American media hyping up possibility of Iranian retaliation for Israeli attack on their embassy in Syria. https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/world-news/israel-bracing-for-iran-to-attack-within-the-next-two-days-report/ Yeeeeep. I thought maybe they could just blow up an embassy somewhere but it looks li...

I got vaccinated for dengue yesterday (QDenga, the Japanese vaccine). There's a historic dengue outbreak in Argentina right now, 180,000 confirmed cases since the start of the year and 129 deaths. But since we have a libertarian govt, they're not doing anything, just letting the free market take car...

So yeah I had to be this old before I understood this song.

I'm close to finishing You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue. It's an imagined encounter between Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma. Slow narrative but I don't think it's trying to be anything other than that. Been reading Antarctica by Claire Keegan. Will read more short stories of hers, as I'm in a sh...

So the last one I made from 1970s Joy of Cooking was Beef Bourgignon and it was nice, however, I had to use a substitution. It requires salted ham, which I'm not going to get in this country in any shape or form, so I used bacon instead (removing some excess fat from the bacon for health reasons). T...

Honeyjubu's addictive. Of course, could be the ASMR.

I'm not just getting old, I'm acting it. I would never have listened to Adamo unironically ten years ago.

Very little time, but I read A Christmas Carol by Dickens, why not.

https://i.ibb.co/2PG5GJP/Whats-App-Image-2024-01-05-at-6-54-10-PM.jpg I just want to show off this pristine 1970s edition of Joy of Cooking I got on Amazon. Been trying out some recipes, some have been good but I'm sometimes having some trouble with proportions. They really do have a lot of butter ...

How amazing it is when people vote overwhelmingly against their own self-interest.