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Email about 4pm PST yesterday, from Beatrice, on a girl's weekend...in Pismo Beach, subject implied. Dead at 48. It was Saturday afternoon, I'd been doing some work earlier, cracked open the whiskey...only minutes before. I read that email, went out to the patio, and I wept for her. I always rooted for Whitney. It was about early 1990s—mid-30s—when I finally acquired my maternal grandfather's ease of weeping when emotion takes hold. I can recall, as a kid, anytime he'd get some... Read Full Story

Alright, so now I can check the Jeff Foxworthy reference off my list. Ok, I just made that up. I have no list, and Foxworthy hasn't crossed my mind in years. ...But I suspect you'll have a harder time having Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan not cross your mind from time to time. Yea, she was a RollerGirl star. MelWhip Use your imagination. Loincloth bikinis a-la Raquel...hair pulling...biting and scratching. Yea! Oh, and yea: it was all over some caveMAN. Yea! Imagination. Oh, oh, and... Read Full Story

I can't be sure this is the same friend I saw one night up in the metal awning structure in my backyard well over a year ago. They all look the same. But maybe the eye contact wasn't just generic. He looked at me for a bit, as if to size me up, then scurried off. I went and got a fresh fig off the tree, placed it where he'd been, and the next morning it was gone. I repeated that scene many times. Never did it occur to me ever, to attempt to in some way to eradicate the mice that live in... Read Full Story

And/or, are they a bunch of cloistered pussies? As always, you get to be the judge. Remember that, because I'll repeat it. Says there's about 10,300+ readers...so one would not think it worthless offhand. After all, those 10K readers could up vote a decent paleo post and perhaps get it onto the front page (such as I understand Reddit, but I don't claim expertise). So I hadn't submitted my posts to Reddit in a while, because Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and other social media were... Read Full Story

If you've buzzed over here from there , thanks for giving the blog a look, welcome, and so on. 10 Things Cavemen Did That We Should Still Do Today 15 Celebrities Who Look Like Modern Day Cavemen 10 Reasons Cavemen Were Badasses Plenty of stuff here about Paleo, caveman and so on if you want to have a look around. And yes, there's a newly published book that gives all the ins-n-outs in a short read, with lots of supplemental links to more in-depth information: Free the Animal: How... Read Full Story

For my next "give back" segment, let me start off with a criticism. Don't you just loath those two sweethearts, staring into each other's eyes, as though you and I don't matter? The youth of it? And just damn them for finding out about healthful living when they get to enjoy it to its fullest now (and I'm sure, you can only imagine...). Bill Staley and Hayley Mason —and I'm sure I'm not the first to notice that Staley rhymes with Hayley... See, it's a contrived scam. They're just too... Read Full Story

A month os so back I had a chance to get with Dave & Armi and chat for about an hour about many things self-experimental in the whole Paleo realm. It was a really good time, magnified later by the opportunity to meet Dave at a local steakhouse for dinner. And let me tell you what fun that was. Bio-Hacking Geek doesn't begin to describe Dave. At any rate, here's the link to the podcast page and I hope you take the time to have a listen. Here's what's covered. How did you get interested... Read Full Story

First off, this might go better with chicken...but it was a spur of the moment idea, and I had burgers in the oven. I'm not going to take the time to link, but I've been on the quest for the perfect burger—whether pan searing first, then finishing in the oven, baking first and finishing off in the pan, or grilling alone. The latest attempt was to have relatively thin burgers, not pressed, but gently formed, in the oven at 275 for an hour. Burger & Satay Sauce So after the oven, I got... Read Full Story

Who knows who Dr. BG is; "Grace"...I guess I can say, since she now uses that name around town and in comments here and there? Grace has been an enthusiastic promoter of Paleo via her blog,  Animal Pharm , for a long time...as well as her encouraging of all the guys to look their best...and has been a good buddy of mine long time now. Sometime a couple of years back, there was a Meetup amongst Paleos in a park in Sunnyvale, I think, where I got to meet her for the first time and since, it's... Read Full Story

Hey, why not? Sometimes, you just get a comment that needs to get out there, and maybe only because the blogger (me) wants to mess with you. Could you do it as part of a post on an otherwise wider topic, as I've done numerous times before? Sure, but how about if the comment lends itself to a post all on its own? As always, you get to judge...so long as you're prepared to be judged as well. The problem for something like this is that many of you will immediately look away (Don't Go There... Read Full Story