The Black Star album also came out on that day. I bought them both and skipped the rest of my classes for the day.

Anybody who lived in the DC area during the sniper saga got that drilled into them by every local news anchor. I was definitely yelling at him to zig-zag, duck-and-dodge, etc.

Damn.. Stiletto was listed as a January release as recently as the end of December, but I just checked and you’re totally right: June 16th. I had planned on rereading Rook next week, but now I’ll hold off.

Here’s a posse cut I love. Bahamadia kills it as always. They all do, really. Now to go listen to some Heather B.

Just finished Tower Lord, book 2 of the Raven's Shadow series by Anthony Ryan. I liked it overall, but there were parts where the plot came to a screeching halt. Currently working on three books: one hardback novel, one trade graphic novel, and an audiobook. Respectively:

I can't speak to whether or not a cheese isn't technically feta unless it's Greek, but I can say that some of the best feta-like cheese I've had has been non-Greek. Specifically Bulgarian as kiisseli mentioned, as well as Hungarian and Lebanese.

MSG or tamari.

I believe the paste brand that Melba_Toast is speaking of is Cento, which has no ingredients other than anchovies, oil, and salt. I love anchovies as they are, but keep some of that paste on hand for when I only want a little and don't want to open an entire tin. If you try the paste in your cooking and find it…

Cento is the brand you're speaking of, yes? I like it a lot too.

From an old onion horoscope:

That's the part I wasn't sure about, and don't know enough about baseball to estimate with any confidence. If there are 10 billion possible ways a game can go, the probability of a match is 99%. If the number is 100 billion, the probability drops to 36%. At 1 trillion, it's 4%. So I guess that's the crucial question.

I think it is a near certainty that two baseball games have ended with the same structure of outs. It's like the birthday probability game in introductory statistics: the probability that any two people in a small population have the same (non-specified) birthday is much higher than that of any person in the same…

This is my understanding of the modern Coors beef:

Hello, fellow Mt. Pleasant native!

Thanks, I'll look into those.

That makes sense.. a little lemon with anchovies never did any harm. But yeah, it's precisely the "mustardy" flavor that Albert describes of the capers that just doesn't do it it for me.

I've tried to like capers, but I just can't make myself do it (I swear, as an anonymous internet guy, that I'm really not a weenie in most aspects of food-dom). I know you're a big fan of anchovies (as am I); how would you feel about replacing the capers with some chopped anchovies or anchovy paste as a source of…

Right on. This is an observational study in which present and future outcomes of two groups of people are compared: people who've been poached and those who haven't. "Controls" are only necessary when some sort of treatment or intervention is applied. I think there is an issue with generalizability here in that the…

Yeah.. had to give him his props on that one. I remember trying to get to the point where I could recite the whole song and gave up rather quickly. Also, I was glad (and not surprised) to see how he handled the "N" portion of the song.

Why did no one TELL me about this?