Everyone knows the D.  They made the greatest album ever, just days after making a total piece of shirt.  Look it up.  Not only that, they once wrote the greatest song in the world, which we will sadly never hear.

This is bound to be an unpopular answer, but I take no joy in Cosby’s downfall. There is no doubt that he’s getting exactly what he deserves, especially if you read the details of his assaults. But the fact does remain that he was an immensely talented comedian and actor who did more than any other single person to…

I’ll use it for pickling, especially if I’m spicing up the onions or tomatoes that I’m making. As much as I like other vinegars—I keep four types handy (red and white wine, apple cider, and white), I find that white brings the acidity to my veg without too much of its own flavor, giving me more control over the taste…

Have you ever really, I mean REALLY, looked at your fingers?

It depends on school and/or district policy.  My most recent school was fine with peanuts, but not with tuna...go figure.

Every so often (about once a month), dinner is a big ol’ plate of Ore-Ida something or others, with a bunch of ketchup (and, when I’m feeling decadent, cocktail sauce)!  I just wanted you to know that you’re not alone.

About once a year or so, I like to read Pete Wells’ epic takedown of Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant.  It’s so brilliant. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html 

Meatloaf is one of those things—everyone makes it differently. If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. No one is ever required to like anything. I personally can’t stand coconut or mayonnaise. I personally like a good meatloaf, but I’ve had some that were pretty awful. I do think, though, that disliking something…

No ruffled feathers, here.  Although I’d argue that his first 4 films show solid progress as a filmmaker.  But he hit a wall around the time of Jersey Girl and he’s never really shown a desire to improve his skills since then.  And, since Seth Rogen turned him on to weed, the only stuff he’s done worth watching are…

True...but she keeps doing it.  If that isn’t sinister, I don’t know what is.  Is there such a thing as Egg Jail?  We’ve got her dead to rights on that one.

I lived in South Korea for 6 years, and the one time I got my hands on salted butter (from ‘French Tesco’ Carre Four), it was so salty I had to throw it away.  After a few years back in the US, where unsalted is a bit more rare, I bought some Kerrygold Unsalted, and loved its richness while being overwhelmed by the…

The Snowy Day was my first favorite book. I think my kindergarten teacher(Miss Lodge) read it to us right after it had won the Caldecott Medal (yes, I’m old), and I bugged my mother until she took me to the library to check it out. A book I’d add is Andrew Henry’s Meadow. It’s about a group of kids that run away to…

I liked it. However, I wasn’t watching it as some sort of scathing takedown of Disney and our consumer culture. I saw it as chronicling one man’s descent into paranoid madness. After a certain point, none of what happens in the film can be trusted as being based in any sort of objective reality, as the hapless,…

If it’s just marketing, I don’t like it. But Keith Reid wrote the lyrics for Procol Harum and was considered a part of the band. And the fact is that The Dead wouldn’t have been the same without the input of Hunter. So, if they serve a purpose, I don’t have a problem with it. (And yes, to me, that purpose does include…

And the Professor’s mentor back in his college days?  Dr. Moreau.

Also, New Belgium Brewing (Fat Tire) has released ‘The Hemperor HPA’, an IPA-style hoppy brew infused with hemp. Not sure about CBD, but there’s no THC.  I checked.

Not to mention the ACA.  My conservative family and friends accuse me of hyperbole when I say ‘the GOP wants to kill me.’  But it’s true.

Lists like these never catch everything.  My personal favorite release this year has been “Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed Meets the High and Mighty Brass Band.’  It’s a blue-eyed soul album that could have been released in 1964, yet still sounds fresh.  His voice has a pure joy to it that is hard to find in any genre these…

With everything else going on, this is confirmation that good things can still happen in this world. While Ray and Dave have both done solo projects that are fine (particularly Ray’s album Working Man’s Cafe), they’re better when they’ve got that brotherly friction going.

I’m going to throw Donald Sutherland out there—consistently one of the best, most interesting actors of the 70s and early 80s. Then he seemed to realize he can make a lot of money for extended cameos to add ‘class’ to a project. He remained capable of greatness (6 Degrees of Separation comes to mind), but he spends…