Hello I'm Alive and Well

"Like to be a Gallery, Put You All Inside My Show" Once upon a time I was 18 and people kept asking me what I was doing in Amsterdam. They kept asking for a whole year. 18 year olds who are fed up enough with US foreign policy and politics to move off to Europe with $300 to their name are regarded as insane and locked up, so I needed a better answer than that. "Smoking pot and avoiding a nervous breakdown," sounds less insane, but only marginally, and people like to hear those they care about have goals. So I started saying "I'm writing a book." One night I ate some mushrooms, saw God, realigned my perception and started writing a book. And maybe one day when I'm less painfully shy, or crawl into a bottle of clear 80 proof confidence I'll get it published and promote it here. Until then I'm just posting stuff I like or find inspiring. Please check out: MY MOSTLY NORTHERN EUROPE INSPIRATION BLOG: http://fuckyeahnortherneurope.tumblr.com/ MY SHRINE TO PITBULLS: http://pitbullsgoforfaces.tumblr.com/ *All images, videos, music, etc. are taken from the internet and are assumed to be public, unless they're mine, and obviously I know which ones those are. If something is yours and you feel it's stolen, just let me know I'll remove it. If you put it on the net and I like it, I'll probably post it, so thanks in advance!* Portrait photo courtesy of Bob Wood. Background photo courtesy of JojoBee

[softgrlfriend]

POETRY FOR LOVERS, pt 1

[hello-imaliveandwandwell]

Yup. About sums it up.

[smokinjoesbbq-blog]

Getting your Joe on; the full story!

Step 1: Visit the San Pedro butcher shop for your imported/specialty meats, cheeses, and fresh mushrooms (misc stuff too, our homemade BBQ sauces, olive oil, etc).

Step 2: Walk 5 min away towards the Santiago dock and hit Geronimo’s farm (not affiliated w/ Joe’s, just the freshest stuff around).

Step 3: Pick your produce needs.

Step 4: Combine into your dish of preference (ours tonight was a bolognese-ish sauce; I say ish due to some lack of traditional ingredients).*

Step 5: Enjoy!

Smokin’ Joe’s shop is open Tues-Fri in San Pedro La Laguna!

http://smokinjoesanpedro.com/

*This photoset/dish is simply what the editor decided to do w/their Smokin’ Joe’s buys.  The creativity part is all YOU! The farm is optional but recommended for the freshest stuff.

[hello-imaliveandwandwell]

True story of a bolognese-ish dish being born & the shops that help: Smokin’ Joe’s is a mom & pop butcher shop tues-fri ‘til 4 and a mobile weekend bbq in the Lake Atitlan region with the BEST burgers and meat in the country. 

Geronimo’s farm is mainly near the Santiago boat dock now (3 min from Smokin’ Joe’s shop) and he ONLY uses fresh well water on his crops; no pesticides, weird fertilizers, gmos, just WATER and stuff like this is how I lost 55 lbs overnight.

Don’t believe me? Leave the US AND FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF how healthy you can feel (even with cancer induced nerve damage and epilepsy) w/out all that bullshit poisoning your food. IF YOU HAVE KIDS YOU OWE IT TO THEM TO GET THEM OUT OR ELSE YOU’RE JUST ABUSING THEM.

[smokinjoesbbq-blog]

Another gorgeous volcanic morning here in San Pedro!

Stop by in a few hours and see what’s new in the shop!

https://www.facebook.com/smokinjoesbbqmeats/

[hello-imaliveandwandwell]

Reasons I <3 my balcony & this is a nice place to be dying <3

[smokinjoesbbq-blog]

Situated in paradise on the shores of #LakeAtitlan in #Guatemala’s San Pedro La Laguna, #SmokinJoes is not only a mobile weekend American southern-style bbq, but a shop providing the town with much needed access to gourmet imports, southern style homemade bbq sauces, & most importantly clean food.

Stop by the bbq Saturdays in Panajachel or Sunday in San Pedro for perfectly grilled meat comas and a scrumptious selection of sides, or just to hang at the bar, where there are weekly drink specials.

Open til 4pm Tues-Friday, our shop is just 2 doors beyond the bbq location, so stop by for the freshest, widest selection, and check out the catalog on FB: https://www.facebook.com/smokinjoesbbqmeats/

Can you think of a prettier backdrop for chillaxed weekend foodcoma bliss?

*Photo courtesy of LM

[hello-imaliveandwandwell]

Long story as I haven’t blogged in forever but I wound up in Guatemala enjoying THIS fabulous bbq on weekends trying to slow my brain tumor w/clean food. I HAVE lost plenty of weight on the clean food diet and THAT is my view.

Smokin’ Joe’s is not only one of the most delicious things in town but a truly diverse experience and one you can’t miss traveling down here!

I wouldn’t recommend it if i didn’t eat there!

[smokinjoesbbq-blog]

Getting your Joe on; the full story!

Step 1: Visit the San Pedro butcher shop for your imported/specialty meats, cheeses, and fresh mushrooms (misc stuff too, our homemade BBQ sauces, olive oil, etc).

Step 2: Walk 5 min away towards the Santiago dock and hit Geronimo’s farm (not affiliated w/ Joe’s, just the freshest stuff around).

Step 3: Pick your produce needs.

Step 4: Combine into your dish of preference (ours tonight was a bolognese-ish sauce; I say ish due to some lack of traditional ingredients).*

Step 5: Enjoy!

Smokin’ Joe’s shop is open Tues-Fri in San Pedro La Laguna!

http://smokinjoesanpedro.com/

*This photoset/dish is simply what the editor decided to do w/their Smokin’ Joe’s buys.  The creativity part is all YOU! The farm is optional but recommended for the freshest stuff.

[hello-imaliveandwandwell]

The #truestory of how a tiny butcher shop & a local farm that uses no pesticides make my meals fantastic :) Thanks everyone!

[weavemama]

THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS

[arizonateas]

source

[andallshallbewell]

[3rdeyechakra]

[furiousape]

[burning-stmandard-deactivated20]

Ani, the city of a thousand and one churches

Via The Atlantic In Focus

[dreadpiratekhan]

A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]

Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]

Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]

A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]

Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]

Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]

Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]

Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961]   (freakin’ immaculate)

[dreadpiratekhan]

Now with more awesomesauce!

Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]

The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]

Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]

Afghani medical students. [1962]   (man, screw fundamentalism.)

A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]

and just to wrap up…

Nina Simone, one of the most talented vocalists of the 20th century.

[mikkeneko]

Women have always been there. remember whenever a Serious Historical Movie is made showing Serious Historical Things that include only a parade of unbroken men, that is a deliberate filmmaking choice.

[andallshallbewell]

[earthdaily]

[criterionfilms]

David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve at a diner | Jean-Claude Deutsch, 1982

[nevver]

Banksy

[just-shower-thoughts]

I hope the entire NFL kneels today and extends their middle fingers. Then maybe we can move on to more important issues like healthcare and natural disasters.