This is changing, though; my last couple of trips back to Louisiana for Thanksgiving I've found Bell's and Founder's in supermarkets.

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Setting aside most of this evening specifically to draw. I'm almost at sixty books for the year, so can afford to slow down the rest of this month and June.

Awesome bookends there.

Sorry to hear that, Sarge; many condolences.

Mostly they seem to be eyerolling ("BLEH" and "WTF") as Esther moons over how wonderful and pretty the ward of Chancery Ada Clare is.

We had a brief scare a couple of months ago with reports that our local rock club (something of a locally historic venue, too) was up for sale. Turns out the contract stipulates that the buyer has to use it for its existing purpose, and there hasn't been any news since, but that would have been a massive blow to the…

Seconding this. That's horrible.

Ernie Pyle's collection of World War II reporting for the Memorial Day holiday.

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Wilco – Hell Is Chrome
David Bowie – The Jean Genie
The Kinks – Mr. Churchill Says
Beck – Pressure Zone
Manitoba – Bijoux
Brian Eno – Becalmed
John Cale – Ship of Fools
Springtime Carnivore – Last One To Know
Allen Toussaint – Cast Your Fate To The Wind
Incredible String Band – Witches Hat
Lush – Hey Hey Helen
Eric Burdon and…

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Fighting off various dating-related moods the past several days. Also trying to spend a lot less time on Facebook due to the annoying tics to which some of my feed's endemically prone.

Pork gyro with spicy feta sauce. I didn't make it, but damn it's good.

"He says, 'I've got to go now, love, something's come up."

"Not bad. Not bad at all; but you'll have to do better than that if you want to come into my money."

"The Master allows it because he thinks I'm able to get him an archbishopric. Only he thinks it's going to be York or Canterbury, which is a bit of a pity, really."

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Hell, I thought she was the best thing about it, and Jesse Plemons was in it, for heaven's sake. Seriously, it was by no means a good movie, but I didn't expect it to be that shlockily entertaining (and it's fun to figure out who has the less convincing American accent: Neeson or Skarsgard).