This is the new religion I want to be, going to one church a week.

Unitarian-Universalism/Baha'i. Or, I don't know, maybe I should just be Baha'i because it's the same thing, really. Unitarian Universalism=belief in nothing, and Baha'i=half-Hinduism, a good religion concerning the increase of mental and bodily function (through yoga), and half-Islam, the religion of Iraq (the source of civilization 2,000 years ago). Now, I'll have to find a Baha'i center. Islam is the religion of Iraq (where the population of the world's first civilization 2,000 years ago) and Iran (the source of the population and culture of that civilization). Hinduism is the religion of India, and it's all about creating physical and mental peace in one's body). My Dad loves yoga and meditation, another great practice of yoga that focuses one's mind on God.

OK. September 11th was because of Muslims, but most Muslims in the world are peaceful, and God.

Unitarian-Baha'i

What the fuck (sorry, Christians, but fuck isn't a bad word unless it's used to mean sex, which isn't bad anyways and which was what it was meant to use in the early days. Anyway, I had a whole post written out that mentioned Simon Reynolds, my favorite music critic whose blog is called blissout.blogspot.com (right now he's into grime, which is the English equivalent of rap (because black folks exist in the U.K. or England too, the descendants of workers from Jamaica who were brought over in like the 1600s. Anyway, Black Brits invented jungle and grime. Jungle was around in the mid-90s and is like really fast hip-hop with reggae (or ragga, a funky version of reggae) beats. After jungle (or drum 'n' bass) in the mid-'90s came Grime, which is like a British version of rap, and whose premier mid-'00s artist Dizzee Rascall released an album called "Boy in da Corner." Anyway, I highly reccomend that you all, or at least the ones who like rap, download this album or at least its best songs according to AllMusic.com --

Unitarian-Universalist
and
Bahai.

Is what I'm gonna be.
Unitarian-Universalism is a religion charcterized by a free and responaible search for truth and meaning.
The Bahai Faith is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahaullah in Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all mankind.
Basically,
Unitarian-Universalism believes in nothing (but science), and Baha'i is a mix of Hinduism (the religion of yoga and asceticism) and Islam (the religion of Iraq, and therefore the religion of humanity). Well, human civilization first started in Iraq.

YO everybody what up

I just realized something interesting. Oh, by the way, I'm a Buddhist again -- I think those rules are the best. No sex outside of marriage, no drugs -- you could call me a Buddhist by the way of Mormonism, because I'll take tips from the LDS on how to avoid masturbation (namely, never shut doors all the way, and never even close shower curtains all the way) and also, from the Word of Wisdom, on avoidance of tea, coffee, alcohol, and tobacco. I'm also going to start taking classes on the Book of Mormon at the Religious Institute here in Rocklin -- but no more prayer or fasting for me, I guess.

Eight Precepts on uposatha days:
January
4*
11*
19*
25
-
-
February
2
9Māgha Pūjā
17
24*
-
-
March
4*
11*
19*
25
-
-
April
2
9
17
24*
-
-
May
2*
8Visākha Pūjā
16
23
31
-
June
-
7
15
22
30
-
July
-
7Āsaḷha Pūjā
15
22
30
-
August
-
6
14
20
28
-
September
-
4
12
19
27
-
October
-
4Pavāraṇā Day
12
18
26
-
November
-
2Ānāpānasati Day
10
17
25
-
December
-
2
10
16
24
31
(no sex at all, no eating after noon, no dancing/singing/music/going to see entertainments/wearing garlands/using perfumes/beautifying body with cosmetics).

I am a Republican in California and a Democrat in Washington, DC (so to speak).

Please check this crap out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychoactive_drug&oldid=15191998



This is by far the most useful thing I've ever found on Wikipedia, courtesy of "Thoric", in article "Psychoactive drugs": 20:11, 14 June 2005 Thoric (Talk contribs) (Replaced big list of drugs with this chart which I feel gives the average joe a better overview (let me know if anything is in the wrong place))

Let me be straight: Proletariat, lumpenproletariat, and proudly so.

I miss you, old bloggy-blogg. As this blog was created by and for myself, it will always be thus, I imagine -- unlike the Jana-inspired livejournal and rara avis are we. Not that anyone has ever read it, ever. Ever?

But I have been living about one inch away from death recently -- but that's boring to me, I don't want to write about it. So instead I'll talk about some things that I find interesting. Well, actually, let me lay my cards out there: yesterday I chanced on a book called "The Perennial Philadelphians," published 1965, that really got me interested in that city and well the "proper" or right way to go about things. Here's the gist of what I got out of the book (and I fell asleep before I could finish): there are two ways of doing things. Three, actually.

(1) -- "U"
(2) -- It's called upper middle class but as they would call it in England I think, just middle class is fine. But still since everyone claims to be middle class, there has to be some distinction between this and...
(3) -- The LMC or proletariat.

