Two incidences of beauty

[imomus]

In a world of sometimes unbearable ugliness, beauty becomes terribly important.



This is a picture of half-Russian, half-Japanese model Rina Ohta in the new edition of Fudge magazine.

And this is a beautiful song by Juana Molina (from her Domino album Son) called Malherido.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Fair point, although I understand that omega-3 fatty acids are most effective, anticoagulantly speaking, when taken in the form of fish oil. No?

hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[rroland.livejournal.com]

i read bbc front page everyday, when i read this yesterday i started thinking about the lives of famous artists who ODd...maybe they weren't so dumb after all? then i remembered the two diverging paths, one is pessimism and one is optimism. why take the P road? keep on throwin' it down and i'll keep picking it up and taking the O road.

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

First, Mr Anonymous, I think it doesn't matter if it from fish oil or biological products that matters, it is the percent in the product itself.

What do you mean by ODd, rroland?

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[imomus.livejournal.com]

OD stands for overdose, as in drug-assisted suicide, and Rroland is using it as a verb, "overdosed".

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Aah, I see, and at the same time I also see that rroland didn't really reply to my comment but rather your Click Opera entry... So much for lively discussions.

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

cap! don't be jealous. you look half polish by the way.

yours sincerely

KARL
{the young person's guide to scary monsters.)

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Geeze, I look like a french, I look like a German, I look like a polish dude, I would fit at the Australian border, as a farmer or even a traveller... Hmm, something is wierd here....

By the way, I am not yealous, just a bit lonely.

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

look cap...you are not the right race to qualify for lochness. listen cap, my bird is a halfie...u must visit us. in da harbour. bring your sister and we sort something out. i like swedish birds. swappy swappy, u know what i mean. there's even a disco called karllson round the corner. IMPORTANT.

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can do that, I can visit your bird if you want to, I have plans to rant around in western europe and write about it or something... Someday you know. Oh, hey, the flights are cheap really!

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[rroland.livejournal.com]

sorry cap, our kindly friend the censor answered for me

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

i can buy it of you. the child i mean.
i like em raw like sushi. OOOH ALL THOSE SENSES.

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't hurt really!

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[(Anonymous)]

Found this here http://askdrblonz.com/q&a/col287.html

"all omega-3 fatty acids are not the same. In particular, the ones found in flaxseed and other plants are not the same as those found in fish.

What's the difference? To answer this will require a little biochemistry.

It helps to appreciate that oils are made up of fatty acids, and all fatty acids are primarily long chains of carbon atoms that are bonded together. The omega-3s fatty acids in fish, are often referred to by the initials EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), and they are 20 and 22 carbons long respectively. The omega-3s in flaxseed and other plant sources are called linolenic acid, and it is only 18 carbons long.

Most people need more omega-3 fats in their diet, whether they come from fish or flax, but the key benefits come from EPA and DHA. The body has an ability to take the 18 carbon long omega-3 from flaxseed and lengthen them into EPA and DHA, but it is not an efficient process.

The bottom line is that if you are looking for omega-3 fats, the two supplements are similar, but certainly not equal. It is, however, better to have the omega-3s from flaxseed than to not have any at all.

I would be remiss if I didn't point out that flaxseed has other health attributes. It is an excellent source of lignan, a phytochemical that may have cancer protective effects. Flaxseed also is also an excellent source of dietary fiber."

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Lingonberry? The other alternatives found at the wikipedia entry? I am sure science can extract the right stuff from these plants and put them into pills so people can eat them instead of eating that fish and destroy the seas ecosystem.

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[(Anonymous)]

Another thing to remember about omega-3 fatty acids is that (as I understand it) they can't be produced/synthesized by any animals, including fish - salmon get them if they eat a lot of algae, i think. As far as I know, they all come from plants, even if it's from a step or two back in the foodchain.

I recently found that, in addition to flax, a pretty good source of omega 3 is a succulent leafy plant called purslane (called 'verdolagas', spanish name, at some markets) that grows pretty much all over the world..

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Well, what do you know, this just show that the omega-3 fatty acid trend is harmful for the fish population and it is also a lie that you get it mainly from fish. Bah, I smell a conspiracy here.

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[(Anonymous)]

I've been wondering how hard it would be to grow a lot of the type of algae the salmon eat and extract the omega-3 directly from it.
Japanese shiso is also very high in omega-3, but it's something you usually don't eat in large amounts..
- jonathan

Re: hopefully my little grandchild will survive

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Possibly not that hard, I mean, you can probably get it to grow in some artificial kind of enviroment or something.

Hmmm, but if it contains ALOT of omega-3 you probably don't have to eat alot of it, thay say that you need to eat fish atleast 2-3 times a week in order to get the amount of omega-3 which you need. So perhaps you don't need to eat the Shiso that very often.