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Big Salad; with Tuna & Blueberries

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Every now and then I get real hungry for a big salad with either grilled chicken or tuna on it. Last night was just such a night. Other than getting tuna fresh, which I sometimes do and usually sear it, this is the only canned tuna I ever eat: High Seas Tuna. It’s all surface, line caught, young tuna. No water or oil. Hand packed, cooked and sealed once. Makes it’s own juice, you never need to drain it, and the juice is delicious.

I can’t say enough good about it. …Except to say that the smoked? Unbelievable.

Anyway, this was a can of regular, a can of smoked, seasoned with a bit of garlic, salt, pepper, cumin, paprika and lemon juice. Alongside is romaine, chopped spinach, chopped carrot and chopped celery, dressed with olive oil, balsamic and a bit of additional lemon juice. Click for the hi-res version

Big Salad
Big Salad

Well, I don’t think I’ve yet to find a salad that a garnish of fresh, ripe, plump, juicy and sweet blueberries didn’t improve. Blueberries are almost like bacon to me: everything’s better with them. Try this: make a plain omelet in Nutiva coconut oil which has a bit of a sweet taste, top with blueberries. …And, I dunno, some fresh whipped heavy cream might work too. Just thought of that.

Alright, back to productive writing, then I’m making a "Meatza" for the first time in months. TV night tonight: American Idol and Survivor. Long time fan of both. I think House might be the only other network show I watch (that shouldn’t surprise anyone).

…Oh, yea: 80g of protein in that. I put away about 55-60 of it, more probably than most people get in a whole day.

Stop the Madness: Vegans Keep Killing Their Kids

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A Juxtaposition: The spotting of a nutritionally fraudulent counterfeit

Last evening I was contemplating yet another post on the nutritional inadequacy of a vegan diet, particularly a raw vegan diet and even more particularly: a raw, fruitarian vegan diet. As you know, there’s an upcoming debate with just such a fruitarian vegan, Harley Johnstone, AKA Durianrider, and it will be hosted by Steven Prussack of Raw Vegan Radio. While I haven’t received a firm date yet, the latest proposal was for April 7, 2011 at 6:00 pm PST.

I know that a lot of my readers wonder why I keep banging this drum. It’s simple. It’s fun, it’s pretty easy — which I guess makes me a bit of a bully — but most importantly is that for well over a year, the weekly blog stats report I get consistently shows vegetarian and vegan themes and search terms at the top, and by a large margin over any other single category. For some reason, Google keeps sending a lot of people looking for information on vegetarianism and veganism over here, so who am I to argue? I’ll just keep giving them what they probably don’t want to hear.

But what got me to thinking about doing another post in the first place was a certain juxtaposition. Someone forwarded me a link to the latest video of a NovNat nature seminar, put on by my good friends Erwan Le Corre and Vic Verdier. While I did the one in West Virginia last summer, this one was in Thailand around the time of the holidays. I had considered going and taking Beatrice along; and now, seeing this video, I sorely regret that I didn’t just make it happen. It’s been way too long since I spent time in that wonderful country (1991) and life’s just too fuckin’ short to not Just Do It, sometimes.

It’s said that the best way to spot a counterfeit, a fraud, is to become very familiar with the real thing. Here’s the real thing. Look at the impressive body composition partout. Look at the feats of strength and skilled technique. Look at the Paleo-styled nourishment that makes it not only possible, but probable — or even a sure bet. Take a good long look at this short video and sear into your mind what and how real humans ought to look like, how they ought to move over land and in the water, and what they need in terms of nutrition to accomplish all — and do make sure to select your resolution at 480p once the video starts.

So, you got that? Now, here, spot the counterfeit. I’ve blogged it before, the latest recently, but this is undoubtedly the best context in which to present it.

Now I find it interesting how Harley kicks off this video talking about how this raw fruitarian vegan diet is so "health" promoting. Really? Then how come I keep reading about the death of infants and children at the hands of their vegan parents? The latest, emailed to me by a number of readers just this morning and is what motivated me to go ahead with this post: French vegans in dock over baby’s death.

Two vegans who fed their 11-month-old daughter only mother’s milk went on trial in northern France on Tuesday charged with neglect after their baby died suffering from vitamin deficiency.

Sergine and Joel Le Moaligou, whose vegan diet forbids consuming any animal product including eggs and cow’s milk, called the emergency services in March 2008 after becoming worried about their baby Louise’s listlessness.

When the ambulance arrived at their home in Saint-Maulvis, a small village 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Paris, the baby was already dead.

