We had a we're-all-gonna-die-level warm winter here along Colorado's front range, so there never really was a soup season. I did make mulligatawny for the first time in January. I had made turkey stock with the Thanksgiving turkey and got to use it in the soup and it was totally great. One tip I've ...

The world won’t end via nuclear war or climate catastrophe. It’ll end when someone who’s coming over for Sunday grilling asks if they can bring anything.

Cucumber pickles, the way-too-brined, way-too-much-dill deli-style that most people think of when you say "pickles", kick fucking ass, one of the greatest things in life, food or otherwise. The crunchier the better, but kinda soggy is fine, too. Gherkins, bread and butter, any kind of sweet pickle ...

This rips. Spirit of Ayler seems to loom large here.

https://franciscomorato.bandcamp.com/album/tebogo

I thought of a good one the other day, but forgot what it was.

^I've laughed/cried at this nearly every day for the past couple weeks.

I spent nearly 20 years delivering bottled water, gripping those 5-gallon bottles by the neck, so I aged a little early on the onset arthritis front, like early ...

Isaac wrote: Mon Feb 09, 2026 9:58 am Ornette Coleman's Science Fiction.

PRETTY GOOD ALBUM.

Any excuse to post this:

Dovira wrote:

The pinnacle of pop music!

I get my work pants at Costco and at the end of 2024 I bought a pair one size down from what I usually wear in the hopes I'd be able to eventually fit into them. I put them on today and they fit nice and snug.

Little detail from this week: I am not at all a goal-oriented person, but after my wife ...

Hearing present-day rap and thinking, "This is fucking horseshit."

I'm overdue for glasses. It doesn't seem that long ago that during an eye test a doctor told me I have "ballplayer vision".

311 is a terrible band

Ha, I had to check the page number.


To be fair, there are no good bands with "three" or "third" in their names.

Hey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Lh06y6Z1Q&list=RDz1Lh06y6Z1Q&start_radio=1

My little detail today is I just found out Dirty Three are (is?) playing ...