from University of Maryland’s Home and Garden Information Center (“We answer plant and insect questions!”):

“Some Maryland gardeners complain of having insufficient sunlight in their landscapes for a vegetable garden. Many others don’t have the time, space, or knowledge to grow fresh vegetables. Jon Traunfeld, Regional Specialist with Maryland Cooperative Extension has been developing a unique method of growing salad and trialed it last year at the Central Maryland Research and Education Center in Clarksville, MD.

“The Salad Table enables you to produce salad greens outdoors, at waist level, from April through October. It is portable, versatile, low-cost, and terrific for gardeners of all ages, sizes, and abilities. The Salad Table is essentially a shallow wooden frame with a large surface area and a mesh bottom that allows water to drain. You can attach legs of any length you desire or set it on sawhorses or other supports. Smaller versions are especially good for kids and small spaces. The Salad Table can be placed in a cool, low sunlight location for growing tender baby greens, including all types of lettuce, through the hottest summer months! [Click here to download PDF of] our new publication HG 601, ‘Grow Your Own Greens with Salad Tables & Salad Boxes.”

Arthur art directors Mark Frohman and Molly Frances (aka The New Herbalist) try it out…

“Explore Baghdad through the streets of New York! Site-specific access codes can be found throughout the city (see map below) allowing you, the Meta Tourist, to experience the Great City by the Tigris. Upon finding an access code, call the Tourist Hotline (646-862-7769) for free audio guides to all the must-see locations.

“You Are Not Here (.org) is an urban tourism mash-up. This persistent game takes place in the streets of New York City and invites participants to become meta-tourists on an excursion through the city of Baghdad. Passers-by stumble across the curious You Are Not Here signs in the street. The YANH street-signs provide the telephone number for the Tourist Hotline, a portal for audio-guided tours of present day Baghdad destinations in NYC. Through investigation of these points and with or without the aid of a downloadable map, New Yorkers are transformed into tourists of contemporary Baghdad.”

Above: Aaron Gach, Center for Tactical Magic member and “Applied Magic(k)” columnist for Arthur magazine [see CTM’s most recent Arthur column, “Mobilizing Vehicles for Change,” here], talks with audience members Tuesday night after his presentation on plant-human communication at the “Psychobotany” show at Machine Project in Echo Park. Footage:

And here’s a brief 360 view of the space:

Vintage Alan Watts lectures are now being posted weekly in on-demand streaming audio format at alanwatts.com

Here are the podcasts from the last three weeks…

Democracy in The Kingdom Part 1 of 4

Democracy in The Kingdom Part 2 of 4

Democracy in The Kingdom Part 3 of 4

The Idol of Perversity by Jean Delville (1891).

Lesbians Claim Credit For Falwell Demise

The Lesbian Death Angels, concerned that Rev. Falwell’s followers will misattribute the cause of their leader’s demise to their antigod or to some weenie group like Soulforce, have announced that, in a mass worldwide action, they hexed at 10:30 am today and that the subject of their hex was the Rev. Jerry Falwell. In other words, they are claiming to be responsible for Jerry’s death and wish the world to know that they are proud of it to boot.

“Falwell earned being hexed well into his next life with his post-9/11 comments on that event’s cause made in a conversation with fellow telehatemonger Pat Robertson on Robertson’s 700 Club broadcast”, noted collective member Connie L. Ingus. “Too often when tyrants die — particularly spiritual ones — their past is glossed over into sweetness and light that doesn’t begin to resemble the truth of what they did. Frankly, a heart attack hex was too nice. We should’ve added an addendum to make him come back as an innocent Muslim imam who gets ratted out by a rival faction and ends up in the U.S. rendition program, never to see the light of day again — either that or as an out gay youth in Iran.”

The LDA is the international body of pro-choice radical lesbians who meet in secret and not-so-secret cells, covens, and as individual practitioners each Tuesday morning to try to set the world back on its axis one hex at a time. Previous targets have included rapists who found themselves strangely compelled to walk into police stations and turn themselves in and others. This is one of the few successful hexes they have publicly taken credit for.

“Proselytizing is usually so rude”, said Ms. Ingus. “Under normal circumstances, we’re content just with the effects of our work. Lesbians who are meant to find us simply will. The Goddess is powerful enough to get that job done without our help.”

The LDA feels no compunctions about the pain this announcement might cause the Reverend’s family, as the Falwells have benefited from and participated in their patriarch’s long campaign of hate without so much as a public hint of guilt for all the pain and death they have contributed to.

The LDA is still contemplating their next target for early karmic justice. The list of potentials is long. They wish to thank the Goddess for her swift response today.

WHEN TOMORROW HITS
at
La Cita
(3rd and Hill in downtown Los Angeles)
10PM – FREE – Devon Williams performs
“Nothing is sadder than a glass of wine alone.
And loneliness is just a waist of your time!”

The Sopranos, episode 83.

Botanicalls and Center for Tactical Magic

8pm, Tuesday Night, May 15

Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026
213-483-8761

“Join us for an evening of psychobotany with performances, presentations, and live demos by Botanicalls and the Center for Tactical Magic.

“Botanicalls allows plants to place phone calls to ask for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs. The Botanicalls team will be on-hand to demonstrate their unique system of human/plant communication and promote inter-species understanding.

“The Center for Tactical Magic presents a performance lecture exploring the magic and mystery of psychobotany. Ranging from Moses’ consultation with a burning bush to the Pentagon’s recent development of ‘sentinel plants,’ [Arthur‘s ‘Applied Magic(k)’ columnist] Aaron Gach of the CTM provides a brief history of plants as purveyors of knowledge. Audience members will also participate in a live demonstration of extra-sensory perception mediated through the cooperation of living plants.”

“TONIGHT, MONDAY, MAY 14 AT 8 PM, ED SANDERS, POET, HISTORIAN AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF “THE FUGS” WILL PRESENT A READING OF HIS PLAY, “A NIGHT AT THE REBEL CAFE” BY MEMBERS OF THE LIVING THEATRE, INCLUDING DIRECTORS JUDITH MALINA AND HANON REZNIKOV.

“THE READING WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE LIVING THEATRE, 21 CLINTON STREET, JUST SOUTH OF HOUSTON STREET AT AVENUE B (SUBWAY – F,J,M OR Z TRAIN TO DELANCEY STREET), NEW YORK CITY

“ADMISSION FREE. SEE YOU THERE.”