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Um ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/01/02/monster-storm-to-blast-east-coast-before-polar-vortex-uncorks-tremendous-cold-late-this-week/? Could make some crack about it being 60 degrees in CA today, but we catch on fire far too easily to start throwing regional shade.

That appears to be a Danish. Goodbye Scandinavia!

Would venture to say that I like pata negra as much as anything else in the world that isn't either made from grapes or commonly showcased in a bikini.

Do we have a running total of the various JHA offerings so far lost or destroyed by Head Case? Got to be close to double figures by now.

Technically, they blow.

Mr. Cave reviews the human condition (with Polish subtitles.) Harder and harder to disagree with him ...

Robyn Hitchcock — S/T This was right up there in my top albums of the year. A sprawling, pitch black humored, power pop treat.

Dug my old Mark 1 007s out of a packing crate today and spent a few hours listening. Not much wrong with those!

Born is the king! Happy Birthday!

Hopefully.

Happy Birthday!

Also fuckin' ace.

Up for this Optimuff. Steve, can I have your share too?

Problem is, as Biggie says, no one really knows. Stax works in mysterious ways!

Sorry Knucks. That is a long life!

Also the 80s sometimes.

Well, our taxes will be going up about 1/2 a Porsche per annum (don't know what this is in BAI anymore now that he's all upwardly mobile) under the new Fuck The Blue States regime -- so that seems like a fair start on the biscuit misery train?

Dusty were you aware of this? I was not, previously.

Stream of consciousness FTW.

That works too. I reverse seared a ribeye steak the other day in leftover bacon grease from the kids' breakfast. Tasted good, still alive. We have to go deeper ...

I hope Mama Africa does not disappoint such an exalted American palate! If so, it’s probably your fault anyway because of colonialism or imperialism or whatever. So there.