Basically, (1) has style, (2) has intentionally a lack of style (which is in its own way an anti-style, or reactionary style, like punk to hippie, for ex.), and (3) thinks they have style but do not and are therefore laughed at. Ha ha.

**

So, Philadelphia is kind of a center of this nation. Washington DC is actually in the South (below Mason-dixon0), Baltimore is too, and New York is actually a part of New England province. Philadelphia however is right dead-center. And the old Episcoapl church there, Christ Church, is the "motehr churhc" o f the entiere country. That means that many of the bishop lineages stem from there. It was built in 1720ish.

Anyway. Taking Philadelphia as a basic starting point here (and of course this is all based on the book I read last night) we have the U and the UMC.
Here's a handy chart.
U UMC
Place to live The Main Line. Chestnut Hill (or Germantown?)
Holiday at Northeast Harbor. The Poconos
Religion Episcopalian. Quaker (or Lutheran?)
Schools Private day schools, Public schools/charter schools
New England
Episcopalian
boarding schools
9-12
Colleges Princeton. Penn
Careers Church, Law, Banking, & family firms.
Military,
Politics.
(*WOW THAT's really hard to read when published. Church military professor go together, Law banking etc go tehgetr)


The LMC clutches for the top ("U") but stumbles and fails miserably. No one in America is L except illegal immigrants. Since you can't tell which Hispanics are illegal and which aren't, let's just lump them all in that bottom 25%, sorry Genevievers. (But you're only half-Hispanic.) That's pretty outrageous, so let me just take that back. I don't want to be like Lou Dobbs over here. But it is kinda weird how they all stick together, no? They are almost forcing us to see them that way. Even the college-educated, for that I need only point to Gustavo Arellano. Of course, there's also Villaigarosa who would seem as a major counter-example. But I have no idea about him, know nothing. Is he really cool as he seems or is he not? This deserves answers. Without futher ado, I want to point out that for my orig. hometown of P.S., all the schools I went to (G.A.T.E. Cielo Vista/Raymond Cree, Palm Springs High School AP/Honors track) do in fact count. The college I would elect (nod to Genevieve here) is Whittier, and also Whittier Law.

The "Inland Valley Friends meeting," which is part of the Independent scheme of things (I think of them as being kind of Calvinist-leaning) meets at Riverside's gorgeous Mission Inn at 10 am Sunday. Just a heads up.

I belong to the Evangelical Free Church, well not officially, but un-officially. It's the denomination my grandparents (dad's father was long away in NorCal, mom's parents in the Midwest -- so I'm talking about my dad's mother and stepfather here) did their best to raise me in -- incl weekly, obligatory trips to the Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton when staying at their house (for both worship and Sunday school), to Southwest Community Church in Indian Wells when they were visiting us, and summer Bible camp. It is an American style in the tradition of the Prussian Lutheran-Calvinist combos, uniting both groups for the sake of national unity. I like that, you know? I certainly didn't feel judged on the (very ripe) possibility that I was an Obama supporter. (Wow, "Obama" still comes up as a spelling eror.) I have a lot of other boring crap to write about, give me time. Oh, and I went to the young adult ministry after the service -- Christian rock is really good, by the way, and someone gave a talk on fasting -- which is very pietist and surprised me. It turns out my grandparents chose a very nice church, one that wasn't evangelical-in-the-sense-of-being-politically-correct-(on-the-Republican-side)-at-all. Believe me, there are churches like that. Megachurches. There's one here in Fort Collins, and they own everybody. They are Pentecostal-Holiness, so that should be the tip off right there. Those guys are the worst of the worst. Yecch.

It's really hard to place the Lutherans, because they can go either way -- in the Catholic direction or in the Reformed direction. Mostly, they're something else, something apart, pre-split. So are the Anglicans, of course. But unlike the Anglicans, the Lutherans were religiously motivated in their split -- or at least Martin Luther was. And Henry VIII wasn't. I don't know if that makes the Lutherans more or less Protestant. I guess they basically did the samre hting -- I just checked Wiki. and the dudes practically lived the same time-span, except Luther was a wee bit younger, but not by much. (7 years, and he died a few months earlier too.)

This is borne out by the fact that the main Lutheran and Anglican groups in the U.S. are now like the sameth ing, that is sharing Holy Communion, or in Holy Communion. So, whatever, it doesn't matter. Except that the Quakers are kind of like the Lutherans, really, well no they're Anabaptists like the Mennonites and the Baptists. But I still feel that overall places them closer to the Lutherans than it does to the Calvinists (however I may be wrong about taht one). The same would go for the Methodists and Pentecostals then, I suppose, since they are also Pietist movements. But why are the Pentecostals so, so gay? Srsly. I guess it's more socioeconomic than anything else. Dare I attempt to throw the Protestants into U, UMC, LMC, and L categories? Oh, why the hell not.

