Wilfrid

Love the old book. Hope it stands up to the re-read.

A little sad this afternoon. As I finished "Blood Will Tell," the third novella in Rex Stout's Trio for Blunt Instruments, I reflected that I have now read every Nero Wolfe story. I do need to double check, but I think so. I had read Nero Wolfe novels randomly growing up, the occasional novella in EQMM. Some years ago, quite likely prompted by the outstanding 2001/2 TV adaptations, I decided to read who whole series in order. That done, I missed Nero and Archie. And even Cramer. Then it occurred to me, I had not read any but a handful of the novellas. I started on them, but to give myself a good run restricted consumption to three per year; on my birthday, on Thanksgiving and at Christmas. Now I'm done. I bet one day I will start at the beginning with the novels again.

The great New York architect. He was still alive!

That is an extraordinary story. How did she only "spend" $150 at Peter Luger?

And it now occurs to me that Lenny Kaye, who obviously plays on "Horses," is the same guy who dug up the Shadows of Knight for the "Nuggets" anthologies. He may have got the song from them rather than, er, Them.

Not the best version, is it? Amazing that Morrison was about 19 when he came out with it. Patti Smith's "Gloria" of course is something more complex built on the original song.

I will look that up. I like a nugget.

After The Hunt. Yet another movie that strikes me as wildly over-directed (see Hedda). Odd angles, odd cutting, an intrusive soundtrack. Plus extended and important scenes filmed in such darkness that you might as well be listening to a radio play. Ultimately, hard to say what the point is (I looked at reviews and critics do try hard to make sense of it). Positives: Julia Roberts is very good and Ayo Edebiri continues to emerge as a serious talent (to think the last thing I saw her in was a raucous campus comedy, Bottoms). I thought Andrew Garfield over-acted badly.

Oddly, I do recall that I discovered that version after I'd heard Patti Smith's. Although I'd certainly heard a lot of other Them.

It may continue to disturb some who have known me for a long time, but my daughter turned 25 this week. The upside is that Indiana corn soofle and dessert pies can be left confidently in her hands. My only mission, completed, was to find partridges in Chinatown. Picked up shrimp too.

Dog to bun ratio. Winner.

Those are cool stories. I love Tosh.

The first reggae I ever heard was probably "Israelites" by Desmond Dekker. But Jimmy Cliff was right behind.

I was in a bar tonight (imagine!) and "Heart of Glass" came on, and the conversation turned to Ms Harry and I mentioned I had met her. 47 years ago. This is where we are, most of us anyway.

I didn't know about the Patti Smith show. At the same time, I'm not sure I want to think about it being 50 years since I first heard "Gloria."

This all reminds me of hotdoglover, who used to post here and on other forums. He knew this stuff backwards.

I have trouble finding natural casings too. That video was great; they know their stuff. I wish they'd reviewed the brand I bought. Distrubingly, there are many other similar videos on that channel, most extravagantly three chefs review supermarket foods for over two hours.

Just to prove I have ridges.

Danny Meyer's The View is serving a pastrami sandwich-flavored martini. Gin is fat-washed with dry-aged beef tallow and spun into a wet martini with a whisper of aquavit, which adds the caraway- and dill–spiked flavor of rye bread. The garnish? Katz’s pastrami spice rub, naturally, and a pickle.

Wow, almost half an hour of hot dogs! Glad to see they used a ridged griddle to get the little black lines. I broke out my Le Creuset last night for the same purpose. I'll take a photo of the dogs next time.

Not a fancy choice, Best's all-beef king size. They taste fine and they are really long. I do like a dog that is way longer than the bun.

Hot dogs tonight because I have good low-carb* hot dog buns. *Actually zero net carbs. I should eat another couple.

That first Stone Roses album was really good. I may have it on vinyl.

Cold souse on hot, crisp toast. But I did eat my greens too.

There seem to be various cocktails called that. This looks like the best bet: