The best kale I've ever had was not quite an accident, but an unplanned confluence of ingredients: chopped-up kale roasted in the oven with garlic and all the fatty trimmings from a leg of lamb. The kale and crispy lamb bits went into a salad that was amazing. But trimming everything out of a leg of lamb is such a…

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Radio after midnight is the best. Ever listen to Over The Edge? Negativland guys doing late-night shenanigans.

Boooo, School of Rock is super fun! And though the band is not really my speed, the kids actually play, not just mime for the camera, which is awesome.

My (sadly lost) collection of 95-05 techno vinyl was all by label—similar effect. Label was almost more significant for sound and style than artist.

Taste is eternal. Arguably the easy availability of everything ever recorded makes it harder to get the good stuff, because you're just swamped. The tools and opportunities are different, but judgment and discernment are still things you develop yourself.

School of Rock?

Counterpoint: you can still exercise that care and craft, but with different constraints and tools. Just like the cassettes I used to make, some years ago I put together a 10-hour mix or track list that was carefully designed to start at 8pm and run til 6am with shifts in tone and feeling at particular times (big peak…

She has a live version of 'Voodoo Child' that I love.

Maudite is great—the beer that introduced me to Unibroue after ordering it for the name in a tiny restaurant years ago— but I like the black ale Trois Pistoles even better. All their stuff is pretty good. Trader Joes carries a Unibroue variety under the name Vintage Dark Ale (I think that's it) that's good and at 5.99…

Abel? Galois? Ramanujan?

I'm just poking fun, I know you love your diæreses. That's why I was surprised that there wasn't one on 'opinion'. In my own speech and others I think that last syllable can shift between diphthong and schwa.

Coincidentally I just picked up the latest local free weekly paper and noticed they've pushed the movie section back, behind Rob Brezsny and just ahead of the classifieds.

Great if there's one nearby… Hooray for Bev-King in White River Junction!

The proper way to make Irish coffee is to throw away the coffee, put two heaping spoonsful of mixed black tea (Assam Tara if you want to be fancy) in the pot, pour over boiling water, steep, mix 2 to 1:1 parts whiskey and milk just slightly off.

Does your diälect not diærese 'opiniön'?

I think 'irregardless' is a case of over- or extra-negation for emphasis. It grates on my ear and I would strike it from any manuscript I had a hand in, but I see where it comes from.

Really?

You know how it starts real quiet and builds up? A girl and I were waking up (7am or so) and fooling around, she decides she wants some music. She sees that sitting out, hasn't heard it but wants to, puts it on. And it's real quiet, right? So she turns it up. Way up. Back in bed and now starting to really get it on…

Morphine. All their mellower stuff is good, but Like Swimming (song) is my absolute #1 sex jam.