Kane Jamison

Best Songs About Lunch

Kane — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:16:00 +0000

Pizza Day – Aquabats

Asylum Street Spankers – You Only Love Me For My Lunchbox

Jimmy Buffett – I wish lunch could last forever

Adam Sandler – Lunch Lady Land

Fame – Hot Lunch

Har Mar Superstar – Power Lunch

Neil Sedaka covers himself with Lunch Will Keep Us Together

Weird Al – Girls Just Want To Have Lunch

Dinosaur Lightning – Lunch

Ella Fitzgerald – Miss Otis Regrets (She’s Unable to Lunch Today)

Outfield – Out to Lunch

Honorable Mentions

Blue Cheer – Sandwich – funky song

George Carlin – Sandwich

Thomas Newman – Lunch with the King from American Beauty (Not actually *about* lunch since it’s instrumental)

Raffi – Peanut Butter Sandwich (too annoying to put with the rest of the songs)

Showbread – Naked Lunch (good song but not about lunch)

Steely Dan – Lunch with Gina (can’t stand Steely Dan so it doesn’t make the top cuts)

My Dream Phish Sets

Kane — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:14:00 +0000

The following are “Dream Sets” that I would love to see Phish play, all of which have themes. Most of them are built using songs already written or covered by Phish, although a few of the sets are heavy on new songs Phish has not played – I’ve marked those songs with “(New)” at the end.

I started this list before 2010, some have been performed such as the 10/30/2021 Animals set.

Related Resources:

Notes:

Songs marked with “(New)” have not been played by Phish to my knowledge (as of early 2015).
Covers are formatted as “Song Title, Artist Name”
See any mistakes? Leave a comment or email me.

Weather:

Cold:

Tweezer
It’s Ice
Quinn the Eskimo, Bob Dylan(?)
Cool It Down, artist?
E – Tweezer Reprise

Heat:

Fuego
Fire, Jimi Hendrix
Steam
Who Loves The Sun, The Velvet Underground
Happiness Is A Warm Gun, The Beatles

Animal-Themed:

Wolves:

Wolfman’s Brother
Werewolves in London, Warren Zevon (New)

Lizards / Reptiles:

The Lizards
Terrapin Station, The Grateful Dead
Big Alligator

Mammals:

Possum
Rocky Raccoon
Run Like An Antelope
Buffalo Bill
Camel Walk
Guyute
The Horse
Llama
Scent of a Mule
Sleeping Monkey
The Sloth
Wombat
I Am The Walrus, The Beatles

Birds:

Birds of a Feather
They Attack!
Fly Famous Mockingbird
Vultures
Birdwatcher?
Blackbird, The Beatles

Insects:

Bug
Insects

Dogs:

Harpua
Dog Logs
Dogs Stole Things
McGrupp?
No Dogs Allowed
Runaway Jim
Dog Faced Boy

Plants:

Roses Are Free, Ween

Misc:

Boogie Set:

Boogie On Reggae Woman
I’m Your Boogie Man (New)
Blame It On The Boogie (New)
Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
Back Porch Boogie Blues
Casino Boogie
Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie
Feel The Heat (Boogie Nights Theme)
Jungle Boogie
Old Folks Boogie
Tripe Face Boogie

Rainbow Set – ROYGBIV:

Red –
Orange –
Yellow –
Green –
Blue –
Indigo –
Violet –
Rainbow Song? Somewhere Over The Rainbow, artist name

Mike Songs:

Mike’s Song >
Michael Jackson
Michael McDonald (New?)
George Michaels (New)
Michael Stipe (New)
Michael Franti (New)
Michael Bolton (New)

Space:

Big Black Furry Creature from Mars
Your Trip Is Short
Life On Mars, David Bowie
Rocket Man, Elton John
2001

Eating/Food:

Taste
Meatstick
Mango Song
Ingest
Peaches En Regalia, Frank Zappa

Drinking:

Mexican Cousin
Loving Cup

Cities:

Cities, Talking Heads
West LA Fadeaway, The Grateful Dead

Philosophy:

My Soul
Instant Karma, John Lennon

Lines:

The Line
All Down The Line, Rolling Stones
I Walk The Line, Johnny Cash
Backwards Down The Number Line

2010 Northwest Permaculture Convergence – Saturday & Sunday

Kane — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:31:42 +0000

More photos from Saturday and Sunday of the 2010 Northwest Permaculture Convergence. Click here to check out my photos from Friday of the Northwest Permaculture Convergence.

Lawn Lunch Panorama - Click for the full-size image

Skeeter gets the morning started with dancing - "Do you want to rise up in the morning, do you want to rise up in the day..."

Before Skeeter can get things going full swing, however, Kees jumps in to correct the tricky part of the lyrics

Once the crowd gets the hang of it, the dancing begins!

