http://www.pleonast.com/user/redmartineau recent pleonast.com entries by user redmartineau en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/redmartineau?l=5&entryID=600448 If you had $200.00 Dollars to buy me a birthday present, what would you buy for me? ~Brian PS. I am not expecting anyone to buy a birthday present for me at any price, it’s just a question. 2008-11-18 http://www.pleonast.com/user/redmartineau?l=5&entryID=600129 So here we are! Ashley’s birthday, the Feast of Ashley! Today Ashley and I will eat whatever Ashley wants to eat. For those eating along, you can either ask Ashley what to eat (and tell her happy birthday while you’re at it) or else it would be etiquette to differ the decision to the “woman of the house”, or in cases where a woman of the house is unavailable to consult, the decision then falls to the person who’s birthday is closest to today’s date (in either direction). We may eat Taco Bell. Happy Feasting! ~Brian 2008-11-17 http://www.pleonast.com/user/redmartineau?l=5&entryID=599798 Ah friends, the day is near! Soon the Feast of Ashley will be upon us and another successful feast week will be at a close. Today’s feast, “The Feast of the Prepared Table” is a simple one. Today you must feast upon a feast made not by your hands, that is to say, not prepared by you (and not to say, a meal made with one’s feet). In modern observance, this usually means eating at a restaurant. However historically, this was often a feast given by someone with means to feed those of lesser means. I have observed this feast at my parent’s house, for example. This means of course that THEY were not able to eat the feast as a feast of the prepared table, a situation circumvented by my bringing a food item to the feast. Thus this feast is often eaten as a communal pot-luck, with each person or family making food for someone else and at the same time eating food they did not make. Some early Feast of Ashley manuscripts mention a “miracle of the Sixthfeast”, a lege... 2008-11-15 http://www.pleonast.com/user/redmartineau?l=5&entryID=599498 I’ll have to make this quick, I’m at work… Today we feast the fifth feast which is “The Feast of the Sweetened Tooth”. On the menu is anything naughty, sweet and fattening. Have a piece of cake, or have the whole cake! Cookies, pie, brownies and ice cream as you like! You can of course eat other things as well, but make sure you have some dessert too! Happy Feasting! ~Brian 2008-11-14 http://www.pleonast.com/user/redmartineau?l=5&entryID=599220 This is an actual question from an actual quiz, from my actual Chemistry class, from my actual school, actually. OSU is funny, and my Chem. Professor is a dork, really. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Quiz 5 Question 2 A process takes in 100 kJ. This is process is: a) endothermic b) exothermic c) palin-thermic d) obama-thermic ---------------------------------------------------------------- PS: I chose C!!! (Not really). PPS: The typo was really on the quiz. ~Brian 2008-11-14 http://www.pleonast.com/user/redmartineau?l=5&entryID=599050 Today we feast “The Feast of the Bounty of the Leaf”! Of the leaf of any plant whose leaf is edible, of that leaf we shall feast. This is a feast that for most will center on salad, but other leaves are eaten. Spinach, chard, mustard, cress, dandelion, bok-choy, cabbage, beet tops, amaranth, collards, etc., all are fair game on this feast. Also on this day songs may be commissioned and sung in praise of the bounty of the leaf, costumes made in the shapes and colors of the leaves, pageants or plays can be performed about leaves, also a great many leaf-centric craft projects can be made. A feast day is not all and only about food! Happy Feasting! ~Brian 2008-11-13 http://www.pleonast.com/user/redmartineau?l=5&entryID=598763 Hear Ye, Here Ye! This is the twelfth day of the eleventh month, the third feast of the Feast of Ashley. Now again, as in any made-up pseudo-religion’s text, there are bound to be textual discrepancies. I, Brian Martineau, as the self-proclaimed “World’s Foremost Scholar” on the Books of the Feast and of all texts regarding the eating of and celebration for the feasts of Ashley, have found one such inconsistency. In the second revelation, in II Feast, it is written in chapter three, verse six: 6) “The third feast will remain as before and thou shall eat of the Bounty of the Field and that which if grown from the field thou shall eat.” However if one reads from I Feast, Chapter Seven, verses 1-5 they will see an older keeping of the feasts: 1) “And these are the days that were measured to do her honor: 2) The Feast of the Fowl of the Air 3) The Feast of the Fowl of the Land 4) The Feast of the Bounty of the Leaf 5) The Feast of the Fruit of the Field”. As one... 2008-11-12 http://www.pleonast.com/user/redmartineau?l=5&entryID=598375 The feast of the fruit of the land!!! Yes friends, today we move a day closer to Ashley’s birthday and celebrate by eating all things root! Potatoes, carrots, macca, burdock, beets, mangles, the mighty rutabaga and onions, garlic, peanuts… Things that grow below, on these today we feast! You’ve been eying that bag of chips? Feel like some French Fries? Does a baked potato sound like a good idea? ROOT ON! Happy feasting! ~Brian 2008-11-11 http://www.pleonast.com/user/redmartineau?l=5&entryID=598041 Well, well. Once again the days of the feast of Ashley are again upon us! I must say that this years feasts came up with rather frightening speed, it seems only weeks ago since we ate last year’s feasts! Ah, but all must bow to time’s relentless march, and so it is today that again we celebrate Ashley’s birthday. As an invented “ancient tradition”, I have devised a week of feasts to mark this momentous time. In all seriousness, the feasts were thought up and named at a time when we were very poor, so I basically gave over-dramatic and impressive names to what ever we were eating that night and then, on Ashley’s actual birthday, let her pick out a restaurant she wanted to eat at, or meal she wanted prepared for her. In subsequent years I came up with a back story for this whole craziness. This text was written in a “Book of Mormon” pseudo-religious style, describing how the ancient people of Martineau came to celebrate this great week of feasts to the “Goddess ... 2008-11-11 http://www.pleonast.com/user/redmartineau?l=5&entryID=595748 I don't like to make political statements. 2008-11-05