Well, I'm always going to read that as Lil' Jo from now on.

Someone around here suggested it was Dick Cheney a while back, and I suppose that would make sense given the username.  Alas, I'm not nearly that put-together.  My username was just a play on my real name that I decided to use when reading the Liz Taylor obit in the NYT, and didn't realize was going to become that…

I lived under a rock for about 20 years before rediscovering listening to music again a couple of years ago.  It's been awesome discovering new-to-me artists who have vast back catalogs, but now that I'm catching up it's sort of depressing to discover the realities of waiting for new stuff to come out.  After having…

Thanks!  Hugs n Hisses assures me that my mountain of presents is full of stuff I'm going to like.  Or maybe she was assuring me it's full of stuff that she's going to like?  Yeah, definitely the latter. 

We just started Mass Effect in my household, so I'm super-psyched to have so much time to dig into it.

It's like the BEST WEEK EVER!

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus Too much??  I get entirely not enough!  In fact, last year I added a second share.  But then, I'm an aggressive canner/freezer, and I'm not shy about composting stuff.  Also, my shares don't come pre-bundled or anything like that — pick-up is at the farm and you get to…

Scrappy-colored granny squares are super-adorable, so that should look fantastic.

I finished a quilt top!  But haven't taken pictures of it yet.  I started another quilt last night (to go with the 10 billion other ones that are already in progress) and have big plans during next week's vacation time to dye some fabrics and get yet another quilt project underway.  You can't ever have too many…

Happy birthday!  This whole "birthday not actually falling on the holiday weekend" thing was sort of crimping my style, too, if just because I can't demand that all my family's attention be paid to me over the weekend.  I mean, I don't get to own all the days in May.

I almost forgot that I do have food adventures to report (I was sitting her feeling sorry for myself for the fact that I've been doing pizza and Chinese for what seems like the last month) — I made pita bread this weekend!  Who knew it was so easy??  I'm never going to have a sandwich that doesn't go into a pita…

Oooh, a 28mm food porn lens?  This sounds fascinating.  And like something I need.  Although you're right that good lighting sources should probably be a higher priority…

Dana Elcar is the only celebrity I can do a good impersonation of.  (It's a niche market.)

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood - "Thank You"
Fantomas - "The Omen"
Danny Baranowsky - "Meat Boy (Flash) - Title"
Stephen Jones - "My Girlfriend Killed Jesus"
Nine Inch Nails - "La Mer"

My CSA starts this week!  My first pick-up is Friday, and I'm insanely excited.  It's just lettuce, which I have plenty of growing in pots on my deck already, but somehow it's, like, better lettuce.  I don't know.  It's just different, dammit!  And exciting!

Oooh, going back to Disneyland as an adult is a great idea!

As always, your foodstuffs sound amazing, but I'm especially impressed with that picture of said foodstuffs.  Gorgeous!

That does sound delicious!

What's the rumpus?

At the risk of bringing my mother up in this space, I've never seen her laugh harder than when we watched "Holiday" together.  It's not even close — that is by far the funniest thing ever on TV.