Dusty Chalk

I made "chili" the other day, and I added way too much water. Been trying to cook it off in a crockpot, but at this point it's been 4 hours/night for 2 nights and has a long way to go. What ingredient or ingredients should I add to thicken things up? I'm almost tempted to do something really out of the ordinary at this point, like oatmeal. Would that be bad somehow? And when I say, "chili", it's not really chili, it's just a bunch of crap I threw together: 2 lbs. ground chicken, 1 jar of Newman's Own spaghetti sauce (specifically the Sockarooni variety), lots of chili powder (basically, added chili powder until it stopped smelling like spaghetti and more like chili), one can of tomato paste, 1.5 Spanish onions, 1 thing of prepacked garlic (about half a dozen cloves). Any suggestions? I almost brought it to work with me today so that I could give it another 8 hours.

Having never experienced hail of that caliber, all I've got is, "yeezh".

Santa Julia Reserva Malbeca

What a douchebag.

Last night -- Sarah's Blend -- was quite good.

just accidentally finished an entire bottle of "Sarah's Blend". Yes, I liked it.

tt.fm

Are you kidding? Even I could write ad copy for this. "If you don't enjoy this, perhaps you're doing it wrong." "Before you laugh, try it." "C'mon, do it, you know you want to."

Whoa. Room B. Spinning. BRB, I B barfin, yo. So I set a new record last night -- two bombers. Ommegang Abbey Ale & Goose Island Night Stalker. Also, Ommegang Three Philosophers the prior night -- all were excellent.

No, the one from the pilot (that's as far as I ever got with the show).

So I friended/liked this place because he's a local beer store that has an excellent selection and is open 'til midnight, but goddamn if he doesn't have some nice pictures -- worth it even if you're not in the area -- it's not like he will flood your wall with stuff.

Did you like that SUV wreck?

Fitzendrunkenpostenmaken?

"Enable-case"

Get yourself a good cleaning setup. You need to clean even new records. They have ..."protective stuff"... on them that needs to be cleaned off.

Not a goddamn thing, unfortunately.

Yeah, it just started doing that for me, too. Just

Yeah, as everyone else has said, thanks for your continued hard work on making this place absolutely transparently managed. "Strong silent type" == you.

Two lesbian frogs were "getting it on" with each other while suddenly one of them told the other: "They're right, we do taste like chicken". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He orders a drink and while he's drinking, the monkey jumps all around the place. The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and eats them. Then grabs some sliced limes and eats them. Then jumps onto the pool table, grabs one of the billiard balls, sticks it in his mouth, and to everyone's amazement, somehow swallows it whole. The bartender screams at the guy "Did you see what your monkey just did?" The guy says "No, what?" "He just ate the cue ball off my pool table-whole!" "Yeah, that doesn't surprise me, "replied the guy. "He eats everything in sight, the little bastard. Sorry. I'll pay for the cue ball and stuff." He finishes his drink, pays his bill, pays for the stuff the monkey ate, then leaves. Two weeks later he's in the bar again, and has his monkey with him. He orders a drink and the monkey starts running around the bar again. While the man is finishing his drink, the monkey finds a maraschino cherry on the bar. He grabs it, sticks it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it. The bartender is disgusted. "Did you see what your monkey did now?" he asks. "No, what?" replies the guy. "Well, he stuck a maraschino cherry up his butt, pulled it out, and ate it!" said the bartender. "Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replied the guy. " He still eats everything in sight, but ever since he swallowed that cue ball, he measures everything first..."

Not to be judgmental or anything, but...good.

Last night and the night before had some Sophenia Synthesis malbec, which was very good. It's a bit expensive, but worth trying.

Love it. I mean, I'm already partial to synthpop, so it's a given, but really dug this. Me: Afield Recordings (Vol. 1) by Stripmall Architecture -- they put together a fairly downtempo selection for this, which works delightfully holistically.

I was listening to Sounds from the Ground, Mosaic (remastered), and then Stripmall Architecture's demos compilation, Afield Recordings (Vol. 1), and I wouldn't have put together the two before, but the latter comp in particular, I think might appeal to fans of the former. Worth at least listening to once, since you can for free online.

I hate malls.