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Today’s Pics: Plane pr0n of a completely different sort. I grabbed an opportunity during my travels hither and yon to stop alongside of the road and watch a crop duster at work…and to take pictures, obviously.
MARTHA FLACH mentioned meat twice in her Match.com profile: “I love architecture, The New Yorker, dogs ... steak for two and the Sunday puzzle.”
She was seeking, she added, “a smart, funny, kind man who owns a suit (but isn’t one) ... and loves red wine and a big steak.”
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Red meat sent a message that she was “unpretentious and down to earth and unneurotic,” she said, “that I’m not obsessed with my weight even though I’m thin, and I don’t have any food issues.” She added, “In terms of the burgers, it said I’m a cheap date, low maintenance.”
Salad, it seems, is out. Gusto, medium rare, is in.
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In fact, red meat on a date has become such an effective statement of self-acceptance that even a vegetarian like Sloane Crosley, a publicist at Random House, sometimes longs to order a burger.
“Being a vegetarian puts you at a disadvantage,” Ms. Crosley said. “You’re in the most basic category of finicky. Even women who order chicken, it isn’t enough.” She said she has thought of ordering shots of Jägermeister, famous for its frat boy associations, to prove that she is “a guy’s girl.”
“Everyone wants to be the girl who drinks the beer and eats the steak and looks like Kate Hudson,” Ms. Crosley, 28, said.
Word, Ms. Crosley!
Stephen Green, the Vodkapundit, had a similar message on August 1st, to wit:
Something needs to be said: Meat is sexy.
It needs to be repeated: Meat is sexy. It needs to be drilled into the minds of our children: Meat is sexy. It needs to be printed on placards and on billboards of half-naked women draped in furs: Meat is sexy.
I dunno who followed whom, but both individuals are on-target, in my book. I suppose I could have a satisfactory relationship with a vegan woman, but I kinda doubt it…unless it was someone like Sloane Crosley, who obviously gets it. Most vegans, in my limited experience, seem to be a lot like most ex-smokers…they want to convert you. I understand the risks of painting a class of people with broad brush strokes, but…it is what it is. After all, a lot of those “Meat is Murder” tee shirts are being bought and sold. And I’m not talking about these.
Today’s Pics: Plane pr0n of a completely different sort. I grabbed an opportunity during my travels hither and yon to stop alongside of the road and watch a crop duster at work…and to take pictures, obviously. These guys have always fascinated me in that they do some spectacular flying, and it’s generally out of the general public’s sight. A lot of crop dusters work with a spotter, an individual who is on the ground and usually carries a large flag. The spotter assists the pilot in determining how to line up for his next pass over a field, given that fields are large and applying the chemicals effectively and appropriately takes multiple passes. I had an interesting conversation with this particular duster’s spotter while I took these pictures…the distaff side of a husband and wife team who have been “in the business” for over 20 years. Most illuminating, it was.
Somewhere in the Heartland. May 15, 2000 .
Meat. It's whats for dinner!! (really, planning on peppered steak tonight). But that's the kind of gal I always tried to be: drink beer, eat steak, and just hang out with the guys. Hey, it worked for me! I learned about cars, trucks, and was once pretty good shooting skeet. I still enjoy guy talk and if I didn't have to be the "good wife" taking care of the kids and fixing a big branding meal, I would be down at the brandings with the men.
ReplyDeleteCropdusters: Alot has changed in 7 years. Most no longer use spotters. Even the husband/wife team here at Floyd use a GPS. We have one for the tractor, too. Helps so we don't overshadow our spraying or plowing or planting. Except 2 weeks ago someone at the FAA or NASA or something decided to change something with the satellites. Now it won't work unless we send it to the manufacture along with $250 for them to fix it. And the darn things ain't cheap, either.
“Everyone wants to be the girl who drinks the beer and eats the steak and looks like Kate Hudson,”
ReplyDeleteSo very true!
Crop dusters are amazing. Many times I have had to pull off of the highway to watch their antics.
Somehow I just knew you two would be on the same page! ;-)
ReplyDeleteAs for Kate Hudson...I had NO idea who she is or what she looks like and had to Google her. A little thin for my tastes (I'm ALL about zaftig ), but... Nice, nonetheless.
Interesting stuff about the GPS thingies, Jenny. Now that you've mentioned it, I should have suspected this is the case. Sorry about your own GPS receiver, too.
