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  1. Grape juice (a Purim gift from my down-the-hall neighbors), lime juice and seltzer. My first mocktail! Not too bad.
  2. And if you have hair on only a very select area of your head, keeping THAT off is also work. I know this because of my roommate.
  3. I had pretty high hopes for a musical by David Byrne (I liked American Utopia when I saw it on the tv) and Fatboy Slim, even if it did sound a bit like Evita performed at the Limelight. Well, I wasn't bored, partly because it was only 90:00, partly because the stage kept being reconfigured like a set of Legos, and partly because performers kept popping up near me up in the cheap seats, and I kept being surprised by this. Also, the on-stage deejay - "stage" being something of a loose term, since there were stages all over the theater - periodically exhorted the audience to get up and dance. Which it did. The audience was very happy to be there, in the way it was when I saw Mamma Mia many years ago. It's nice to see an audience so engaged. It's also a little lonely to not feel engaged along with them. None of the songs was successful all the way through. The opener, the title song, had a great hook that wasn't repeated often enough, and the song didn't have enough else going on to make it an actual great song. Its hook was very similar to the hook from some other song, possibly by Roxy Music, I can't think of it right now. Now that I'm obsessing over it, I think it might actually be Sweet Caroline. The lyrics to nearly all the songs were straight up bad, not like lyrics at all. I may have read that they were mostly taken from actual people's actual words describing the events of the plot, which explains a lot, since most actual people cannot write decent song lyrics. The story was the story of Imelda Marcus, only without any mention of her shoes, which seems an odd choice, to say the least. She's treated very sympathetically, which I guess she has to be in order for a musical to be written around her. But not addressing how she bled her country dry - save for a very brief aside about an expensive cultural center - seems like even more of an oversight than ignoring the shoe thing.
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    It's hot, so I gotta eat cold stuff. Zaru soba with okra, ikura, nori, carrots and pickles (both from my garden), silken tofu and scallions. The nori sogged up a little 'cause it's humid, but everything else was fine. dinner1920×1440 297 KB
  5. I don't think "unread content" is the same as it used to be, since it no longer shows me everything I haven't read.
  6. I think I'll just reacquaint myself with some old favorites.
  7. Alright, but don't die yet, anyway. Good stuff might happen.
  8. Don't die yet. It's gonna cool off.
  9. Everything's gotten flung around. I'm not sure Humanities even exists anymore.
  10. I beg your pardon. I'm a TREM / COMM ARTS prof. No one even knows what the first one means, but I'll tell you! Television, radio and emerging media.
  11. Yes. Probably because they lose water.
  12. small h

    Supper

    Miso-glazed eggplant, oyster mushrooms and shrimp. Balcony kale salad. Maybe should've pulled back a little on the soy sauce and ramped up the vinegar, but not bad, not bad.
  13. Today in Things We Totally Could've Seen Coming... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/us/paqui-one-chip-challenge-removed.html
  14. Are we 100% that's a video and not a car commercial?
  15. Different pickleball dust-up Can civil war be far behind?
  16. I've only been there for breakfast, which I quite liked. I think I had eggs with a stew of eggplant, peppers and squid.
  17. Yesterday I got an email asking me to confirm my account. So that took a minute, since I started the sign-up/in process on (I think) 8/30.
  18. small h

    Supper

    Hence my disclaimer!
  19. small h

    Supper

    Fried okra. which I did not just buy based on someone else's post, but rather have had in the house since last week. With the last of the ranch dressing. Cucumber soup with feta and avocado. The avocado is from the fruit guy outside the Citibank, and his stuff is shit, and this is the last straw: an avocado that blackened before it got any significant kind of ripe. This is literally all I could salvage from it. This fruit guy is dead to me. Mark my words.
  20. small h

    Supper

    I didn't start a new Supper thread when there was one already, I hope.
  21. small h

    Supper

    In compliance with local regulations, we grilled our food on Saturday, probably the last time this season. The garden was reasonably generous, providing us with enough lettuce, carrots, cucumber and basil to make a respectable salad. I supplemented with some greenmarket produce, shrimp, halloumi cheese from Trader Joe's, and balcony-grown sage that I used on some steelhead trout from Hudson Valley Fisheries. Et voila.
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