U: "Liberal" (whether Unitarian or simply non-religious, regardless of liturgy, for ex. Anglo-Catholic King's parish in Boston)
UMC: Calvinist (does this make sense? I should say Evangelical. Presbyterian. Southern Baptists even.
LMC: Holiness (unforunately have to incl Quakers Methodists Lutherans in this one. Mi familia.
L: points to the Bishop of Rome, sorry you bleeding fucking Irish mongers.

This gets easier with politics. We have the example of political magazines. I remember opening up a Whole Earth catalog form the PS Lib years ago -- it had all the different viewpoints laid out:
LIBERAL (The Nation)
NEO-LIBERAL (The New Republic)
CONSERVATIVE (The National Review)
NEOCONSERVATIVE (Commentary, The Weekly Standard)
PALEOCONSERVATIVE (Chronicles)

Other liberal periodicals being like Harper's and the New York Review of Books. These guys are pretty "U."

T.N.R. OK is perfectly Neoliberal or perhaps Libertarian, we could put it in the UM category. Along with Reason Wired and the Libertarian Party. Ron Paul is not a libertarian, he is a paleoconservative.

Neoconservatives -- goodbye Bushies! -- are LMC.

Paleoconservatives -- Pat Buchanan is the exemplar and the only one who doesn't look like a freak (sorry folks). I guess Ron Paul's OK looking too. Don't know about the others. But um this is definitely a Lower Lower stuff.

Northwest = Neoliberal. Capital: San Francisco. Upper middle class.
Southwest = Neoconservative. Capital: Los Angeles. Lower middle class.
"The South" = Paleoconservative. Capital: the Beltway, Alexandria, Georgetown. Lower class.
The Northeast = Liberal. Capital: New England, Cambridge, Manhattan. Upper class duh

I guess if I'm confusedat about anthing it's what church to go to. I am definitely a Lutheran, but I don't know, is that UMC? I guess it can be; it all depends on how you do it. Also, two new publications: The American Prospect, is pan-Northern. Capital: Chicago, Ill.
The American Conservative, is pan-Southern. Capital: New Orleans, La.

A cup of Chamomile from Utah w/ Colorado honey, a glass of OJ, and corn chips + Colorado salsa

...is what I have before me as I set down to type.

I'm supposedly fasting from everything but schoolwork for the moment...but that can get incredibly dry. So, to refresh myself, I simply willingly forget what it was I was supposed to be doing, and go along my merry way.

In reference to the foods above, I believe that the salt and vitamin C should help my in my weakness.

I'm finishing up Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, which I absolutely love.

I'm listening to Yawning Man (see Wikipedia), specifically their only released records, and Pot Head and Rock Formations, both downloaded as a torrent. This is desert music, incredibly popular in Europe. An article from the L.A. Weekly a while back had some revealing stuff on them. Basically, they were Kyuss before Kyuss, a stoner/desert/Palm Desert band even more epochal than that later one (and Kyuss were epochal, in the opinion of many they actually revived rock, and were the most vital thing -- perhaps the only vital thing -- going in that world until this whole nu-rave thing came about. An interesting connection, because the whole generator party '80s scene of mushrooms and pot that existed in the desert back then seems intimately connected with the later early '90s rave scene, which I do believe existed. Growing up as late as I did, I was on the shit end of all of that. By the time I was in high school (1999ish) ecstasy was well almost out of vogue (it didn't really hit the fan until 2000 or 2001), and pot and 'shrooms certainly were ... Yep. And then came crystal meth, which of course had been brewing in the L.A. rave scene since 1994 at least when trance first came in. And of course there's the whole moontribe connection. In fact I think that's the tail end (the hippy end ) of the L.A. rave scene that is actually just now coming into full flower and bloom. The whole psychedelic trance thing. It's definitely the only social scene still worth giving a fuck for -- maybe that's why it's popular with Prince William and other members of the English landed aristocracy, or so I hear... Btw, the moontribe album is highly recommended for a taste of what the hell I'm talking about. I believe it came out in 1998. So good.

So where was I? Psychedelic rock turned into ecstatic rave turned into crystal meth deadzone? Sounds about right. Anyway, Yawning Man were a real proto-rave scene in the desert, with links to the Grateful Dead of course naturally but being much more in a heavy metal/Euro-ish sort of thing, sort of like Goa. I suppose that's why the whole desert rock thing is so wildly popular in Europe, especially Yawning Man and Brant Bjork. They play in Italy and Spain, and their music is released only on Spanish labels. Only emo is as popular here. Of course I guess it is metal we're talking about here. Nothing revolutionary, then, just a heartfelt and unique attention to place. So I'm really back on the whole organic/back-to-the-land/neo-Nazi thing that everybody else is so keen to get it on. Well, I never really left. It's going to take a long time to extricate myself from some of these positions ideologically, and if I'm anything like Nietzsche, it will likely all be in vain (but perhaps not in the long run -- witness the almost subdued, renewed sympathy for the man existing in some European philosophe circles today, and even Heidegger -- not because they were right; they weren't -- but they understood what they were getting into and felt it had to be done all the same, an honorable position...) (Actually, I think they were right; that's why they felt they had to do what they had to do -- however, they were dangerous and worse they were not respectable. They were even a little bourgeois. When it comes right down to it, I mean. This is why I think the way of the future lies not with old fogies such as me, Heidegger, or Nietzsche but with radical Islam. Oh yes. Evangelical Christianity and Radical Islam have so much in common, they have to hook up. I can't believe they haven't already -- unless all this fighting is just the global religious equivalent of the boy pulling the girl's hair and throwing mud at her (and to be sure, Islam is the male in this relationship!) before they start dating later on. It shall be interesting to see. There's only one God, after all. Unless you're a heathen, like me. We'll continue to exploit the divisions between the two big religions, usually falling on the side of Islam, until we are forced to walk the plank. I kind of just see it all as a neverending story.)

