Author Archive: Eric San Juan
Eric San Juan
March 31, 2020
Image Credit: Pexels, Free to Use Licence COVID-19 has well and truly put a spanner in the works of our day to day activities. Whereas last month we could whittle away the hours with our daily commute, social gatherings, and other communal activities, now we’re staying at home, which many of us have found to be quite a difficult transition to make. You see for some of us, staying at home prevents us from escaping boredom, inevitably leaving us alone with the thoughts that we try so hard to suppress. So what can you do to prevent the existential dread from slipping in during these isolated few weeks – the answer is to put your mind to good use. Putting your brain to good use…
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Eric San Juan
March 28, 2020
It’s one thing to be a rabble-rousing contrarian. It’s quite another to engage in dangerous rhetoric that will get people killed. And Rush Limbaugh’s recent rhetoric on the Cvid-19 outbreak absolutely will get people sick, and possible dead. This morning, Salon reported: On Friday, the 69-year-old Rush Limbaugh argued that health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) cannot be trusted because they are part of “the Deep State” and have an anti-Trump agenda. In audio that Media Matters has posted on its website, embedded above, Limbaugh can be heard on Friday telling listeners, “We’ve talked about the Deep State all these years since Trump was elected — the Trump-Russia collusion, the FBI — well,…
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Eric San Juan
March 23, 2020
When the nearby strip malls and shopping plazas are in flames, rioters tearing one another’s hair out and stomping one another to death in the blood-and-covid19-soaked parking lot, my onions will be just about ready to harvest. Onions are easy to plant and grow, and depending on your growing zone, now is the time to plant. You want to aim for early spring, when the soil is no longer frozen and can be easily worked. We’re talking a solid six weeks or so before you’re plant your tomatoes and peppers, give or take. Onions require a pretty long growing season, though one nice thing is that you can harvest them pretty much any time you want, either for green onions and/or as scallions, as smaller…
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Gardening, Random Musings
end of the world, garden, garden advice, garden tips, help I am trapped in the house and bored, onions, planting, squash, storing vegetables, the end times are here, zombies
Eric San Juan
March 21, 2020
Since fully immersing myself into the gardening hobby — some would say obsession — my primary focus has always been on growing food. Growing lots of stuff to eat. Producing. Not from any kind of necessity, but because good production is a nice, tangible result of your efforts. All that food, those jars of pickles, those hot sauces you share, the jars of salsa that are 17x better than store bought, all of that stuff is something you can see and touch and enjoy. To me, it’s not much different than recording music at home or writing or painting. When you’re done, there is something to show for your efforts. As the world is lit on fire, this is the first time it actually feels…
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Eric San Juan
March 12, 2020
https://pixabay.com/photos/audio-concert-mic-microphone-music-2941753/ Online singing lesson websites may appeal to you because you have your sights set on being the next Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, or Ariana Grande. If you want to master the art of being a good female powerhouse singer, read on to discover some top takes to take into your singing lessons online. The first thing you need to do is recognise that everyone has her own vocal timbre, i.e. the colour of the voice. Dramatic is the heaviest, moving down to spinto, then to lyric, and then soubrette is the lightest. Dramatic voices are very heavy and full. You then have spinto, which actually means ‘pushed’. These singers tend to have an edgy voice and can handle belting at intermittent levels,…
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