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Apparently Mountain Lions Also Own the Internet

Awwww….

National Drinking with Chickens Day

Yep, it’s a thing, at least on Google Calendar: I suspect heavily it comes from this cocktail (har har) cookbook. It’s either May 23 or the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend—we’ll find out next year! But this year we had a fine time drinking sangria and tossing scraps to my hens—oh, and making chicken origamiContinue reading “National Drinking with Chickens Day”

Loading…Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

For those who come after…. This is the French-est game ever: that’s pretty much everything you need to know about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It’s a game of contrasts as its title suggests. It’s operatic and understated, carnivalesque and dark, austere and decadent, goofy and sexy. Until I got used to the visual style, IContinue reading “Loading…Clair Obscur: Expedition 33”

Can’t Argue with Geometry!

That’s actually a quote from a delightful radio improv show I used to listen to called Off-Ramp: oh look, they’re still around on Spotify. But anyway, this isn’t about them, this is about this cat short on YouTube. I’m a dog person, but even I have to admit that cats own the Internet:

Van Life in Japan

This is worth watching for the cinematography and the focus on off-the-beaten-path destinations! youtube.com/watch

Spencer the Bernese Mountain Dog Gets a Bath

Watch this if your Tuesday is being a little too Tuesday….

Recent Audiobooks: The Summer War by Naomi Novik

I have a mostly-love, slightly-hate relationship with Novik’s retelling of European fairytales (or her brand-new fairytales, which this novella is). On the one hand, man, can she tell a story. Even if I’m annoyed by the main character, or meh about the generic Northern European worldbuilding. I still totally get hooked into the main character’sContinue reading “Recent Audiobooks: The Summer War by Naomi Novik”

“Walter, NO….”

ESC #49 and Truffle Hunting!

So one of the very first recipes in my To Try file (the OG version, in an actual filing cabinet on actual paper), was a French fish dish. Not terribly chef-y EXCEPT for the fact it called for fresh white summer truffles. Yeah…. So, it sat in the old To Try file, and then migratedContinue reading “ESC #49 and Truffle Hunting!”

Recent Audio Books: Silence of the Girls and Marrow Thieves

These were both good–well-written and read well by the voice actors. And each in their own way perfect to listen to across the long desert miles between the Sierra Nevada and the Sangre de Cristos over Spring Break. The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker: This is part of the recent trend of revisiting/revising theContinue reading “Recent Audio Books: Silence of the Girls and Marrow Thieves”