🍽️ Orecchiette with Sausage and Broccoli
Could kind of eat this all night. Hope you like sausage! And oil+butter!
🎵 Brothertiger Plays Tears For Fears’ Songs From The Big Chair (2017)
A friend turned me on to this one. As a Tears for Fears fan, I think Brothertiger does some nice work here.
From Jenny George’s collection The Dream of Reason (I could find no place to link to, so this is printed without permission):
Spring
Speckled egg, brown egg, or sky blue with black marks –
Having broken once, the world re-forms
in miniature.
Over and over, in the nest
between two limbs; in the hollow of grass
at a marsh edge.It’s relentless, the way it keeps trying
to return.
Joy
Joy
Joy
🍽️ Black Bean and Roasted Salsa Soup
Another out-of-the-park vegetarian option. Soup season!
🍽️ Street Cart Chicken & Yellow Rice
I’ve made this twice now, and it is the real deal. I make only one rice that is better. The marinade is well proportioned. The time it takes me to prepare everything is 50% again what is mentioned in the recipe. That’s a running theme, usually to the tune of taking twice as long to prep my ingredients.
The sauces are great. I don’t make them in the same proportion as the mains because my kids don’t really touch the sauces. I’ve had trouble nailing the consistency of the white sauce. The hot sauce has an “it’s time to invest in Big Cayenne” amount of cayenne pepper, and I wouldn’t sneeze at the amount of red flake in there either. I can’t bring myself to keeping pouring when making the red sauce.
But it’s all GOOD. You should make it your own!
🍿 Dune (2021)
This is the second time I’ve seen the movie now and I think I like it. It is filmed with such intensity. Also, I’m no Dune-head so I don’t have the hangups about the movie art not bringing about the same exact feeling as the book art.
After I watched the movie the first time, I interrogated my Dune-loving friend for 90 minutes. It added to my experience. My kids, however, didn’t really have any questions after. I’m hoping a few bubble up over time.
I appreciate the same shape being used in each of the logo letters:
Living by what yet get, life by what you give.
– Winston Churchill
🔗 Unsolicited Advice to Minnesota Children by Neil Hilborn
I shouldn’t quote the whole thing because that would be inappropriate, so I’ll do something worse and excerpt a poem:
and you ingrate children of the snow
spend all your time in “classes”
learning about “things” that will teach you
nothing about ice skating on the bones
of your enemies or lighting moose
on fire or felling fir trees
Anyway, I love it!
🍿 Bolt (2008)
My youngest had never seen this one, so we watched it tonight while the other kids were busy with a school activity. It’s a cute little adventure.
📚 Where the Deer and the Antelope Play (2021)
I like how Nick Offerman writes. It inspires me to be more playful with my scribbles. Maybe I can be a little janky, leave some words out, and use a fancy phrase or five for fun. There’s definitely a schtick to it and he can spread it too thick at times. One of the themes in the book is “nuance,” which makes it striking when Offerman paints 40% of the American population with a pretty obese brush. The dual focus of describing our beautiful land right next to lamenting our ugly politics doesn’t really do a lot of favors to either discussion.
Hello, Rails, old friend.
🔗 An app can be a home-cooked meal
I am the programming equivalent of a home cook.
What an informative story about using programming to solve a problem for one’s family. Also, I do kind of want the app!
📚 Dune (1965)
I never read Dune as a kid. I tried to read Dune just out of college, but it didn’t catch. Yes, I’m one who read Dune (1984 movie tie-in edition) after seeing the movie (2021), and for me this worked. The movie, along with a conversation with a friend after the movie, gave me enough background to enjoy the ride.
🥘 Dilly Bean Stew with Cabbage and Frizzled Onions
So much flavor, so few ingredients! Also, homemade bread.
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
– Jonas Salk
📚 Homie (2020)
Did not hit me as hard as Don’t Call Us Dead. As with all Danez Smith, watching them read the poems is the best way to take them in.
🍿 Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
🍿 The Bird and the Whale (2018)
Quite a pretty short movie, animated from thousands of paintings.
I know that Micro.blog is designed not to have any private “things,” but it strikes me that the Team plan with the ability to have a private blog would be a killer app for families trying to get off the Facebook/Insta/Snapchat train. Any alternatives out there for this? My wife’s family used to use My Family, but it got shuttered by Ancestry years ago.
God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
– Kurt Vonnegut
🍿 Men in Black 3 (2012)
Watching all of these with the kids only to discover that I hadn’t actually ever seen MIB3.
Micro.blogging
I have decided to give Micro.blog an honest try in 2022. This means I am moving my blogging presence off my own platform to this one. You can dig back to my post archives at my site.
Inspired by @pimoore’s The Macro of Micro.blog, I am trying to get over my archivist desires to:
- Import all of my history to Micro.blog. It’s a distraction from writing and the true archiving of thoughts and experiences.
- Concern myself with some future where Micro.blog gets bought, I want to move on, and all of my stuff needs exported/imported/moved. Hopefully it won’t happen, and if it does I’ll do something then.
- Resist my incessant need to “style” and customize my things. I can save that for other projects.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Postcolonial Love Poem – I didn’t particularly understand anything I was reading. However, there was one bit I highlighted from “Snake-Light”:
When a snake swallows its prey, a row of inner teeth help walk the jaw over the prey’s body—walking like reading.
Walking over a word with the teeth of our mind.
To write is to be eaten. To read, to be full.
That’s vivid!
📚 2022
Has anyone out there given clay.earth a try? Thoughts?
I tend to just keep an ongoing log of notes in a notes app, and I’m currently not in a “building relationships” phase of my journey, but also kind of feel like there’s no time like the present.