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My roommate Dean created this video about some peculiarities in our store bought eggs:
Now I'm not sure what these guy's are doing with their chickens, but frankly the result is a little freaky. With a name like "Lally Farms," I think anyone would be suspicious. I made some tacos tonight (eggs, grated carrot and some sliced red pepper on top) and was greeted to the doubly-yolked surprise. Though honestly, the surprise has worn off since this has been going on for weeks with multiple cartons of eggs. Now it's just foreboding. +Update: Checkout this blog entry from Notes on an Eclectic Mind about what double yolks may signify.+

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*Alternate Title:* May I? You Mayo. I'm not sure if it's a Lowell thing, a New England thing, or a Ben-is-woefully-ignorant thing, but there has been some major innovation in terms of "salad." I put salad in quotes because this is not your leafy green, or even weedy weird, salad with the pine nuts, raisins if you're lucky, and maybe a little balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil to round it out. No, dear reader, this is the meat meet mayo abomination that, having taken hold in our church socials, is fattening it's way towards mainstream America. So far I count: # Egg Salad (The classic cholestrol coronator) # Tuna Salad (A little fishy) # Seafood Salad (It's not tuna salad) # Chicken Salad (Poor bird) # Ham Salad (The even whiter meat) Only God knows what substance they Mayonaise Advisory Council will think of adding next. _Dean eats his heart out_

Took this with my bud Dean Jansen. For anyone that says that community media and a participatory culture won’t have a positive effect on society, at the very least it keeps us well-dressed.

!(alignleft)http://static.flickr.com/52/115055650_4e87ffadf4_m.jpg!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomicworkshop/115055650/ !(alignright)http://static.flickr.com/38/115054845_9f6bf03a4a_m.jpg!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomicworkshop/115054845/ p{clear: both;}. I was over at my pal Dean's place in Jamaica Plain today. In addition to lots of semi-expired foodstuffs he snags from behind the Co-Op next door, he also has the screens and materials for t-shirt printing. Previously I had been helping him up in Lowell filming some promos for his "Democracy Player":http://getdemocracy.com channel, "Telemusicvision":http://telemusicvision.com; today we were putting stuff on t-shirts.

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