Red = 'Piscop. Passion, strength, energy, fire, love, sex, excitement, speed, heat, arrogance, ambition, leadership, masculinity, power, danger, gaudiness, blood, war, anger, revolution, radicalism, socialism, communism, aggression, summer, autumn, stop, Mars, respect, Aries, December, the Roman Catholic Church, martyrs, the Holy Spirit.
Bob Dole (Republican '96), George Wallace (American Independent '68), Barry Goldwater (Republican '64), Byrd (Independent '60), Adlai Stevenson (Democratic '52, '56), Strom Thurmond (States' Rights Democratic '48), Al Smith (Democratic '28), Davis (Democratic '24), Cox (Democratic '20), Parker (Democratic 1904), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic 1896, 1900, 1908), Hancock (Democratic 1880), Breckinridge (Southern Democratic 1860), James Buchanan (Democratic 1856), James K. Polk (Democratic 1844), Andrew Jackson (1824).

Orange = Baptist. Hinduism, Buddhism, happiness energy, balance, heat, fire, enthusiasm, flamboyance, playfulness, aggression, arrogance, gaudiness, overemotion, warning, danger, autumn, desire, Sagittarius, September.
W, Jimmy Carter (Democratic '76), FDR (Democratic '32), Woodrow Wilson (Democratic '16), Cass (Democratic 1848), Andrew Jackson (Democratic 1828, 1832), James Monroe (Democratic-Republican 1816), James Madison (Democratic-Republican 1808, 1812), Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican 1796, 1800, 1804).

Yellow = Baptodysterian. Sunlight, joy, happiness, earth, optimism, intelligence, idealism, wealth (gold), summer, hope, air, liberalism, cowardice, illness (quarantine), hazards, dishonesty, avarice, weakness, greed, femininity, gladness, sociability, friendship, GEmini, Taurus, Leo, April, September, deceit, hazard signs, God (gold). The devil. Courage.
Richard M. Nixon (Republican '60, '68), Harry S Truman (Democratic, '48), Dewey (Republican, '44), Benjamin Harrison (Republican 1888, 1892), Blaine (Republican 1884), Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican 1876), William Henry Harrison (Whig 1836), Henry Clay (1824).

Green = Methodist. Great intelligence, life, nature, bad spirits, spring, fertility, youth, environment, wealth, money, good luck, vigor, generosity, go, grass, agression, inexperience, envy, misfortune, coldness, jealousy, illness, greed, disgrace, life eternal, air, earth (classical element), sincerity, hope, Cancer (bright green), renewal, natural abundance, growth, health, August, balance, harmony, calming, creative intelligence, Islam, the ordinary. The devil.
Bill Clinton (Democratic '92, '96), LBJ (Democratic '64), Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican '52, '56), Herbert Hoover (Democratic 1928), Calvin Coolidge (Republican '24), Warren G. Harding (Republican '20), William Taft (Republican 1908), Teddy Roosevelt (Republican 1904), William McKinley (Republican 1896, 1900), Garfield (Republican 1880), Ulysses S Grant (Republican 1868), Abraham Lincoln (Republican 1860, 1864), Fremont (Republican 1856), Henry Clay (Whig 1844).

Blue = Unitarian & Congregationalist. Seas, men, productive, skies, peace, unity, harmony, tranquility, calmness,coolness, confidence, conservatism, water, ice, loyalty, dependability, cleanliness, technology, winter, depression, coldness, idealism, obscenity, tackiness, air, wisdom, royalty, nobility, Earth, Virgo light blue), Pisces (pale blue), Aquarius (dark blue), strength, steadfastness, light, friendliness, July (sky), February (deep), peace, mourning , truthfulness, love, sadness, aloofness, the Virgin Mary, keeps bad spirits away.
John Kerry (Democratic 2004), Al Gore (Democratic 2000), Gerald Ford (Republican '76), Hubert Humphrey (Democratic '68), JFK (Democratic '60), Dewey (Republican '48), Herbert Hoover (Republican '32), Charles Evans Hughes (Republican '16), Taylor (Whig 1848), Henry Clay (National Republican 1832), John Quincy Adams (1824, National Republican 1828), Rufus King (Federalist 1816), De Witt Clinton (1812), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist 1804, 1808), John Adams (Federalist 1796, 1800).