The ambulance workers called the police because the child was pale and thin, weighing 5.7 kilos (12.5 pounds) compared to an average eight kilos for her age.

The baby had only been fed on the milk of her mother, who was aged 37 at the time.

An autopsy showed that Louise was suffering from a vitamin A and B12 deficiency which experts say increases a child’s sensitivity to infection and can be due to an unbalanced diet.

What’s perhaps a bit unique and stands out about this story compared to many others I’ve seen is this, again from the article:

"The problem of vitamin B12 deficiency could be linked to the mother’s diet," said Anne-Laure Sandretto, deputy prosecutor in the city of Amiens where the trial is taking place.

Ya think? See, in other cases I’ve read about, the baby dies because it’s being fed soy milk and fruit juice, or other such nutritionally bankrupt crap. In this case, however, the parents at least had "sense enough" to understand that a new human requires animal products absolutely and exclusively, i.e., milk from its own animal mother. Now what motivates the leap in "logic" to then conclude that at some point, what made the new human grow and attain vibrant health in the first place — animal nutrition — is what will later kill them is, well, incomprehensible and I’ll just leave it at that. It’s just too stupid and ignorant to even attempt to unpack.

So what you have here is that there’s essentially little to no way to grow a baby if you’re a vegan. Not only does it have to have animal products, ideally mother’s milk, or barely satisfactory: a formula fortified with adequate nutrition; but that if the former, the mother needs to be adequately nourished, ideally with animal products or, barely satisfactory: highly supplemented with things such as vitamin A and B12.

And this is a natural human diet? This is an ideal diet for health? My God, what level of cognitive dissonance it must require to believe that. Do you need to watch that first video, again?

Here’s Nina Plank in a New York Times piece from a few years back: Death by Veganism.

WHEN Crown Shakur died of starvation, he was 6 weeks old and weighed 3.5 pounds. His vegan parents, who fed him mainly soy milk and apple juice, were convicted in Atlanta recently of murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty. …

I was once a vegan. But well before I became pregnant, I concluded that a vegan pregnancy was irresponsible. You cannot create and nourish a robust baby merely on foods from plants.

Indigenous cuisines offer clues about what humans, naturally omnivorous, need to survive, reproduce and grow: traditional vegetarian diets, as in India, invariably include dairy and eggs for complete protein, essential fats and vitamins. There are no vegan societies for a simple reason: a vegan diet is not adequate in the long run.

Protein deficiency is one danger of a vegan diet for babies. Nutritionists used to speak of proteins as “first class” (from meat, fish, eggs and milk) and “second class” (from plants), but today this is considered denigrating to vegetarians.

The fact remains, though, that humans prefer animal proteins and fats to cereals and tubers, because they contain all the essential amino acids needed for life in the right ratio. This is not true of plant proteins, which are inferior in quantity and quality — even soy. …

Responsible vegan parents know that breast milk is ideal. …

Yet even a breast-fed baby is at risk. Studies show that vegan breast milk lacks enough docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, the omega-3 fat found in fatty fish. It is difficult to overstate the importance of DHA, vital as it is for eye and brain development.

This was in 2007 and clearly, the madness is still proceeding full force. Well, here’s at least one more blurb on the Internet that perhaps some future parent will stumble upon or go searching for, unsatisfied with the information being dished out by The vegan Menace.

And just as an aside in case any of you vegans out there are going to protest that omnivore babies die too, yes, it’s true. But there are important distinctions to be made. Malnourishment among omnivores is simple neglect. The parents are just Mark 1, Mod A scum, and not out parading their nutritional superiority as virtually all vegans do — and why they feed their kids that way. Second, in the case of obese babies and children, even with fatty livers, I rail agains that all the time (search the blog). But even there, a distinction is on order: these kids aren’t necessarily malnourished — at least not to this degree — they’re over-nourished, and much of it is unnecessary. And at least they have some metabolic and physiologic headroom to work with. Simply restrict the sugar drinks (like "healthy" fruit juice) and they’ll go right back to normal, quickly. But, bottom line: I don’t excuse any mistreatment of children’s nutrition.

…You know, I have in the past also blogged about chimpanzees that hunt & eat other monkeys, if only to highlight to vegans that chimps eat meat. They also eat bugs, worms, grubs, snails and all manner of other stuff they can get their hands on. And they have enormous guts compared to us so that they can actually extract nutrition from all that plant matter they eat. And, of course, they sometimes eat their own shit for adequate B12.

