what are you into right now?

I'm that addicted to it I'm overusing it really, have just processed the fuckery out of an onion that really could have done with getting sliced thinly for the cheese/potato bake I'm doing!

oh i forgot, i'm REALLY into tahini in desserts, so far I've made tahini blondies and tahini brownies

I had an Oxo angled measuring cup for a while, thought it was fine, then I managed to break the handle clean off at some point and I was like welp. Replaced it with Pyrex. Still a good idea, just too destructible.

anyway I am in to right now:

making tea soda (black tea syrup + seltzer)
my job (!?)
sitting on the patio

Word puzzles
Bicycling 15+ miles around the city with nowhere in particular to go and little plans as to my route
Slamming a Steel Reserve and writing for an hour in the early evening
France's "Do Den Haag Church"

The Modern Jazz Quartet's soundtrack to the Robert Wise late noir No Odds For Tommorow

― calzino, Wednesday, July 8, 2020 2:10 PM (six hours ago)

love this album! took me forever to track it down

Oxo cooking utensils. First I got their hand powered whisk, then the grater, then the hand powered food processor. These are cooking accessories that bloody brilliant you want to fuck them!

It's probably worth mentioning that one of Oxo's product designers also used to design sex toys.

(we have a LOT of Oxo stuff - faves are probably the salad spinner, the pineapple cutter, the coffee press cleaner, but all are indispensable)

Bicycling 15+ miles around the city with nowhere in particular to go and little plans as to my route

YES. This is so much fun. For years and years I lived in small areas (10,000 - 30,000 people) and now live in a small city with ~500k in the metro area and its so much fun to randomly end up in weird neighborhoods I didn’t know existed.

the munro show

the mr show show

Roland Barthes’ likes. pic.twitter.com/SprAlKvb6m

— Phuong Le (@phuonghhle) November 22, 2020

etc.

she good ones in there. chiefly related with flat pillows and bouvard et pécuchet

Did he say/write this in English or in French? I confess I don't know anything about Barthes's command of English.

"The mountains at seven in the morning leaving Salamanca" is lovely but invites my snarky inner copyeditor to ask "why were the mountains leaving Salamanca?"

Your snarky inner copyeditor is a useless bore.

Yes, and as a result I usually keep him gagged and bound

:-)

I’m really into Herman Munster at the moment, and the whole Munster family dynamic.

I bought the complete Munsters the other day! I Love Fred Gwynn.

killer7
Pikmin
various other GameCube/Wii games after dusting off my Wii after years of inactivity
Frederick Wiseman films, or the idea of them, as I want to watch more but haven't yet
60's Japanese crime/heist/yakuza films
Pre-Code Hollywood (yet again)
Steve "Silk" Hurley remixes
my Bonne Maman jams and honeys advent calendar
T4T LUV NRG/Eris Drew/Octo Octa, particularly their new Fabric mix

Which yakuza films?

Fred Gwuynn turning into a semi serious actor towards teh end seemed quite great.
MUnsters are pretty cool, did they start as Ersatz Addams family. or is there something else there.
Anyway got to see them at a point i find them quite iconic. & seeing the Standells on there was quite humourous.
Assume i must have first discovered tehm asa tv standard in NYC in the mid 70s.

I really enjoy Charles Addams cartoons too.

Horror masks leftover from Halloween seem all too fitting for Covid.
The leather jackets I picked up in a charity shop in town a couple of weeks ago.
Finally got a Schott even if its not the style I really wanted and doesn't have the top pocket that is normally a feature of this style.
IT looks quiite good though.

Catching up with a stack of tv shows i haven't kept up with currently watching through The Witcher, Catherine the Great, Utopia (2020), finished Trickster yesterday, Name of teh Rose tv show, Mrs America, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, PEN15 and a few others. just tried out Flight Attendant last night.

The long black cashmere and wool crombie styled coat I wear in winter.
Duck
spirits with Rubicon sparkling fruit sodas.
making some new clothing.
Trying to spend time wisely during lockdowns
Lockdowns
TULCA festival actually getting an airing, then finding out there is another festival goinng on . So got to see some art stuff.

Making clothing.

the play Here's What She Said to me

Which yakuza films?