Kristina dances with the woman with dragon tattoos. OK, maybe not dragons, but close.

Charlotte and dance partner

The dancing continues for quite awhile, everyone was having a great time.

Dance circles form, all the ladies seem to love dancing with Skeeter

Charlotte Anthony of Victory Gardens in Eugene, OR talks about E.M. (Effective Microorganisms) and Bokashi Compost (You can even compost meat!)

I want to talk about the Bokashi briefly. A man in the audience who is a school teacher in British Columbia stood up to talk about Bokashi for a moment. He uses it in a school setting as a method to compost all the leftover food the kids have at lunch. Essentially you combine:

1 liter of water (if you use tap water, use warm water and let it sit out in the open for a few hours to let the chlorine dissipate)
2 tablespoons of Molasses
2 tablespoons of a product called inactive E.M., which is a Japanese brand standing for Effective Microorganisms.

I think the mixture is allowed to sit for a period of time while the E.M. “activates,” and then you add a carbon source such as wheat bran. At this point I think the mixture is now considered Bokashi, and it might need to sit awhile longer to spread throughout the bran. After this process is completed, the Bokashi can be added to just about any organic matter, including meat and other substances you’d normally avoid adding to compost. The Bokashi can be layered with whatever scraps you have lasagna style, and after approx. a month the mixture can be added to normal compost without any issues. Not only that, the process doesn’t produce any smell, even with the fish and meat and other animal products.

If you haven’t realized it yet, this has amazing potential for commercial and large-scale uses. The ability to add grains and meat to compost without separating for fruits and vegetables is a huge step in making composting a widespread activity beyond the scale of single family homes. As many of us know, the easiest way to get normal people to do “green things” is to make it as easy as possible and not inconvenience their life in any way. When you combine it with research being done using microorganisms to break down plastic and similar substances, this is a huge step towards true sustainability and processing the huge amounts of waste we produce. The next step is to reduce our waste, and convince food and container manufacturers to use 100% compostable packaging.

If you’re interested in working with Bokashi it’s a rather easy process according to everyone who has done it. When set up on a larger scale like you would find at a school or office building, this is a fairly easy process to sustain and get people to go along with. Here’s some more resources I’d recommend:

Bokashi Composting Discussion on Permies.com
CompostGuy.com talks about making Bokashi

: Paul Wheaton tolerates questions from the audience, mostly so he can do his part to let them know how utterly misinformed they are. It’s a thankless job but someone has to do it.

: Art Donnelly does a BioChar stove demonstration during lunch

: A pretty big crowd formed for Art’s demonstration.

: An example of a wok being used on a BioChar stove for stir-fry veggies

: The BioChar stove produces such intense heat in a stove of this size, that the veggies cooked very quickly. Art said he has smaller scale stoves for smaller cooking and heating situations, but for a larger family that needs to boil water along with food this was a good size.

: A closer view of the stove and where the fire is. The bottom half of the unit with the ridged metal is where the fuel source is located. The stove is air-controlled, rather than fuel-controlled, meaning the burn rate is influence by how much air you allow in, rather than how much fuel you put in. I believe this is the primary reason the stoves are so efficient, in combination with the use of pelleted fuel sources in an ideal setting. However, just about any normal fire fuel can be used, even pine needles, they just burn much quicker.

: More information on SeaChar.org’s mission – Click for the Larger Image

: Art’s organization, Sea Char, focuses on spreading the word on BioChar and providing stoves to families in third world countries. They offer some great demonstrations and courses in the Seattle area if you’d like to build your own BioChar stove or learn more about the technology.

: Paul Stamet’s organization Fungi Perfecti had a booth with mushroom starters as well as an awesome catalogue. More info at FungiPerfecti.com – Check it out to learn how mushroom’s are saving the world – no joke.

: To the delight of many Marisha’s Seed Swap Bin makes an appearance.

: Purslane, also donated by Marisha. This was the sweet crunchy thing in Sunday’s lunch salad. To me this variety tasted slightly citrusy, and has a texture similar to the inside of okra where it’s slightly milky, just not quite as much.

: Some squash and other veggies

: Beets!

: If the convergence was an Iron Chef episode, “soup” was the theme…

: Fresh Bread for Breakfast

Check out the convergence photos page for some videos linked in the comments, and the Cascadia section at Permies. Thanks to all who attended for a great experience, looking forward to doing it all over again in Oregon next year.

Also, if anyone saw the Permaculture posters on the wall that were drawn by Kelda Miller, I have photos of all of those that I should be posting soon. Check back here in the next week.

