Hopstretch

* flounces off, muttering bitchily about "long skinnies" *

Happy Birthday Zach!

How I miss your ranting. Do you miss my all time lows?

Four eggs, ribeye, smashed avo, two flat whites (one not pictured). Left the tomatoes.

British tabloid press entering into the spirit of the Holiday.

#peoplewhoactuallyhavehairproblems

Happy Birthday!

I'm so looking forward to going back to a Comcast monopoly. Not.

Can spell, punctuate, construct a reasonable argument and appreciates Staxen -- I hope he sticks around. Everyone gets hit in the face with a shovel at first, JRU. It's a necessary recalibration from the other place.

Newbury Comics! I still listen to 'Til Tuesday. The new album is quite ... specific. Good (of course) but just really focused on telling a certain story in a certain mode.

Aimee Mann -- Mental Illness

You can't set up the joke and not deliver the punchline ...

Goldfrapp -- Silver Eye

Sorry HS. Cheers to GG!

Happy Birthday Doug. Hope you get five sets in!

Cut Copy -- In Ghost Colors

Favorite Alaskan band. Definitely.

Happy Birthday Indeed!

Well I still think the East Sussex "Burgundy" is going to be better than the Nizhny Novgorod.

The Jesus And Mary Chain -- Damage And Joy

The canon says that hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way. I find no mention of grilled meats other than that if you don't eat them, how can you have any pudding?

He's not a South African, by any chance?* (*That would explain the two braais and the bodge job, though not the gas.)

Found Grahame's worst nightmare ...

Lloyd Cole -- In New York: Collected Recordings 1988 - 1996

Lot of online bitching about the 41mm size but I think they will sell a boatload of these bigger steel Datejusts. Including one to me. The blue sunray dial is so choice. Baton markers still a bit chunky but the larger dial helps in this regard.