What are you reading?

Feynman must have had an out of body experience

 

Hey there. Do not want to come across as a fussy "know it all." Just thought I would mention this information that Probably no one but I cares about, but Ken Kesey's brother, Chuck and Chuck's wife -Sue - started the Springfield Creamery and later hired a friend from San Francisco, Nancy. Ken didn't start it -- he was a writer. Ken's wife was Faye

When she joined the creamery, Nancy brought her fantastic probiotic yogurt recipe with her and the creamery started production of the product, which was eventually marketed as Nancy's Yogurt. IIRC, it was the first probiotic yogurt commericially sold in the USA. Nancy's Yogurt is still sold and I eat it several times a week.

Ken's biggest contribution to the creamery was his and his brother's friendship with the Grateful Dead rock band. Apparently the creamery fell on hard times and Ken and Chuck convinced the Grateful Dead - whom they was very tight with -- to come to Veneta Oregon and hold a benefit concert for Springfield Creamery. I have a DVD copy of the concert. It was a wild time. What? Surprised I have a copy of it? What do you expect from a guy who spends a fair chunk of weekends in Portland dancing in a frog outfit.

I haven't read it, but the link to the Oregon Public Broadcasting article here probably explains it well enough.
The Grateful Dead saved an Oregon creamery on this day 50 years ago - OPB

 

No need to apologize. Sorry about the mistakes. I was told (in high school) about the connection between the Kesey’s and the creamery, but I obviously got my history incorrect.

 

Decided there is a need for something a bit humorous.

Sweet Thursday

One of Steinbeck's lighter works. Thursday, Tortilla Flats and Cannery Row serve as my triangle of his writing.

Nothing against his other works.

 

Doug's sophomore novel.
SFSG.....

 

Didn’t understand it in high school, and don’t understand it now

 

Easy fix.
Spend 5 minutes reading the comments section following any political death or natural disaster and you will know "all the things."

 

There's a possibility, I guess, that the phrase "quiet, piggy!" that made the news some time in the last year, when it was spoken by a prominent US politician to someone asking a press question, may have come from this book, rather than reflecting just some other random impulse to call somebody piggy.