::in Ricky Gervais voice:: Uh, if you're feeling sad, yeah? Eat some Blackberry Cabernet sorbet. Go on, try it- it's delicious. And if you're feeling blue? Then Hazelnut Chocolate gelato is for you... By Ciao Bella! In your grocer's freezer case! ::holds up product, smiles, tooth twinkles::

ding!

(oh, it is so good)


-and i'm very excited about Sunday: The San Diego Mycological Society's Mushroom Fair in Balboa Park. Be there or be.... less dorky than us, but anyway. You know you want to go! Last time i went to one of these (in San Francisco, years ago; Nat lost his Canterbury Cross necklace in the grass somewhere in Golden Gate Park), i stared at mind-blowing close-up photos of fungi for almost 45 minutes, listened to a mini-lecture on how mushrooms propagate (spores! falling, floating, and more!), and learned how to make Your Very Own Spore Print In Your Own Home. Also, maybe i can hear an even better mushroom story than the one my sister told me about Shaggy Manes: She picked some, put them in a bowl on the kitchen table, and when she went downstairs the next morning to decide how best to devour them, all she found was a bowl filled with inky black liquid. What the hell? That's right, my friends- deliquescence. Bask in its glory.