About to start:

Book two of the Valis trilogy (can't recall the name right this minute) and Living Pictures by Polina Barskova.

The latter I thought was short story fiction when I bought it but turns out it's essays. That's cool.

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 12:14 pm custard, seawater, even lemons and pennies.

Yeah, I guess the good stuff has a lot of the penny (zinc) thing, so I am told. Not for me.

Most days just coffee, lots of it. Special days I'll go get bagels.

Gramsci wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 11:07 am I ate Sea Urchin Spaghetti in Malta... delicious

I have had sea urchin in pasta in Sicily that was quite good, once. Maybe there was enough else going on to make it enjoyable.

Vibracobra wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:44 am Steel pole bathtub - Some cocktail

Both recorded by Albini San

Yes, fantastic EP.

I will eat the fuck out of raw oysters, raw fish, lobsters, mussels, Roe, caviar, et al, but man, I don't like either Uni or Eel. I love fresh-water eel (unagi), but that is smoked with a bbq sauce, so really a different thing altogether. I am not a fan of salt-water eel (anago), nor "sweet&qu...

You know that yellow stuff they cut out of urchin, looks like tongues and tastes like low tide + blood. Well I'm coming out to say I really do not like uni. Hokkaido, Santa Barbara, wherever, all of it can go fuck itself.

Acetone could be included in this category, if it actually existed. For me, they'd be the winner.

America was Hard to Find by Kathleen Alcott. Pretty good so far.

I have always found this reply to “thank you“ to sound a bit condescending, as if one is exercising great magnanimity by granting welcome upon the thanker. I probably just don’t like it because my mom was a pedant who always made me say these formal polite statements to people when I was a kid. It ...