B. Anthony Stewart “Signal Hill” California Photograph
A forest of oil derricks makes a ghostly backdrop for a conversation in Signal Hill, California, in 1941.
Chef Ahki • One Woman Waging A War Against Starch
“The problem with starch is that during digestion it is converted to sugar and elevates your blood glucose faster and higher than you can handle. Wheat toast will raise your glucose more than a Snickers bar.Too much glucose in the blood forces the body to release insulin. Once insulin is released it is never excreted. In fact that insulin builds up in the LOWER BELLY and accumulates into puss like subcutaneous layers of fat. (A Beer belly is really a Starch belly.) Hybridized plants contain starch. Non Hybrid food doesn’t. Human beings do not digest starch. Starch Feeds disease. Does it cause diabetes? Does fire cause smoke? The causal effect between starch and diabetes is overlooked, misunderstood and causing the death and ill health of millions.”
“Dot Dash” by Wire
From Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds:
What made Wire punk was their minimalism, their reductionist distain for extraneous decoration. Initially, they arrived at their sound through removals and refusals. “It was a process of elimination, all the things we don’t do,” recalls [Colin] Newman. “At the end of the process, the list of things we actually did do was quite short!” Solos were shed first. In their earliest days, Wire included another Watford student on lead guitar, but when he was hospitalized for six weeks, the group noticed that the music dramatically improved in the absence of his solos. “All the fat, all the meander, suddenly disappeared,” says Newman. “Everything was edited down drastically, the songs came down to one and a half minutes long.”
