Dusty Chalk

Ended up enjoying both Tim Powers just fine, thank you very much, but it's more just "very good action science fiction", not that classic WTF vibe that Tim Powers does so well. Red-Rose Chain was, indeed, fantastic. Almost finished Ghost Story from the Dresden files by Jim Butcher -- unholy carp, this is an awesome follow-up to Changes -- and yet completely different. I was just thinking there was no way he could match Changes, that he had peaked, but he did the smart thing and didn't try to match it or write a sequel, he just wrote something completely different.

Right, there's a whole culture -- not just those locales that purk pointed out, but there are many of us who just don't have that "bigger is better" attitude, and we don't see any reason why a small setup can't provide just as high fidelity an experience.

Dusty like. Is the rest of his stuff any good, or is this one of those artists I'm only going to end up liking the one track...?

Belated happy birthday! (in this time zone, anyway) (party favour noise)

I'm hungry. Remind me not to open this thread again. Ever.

There are many of us who don't like to leave our setups at work, and take them home every night.

You make them sound so simple.

Shure do good stuff, I am interest.

Cauliflower with yogurt/Sambal Oelek dip. I'm seriously addicted to this.

Still want to move to Chicago, Jeff?

Yeezh. Glad it wasn't worse.

Thanks, guys! I'm pretty sure I've long since been superseded by whiteboards and dry erase markers.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wickedplayingcards/wicked-tarot-playing-cards Pamelina H. makes Tarot cards. Why do I care? Well, I love "cool" symbolism, and the Tarot is cool (case in point, the 10 of Swords). Also, there's a small chance I will win this guitar:

I'm going to die before I retire, so I should probably only put in to get my matching.

Thank you, all! All those pictures are great, you all know me so well. It started out kind of hungover (just a little bit -- I got a little carried away and drank the entire bottle of Enchanted Path, and it's been a while since I drank that much), but the day has otherwise been laid back and very enjoyable. I just had a pizza, and now I'm going to eat an eclair. That's fine, I've got some more. I'll probably just stick with gin and tonics and splashishes, tonight, though. I don't think wine goes with eclairs, and I don't want to "accidentally" (air quotes) drink an entire bottle again, not two days in a row, so not even starting.

Wait, what? (wanders off to look up google florence (austin-city-limits OR acl)...) I actually quite like her music, too.

Smotherlicious!

New Dave Gahan and the Soulsavers on NPR/First Listen -- very gospelly (go figure)

That reminds me of the joke, whose punchline goes, "I know she didn't like it that way, so I put it back."

Cheers. He's one of my favourites live. I've probably seen him live as much as I've seen anyone else live, starting admittedly late in his career during the early 80s (Cielo e Terra tour, I think). That said, I loved it every single time he played. Highlight was front row about 10 years ago, where I was so close, I could have reached out and strummed his guitar for him (I didn't).

Redshift binge again. Knucks -- when that guy (?) said, "I could listen to arpeggios all night", he could just as easily have been talking about a large portion of Redshift's output.

Gotham: