Tao’s 2 Cents

I was thinking about what I will tell future generations about what life was like during the time of oil. Whenever I think generally of oil my first thought is the opening credits to “The Beverly Hillbillies”. I found myself thinking of those nicknames, “black gold” and “Texas tea”.

While I was living in El Salvador I developed the tendency to think of the Spanish version of words and phrases. It was just mental practice of thinks I might want to say.

So when I translated “black gold” to “oro negro” I started actually thinking about the latin origins of “oro”. I’m sure that it is derived from the same word that we use for “ore”, which immediately brings to mind mining…

I went with Christine to walk around the Artscape festival here in Baltimore again today. I plan on writing a thorough post about the overall event after it’s all over, but I wanted to talk about one particular thing I saw today.

Christine wanted to go into this trailer that said it was some sort of wildlife refuge. It had the same outward appearance as one of those freak show trailers at the state fair except with a better paint job and it’s sponsor’s name written everywhere. I wasn’t too thrilled but I went ahead.

Instead of having actual animals in the exhibit, they had these freaky animatronic animals…