The first year I was in P-Ville I went and spent the better part of a day at the Ag Expo and was absolutely blown away by all the technology that exists for farmers these days, specifically the PC applications for managing crops (planning, rotation, yield-management, etc.), diaries, and such. It's an Information Technology niche that I never knew existed, and I spent nearly 20 years in the IT Biz...
I meant dairies, NOT diaries, of course... A misspelled word that is STILL a word, regardless of transposition of a key letter or letters, gets through...occasionally.
ReplyDeleteI meant dairies, NOT diaries, of course... A misspelled word that is STILL a word, regardless of transposition of a key letter or letters, gets through...occasionally.
ReplyDeleteIt's all about context, right? Of course, I did take the word "diaries" almost literally - as in Farmer's Almanacs, you know? I remember reading my great grandmother's diary and it was all about weather and crops!
Vegan? I think human beings were meant to eat most everything in moderation - as in omnivorous. No use denying it.
I was always a guy's gal, too - fixing cars, roughing it, comfy with any critter. Only, I like Shakespeare and classical music as well, so...
The Ag Expo is great! I would love to attend some of the classes they have there, like work dogs and horse training. But, can't squeeze in those with a kid or two without disrupting the whole thing. Personally, I just go to try to win the trailer every year (no luck yet) and all the free pencils, flyswatters, etc.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, our GPS is about the only thing technical we use, aside from a 2000 model year swather. Everything else is "non-tech". My husbands favorite tractor is a 1984 model. All those techincal gizmos have a high price tag. Like $100,000 tractors, $75,000 balers. Just our GPS was $3000. But at least with the older things we can still work on ourself, it's not all computerized.
We have friends that have their big pivot sprinklers on some sort of Internet/cell phone technology. In fact, he was interviewed in the P-ville paper just yesterday. Too much technology for me. We are dryland farmers, anyway.
I'll pass on the beer, but I do love a good steak!
ReplyDeleteI also would rather be out with the menfolk. Some of my fondest memories of my younger days were helping my uncle build fence, or working his cattle or goats. I learned to drive on his tractor.
September 24, 2001--President Bush had grounded all cropdusters, but there was one right across from my workplace. He was flying at breakneck speed, turning just about on his tail--reckless behavior even for a cropduster. I had to laugh. "I guess he's trying to get that field defoliated before the Air Force shoots him down!"
Jenny said: All those techincal gizmos have a high price tag. Like $100,000 tractors, $75,000 balers.
ReplyDeleteThat was the first take-away I got at the Ag Expo...just how capital-intensive farming is (or can be) these days. Seems to me that one needs at least an undergrad degree in economics to farm in America in the 21st century.
By the way...do you know these folks?
Bec said: I did take the word "diaries" almost literally - as in Farmer's Almanacs, you know?
I never thought of that until I read your post, Bec. Interesting!
And...I'm glad you ladies stop by to hang out with this guy! ;-)
I'm glad you don't mind these country gals hangin' around!
ReplyDeleteHmm, I do not know them. Never heard of them, in fact. Guess Floyd is bigger than I thought. LOL! Looking at the address on reverse number looksup, looks like it's 3 miles south of my inlaws house. It appears to be a business more geared towards the dairy industry, which is becoming bigger and bigger all the time around here.
Dairy industry. Now THAT is where the money is. I'm sure you have noticed that nearly every dairy around has a nice big home by it. Yet they sure don't want to pay a little higher price for hay, even when milk prices are up.
But we pretty much stay in the low end of the cost of farming scale when it comes to machinery. My hubby is an excellent wielder. He checks out used machinery auctions and may buy three old worn out plows, takes the parts off them and builds his own. We save anywhere we can (unlike some farmers we know who must have the newest and best of everything).
Jenny sez: Dairy industry. Now THAT is where the money is. I'm sure you have noticed that nearly every dairy around has a nice big home by it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, and it's usually upwind and removed a few hundred yards from the diary, too. ;-)
Right after I first arrived in P-Ville SN1 told me ALL about "the smell of money." That, and the frickin' flies. I HATE riding the bike by dairies in the summer!
It sounds like you and Hubby are doing the smart thing, Jenny. Let someone else absorb that big depreciation hit...
Beat me too it, Buck..was just gonna say that Kate Hudson could use some beer and steak.
ReplyDeleteHad a girlfriend who could shoot handguns better than I could. Course, I could kick her ass with shotguns and we were about even with rifles. Still, that was pretty hot.