Tonight we're having chicken and gravy with butter swim biscuits and peas and carrots. I'll post a picture of the sad beige meal once it's plated.

Saturday's supper was kabab rolls? It was going to be Beyti Kebab but there was no phyllo at the market. The improvisation ended up like sausage rolls. Served with Michigan asparagus.

I have been obsessed with this lamp since Mom and I watched Suspiria together in the late 70s. Yes, I would have been around 7 or 8. Yes, I'm sure it explains a lot, but don't worry, Mom pulled the movie blanket over my head and I only heard the pit of razor wire scene.

I'm off until Tuesday.

I love the Countrypolitan sound. Pop! Goes the Country was my favorite of the country music shows. Mom had an 8-track with Barbara Fairchild's The Teddy Bear Song. Loved this song when I was little.

I wasn't going to share this because I feel weird enough as it is, but I've seen them live. Donna Fargo Suzanne Somers R. C. Bannon and Louise Mandrell Manhattan Transfer (2) Suzy Boggus George Winston Information Society The Hidden Cameras Camera Obscura She & Him

Regarding H.R. 2616... I think about all the protests, outreach, and work I was part of in Oregon to stop Measure 9 in the early 90s and none of it mattered. I've been following the work of Scott Lively ever since. Watching him spread hate around the world, knowing it would come back here.

I love the Della Reese version of Simple Song of Freedom.

Where I grew up I had the sands of Tatooine in my back yard, and the forests of Endor just a few blocks away... next to the swamps of Dagobah. It's hard to believe I used to spend so much time outside.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

Tonight’s dinner was pork dumpling burgers with a salad. It was good.

Frankie Rose — "Know Me"

@haenck.bsky.social I would like some fresh rhubarb and frozen Michigan tart cherries to make a crisp.

Tonight's dinner is pork and black bean stew. It's slow cooking in the oven.

Call me Pickles. (for tonight’s fish tacos)

Be silly in a good way. From the Bob Baker Marionette Theater.

It’s time for a new music video! Watch the premiere of the music video for Steam Powered Giraffe’s cover of “Moon River”, sung by Rabbit the robot this Friday April 24 at 5pm PT / 7PM CT / 8PM ET Link: youtu.be/ZNQ5oDGF5pQ?...

I had a similar idea when I was a kid. I put food coloring in Mom's steam iron hoping to make colored steam. I was disappointed... and the next item Mom steamed was a white silk blouse.

More Tank And The Bangas for your Sunday enjoyment.

Nearly 46 years ago on May 18, a Sunday, Dad woke Mom and I up so we could watch the top of Mount Saint Helens rushing down the Toutle River. Even on the Southern Oregon coast we had ash fall. Reagan was also the new president and we were no longer learning metric, Spanish, or duodecimal in school.

New from Tank And The Bangas. I love them.

I loved growing up on the Oregon Coast in the late 70s, early 80s. Adrienne Barbeau in The Fog (I liked to imagine Antonio Bay was really Crescent City, CA). Jefferson Starship singing about miracles on the radio. Fog making the power lines buzz. Spooky and romantic.

I miss my family. I miss strawberry time and the cadence of the year. Grandma took this in 1981 with her Kodak instant camera. I was 10. The strawberries were red. So heavy. So delicious.

What's that on the wall? "Queen of Appalachia" by Asterosperma (Stacie Williams, no relation as far as I know), www.asterosperma.com. One of the original 500 silkscreens. It hangs above my desk next to the snakes.

Nanci Griffith singing "Ford Econoline" live.

Hal Ketchum singing "Mama Knows the Highway" live.

That bit of hope was brief. Google Docs can’t do roman numeral page numbers. Faking them breaks accessibility. Everything would be easier if the dissertation system didn’t require PDFs.

Saturday supper is baked Atlantic cod, baked potato with sour cream, green onion, cheese, and bacon, and buttered green beans.

The most creative thing I did this week was convert an antiquated PDF based on a Word doc based on a printed booklet back into an accessible PDF via HTML, Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and Grackle. All the while wishing we could make a modern document that actually supported our users in 2026.

Monthly movie ingest! Desk Set Kentucky Fried Movie Airplane! Xanadu Airplane II: The Sequel The Man With Two Brains Top Secret! All of Me Hairspray (1988) L.A. Story Waiting ted season one Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die I rented Tron and Xanadu so many times Mom told the rental shop never again.

Dinner was homemade double black bean burgers with fries.

If I could meet any Canadian in person... It's Christine McGlade.

Norman Rockwell's 1968 illustration "The Right to Know" is one of my favorites.

Experimental casserole I’ve had bouncing around my head. What could be the recipe is in the alt. It’s still in the oven.

Singles I bought when I was 19. The Only One I Know - The Charlatans Type - Living Colour The King Is Half-Undressed - Jellyfish Heaven Or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins Epic - Faith No More

My little town didn't have a Sunday paper. Dad was too cheap to buy The Register-Guard or The Oregonian. Sunday comics were a treat when I visited my grandparents in Portland. I usually didn't understand Nicole Hollander's "Sylvia," but it felt important to try.

The turkey patty melts on pumpernickel with sauteed onions and bacon are almost ready.

Slightly diminish a book Foundation > The Sandlot

Making turkey patty melts for dinner. Onions and bacon are in the pan with a bit of ghee.

Thor Fields was in the film Hello Again in 1988. He was my first actor crush I actually recognized as a crush.

Letting it go. I threw away Mom's folder of my report cards and school papers.

Yesterday’s salty chicken is now Reuben Sandwich Soup. Freshly made pumpernickel croutons not shown.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a favorite musical, and Mary Blair was the color designer for the film. It was a different time. My mom went to both secretarial and modeling school in the 1960s. She said it was what you did to get a job.

I experimented making corned chicken, similar process to corned beef, but chicken. I referenced several recipes, brined, rinsed, and roasted the chicken, and it was too salty. The flavor was good, it was juicy, looked lovely, but too salty. I'll use the leftovers as seasoning in bean soup.

The B-52's - Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland Wear your tutti frutti hat proudly!

Camilla was sumptuously upholstered for the state dinner. Chuck is desperate to be loved like Mummy was loved. #NoKings

I’ve been dragging my feet getting a new passport. Now need to hurry to avoid redesign.

What’s that on the wall? “…And The American Way” by @mikemccainart.bsky.social I loved it enough to put it on my wall. Then I hated it because the ideals personified by the man in the cape felt like lie. Today I see myself. Picking away at the wall with a sewing needle. Doing my best.

What’s that on the wall? Beards and Barnacles by @moosekleenex.bsky.social.

What’s that on the wall? The United Snakes of America by @rosemarymosco.com When I irrationally fear something I convert it into curiosity.