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America Food The land, the people, the culture Work-Life Balance

Tour Announcement

Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #3 for today’s business plan. WLBOTT Elders et. al. – please feel free to create a BLOTT and I encourage others to add and contribute ideas to this business opportunity. Target a NY stock exchange IPO in late 2023. Ladies & Gents – I am at phase 1 of evaluating this […]

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Canada Food Heros Scholarship/Erudition Will there be a buffet?

Hacketts Cove, Novia Scotia

Yesterday’s visit to the Atlantic Sea Cucumber, Ltd. motivated us to take a look at the surrounding neighborhood. Hacketts Cove, Nova Scotia, is absolutely stunning. Hacketts Cove and Peggy’s Cove are just down the road from Halifax. Some photos from real estate sites…. William E deGarthe Memorial Monument William E. deGarthe carved this “lasting monument […]

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Animal Kingdom Canada Food

Promoting Awareness: Sea Cucumbers

This is part of an ongoing WLBOTT series: Weird Foods We’ve Eaten. Sea Cucumber Fun Facts Dude…. Habitat Bottom of the sea…. Defense Mechanism Marauding herds of Sea Cumbers Do we need to put this on our list of anxieties? Yes. Yes we do. The Canadian Connection: Rosalyn/Atlantic Sea Cucumber Company As it happens, as […]

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Curated Absurdity Fine Arts Food Heros

The Artist and Her Medium: the Kimberly Winter Story

Conventional Artistic Medium As we work our way towards our featured artist and her unique medium, let’s first take a look at conventional art mediums. Conventional art mediums can have beautiful results. The include: Pastels, pencil, charcoal, chalk, oils, watercolors, acrylic…. Semi-sequitur: How to Draw a Sardine Unconventional Artistic Medium Artists are only limited by […]

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Europe Mildly Interesting Will there be a buffet?

The Paper Clip

Shallow dive of the Paper Clip. What are the made of?come on…. Quora…. not again….. Stars are born Let’s start at the very beginning….. The universe didn’t just wake up one day and say, “Here’s some iron. Let’s get to work on those paper clips!” First it had to have it’s big bang, and since […]

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Canada Destinations Food Music

Moving to Newfoundland

Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #1 for today’s BLOTT. You are more than welcome to emigrate to Canada.  Here’s a simple guide for you:  https://www.canadim.com/immigrate/move-to-canada/move-from-united-states/ [1] Now, a few points of clarification: One other thing to consider:  as a US citizen, you are required to pay US taxes, no matter how hard you try to disappear […]

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America Canada Fine Arts Food

Tides, Waves, and Vinegar

Started writin’ this BLOTT about Big Tide and Internal Waves, ended up writin’ it about Oil and Vinegar and an incredibly cool cycloid drawing machine. Kris Kristofferson / The Pilgrim: Chapter 33 Started writing this song about Chris Gantry, end of writing about Dennis Hopper, Johnny Cash, Norman Norbert, Funky Donnie Fritts, Billy Swan, Bobbie […]

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Food Mildly Interesting Random Acts of WLBOTTness

Eggs Like These

Today, I am the egg man. You are the egg man. We are the egg man.Hoy, soy el hombre huevo. Eres el hombre huevo. Somos el hombre huevo. [ed. note: UC#4 is trying to learn Spanish] Total Consumption Per Capita Back of the envelope Calcs Key take-aways: Fun Facts From the Old Farmer’s Almanac…. It’s […]

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Book Club Will there be a buffet?

One Book on a Desert Island

You are Tom Hanks. You are stuck on a desert island. You are trying to remember survival tips from Gilligan’s Island (those poor people!). You are bored out of your mind. One final FedEx package washes up on shore. It contains one book. What would that book be? Will the gods smile upon you? Good […]

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Africa Heros Will there be a buffet?

Uganda

Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #1 for today’s post. One of my early trips to Africa was with a Canadian Trade Mission, sponsored by the federal government to promote international business development.  The trip took us through Kenya, Uganda and South Africa and in each country we met with various businessmen to look for opportunities to […]