Purple = Unitarian & Congregtionalist & 'Piscop. Envy, sensuality, bisexuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nobility, ceremony, mystery, wisdom, homosexuality, pride, Scorpio (violet), May, November, riches, romanticism (light purple), delicacy (light purple), penance.
George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican '88, '92), Reagan (Republican '80, '84), Richard M. Nixon (Republican '72), FDR (Democratic '36, '40, '44; not popular with Baptodysterians in '44), Woodrow Wilson (Democratic 1912), Grover Cleveland (Democratic 1884, 1888, 1892; not popular with Baptodysterians), Tilden (Democratic 1876; not popular with Baptodysterians), Ulysses S Grant (Republican 1872), Franklin Pierce (Democratic 1852), William Henry Harrison (Whig 1840), Martin Van Buren (Democratic 1836; not popular with Baptodysterians), James Monroe (Democratic-Republican 1820), George Washington (1789, 1792).

Quaker

Peaceful Heart Sangha. Sundays 4-6 pm, leave at 3:13 pm. Go west from house on right side of Kirkwood to Lemay; take a right on Lemay, staying in the bike lane until you hit Stuart. Take a left on Stuart, into the right hand bike lane. Go west on Stuart until you hit Remington; take a right turn on Remington (staying in the bike lane), going north until Laurel. Take a left turn on Laurel (into the right hand bike lane), going west. At Armstrong, take a left into the west side parking lot. Park. Look for the entrance on the WEST side of the Lory North Apartments. The lounge is on the garden level, so if there is no one waiting at the door just knock on the garden level windows to the right of the door.

On the way back, go right on Laurel, staying in the bike lane, take a right on Loomis or Meridian, going south onto the designated bike lane (STAYING RIGHT). Take a left on the multiuse path onto the right hand side, then go straight when the next left appears. Keep going straight through the next intersection, and stay on the multiuse path until you get to Center Ave. Go straight, south, till you hit the Spring Creek Trail on your left (right hand side). Take that till you hit Stuart going east on your right. Stay in the bike lane on Stuart back the way you came -- taking a right hand turn onto Lemay, staying in the bike lane, and then taking a left at Kirkwood onto the right hand side of the street to your house.

Study agriculture -- animal science. If anything.

Eat to live, do not live to eat. That's like a man, but this below a beast.
Have wholesome but not costly food.
If thou rise with an appetite, thou are sure never to sit down without one.
The proverb says that "enough is as good as a feast." but it is certainly better . . .
The luxurious eater and drinker who is taken up with an excessive care of his palate and belly. . . . so full is he fed that he can scarce find out a stomach . . .
Rarely drink but when thou art dry; nor then, between meals, if it can be avoided.
The smaller the drink, the clearer the head and the cooler the blood, which are great benefits in temper and business.
Strong liquors are good at some times and in small proportions, being better for physic than food, for cordials than common use (herbsaint is best).
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is the worst sort: it spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men; it reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man, because he is so long void of reason, that distinguishes a man from a beast.
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures . . . as it is a prodigal one to spend more in sauce than in meat.
The most common things are the most useful, which shows both the wisdom and goodness of the great Lord . . .
What therefore he has made rare, don't thou use too commonly, lest thou shouldst invert the use and order of things . . .

Quakers refused to touch foods that were tainted by social evil . . . many practiced some small act of symbolic sacrifice.
The Quaker prefers to boil his food (cooking pot rather than the oven).
Boiled breakfast, boiled dinner. "In the country, morning and even repasts were generally made of milk, having bread boiled therein, or else thickened with pop-robbins--things made up of flour and eggs into a batter, and so dropped in the boiling milk" Popovers, served at breakfast or tea or with meats and lunch and dinner
Boiled dumplings and puddings. Apple dumplings were a daily dish.
When I am parasite-free: daily I will eat Popovers and dumplings of any kind -- homemade or otherwise apple dumplings (for breakfast and dessert, with ice cream). I will also eat puddings of any kind - Hunt's Snack Packs - puddings [CHOCOLATE PUDDING, Butterscotch, Vanilla] Jell-O chocolate pudding, Jell-O tapioca pudding, Philadelphia cream cheese spread on bread/bagels/crackers, homemade or otherwise apple cheese, homemade or otherwise lemon curd (w/scones, muffins, short breads)/lemon meringue pie, dried beef (often spread on dumplings and puddings).