But in watching that video again, of those chimps hunting, and reflecting upon the two videos above, I note that the strength and agility of those paleo MovNat folks is far more like those chimps than are those Vegan Stick Figure folks. That’s because in the case of the former, both are eating the natural diets they evolved to eat. In raw veganism, by eliminating all animal foods, vegans are turning back the evolutionary clock to pre-primate times. What’s next, a diet of plankton?

So, from now on, I’ll not be highlighting vegans as existing on anything like a chimp diet. I think this one will be far more appropriate in the future. The Sloth.

Note the reference to a sloth being a "mobile compost heap" that barely has energy for a few "half-hearted chews," or this: "This extraordinary creature is half-blind, half-deaf, and this is just about as fast as it can move. That is what is going to happen to you… if you eat nothing but leaves."

This is an important subject. Awareness needs to be raised. The lives and well being of innocent kids is at stake and they have no choice in the matter. Imagine going hungry, being malnourished like a refugee or war orphan. Please consider Tweeting this post and sharing it with all your Facebook Friends.

Eat Eggs & Red Meat; Shed Pounds Easily and Improve Health & Fitness

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Food porn and reader results together at last…

Do you have any real idea how easy it is for almost anyone to lose significant weight and improve their health, fitness and well being at the same time — all without ever going hungry unless desired? (And as many know from good-eating experience, sometimes you feel like a break after eating so much delicious food day in, day out.)

Take for example, one of the easiest things in the world to make: a beef brisket in the crock pot. Click for the hi-res image

Pot Roast and Carrots
Pot Roast and Carrots

This was so easy that I tossed it in the crock totally frozen. I added about 1 cup beef stock, one onion chopped up, sprinkled a little garlic powder, some salt & pepper. This was about 10am. I set it on low and forgot about it; well, that is, until the smell began enticing me of the feast to come a few hours later. For the last couple of hours, toss in the carrots so they’ll be soft, but not mushy. Optional: pour off your broth at the end, put it to boil and thicken with 1/2 tsp or so of potato starch in a cold beef stock slurry.

…Hey, you Lean Cuisine and "Healthy" Choice eaters: how long since you spent an entire afternoon anticipating how wonderful and satisfying a meal was going to be? Oh yea, you do it all the time…well, sort of, because you’re really just fucking starving to death on your low-fat, nutritionally and calorically bankrupt crap-in-a-box. 

You were lied to. A naturally fit, normal body is your birthright, just as it is for any animal so designed. Sacrifice and penance is not only an unnecessary, pernicious lie overshadowed by unearned guilt, but it delivers the exact opposite result for most people: it’s not the key to Heaven, but a Rocket Sled straight to Hell.

Reader Jon emails in this morning.

Richard-

I’ve been following your blog since before Halloween. I made the decision around that time period to give the paleo diet a go. I had some success previously with Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar diet. However, I still continued to struggle under that diet because I would eat large amounts of rice and corn (since I’m from Louisiana we tend to find rice in EVERYTHING). I have also engaged in a perpetual war against Coca-Cola. At my worst I would drink 2 liters of sugary soda everyday. I’m 29 and on two blood pressure meds as well as a cholesterol drug. I was 300 pounds and miserable. I wasn’t happy with myself and my reaching retirement age was in doubt.

I dove headfirst into paleo by completely cutting out sodas and carbs. I’m not sure if it was an intense shock to the system but I didn’t experience the unpleasant withdrawals of earlier attempts to kick the Coke habit… Weight loss was slow at first but it didn’t take long before the pounds started to melt away. By Christmas I had lost twenty-five pounds and by Mardi Gras I was down to 265. A forty pound drop in weight had massive positive effects on my blood pressure, sleep habits, cholesterol (my doctor was shocked when she said my blood work checked out at 118 and I told her how many eggs I ate everyday and the frequency of red meat in the diet), and overall attitude. My feet don’t swell anymore and my complexion has improved. I have also found that the paleo lifestyle is more forgiving when I indulge in a bowl of gumbo or a plate of jambalaya from time to time. The work that I have done does not totally collapse under the weight of complex and punitive diet regulations.

So here I am forty pounds lighter and Coca-Cola free for the first time in my life thanks to your inspiration. I value your informative and entertaining articles. And while we don’t see eye on spiritual matters, I appreciate your pursuit of the truth. You have a reader for life. I still have a ways to go before reaching my ideal body weight, but you’ve made the journey a rewarding and reachable goal.

