Instant Classics

Today I'd like to review two movies which you should rush out immediately and buy on DVD even though they're not out yet. Make someone stand in line for you at your local DVD store while you finish reading this.

Baz Luhrmann's "Australia" is an epic love story, an Australian "Gone with the Wind" as it were, set in a harshly beautiful setting of desert, towering red rock, and HOLY SHIRTLESS HUGH JACKMAN, BATMAN! He kicks ass, he rides horses, he is rugged, dusty, sweaty and sunburned, and even spiffs up for your viewing pleasure (girl, he cleans up goooood). Sure, he probably smells like the New England Patriots' team laundry hamper caught in a stampede of terrified cattle evacuating their bowels, but it's not in smell-o-vision now is it? Oh and that skinny blond chickie who was married to that nutty guy was in it too....

"Quantum of Solace" stars Daniel Craig of the piercing blue eyes, craggy handsomeness, and tiny-waisted, fatless physique. I think he was playing a spy or something....

Holiday Recipes

Keeping with the red and green holiday theme, I thought I'd post some recipes I've been enjoying lately.

Granted, they look like something the bilge pump might barf up, but I am rather devoted to them both. I was reading an informal study where people raised their alkalinity just by drinking greens powder twice a day so I decided to do the same and suddenly I have a lot of extra energy. I don't crash in the afternoon and I never need naps anymore which is remarkable here at the nadir of the arctic winter.

I also "stopped" drinking coffee and diet Pepsi, meaning I still drink them, but I don't make them a regular necessary part of my day. Now I get sort of groggy if I have coffee in the morning so I'm not really sure if it's the lack of coffee or the sludge that gives me all this energy.

Anyway, the first is an oldie but goodie:

Otter's Famous Swamp Thing:

• 1 scoop greens powder
• 1t Frank's Red Hot hot pepper sauce
• 1t soy sauce
• 1T fresh lime juice
• 8oz water

Greens powder is slightly less disgusting tasting if treated as a savory flavor. Otherwise it's like putting sugar or chocolate on your broccoli, blech!

and the new recipe

Otter's Chunky-Style Swamp Thing:

• 1 scoop chia seeds (they're good for you!)
• 1T flax meal (lignans!)
  
• 1t kelp granules (superfood!)
  
• colloidal minerals (why not?)
  
• greens powder (alkalinizing!)
• reds powder (ORAC!)
• 8oz water

Stir, let set, stir, repeat until the chia seeds release their gelatinous goodness and everything stays in suspension. Enjoy!

See, now normal people would run screaming if I offered them a big ol' frosty glass of Chunky-Style, but you are tempted are you not? Mmmmmmm...