Full Shopping List:
1. popovers: flour, eggs, milk
2. apple dumplings: four tart (such as Granny Smith) apples, raisins, dark rum, flour, Crisco, brown sugar
3. ice cream
4. Hunt's Snack Packs - 1. Chocolate Pudding, 2. Butterscotch Pudding, 3. Vanilla Pudding.
5. Jell-O Chocolate Pudding & Tapioca Pudding.
6. Philadelphia Cream Cheese [if needed]
- bread, bagels, crackers
8. lemon curd: three lemons, lemon juice, sugar, eggs, butter
- scones, shortbreads, muffins
9. dried beef.
10. Herbsaint.
Principally, flour, eggs, milk, Granny Smith apples, raisins, dark rum, Crisco, brown sugar, ice cream, Hunt's Chocolate Pudding, Hunt's Butterscotch Pudding, Hunt's Vanilla Pudding, Jell-O Chocolate Pudding, Jell-O Tapioca Pudding, Philadelphia cream cheese, bagels, lemons, lemon juice, butter, muffins, dried beef, Herbsaint.

Other stuff: pizza, hot dogs, beans, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, sausage, cheese.

Simple trousers of broad cut/wide. Large leather aprons. Gray. Only 2 types of dress for men, all year [one for meditation, one for work]. Very plain, simple. Dyes discouraged. Neatness, cleanliness encouraged.

No needless games, ball games, public diversions, prizes/stage plays/cards/dice/may games/masques/revels/bull-baitings/cock-fightings/bear-baitings/etc, blood sports, horse racing, other races. Encouraged swimming, bathing, ice-skating; allowed hunting and fishing for subsistence, most characteristic form of recreation was gardening. Penn: "The best recreation is to do good." Play was work,

and work was worship. worldly asceticism -- commercial and industrial activity. coopers, smths, blacksmiths, bricklayers, wheelwrights, plowrights, millwrights, ship carpenters, iron-houses, cloth workers. etc You already know how to be a Quaker, since you are one.

Rule no. 1 -- you know what it is.
[For parasties and constipation] Glass of water -- upon waking in the morning, at 9am, at 12pm, at 3pm, at 6pm, and before bedtime.
[Do not shave, cut hair.]

when windows are open (Apr 15 to Oct 15, say) you can open them from after dinner, but you must shut them upon getting up.

SOCIAL REGISTER (TORY - HAUTE BOURGEOISIE) CITIES, SOUTH TO NORTH, THE ONES WHOSE TRADITIONS I KNOW WELL ENOUGH (ALL EPISCOPALIAN):
1. Philadelphia:
Bryn Mawr.
Northeast Harbor.
Concord.
New Haven.

2. New York:
Greenwich.
Fishers Island.
Lakeville.
New Haven.

3. Boston:
Brookline.
Osterville.
Groton.
Cambridge.

CLOTHES FOR THESE FOLKS: Brooks Brothers, J. Press.

COLONIAL COLLEGES, SOUTH TO NORTH:
1. William & Mary.
2. Penn.
3. Princeton.
4. Rutgers.
5. Columbia.
6. Yale.
7. Brown.
8. Harvard.
9. Dartmouth.

COLONIAL CAPITALS/HISTORICALLY ANDOR CURRENTLY LARGEST CITIES IN U.S., GOING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH:
1. San Antonio de Bejar, Tejas (Spain).
2. la Nouvelle Orleans, la Louisiane (France).
3. Charlestown, Province of Carolina (England).
4. Philadelphia, Colony of Pennsylvania (England).
5. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Nieuw-Nederland (Netherlands).

(I've recently discovered it's the South that matters most in concepts of Toriness -- the further South you go, the Torier it gets. East too, though; for a second consideration.)

I also ate today bologna, bread with butter, gumbo canned soup, and applesauce.

I am v. confused right now. Military service is Tory, I guess. Or maybe it all depends on the battle. I thought that the Federalists were Tories; perhaps they weren't. Perhaps the Democratic-Republicans were the Tory party? So confused. Hamilton? Crowninshield? Landed? No?

I want to see how Texas voted (before Texas, Louisiana; before Louisiana, South Carolina). This would be the ultimate Tory list of votes.