Did you catch that? "I told her how many eggs I ate everyday and the frequency of red meat in the diet."

And his doctor was "shocked." Not congratulatory, not inquisitive, not questioning of the advice she’d given him all along and the drugs she prescribed that kept him at 300+ pounds.

Nope: "shocked."

Alright all you fence sitters? When are you going to stop playing the poor ignorant fool to the "shocked" masses of Doktors?

Take control of yourself by yourself and let your Twitter and Facebook peeps know where they can start to do the same.

Keeping the Ideal of the Human Animal Alive: Perez Prado, Voodoo Suite

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While I catch up on some productive writing for "the projects," here’s something to hopefully brighten your Friday.

This is from the 1956 film Cha Cha Boom with Perez Prado playing himself. The music, Voodoo Suite, is the entire first side of the album by the same name and while the sample below is only 6:35 the original runs 23 minutes. It’s awesome. I have it in my collection.

Of course, half of that would be considered "degrading" to women, nowadays. And that by-the-hair deal on Sylvia Lewis soon after shredding her skirt? The horror.

We’re "civilized," now. Yay!

Bits & Pieces: Life in the Human Zoo

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Well this was bound to happen eventually

Over the last couple of days I was, at first, dumbfounded and then at once, on a mission;  and then idle. I had decided to post about a certain "new thing" where instead of snorting cocaine — "the other white powder" — one "uses" white sugar and…it’s all the latest rage. Well, at least it is in the niche community where being 180 degrees different is defined as "healthy": It’s all about being different. Don’t forget the leader. Being too different requires it. Enough. I dropped the idea. See alexa.com. Not pretty. Nevertheless, inviolable.

Well…well. Well, you ought very well know if you’ve been here any of much time that I go far beyond the body sometimes. I delve into the animal mind (humans are animals). I watch wild animals on YouTube a lot, just to remind me of what an animal behaves like, one that’s wild and not in a zoo. And one needs reminding. Because there are few examples in the concrete, faux jungles run by human tamers. So I haven’t a clue by watching domesticated human animals what a wild human animal is supposed to really be like. Yea, I know; there’s an euphemism. They call them "civilized."

Question: civilized by whom?

We already know what a "civilized" body looks like. How come nobody stops and points out what a "civilized" mind thinks like; y’know, that space occupied by culture, conditioning, religion, conditioning, schooling, conditioning, politics, conditioning and society and conditioning?

I could give examples all day, but here’s two that I just happened to be exposed to today.

…So what if you come up with some hard-to-acquire and necessarily hard-to reproduce trinket that you, friends, family and trading partners think is all just dandy between alls of youz? And then you use it as a medium of exchange — the definition of money — and you’re all happy, hunky & dory?

Stop: You’re not a wild human animal with the latitude to do such things. This is the "Land of the Free," home of the domesticated Zoo Animal!

Starting A New Currency is “Domestic Terrorism”

This weekend, a North Carolina man was convicted of minting and circulating “Liberty Dollars” and “Ron Paul Dollars” that were valued based on the gold and silver they contained. The man, Bernard von NotHaus, now faces up to 25 years in prison and the forfeiture of $7 million worth of gold and silver that was taken by police in a raid

Land of the Free!!! Shuwheeet!!! …Well and Ahhhem...there was no fraud, underhanded dealing, or counterfeiting of the currency he was competing against — which is to say, against the U.S. perpetually inflationary currency. They were tokens with actual gold and silver in them, making them attractive to many who pay attention to such things and actually, a very competitive hedge against the pure fiat money we use. That is, its value is based roughly on reciprocity, rather than edict and force (see the link).

But fuck all that. Move along; nothing to see here. They used a magic word. He’s a terrorist. You can relax now. Back to your cave. Feeding is at noon.

No questions. Anyway, see Stossel if you want the full scoop on that.

And so…Barry Bonds.

Four years ago he got himself wrapped up with a Grand Jury. See, there’s Zoo implicitness in the word "Grand." It’s rather like edifice in general. Y’Know, marble pillars, elevated benches, former law school has beens in black silk robes, naked and masturbating underneath.

These are your Zoo Bars.

Essentially, it’s a bunch of people usually not at all like your "peers," i.e., they are are whores of the Zoo State, and that’s plenty payment enough. The queer thing about human intelligence is that they can switch from Zoo inhabitant to Zoo keeper at will. …It’s the perceived power hard-on over others that then becomes their prison. I would advise: Just don’t dot it.

