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Michael Jackson – Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin – Soixante Neuf, Annee Erotique
Holly Golightly – Waiting Room
The Go! Team – Everyone's A VIP To Someone
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles – Ooo Baby Baby
The Supremes – Love Child
Caribou – Julia Brightly
The Besnard…

It really makes me wonder why I bother. It's doing absolutely nothing for my esteem and it's wasting my time.

Good to see you, too. And thanks. :)

It's so bad because, unlike nearly every problem out there, which can be resolved with patience and determination and self-will, finding companionship and love, is the one problem that we cannot ultimately solve on our own, because it requires another person to say "yes."

*Sigh* I wish I had a Kitchen Aid mixer. Maybe next year, like I have the room.

It's not a church cookbook, but my mom was in the Baton Rouge Junior League and various Louisiana-area branches released editions of (plastic-comb-bound) "River Road Recipes." When I embarked on a serious effort to recreate the youthful culinary folkways I'd taken for granted while living in Louisiana a few years back…

Only to have it to nowhere or be lost in the deluge of crap messages from other dudes.

*High fives comrade*

I can see where a partner might find it weird, but (a) she apparently knew about it all along and (b) went to considerable lengths to entrap him, at least according to his account. I'd find this implausible if I hadn't learned more about my own friends' and ex-girlfriends' relationships.

Oy. Sympathy upvote. Was it on his part or a Tinder glitch? I could swear the same thing happened to me once, but it's been so long since I used Tinder that memories are hazy.

Our caller is gung ho, but then she broke things off again, saying she wasn’t ready to be in a relationship right now due to her last abusive relationship. Our caller is not handling this well. Should he wait for her?

My decision's complicated by the existence of both a library close by and instant recipe access online.

Unattached update: Haven't done one of these in a while, but…. this weekend I had a bit of an episode. I'd more or less ignored OK Cupid for months unless I got a like (since the last date went nowhere), and one weekend before last came from a lady I recognized from the Drink and Draw my LCS put on last month. We'd…

There was actually a very minor, barely mentioned plot point in Harry Turtledove's Guns of the South with a similar idea; the majority black areas of Louisiana and (I think) Mississippi became an embattled no-go area in the independent Confederacy similar to the Mosby-controlled areas behind Federal lines in NoVa…

Gross.

I was surprised at how much I liked Grantchester; far less cozy than it looked from the trailers, with strong performances all around and some pretty clear-eyed takes on touchy subjects for the time (and this one).

BOOOOOOOO. Admittedly, much of my nostalgia is bittersweet, as Star Hustler was a sure sign that programming for the day was over, but still…

I'm gonna see Dunkirk for sure either tomorrow or Tuesday; thinking a day out at a good movie'll lift my spirits. I oughta start looking for a used copy of Master of the Senate given its much-discussed absence from my library.

Pretty sure it was part of the American Short Stories series that ran on PBS, originally introduced by Henry Fonda (I mentioned it a couple of PCWs ago, I think); Eric Roberts played Paul (I think it was made in 1980). It's weird; I first encountered it, too, in a high school class, and several years back ran across a…