How Delaware Voted:
1796 - Federalist, Adams (over Jefferson)
1800 - Federalist, Adams (over Jefferson)
1804 - Federalist, Pinckney (over Jefferson)
1808 - Federalist, Pinckney (over Madison)
1812 - Federalist, De Witt Clinton (over Madison)
1816 - Federalist, King (over Monroe)
1824 - Quincy Adams (over Jackson)
1828 - National Republican, Quincy Adams (over Jackson)
1832 - National Republican, Clay (over Jackson)
1836 - Whig, William Harrison (over Van Buren)
1840 - Whig, William Harrison (over Van Buren)
1844 - Whig, Clay (over Polk)
1848 - Whig, Taylor (over Cass)
1852 - Democrat, Pierce (over Scott)
1856 - Democrat, Buchahan (over Fremont)
1860 - Southern Democrat, Breckinridge (over Lincoln)
1864 - Democrat, McClellan (over Lincoln)
1868 - Democrat, Seymour (over Grant)
1872 - Republican, Grant (over Greeley)
1876 - Democrat, Tilden (over Hayes)
1880 - Democrat, Hancock (over Garfield)
1884 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Blaine)
1888 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Benjamin Harrison)
1892 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Benjamin Harrison)
1896 - Republican, McKinley (over Bryan)
1900 - Republican, McKinley (over Bryan)
1904 - Republican, Theodore Roosevelt (over Parker)
1908 - Republican, Taft (over Bryan)
1912 - Democrat, Wilson (over Theodore Roosevelt)
1916 - Republican, Hughes (over Wilson)
1920 - Republican, Harding (over Cox)
1924 - Republican, Coolidge (over Davis)
1928 - Republican, Hoover (over Smith)
1932 - Republican, Hoover (over Franklin Roosevelt)
1936 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Landon)
1940 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Willkie)
1944 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Dewey)
1948 - Democrat, Dewey (over Truman)*
1952 - Republican, Eisenhower (over Stevenson)
1956 - Republican, Eisenhower (over Stevenson)
1960 - Democrat, Kennedy (over Nixon)
1964 - Democrat, Johnson (over Goldwater)
1968 - Republican, Nixon (over Humphrey)
1972 - Republican, Nixon (over McGovern)
1976 - Democrat, Carter (over Ford)
1980 - Republican, Reagan (over Carter)
1984 - Republican, Reagan (over Mondale)
1988 - Republican, Herbert Walker Bush (over Dukakis)
1992 - Democrat, Clinton (over Herbert Walker Bush)
1996 - Democrat, Clinton (over Herbert Walker Bush)
2000 - Democrat, Gore (over Walker Bush)
2004 - Democrat, Kerry (over Walker Bush)

* Northern (Rockefeller Republican) suburbs supported Truman, though.

I think De La Warr strikes a good balance.

Day 2 of sugar-free diet. Today I've eaten cheese and "pita chips." Pita chips were kind of gross, though. Not so bad. I feel good, though I'm noticing some coldness in my extremities (particularly after eating the cheese). It possibly comes from diabeetus or some variation thereof. At any rate, my blood isn't getting out to the extremities. Of course, I don't ever exercise. But for the moment I'm sticking to this no-sugar thing, it feels pretty good. Last night I had the same thing, cheese, pita chips, but also a box of raisins. Right now I might go get some dried fruit for the sake of relieving boredom.

The American Prospect
Representative states: New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont), New York, New Jersey.
Liberal Protestant.
Green Party: green politics, environmentalism. Left wing, more communitarian, pacifist, fair trade, progressive, favor legal abortion/same-sex marraige/universal health-care/drug legalization/gun control, support large government spending, oppose high national debt/capital punishment, more favorable of increased taxation/immigration, strongly oppose Iraq war.
Location: Hearth: Massachusetts. Region: Greater New England.
Language and Literacy: Dialect: Northern. Literacy (m/f): 80%/50%.
Architecture: Materials: Wood frame. Style: saltbox, stretched box.
Family: identity: strong nuclear; cohesion: high; completed size: seven; servants: 0-1.
marriage: ceremony: civil contract, mean age: 26/23, adults, never wed: 2 percent, 6 percent, male dominance: moderate, prenup preg: low, bastardy low, penalty bias even.
Origion of names biblical, bible names 90 percent, descent of names 2 generation nuclear, parent names 60-70 percent, child nurture will-breaking, sending out yes.
Age ideals elder-saint, age ideology veneration, age heaping old-age bias, death ways activist-fatalist, burial customs high austerity.
Congregational, lecture-centered, witchcraft, town schools, strong education, beans and brown bread, baking food, age-dominant eating patterns, moderate class display, sad colors, moderate to low sexual display, town and team games, Puritan work ethic, mixed commercial economic bias, improving the time ethic, fall peak, truncated rank system, moderate deference, town ideals, hamlet realities, roadside house location, low internal migration, grace-centered honor. Town meeting polities, very low violefnce, ordered liberty.
Whig/Progressive. Wet. Blue. Whiggamore = sour milk man. Country Party. Supported great aristocratic families and non-Anglicans, then emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants.
Woodrow Wilson. Idealist.

The American Conservative
Representative state: Florida.
Evangelical Protestant.
Libertarian Party: libertarian. Individualist, non-interventionist, free trade, favors legal abortion/same-sex marriage/drug legalization/immigration, opposes universal healthcare/high national debt/large government spending/increased taxation/Iraq war/capital punishment/gun control.
Location: hearth: virginia, region: tidewater South.
Language: Southern coastal, 50 percent to 25 percent literacy.
Architecture: wood and brick, hall and parlor.
Family identity: extended, cohesion low, completed size, three, servants 4-5.
Marriage sacred ceremony, 24/18, adults never wed 25/2, high male dominance, prenup preg high, bastardy high, penalty bias against females.
Origion of names Norman/Teuton, bible names 50%, descent of names 3 generation extended, parent names 20-30%, child nurture will-bending, sending out: mixed.
Old age: elder-patriarch, patriarchy, seniority bias, Stoic-fatalist, high ceremony burial customs.
Anglican, liturgy-centered, fortune (magic), parish schools, weak common education, strong higher education, fricasees (dish), roasting and frying cooking bias, rank-dominant eating patterns, high class display, bright colors, moderate to high sexual display, blood sports, leisure ethic, staple farming, killing the time, winter peak, hierarchical rank system, high deference, manorial village ideal, plantation reality, setback house location, moderate internal migration, rank-centered honor, parish and court polity, moderate violence, hegemonic liberty.
Tory/Paleoconservative. Dry. Red. Toraidhe = outlaw. Court Party.
Supported Anglican church and gentry, then landed interests and British Crown.
Thomas Jefferson. Libertarian.