So Barry Bonds is at trial and from what I peripherally gather, not because he harmed anyone, is going to harm anyone, or anything remotely like that.

Lemme guess: Barry Bonds is standing trail because steroid use was not illegal. Now, I’m happy to be corrected by legal scholars with Master’s Degrees and juris doctorates in Zoo Human Legality, but it seems to me that if steroid use had been illegal, he could have simply claimed a right against self incrimination way back in "Grand" times and then they would have had to try to get him for actual steroid use.

So, because it wasn’t illegal and he was too embarrassed, thought it was no "Grand" business, a private matter to tell or talk all about it — or how many times he masturbates per week — he goes to jail for the "crime" of lying about it.

Only in a Zoo. Feeding is at 6, right after the 5 O’clock News and Conditioning Hour.

The Zoo Masters, now using Zoo Human Laws in advancement of their lust and arousal for predation, can’t get him for using some sort of supplement, because it wasn’t illegal. But they so need to get him, because the Zoo Humans love it when the Zoo Masters take someone down who has a lot of things and who many Zoo Humans like. Zoo Humans hate it when another human gets extra feedings and gets to stay up late. It doesn’t matter how you get him, just get him. Less feeding, earlier lights out, different, smaller cage.

Totally legit. For Zoo Law.

Lights out at 10.

You can stay up to 11 if you’re a good Zoo Human and Tweet and Facebook this to all the other Zoo Humans.

PhD Med School Biology Researcher Goes Paleo: Racks up 70 Pound Weight Loss; Gets Hot

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Mel, a PhD Biologist, emails in from her med school research lab at a major university.

Dear Mr. Nikoley,

I know you are a busy guy, so I will keep this e-mail to the point and try not to waste your time. I am another reader of your blog that appreciates your unorthodox approach to sharing insight about the paleo lifestyle. About six months ago I was first introduced to the low carb/paleo movement while reading Amy Alkon’s blog. For most of my life I was never overweight, although I always had to closely watch how much I ate. However, after turning thirty and going through two pregnancies (I have a 9 month old and a 4 year old) I was seriously overweight and struggling with losing the excess pounds. It was getting to a point that I thought I might just be fat for the rest of my life — very depressing. However after reading Amy’s posts on how eating meat and fat can actually help you lose weight, I immersed myself in the work of Gary Taubes and Dr. Eades. In addition, I started doing my own literature searches about the effects of modern diet on metabolism. Much to my surprise (since this is not my field of research) these studies were more scientifically sound and made much more rational sense than any of the nutritional studies that we are normally told about through the media.

After this research, it was not a hard decision to cut out all sugar, grains, and processed food from my diet. The results were spectacular. In a period of a little over six months, with very little effort (for example, I never went to the gym during this time — just hiked and played around with my kids), I was able to lose roughly 70 pounds and am now actually the weight that I was when playing competitive volleyball in college 15 years ago. Of course, this was all without ever going hungry and being able to eat delicious meals filled with lots of meat and buttered vegetables. In addition, this lifestyle is a great example for my kids since we all eat the same meals (versus mom eating a Lean Cuisine) and I now take them for a hike or we go to the park instead of me going to the gym to work out on the elliptical machine for hours at a time. I feel like I am setting them up to have a great relationship with food and their bodies for the rest of their lives.

During this time I also started reading many of the paleo blogs. Your blog is one of my favorites because my goal is not to live a "pure" paleo life full of "rules" that suck the fun out of everything. I was already fat for 4 years and that was enough of a downer. I enjoy your blog because it is a breath of fresh air and full of vitality. I don’t want to be part of a cult — I just want to be as healthy as I can possibly be and not be told that I should feel guilty because I sometimes eat (or feed my child) a potato! I get great ideas from your posts and enjoy your rants. You are not boring and you are not dogmatic. In my opinion, this is what makes your blog such a great read and source of information for people just starting to adopt this lifestyle.

I am sure that you get tons of people thanking you for your blog, but I also wanted to add my thanks. I realize you don’t get paid for doing this — so maybe knowing how much people appreciate your effort provides some reward. I have attached two pictures. The before picture is from June 2010 about a month after giving birth to my daughter. The second picture is from this morning. [emphasis added]

Sincerely, Mel

So you want to see the dramatic before & after transformation?

The Before Mel
The Before Mel

Ready? Six to seven months later:

The After and Hotter Mel
The After and Hotter Mel

Yea, wow, huh? And take a look at the dramatic face and neck transformation.

