Upper left corner of the Lower 48 posting (and possibly insulting to another nation): the Snowdonia Black Bomber Cheddar that Costco is selling now is as good, sharp, tangy and weirdly sweet if not more so as WSU’s Cougar Gold

I was here in February 2020, just before the pandemic, when Kilauea was dormant between the 2018 eruptions and those of recent times. For years, I wanted to do a nighttime guided hike with NPS rangers feat. lava but didn’t get that chance. Incredible to see this.

what I suspect every time I read the words Downtown Business Improvement District

Everything I hear about this woman is against my will

November 30 / December 1st

Said Whiskey Cake recipe, from baker Greg Patent of Montana Public Radio. That five pounds of rich, dense batter will really put your stand mixer through a strenuous workout: www.mtpr.org/arts-culture...

Gross. I hadn’t even thought about how his face will be smeared around all units of the National Park Service next year. The author states, “we may never know how Trump’s face ended up on the annual pass.” Sure we do: the sycophants infesting every single agency saw another opportunity to suck up.

“We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now”

The single time I will reference The Discourse on here is to attest all pies are good pies EVEN MINCEMEAT* *Okay, not the orig recipe with suet or whatever, just the dried mixed fruits, citrus, sugar

I just sent this to my mother, thereby introducing her—I think???—to the word felching. Anywho, Happy Thanksgiving

Stan, you fool, that coat check girl is a real hot number and she’s throwing herself at you #TheStrip #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Whatever that is she’s doing with her arms and hands while she’s dancing is annoying #TheStrip #NoirAlley #TCMParty

All the bamboo and rattan is an odd choice for a Dixieland jazz club. Like someone didn’t know if they wanted it to be a tiki bar in an earlier draft #TheStrip #NoirAlley #TCMParty

we’re all just waiting for Louis #TheStrip #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Oh sure, those daily Los Angeles - Sun Valley, Idaho trains. I know it was a ski resort in the 40s but as excuses go, sure whatever Mickey #TheStrip #NoirAlley #TCMParty

“I was trying to make sure someone didn’t get hurt. And she got hurt.” Hello, foreshadowing. #Chinatown #TCMParty

“Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” #Chinatown #TCMParty

“Oh my goodness, what happened to your nose?” would be sincere if not for that arch tone #Chinatown #TCMParty

aka water rights are everything in the American West. Control them, and you control the destiny of a great city. #Chinatown #TCMParty

Hollis Mulwray’s extended goggling eyes in that brief shot are a classic display of Polanski’s macabre humor #Chinatown #TCMParty

I can only imagine audiences in 1974 going into what they thought was a disturbing neo-noir and getting a masterclass in the history of California water conservation #TCMParty #Chinatown

Fun fact about me: Edward Taylor, the unsung, uncredited cowriter of Chinatown (definitely read The Big Goodbye if you love this movie), was my landlord for years before he moved to England. He was a nice guy. #TCMParty #Chinatown

Trump is surrounded by dimwitted and sycophantic oafs like his sons, Corey Lewandowski, Kristi Noem, Dan Scavino, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, Mike Johnson, Tommy Tuberville, etc....a conversation with Mamdani must have felt like an incredible breath of fresh air.

He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy

Wild that Trump is endorsing Mamdani before Schumer.

I love that every Northern Hemisphere culture more or less is like “yo we have to break up this dark a bit or people get weird. Quick, set something on fire.”

After years of living in Minnesota I felt I’d had my fill of the annual Edmund Fitzgerald stories, but @christalawler.bsky.social & @janahollingsworth.bsky.social found some new ones and tell them beautifully. No paywall:

Now that it's the 50th anniversary week: I regret not having the energy to go to Whitefish Point, MI this summer to visit the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. By the time I hit Duluth, let alone the Keewenaw Peninsula, I was like sorry, Edmund Fitzgerald, I don't have another day's long drive in me

nosferatu, sinners, and now frankenstein man 2025 was really one for the goths

For all of us watching this weekend, incredible thread re: book v movie

I made King Arthur Flour’s garlic and herb monkey bread from their Baker’s Companion to go with a pumpkin (a roasted speckled hound) soup for dinner and I think this is going to be the regular friend for soup in my house

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

added on my list: TILLAMOOK IS DROPPING THAT BUTTERNAISE

Quoting Eugene Debs in an acceptance speech? Oh, my old American history buff heart is happy 🥰

His campaign has made me really wish we could get a Presidential candidate who loves America the way Mamdani loves NYC. Not in the jingoistic flag-waving way, but someone who genuinely loves all the individuality and particularity of American cities and towns and rural areas.

and we don't have to settle for shitty candidates a year out from the midterms. we can hold out for better. we can always hold out for better

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Cold apples are snappy apples! Learn it, know it, live it.

Music to heal yourself and plot vengeance against your enemies: youtu.be/KfAv8yAaHps

New weird little guy just dropped

For Halloween, four horror novels I’ve read in the last couple years that were so good, immersive, strange, and gory I think about the worlds the authors created all the time

Your yearly reminder that "sugar maple tree" in the Dakota language is ćaŋ-ha’-saŋ or "chanhassen."

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

This remake of the Thomas Crown Affair is gonna be lit

You do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to Joe McCarthy but when people got sick of him he fucked off and drank himself to death like an adult

Getting through today with physical media

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

Modelling my sexuality off of whatever the fuck Sy Ableman had going on