They were actually kind of musically mature compared to some of their peers. I like their song on Boot 3, which also has really good songs from Rancid, the Distillers, Leftover Crack, Hepcat, and Joe Fucking Strummer.

I think a lot of people do get the two mixed up.

Someone with their first job, like a pizza delivery guy or guy who mows lawns.

Sounds more like a personal history to me.

Wu-Tang Forever holds a special place for me because it was what I listened to the first time I ever got high. Not the first time I smoked weed, but the first time I smoked it and it actually took effect. I was passing a joint in my brother's friend's car while the first CD was playing and I started to feel it. We…

Meth's verse following is also killer, though it ends abruptly.

At the very least, it gave me a line I can say all the time with my wife ('pizza is yummy to me'). Had it been movie-length, it would've been a much tighter, better product, but I enjoyed the hang-out quality to it. My expectations were low so it easily cleared the bar to my satisfaction.

Velveting the meat? That sounds delicious and dirty, my kind of cooking!

I lot of her recipes are just olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, & dijon mustard plus an herb and then one other ingredient, but damn if I don't go back to them time and again.

It's a great smell. Sometimes I take a big whiff of dried chipotles in the morning before my coffee is ready to awaken my senses a little.

I do turn to my copy of The Joy of Cooking fairly often. To continue Kevin Pang's guitar analogy, The Joy is like the ultimate fakebook. Don't know how to make something? You can bet it is in there and a time-proven recipe too, from chicken liver pate to chocolate chip cookies (to name two things I learned to make…

I use La Morena (and sometimes La Costena) and I'm the same way. I often times have to add chili paste or El Yucateco to a chipotle recipe to get the level of spice I want. I will say I seek a good amount of spice from my peppers, though I don't think I'm at the insane level…yet.

Having recently purchased a smoker upgrade and it being the season for outdoor cooking, I've been deep into the works of Steven Raichlen. His stuff is geared towards the masses, which I appreciate as I am not a pitmaster and the books I've read from actual, prize-winning pitmasters have been underwhelming. Maybe not…

I have the Bouchon cookbook, which seems to be the opposite case as Ad Hoc at Home: the book, despite being beautiful, is bulky, full of elaborate recipes with ingredients that are sometimes too difficult to find, often requiring equipment I have no access to. I guess maybe it's Thomas Keller's show-off book, which is…

Food blogs that don't have a 'skip to recipe' link should be banned.

'She told me she was 18, officer. Swear'

I think that is part of the problem the administration is running into: they aren't all idiots and some are very smart (maybe? I can't be sure), but they seem to have a lack of knowledge as to how the US government functions.

I made an island/summer mix for a friend this week so I've been listening to a lot of the Santo & Johnny Hawaii album, Les Baxter's Sacred Idol, Martin Denny's Sayonara, Henry Manicni's Hawaii album, Harry Belafonte, and Arthur Lyman's Hawaiin Sunset (I guess Hawaii was a big deal in '60s instrumental pop).

'It rhymes with The Wizard of Mink Hollow?'

Great tip. Listening to 'Pegasus' now.