Facial Drama
Facial Drama

Well, what is there left to say? Isn’t it sad that so many — men and women included; the highly scientifically educated included; 20 and 30-somethings included — seem to feel as though they are, as Mel puts it: "…getting to a point that I thought I might just be fat for the rest of my life — very depressing."

So sad and depressing. Yet still, every single day in this country and around the world, these same people are perpetually subjected the same conventional "wisdom" and advice from the likes of Oprah, Dr. Oz, the medical and drug company establishment, the government-institution establishment, the industrial-agriculture food establishment, the talking heads in the media establishment, and the list goes on and on. What kind of advice? Advice that, even in their 20s and 30s, now keeps them fat, sexually less attractive or wholly unattractive, depressed and…drum roll…DEPENDENT FOR LIFE!

And isn’t that what it’s really all about, at the end of the day? They don’t want you using your own mind. They want nothing to do with your reasonable and rational self-experimentation on your own body. No; what they want is for you to recognize their "superior" intelligence and privileged access to information only they know how to properly interpret. They want you to need them — to always look to them for your answers. They want you to be skeptical — but only towards information that contradicts their diktats, and more importantly: all conflicts are to be resolved under their exclusive authority.

They want to be the authority, the last and final word, always and forever — and they aren’t going to give that up without a fight.

Well, they’ve got themselves a fight.

Are you tired of seeing the lives of younger and younger people being wrecked by unnecessary obesity and depression at what ought to be the time of their lives? Then stand up and shout that you’re mad as hell, and you’re not gonna take it anymore. You can start by Tweeting this post to your followers and sharing it with your Facebook friends using the helpful buttons up top.

Vegans and Cry Babies

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A Sunday afternoon Quick Hit

Why a steak for pregnant mothers could stop babies crying

Mothers-to-be who boost their intake of a vitamin found in steak during the first three months of pregnancy are up to eight times more likely to have babies who cry less, researchers suggest. …

Now the latest findings by researchers suggest pregnant women who consume only low levels of B12 may have babies whose nervous systems have not fully developed.

They say it means a hormone in the brain which lulls babies to sleep may not be released properly, causing infants to cry for longer periods of the day.

The study, published in the journal Early Human Development, involved nearly 3,000 pregnant women. …

The researchers found that those women whose test results showed they had the least B12 were up to eight times more likely to give birth to a child who cried for prolonged periods than those who had the most.

On average, five per cent of mothers lacking B12 had a distressed baby while just over one per cent of women with the most B12 reported their baby cried excessively.

But is makes no sense. How could it? Raw vegan is supposed to be "the optimal human diet."

Well, maybe they’re only wrong by 4 million years or so, or whatever it is. Do baby chimps cry a lot? So there you go.

Of course, there’s this tidbit added at the end because, y’know, we live in a fucking malevolent universe where the most nutritionally dense foods are trying to kill you.

But nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston warned: ‘Meat comes with saturated fats which can hinder the body’s use of essential fats needed for the baby’s brain and nervous system development.’

There you go: present the false alternative that it’s either a crying baby, or a slow death, or some other bullshit bugaboo.

Yvonne Bishop-Weston (what kinda fucking name is that?) is a fucking moron whose family should be ashamed of her.

Update: Jamie Scott, "That Paleo Guy," gives the run down on VEGAN "nutritionist" Bishop-Weston.

Idle Sunday Afternoon Meanderings

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I think that the older one gets, the weirder it can be when weird things suddenly pop into your mind for no apparent reason, and that you haven’t thought about for years, even decades.

Well, I can’t even remember the last time I thought about this film from 1965/6 that my parents saw at a drive in. I was only 5 years old at the time, but still recall certain scenes clearly. I suspect they figured I’d just be asleep in the back of the station wagon and would never remember a thing. I was justing along this morning and suddenly, it popped into my mind. Google is a fabulous thing, since I had no idea the title of the film. My first search was "70s movie human blood paintings," which turned up nothing; and changing the 7 to a 6 turned up everything.

Color Me Blood Red (a film by Hershell Gordan Lewis)

Now, you’ve got to get a load of this movie trailer, which, for whatever unimaginable and silly reason, has embedding disabled (for a 1965 low budget very bad horror flick?). And yet, you can watch the whole awful film on YouTube. And you can embed it, too. Oh, well.

Can’t imagine why anyone would want to take the time to watch it, beyond the "archeological" aspect of the thing, but the trailer linked above is a real hoot.

Anyone have any examples of weird shit popping into their heads decades later, totally out of context?