Mangosteeeeen!

I can't believe these are in my supermarket now... I haven't had one in years and it was even better than I'd remembered.


"The mangosteen has only one fault; it is impossible to eat enough of it, but, strictly speaking, perhaps that is a defect in the eater rather than in the fruit."

Eric Mjöberg

Death visits the garden

The mantis that ate the minty aphids was found bitten in two... her once bright emerald eyes a dull black. We buried her under the monkey grass and then I desperately searched for her two sisters - neither of which I found. Totally depressed and further alarmed by the spreading yellow patch in the grass, I thought I could sense the sweet rotting smell of death creeping over the garden walls. Could winter be coming so soon?

Cool Asian Art

Check out the latest in Asian modern art : http://www.startdrawing.org/home/

(thanks Metafilter!)

I spent the better part of two hours wandering around here and looking for ways to buy prints of this stuff!

One of my favorites is a Malaysian guy named Munako - he recently did a series involving Ultraman's homoerotic relationship with Godzilla. Would love to have this stuff hanging in my genkan.