2010 Northwest Permaculture Convergence – Friday

Kane — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:55:08 +0000

Here are my photos from Friday of the 2010 Northwest Permaculture Convergence held at South Seattle Community College in Seattle, WA. Email me if you’d like copies of anything. You can find photos of Saturday and Sunday of the permaculture convergence here.

: Entering the Convergence

: Covergence Registration Geodesic Dome

: The Kitchen Load (I snuck back to take some photos…)

: Yowza! Look at those Gorgeous Tomatoes

: (What I Assume To Be) Heirloom Tomatoes – Nothing like getting together for the day with some of the best organic gardeners in the Pacific Northwest

: Lots of Carrots – They came in what had to be a 25 lb. sack of carrots

: My Tomatoes – These were part of our food contribution for the week. The green ones to the right are called Green Zebras, and the rest are about 5 varieties of red tomatoes, heirloom and some local Burien, WA hybrids

: Bowl of Potatoes – Not the most interesting vegetables I took photos of but the photo turned out great…

: Sustainable Burien Folks & Friends at Breakfast

: Breakfast at the Convergence

: Chuck Estin and his partners from Old Mill Permaculture Center lead a fishbowl discussion

: “The Permaculture Flower” – Permaculture posters by Kelda, look forward to a post of the full set coming soon!

: Permaculture Nap Teepees – The first good use of throw pillows I’ve ever seen

: Permaculture Convergence Lunch Line

: Rebecca at Lunch

: Bill, Michael, and Kristina at Lunch

: Outdoor Lunch Gathering

: How To Eat Your City Panel at the PacNW Permaculture Convergence – featuring staff from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, Parks & Recreation, Planning & Development, Richard Conlin’s Office, and Seattle Public Utilities – All were very thoughtful speakers, and it was a pleasure to see what amazing advocates the Permaculture movement has in the city

: Paul Wheaton rants & raves about Wofati Homes (and I mean that in the most impressed way I can – easily the presentation I was most looking forward to this weekend)

: An entire library of permaculture knowledge to peruse

: Mighty fine looking dinner salad

: Click Image for Full Size Version – Amazing drawing by Bruce Hostetter from “Re-Imagining The Cul-De-Sac” presentation with Jenny Pell & Dave Boehlein

Download the full-size version of the “Re-Imagining the Cul-De-Sac” drawing here.

That’s all for Friday – but check out the photos from Saturday and Sunday. If you see me at the convergence and would like some specific photos taken just let me know, I have the camera around my neck. Or just come say hello!

Election Night Headlines – President Elect Obama

Kane — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:36:14 +0000

Kottke.org – “Hell Yeah Obama Won”

I’ve gathered screen shots of 32 prominent websites and news organizations from tonight’s historic event, Barack Obama being elected President of the United States. I’ve placed a few favorites at the top here including Kottke.org, Fox News, the Chicago Tribune, and a few others. Click on the pictures to view the full-size image.

Fox News – “President Obama”

Chicago Tribune – “Barack Obama, our next president”

Slate.com – “President Obama: He won Ohio. He’s going to the White House.”

The Huffington Post – “President-Elect Obama”

New York Times – “Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout”

Seattle Times – “Obama Wins, Makes History”

FiveThirtyEight.com – “Barack Obama President-Elect of the United States”

LA Times – “Obama Wins: First African American In Highest U.S. Office”

L.A. Times II -“Obama Wins: That is the True Genius of America – That America Can Change”

The Wall Street Journal – “Obama Sweeps to Historic Victory”

BarackObama.com – “Thank You; Change Can Happen”

Seattle PI – “Obama Victorious”

Real Clear Politics – “Barack Obama Elected President”

BBC – “Obama Wins Historic US Election”

The Onion – “Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress”

Google News / Associated Press – “Obama Becomes First Black President in Landslide”

C.S. Monitor – “Obama Sweeps to Historic Win”

NPR – “Obama Sails to a Sweeping Victory”

MSNBC – “Obama Wins Presidency”

CNN – “Change Has Come to America”

Washington Post – “Obama Sweeps to Victory in History-Making Campaign”

USA Today – “Obama: ‘This Is Your Victory'”

ABC News – “Mr. President”

Guardian.co.uk – “President Obama”

The Stranger – “FUCK YEAH! President Barack Obama”

Seattlest.com – Obama is President-Elect by a Landslide”

Politico – “History Happens: Obama Wins”

Seattle Weekly – “Barack Obama Will Be Our Next President”

Daily Kos

Talking Points Memo – “Obama Elected 44th President; ‘The Dream of Our Founders Is Alive'”

San Francisco Chronicle – “Barack Obama: ‘Change Has Come To America'”

UPDATE: Kottke.org has a listing of people who saved screen shots and other web-souvenirs last night in his 2008 election headlines post, including myself.

By Kane Jamison.