I’m astounded by the similarities between these recipes in this book and recipes in Charleston, SC, where I used to live. This little cookbook will be a nice reference to my future kitchen adventures!!!

-Rommel Batu

Maybe this is the idea of the meme at work as cultural evolution operating through the constant flood of information we are so subjected to. However, the binary root structure notion of the meme doesn’t quite cover it. Too many other connections at play affecting and effecting everything. Again, I suppose restating a statement about something Hughes seems to be talking about. I also like the three-legged stool.

This dialog is such a constant presence in any makers life (I hope), and always twisting and folding back on itself. I think maybe we will all always work in this constantly connected way because in addition to our social and cultural conditions we are all always starting from the shared position of being a body in space. Thank you for this post so that I can fold the thought yet again.

playland was so much fun.
it was so big and never tiring.
the ladies with skirts would get the blast of air under when they entered –
one’s mom’s dress coming up was so funny.
obviously couldn’t do it today!
there were huge huge huge wood indoor slides that let you fly down many stories.
rolling barrels to make your way through –
and the huge cylinder that you’d position yourself on as close to the center
as possible that would start up and go faster as you’d try to stay on
then get centrufically pulled off of and go sliding outward to the sides.
the gallery of mirrors that made you all kids of shapes –
and then outside the Fun House — all kinds of carney fun and food.
they had great chicken pot pies and salt water taffies.
i remember i went back in the 70s and it had gone down –
right before it got turned into condos.
it was really a great place.
so great the camera remains.
Mimi