what are you into right now?

it's a very real soda brewed by the ice-cream-and-microbrewery place around the corner from my building xp

it tastes like a snickerdoodle.

Like cinnamon cream soda?

something like that yeah

homemade apricot-date chutney
reed's ginger candy chews
robyn hitchcock

I NEED THAT SODA

the Thirties
tentacles
bicycles
butter

the present lover
mints
anachoresis
walt whitman

aprender español latinoamericano
contemporary korean films
cypress + grapefruit oil
group sex

terre d'hermès
atoms for peace lp & new emika lp
all thomas bernhard
all frank o'hara
_the disenchanted_ by budd schulberg
bordeaux colored tops
sashimi

miguel
ritter sport

Weisse beers
Interesting weather apps
Kindle singles
Any Downwards offshoots
Homecooked Indian food
Buying new furniture

- index cards
- british punk
- ferris bueller
- caffeine

- spanish moss
- daily naps
- the the mississippi delta hot tamale trail (http://www.tamaletrail.com/introduction.shtml)

charlie chaplin
belgian footballers
puma
the breeders
cider and beer with high alcohol content.

these are mostly longstanding affections though, i'm no good at getting into new things. like i read a book i like and then something always stops me from ever pursuing the author further

Interactive fiction and the idea of it
I feel another love affair with flatfooting coming on, sure to fail because I'm really bad at it
Today I offered to attempt to read Mein Kampf

spoiler: he invades poland

i go through phases with interactive fiction, right now i'm teetering on the edge of jumping back in

musicforprogramming.net

Janet Jackson

france

and its metal

baroque organ music

some of it is from france

finally, our interests intersect

check out sweelinck's organ music crüt

I have heard some of it!

metals of france

grizzly wintergreen
the new white mountain dew
joey wong

Bruce Cost Jasmine Tea Ginger Ale like a motherfucker

omg where do I get jasmine tea ginger ale

Whole Foods apparently carries it some places, or Rocket Fizz if you're near one of them. I'm in love with the stuff.

I have gone to 4 diff places trying to find this white Mtn Dew and I cannot fucking find it (except for this one 7-Eleven where all the bottles had expired 4 months ago)

thai piphat ensemble music
finding a decent ramen shop in chicago (this feels impossible btw)
embracing my boringness; not trying to cram my life full of meaningless activity

oops messed up the link:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi5RyepygCo

chorizo

and researching where to buy food around the city

making horchata
discovering Ceylon/Mexican/"true" cinnamon (brittle and flaky stuff that is so floral and citrusy and will change lives)

my new job at a porn shop

-Learning to live stress- and schedule-free
-Sunscreen
-Reading the newspaper online (not really loving this, but no alternative if I want to have a clue about what is going on in the world)

-Stevie's new job at a porn shop and thread devoted thereto

ya

the cool new tabletop RPG I get to playtest
being less lazy about cooking for myself
anticipating my partner moving to Seattle

I have gone to 4 diff places trying to find this white Mtn Dew and I cannot fucking find it (except for this one 7-Eleven where all the bottles had expired 4 months ago)

think this is part of the dewmocracy promotion, which the united states enjoyed many years ago but is only now coming to canada, where we've had a very small range of mountain dew products to choose from. the four flavours available are: white out, supernova, code red, and voltage. i think code red is a proven winner and i'd welcome its introduction to the canadian market, but white out was an unexpected treat (it's available in the united states, although i've never seen it, and in japan), an overacidic citrus crispness that has an artificial flavour profile closer to what would be produced by dissolving a handful of sugarcubes in a bottle of fresca. also, it's white.

i'm not sure if passing its expiry date would harm it. it might be a bit flat. i'm a fan of the sticky flatness and brown sugary sort of character of expired coke zero.

I learned once from Wikipedia™ that in Canada, soda that isn't brown can't have caffeine in it, so Mtn Dew is caffeine-free in Canada.

plz confirm/deny

no. i am going to explain this from memory so, if i have some facts wrong, forgive me.

mountain dew didn't have caffeine in its canadian product for a long time. they tried to put it in and couldn't get the recipe approved, because... yeah, something to do with cola having caffeine and nothing else having caffeine, except stuff labeled as an energy drink (like, ther was red bull in our 7-11 coolers while mountain dew still had no caffeine). mountain dew said it was necessary and was a flavour additive and should be allowed.

now, mountain dew has caffeine in it in canada.

Did this upset anyone?

much adew about nothing

no, it did not. soda drinkers in canada found the rule a bit strange. the change was made quietly and i'm not sure anyone noticed except die hard mountain dew drinkers, which we have fewer of in canada.

it's childish to be upset by what is necessary