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Sunday, June 11, 2006

Antidote to Las Vegas: The Capitol Hill Farmers’ Market

Posted by on June 11 at 15:27 PM

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Recipe for feeling like a human again after three days on The Strip:

2 bosch pears

1 zucchini and carrot muffin

1 bouquet of flowers

Now if I could only get these flowers out of my mind…

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A peaceful heart welcome home to you Eli. Local sustainable food will heal you after Las Vegas. Toxic cities like Las Vegas are the reason Al Gore's global warming movie must be seen by everyone. Buying at the Farmer's Market will stop global warming.

That's a lovely carpet. Much better than real flowers. I wish that everything were carpeted like that.

I heart the Farmer's Market. This is actually the first one I missed yet this season.

Welcome home!

People don't visit Vegas for the carpet.

Vegas leaves me feeling empty after about 2-3 days, and I can't wait to leave once that happens. And I have family and friends out there.

The farmers market was busy today, wasn't it? The snap peas were big and fat and wonderful. I love the farmers market.

That hotel was so nasty - I moved after the first night.

Oddly enough, a vega is "a section of low lying land, flat and fertile, generally irrigated by a river." Apparently the eponymous vegas of Nevada are fertile with polyester flowers.
Toward the end of Guru Dutt's masterfull early Bollywood classic Khagaz ke phool, the playback song goes "Fly away little bee, fly away. Fly away from that land, from that land where only paper flowers bloom."
Why does a group of liberal bloggers decide to meet in the capital of consumer chintz anyways?

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