― scampostiltskin (gyac), Thursday, December 17, 2020 9:38 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

so far:
YOUTH OF THE BEAST (1963)
TOKYO DRIFTER (1966)
BLACK LIZARD (1968)
BLACK LIZARD (1962)

Perhaps what our weary nation needs is a thorough Addams vs. Munster smackdown.

(Though to be fair, there should be a distinction made between the teevee shows and the movies. Really not fair to put anything up against the impeccable Julia/ Huston/ Ricci/Lloyd/ Cusack casting.)

I have been sooooo into this Korean pancake mix I impulse-bought at Hmart a few months ago https://www.saveur.com/korean-pancake-mix-buchimgaru/

Oh nice. I live around the corner from an H Mart, def picking that up tomorrow. Thx for the tip.

I made a green onion and red pepper one and a kimchi one this week

Documentaries about archeology

Staying home

Bouzouki

Roasted sweet potatoes with butter and salt, great for breakfast or snack
Arranging cheap/free flowers and greens in vases from the thrift store
Nice cappuccinos from nice coffee shops
All The Citrus esp. meyer lemons from the yard!
Ballet documentaries
Hanging out with my super cute pony

all the sedate pastimes of rigorously enforced cocooning:

daily walks
home cooking
sleeping late
reading books
too much ilx
dvd movies from "the talkies" era
holding the line on alcohol consumption (mostly)

listening to about 5 new albums a day
singing karaoke in my room using the Smule app
playing guitar and giving up five minutes later
taking care of my father, teasing my mother with fart joekz
pretending to work
reading autobiographies by heavy metal singers
writing things that get rejected by publications

Aimless list fair close to mine

Doodling
Napping
Fantasy books
Ginger tea
Too much Twitch

i.e. how I'm coping with winter lockdown blues

Only Connect

Instagram chair and flooring options

Walking
Reading
Listening to music
Cooking
Friday nights with my family
Playing guitar (badly)
Watching shit on the telly
Puzzles

All things considered (and if I could remotely afford it) I'd be relatively happy retired.

Its been a cheery thought tbh, to consider this a trial run except that in retirement the plan would be for no rent and able to travel

(And a little cat or two)

Definitely to the travel part of it (and the cats). Obviously there's the existential element to retirement - the Prospero 'every third thought shall be my grave' thing - so the current state of affairs has the added benefit of not having the sense of forever attached to it.

As a treat

hanging out with the dogs
daily walks
reading for pleasure when i'm not reading for workshops i'm facilitating (which is its own pleasure, but has more 'pressure' built in)
Divide and Dissolve's new record
staying away from social media as much as possible

The latter is important. I cut my exposure a lot since my FB jail stint and my mood is so much better

Brazilian cheese bread, particularly the Brazi Bites Garlic Asiago
Metroid Prime
finance movies
Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, ah-ha
the idea of playing all of the Metal Gear + Metal Gear Solid games in release order (tho I haven't actually started doing this yet)

swimming
learning to cook chinese food
patricia highsmith novels and movie/tv adaptations
nyt crossword and spelling bee
it’s always sunny
playing tennis
us labor history
comparative economic history of china and europe/‘great divergence’ debate
yakuza films
films of sam peckinpah
reading poems in Spanish
baloney mustard sandwiches

omg I too have been into nyt crossword and spelling be, and yakuza films!!
I also just got this cookbook (tho less to actually cook with and more as a reference) and I love that its organized by region instead of by meal/dish/ingredient: https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/chinese-cookbook-all-under-heaven-carolyn-phillips-article

that book looks amazing, Thx! i’ve recently become disillusioned with fuchsia dunlop (her recipe for dry fried green beans is bs and i am *certain* the beans pictured in the book shallow fried and not blanched(!) as in her recipe) and mostly use the website woks of life and random youtube videos

recent yakuzas ive watched: battles without honor and humanity (very old school, impossible to follow web of allegiances between various gang factions but cool regardless), a couple of takeshi kitanos (boiling point and violent cop—both extremely genius) and Gozu by takashi miike which is like a lynchian surreal nightmare. i have a list but def would love some recs, also they can be hard to find in my xp

how are you swimming, flopson? Pools here have been closed 4ev

xps to Stevie - strongly support you playing the MGS games, they’re great

how are you swimming, flopson? Pools here have been closed 4ev

― pot sounds (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, February 2, 2021 12:16 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

most pools are open in vancouver