The New Republic
Representative states: Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey.
Evangelical Protestant.
Democratic Party: American liberalism/progressivism, Social liberalism. Center-left, more communitarian, more pacifist, free trade, progressive, favor legal abortion/universal healthcare/increased government spending/increased taxation/immigration/drug legalization, mixed/states' rights on same-sex marriage/capital punishment, oppose high national debt/Iraq war.
Delaware Valley, NJ, Pa, Del, N Md, Midland dialect, 65/33 percent literacy, stone and brick, Quaker plain, moderate nuclear, moderate cohesion, 5 completed size, 2 servants. Meeting and agreement ceremony, 27/24 mean age, 12/16 percent adults never wed, moderate male dominance, very low prenup pregnancy, low bastardy rates, even penalty bias, mixed Biblical names, 70% Bible names, 3 generation Biblical descent of names, 20-30% parents names, will-bracing, no sending out. Elder-teacher, eldering, optimist-fatalist, extreme austerity in burial customs.
Quaker, spirit-centered, spiritualism, meeting schools, strong common education, weak higher education, cream cheese and dry beef, boiling food, communal eating patterns, moderate class display, neutral colors, very low sexual display, useful recreations, pietist work ethic, mixed industrial, redeeming the time, bimodal peaks. Egalitarian, low deference, Farm communities (ideal), farm clusters (reality), corner-clustered houses, high internal migration, holiness-centered honor, commission polity, low violence, reciprocal liberty.
Whig/Centrist. Wet. Blue. Whiggamore = sour milk man. Country Party.
Supported great aristocratic families and non-Anglicans, then emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants.
Alexander Hamilton. Realist.

The Weekly Standard
Representative state: West Virginia.
Fundamentalist Protestant.
Republican Party: conservatism, fiscal conservatism, economic liberalism, neoconservatism, social conservatism, liberal conservatism. Center-right. More individualist. More militarist. Free trade. Conservative. Oppose legal abortion/same-sex marriage/universal healthcare/drug legalization/gun control/increased taxation/immigration, supports high national debt/large government spending/Iraq war.
Backcountry, southern highlands, earth and log, cabin style, clan and derbfine, moderate cohesion, abduction rituals, 20/19, very high male dominance, very high prenup pregnancy, saints names, 65% Bible names, 3 generation name descent, 20-30% parent names, will-building, sending out mixed, elder-thane, tanistry, nescient-fatalist death ways, folk ritual burial customs.
Religion Presbyterian/etc, field meeting and fellowship, sorcery.
Private schools, weak education, 1-2 years enrolled, clabber and potato dishes, boiling and frying cooking bias, gender-dominant eating patterns. Moderate class display, folk colors, very high sexual display. Field contests, warrior ethic, farming and herding, passing the time, Spring peak. Segmented ranks, mixed deference, .7 to .9 wealth, mixed inheritance.
Hermitage ideal, isolated reality, creek and spring house location, very high internal migration, 25-40% persistence, primal honor.
Court polity, 15-25% voting, high violence, 5.2 crime index, .25 order index, natural liberty.
Tory/Neoconservative. Dry. Red. Toraidhe = outlaw. Court Party.
Supported Anglican Church and gentry, then landed interests and British Crown.
Andrew Jackson. Populist.

Schoolwork for the weekend:
- LIT
- FUCKING EVERYTHING.
Start in the morning, finish in the morning, man.

- MATH
- Just a few things, praise be to G-d.
Start in the evening, finish in the evening!

Another thing I'd really like to do (though I doubt I'll get the chance) is go to the (Religious Society of) Friends meeting.

Boy, I am a really bad person. Jeez.

Anyway... I am now announcing my intention to avoid sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup, just 'cause I can! That means, if it has it on the label, I'm avoiding it. Otherwise, what can I do? I have to have laws; this will be one of them. It's not as important as abstincence, which is definitely my no. 1 (I'll spare you the details), but being sugar-free will be my no. 2.

Other even slighter rules, well, forget about them, they barely matter at all. But I do intend on watching at least a few TV shows (Maury, CSI, House, Futurama, The Daily Show & The Colbert Report) and also on doing my daily prayers according to Universalis (and also, potentially, fasting for Lent).