I love his music, voice included, but if you don't like the voice please listen to the early stuff before he got so rough. I honestly like those records better. The Asylum Years album collects a bunch of the good ones. ETA - or Ol'55 I think has so many good ones, including the namesake song.
Off topic but I watched him play piano and sing on some late night show a long time ago and oh boy did he look like he was on heroin, nodding off.
I have a compost but the disposal is a fantastic addition to my life. Some rice in the sink? No problem. Broth, compost, disposal. Sometimes trash. Obviously divert as much as you can, but the garbage disposal in the sink is wonderful.
I trained (for lack of a better word) my husband to wash the cast iron without wrecking the finish. He used to leave it soaking, I didn't freak out but told him that was bad for them and he could just toss them into the oven dirty if needed and I'd deal with them (like you, I am the cook not the clean) but then he'd want to make eggs or something and the pan would be dirty so he asked how to. I got a chainmail scrubber and he loves doing it now because he loves the chainmail scrubber. Like - I will sometimes use soap on mine because I can judge the finish but he will not put soap now, will only scrape and has begun to love the pans too, after so many years he realizes because they never wear out just get better.
I did have to reset a couple of mine once, burn off the seasoning and sand them and restore and yes they looked like this picture. It was terrifying but they got great again. Such durable goods they are!
I love my height, would love to be even a couple inches taller, but the legit short guys I've been with did make me feel insecure because they were sort of fetishists, only one in a way I felt ok about; they NEEDED a woman taller than them the same way women do to guys.
What someone pointed out to me once though, was that maybe I was implementing my own bias and didn't want to be with a guy so much taller than me because I'm not used to feeling short and it isn't a good feeling to me. So even though my conscious mind thinks I'm irritated by tall men's obsession with short women, and my daughters think I kind of robbed them of their potential height, it probably is an affirmative preference not just a default result.
He's an idiot but the line going up before a crash is what happens, right? Like the housing market - my shithole house bought for under $40k in the 90s was allegedly worth $300k in the housing bubble, then it crashed. So now someone is trying to sell it for more than half a million (improved) and, as a layperson that makes me expect a crash.
But not like he could prevent it, WTF? Possibly a real democratic agenda could blunt the effects though, a New Deal again. All the right would do is make it worse.
I should put this in the funny date stories thread maybe but when I was younger, my friend and I tried to go on a date, just to see (turned out no, we were just friends, still are 35 years on) and ordered soup at a restaurant.
We had the worst waiter EVER. He said the soup was dried out but he could ask them to put some water in it, made it sound so unappetizing when we wouldn't have even known, I mean it's soup, right? I can't remember all the other bad descriptions, but he was just not cut out for the job. The food was fine when it arrived, even after his attempt to downplay it. Just the waiter was the worst.
Yeah I saw them around that time and they were awful here too. Also the venue had really bad sound.
They have bad songs but oh my God she can sing like an angel. Always just spot on.
Worst concert, REM when they were starting out.
Recorded voice that irritates me the most? Dead Kennedys.
I am, personally, pretty tolerant of imperfect singing if the song is good, think a whole lot of bands just let the best singer they have sing, instead of finding someone who can really sing, and that's OK.
Oh yes, so nice. I try to wait until I am physically sleepy to go to bed. And if it's late I send a text to my husband that says: Let me sleep until I wake up.
Yes it sounds like a stupid question, but it is an indulgence that not everyone gets to do. Many people have to work at a time that doesn't match their natural daily rhythm. My work schedule is flexible-ish, so sleeping later if I have to is no big deal.
Going to the chapel and we're gonna get buried!
No. No, would not marry anyone dead WTF? Don't zombies in popular culture want to eat the living, and a bite turns you?
A hybrid.
2oz tequila
2oz fresh grapefruit juice
1 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz Campari
1/2 oz simple syrup
Shake all, add 2 oz fizzy water, dirty pour into glass.
Delicious, honestly. Increase the sugar if you want it more Paloma like, or more of the Topo Chico, to make one like like Texas ranch water. Sub mezcal if you really hate Campari, but you may like it in this.
I'm having a bourbon and amaretto sour (inverted Morganthaler recipe, basically). Are you having a Saturday drink?
Not much to look at but tastes good.
1 oz whiskey (bourbon is all I had but I would try with Scotch)
1oz Mezcal
1/2 oz Ancho Reyes
3/4 oz Cynar
1 oz lemon, 1 oz honey syrup
It's quite good, I found the original on Mixel app, it seems they scraped it from Reddit? Original omits the whiskey, halfs the lemon and sweetener. But even with the additions I taste mostly mezcal and Ancho. Bitter in a good way.
A boozy Saturday drink.
2oz bourbon
.75oz good mezcal
.75oz berry liqueur (any will work, or berry syrup, I used Montbisu Framboise)
Bare splash of vanilla liqueur, shake of bitters, or splash of absinthe or amaro (I used the vanilla, if you have a more interesting berry liqueur it might not need anything here but mine is not complex)
2 dropperful of fire tincture
4 strawberries plus one for garnish
1/2 tsp sugar (might not need if you have better strawberries)
3/4 of a lemon
Quarter the strawberries and put in shaker with 1/4 if the lemon, add the sugar and muddle the fruit. Add the booze, tincture, and juice of the half a lemon. Shake with ice and double strain, serve over big ice, garnish with the remaining strawberry.
It's very good, I like bourbon with mezcal and like bourbon with strawberry so thought it worth trying. Lemon peel muddled adds bitter edge, don't omit.
I was trying to make a strawberry heart but it came out more like wings!
I am really sorry I didn't get a picture of the finished drink, too dark but it's gorgeous. I don't like the gin I have and thought vodka and mastiha would be more to my taste so:
1.5 oz vodka
2 oz adjusted grapefruit juice (juiced one sweet pink grapefruit and one lime, mixed, then measured 2 oz of the mix)
1/2 oz each of the St. Germain, the Campari, and the Mastiha.
Shaken, poured what fit into a coupe and drank the rest from the shaker, it's delicious and the dark pink with foam is really beautiful.
2oz tequila
Juice of one lime
Grapefruit Jarritos
Stirred and poured.
A simple Sunday drink. If you have followed this community you probably know I am a big fan of bourbon and fruit mixtures. This is:
2oz bourbon (Evan Williams bottled-in-bond)
1 oz St Germain
1 oz Aperol
1.5 oz fresh lemon juice
1.5 oz bottled mango passion fruit juice
Shaken then a splash of Topo Chico, dirty pour into pint glass.
Probably when my dad died and my mom (understandably) fell apart.
I will say though - it has gotten better. Much better. I would not call my life difficult now. Only took half a century!