Hillary Clinton's historic experience as the first woman to make a credible run for the Presidency, I present to you the greatest hits of my personal feminist hero: Lisa Simpson. Extra-special love to the Babysitters Club reference and this quote: "I know this obsession with thinness is anti-feminist... but that's what a fat girl would say!" I usually hate the gawker blogs, but they're 100% right about this one; I doubt I'd be half the woman I am today if I hadn't had little Lisa Simpson in my life from the tender age of seven. All hail Lisa Simpson, a feminist hero for our time and a model for the lucky woman who ...