There's a Mexican grocery I go past once a week that makes really effing good tortillas, right in the shop. Sunday was Taco Day, with some queso fresco, chorizo, black beans, and their house salsa. Made up some yellow rice and roasted broccoli to go along side. Last night was a lentil and chard soup, alongside some…

Bad Religion - "Modern Day Catastrophists"
Beastie Boys - "Egg Man"
The New Pornographers - "Chump Change"
The Clash - "The Crooked Beat"
Rancid - "Another Night"

This is correct. Dippin' Dots are the Ice Cream of the Future, the freeze-dried ice cream they sell at the Smithsonian is the Ice Cream of Astronauts.* While at one point we all believed implicitly that the future would contain more astronauts, the declining funding of NASA's manned explorations shows this is not the…

Robocop? Or would it just be disappointing without Red Forman there to suggest we "give the man a hand!"?

I've long maintained Maddux, Smoltz and Glavine form a natural triumvirate to replace Lee, Jackson and Davis*. Outkast and Donald Glover is like, a famous duo and another guy- Outkast deserve their own monument, but you could put it at the demolished Murder Kroger where my cousin saw Big Boi that one time. More people…

Hey, "C+" here means it's on the same level as Neko Case's The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You*. I can live with that.

I saw them in Atlanta on tour for Brill Bruisers and it was pretty much the same thing, without even an overlapping Destroyer show to explain it. Dan would come out for one of his songs, then pop off out of sight as soon as it was over. Then reappear the next time they needed him.

Stepping on broken glass makes me wonder if anyone has yet made a movie that's Die Hard with a ghost.

I think I've extolled the virtues of Food52's salmon with crispy kale and coconut rice before, but I made it for the first time in a few months on Sunday, and it's still pretty dang good. Next up was a salad of carrots and chickpeas, with some cumin, lemon and fresh herbs, alongside black olive mashed potatoes.

Joe Jackson - "Throw it Away"
Neko Case - "Where Did I Leave That Fire"
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "I Know More"
Weakerthans - "(Manifest)"
Weezer - "Say It Ain't So"

♫ Let's all go to the lobby
Let's all go to the lobby
Let's all go to the lobby
to get ourselves a treat ♪

Lie-berry?

"No, Upstate New York"
"You mean like… Westchester?"

If only they had realized they could just pray really hard to grow beards, like Wilgefortis, who wanted to be made repulsive so as to avoid being wedded to a pagan king. Of course, her father wound up having her crucified in anger, so that didn't work out so great.

Cold as the Clay grew on me, I like "Don't Be Afraid to Run" particularly. Folk seems a natural fit, since a lot of Bad Religion songs are like folk music in double time. This new one seems more contemporary country, and it's less my cup of tea.

It means it's able to be the Emperor from Star Wars.

Shows how distracted I've been that I was completely caught of guard by a new Greg Graffin album. I'll try and pick that up today or this weekend, but I did have to make a quick check that the song "Time of Need" is not, in fact, a thirty-year delayed version of this unreleased synthesizer-washed masterpiece from 1987

The Clash - "Clash City Rockers"
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "High School Dance"
Bruce Springsteen - "Spirit in the Night"
Paul Simon - "You Can Call Me Al"
Tom Waits - "16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six"

He'd better start eating!

They need to keep their distance [from these elements of his past] but not look like they're trying to keep their distance.