But I'll spare us. The only question you should properly care about is...

Who wrote this blog and what have you done to or with Richard?

Swatches!	Pouff!

Cukes!

I'm nothing if not consistent in my dislike of the evil cucumber. Back in 2006 I revealed my affiliation with the No Cukes movement. My cuke opinion underwent some change when I read that cucumbers could be used to build robots. Cukes came up tangentially in an article about the odious asparagus vegetable, pre-rotted for your convenience. And I even have one more, involving a monkey experiment, which I hope to find in the fullness of time.

I'm not alone. I recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal by Tom Dotan about a project that Oracle's Larry Ellison is working on in Hawaii. It involves growing and selling vegetables, and mentions that the peppers and cucumbers weren't profitable. Written in a far more judicious manner than my petulant denunciations, I did note this sentence:

"People, no offense, don't really love cucumbers. There wasn't a sustainable market for it."

Larry Ellison had neglected to solicit my opinion.

Nada One

A couple months ago I challenged my thousands of millireaders with the final paragraph of this blogitem about the Heart song Nada One. What is the song about? I anticipated getting few responses, but was accurate in my anticipation only if few includes none. C'mon, rock fans! I'll even offer a hint: The repeated lyrics of the song sound like "Not a one" but are really repetitions of the title.

Don't make me offer a prize!

* Pouff seems to be a synonym for ottoman, not Ottoman, in this context.