Ian, no one ever asks, how exactly do you feel about the beautiful but severe place you grew up? And all I can do is to point at Gordon Lightfoot and grunt incoherently.

(I got nothing useful to say otherwise. Stuff sucks; the specific ways the new stuff sucks are not yet clear to me; most to all of the suck has been baked in since November 2024, but that doesn't make things feel good.)

Wikipedia's list of cheeses is great for many reasons. Funny names! Things you haven't tried yet! Obscure products that have shooters for some reason (e.g. a single Montenegrin cheese that got two full paragraphs).

Second cousin, but we count those, for this

Black IPA. You can taste the ground up bits of gun in every sip (laudatory)!

This article talks a lot about how in peasant, subsistence life life was divided into "cycles," and while people in the past liked nice things - good food, nice clothes - imo the danger of nostalgic idealization is we tend to focus on the *high points of those cycles*

acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...

Poor, dangerous, unhealthy, and hungry in a way most people can’t imagine. Three meals a day and a lump of sugar for your coffee were the best recruitment tools that national armies had at their disposal.

Just like Joshua Tree last time 💔

Who got all this chocolate in my peanut butter?

God I need to find a choir out here, and time to be in a choir.