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kitchen sink

Today was the day to make kitchen sink soup. Everyone has a recipe, and they’re all just loose suggestions. Whatever is laying around neglected and unused is a candidate for the pot. That savoy cabbage I bought for the colcannon I made for Imbolc was great, but what to do with the rest of it? Continue reading “kitchen sink”

don’t screw with my groundhog

Here in Michigan, our quaint local tradition for this time of year has been “delayed”. Because of the weather! Isn’t this exercise supposed to be all about weather? It inspired me to fire off an e-mail to my Vicksburg buds. So our own (Howell’s) Woody the Woodchuck was to venture out yesterday, survey the presenceContinue reading “don’t screw with my groundhog”

posters

My love for posters, like many of my degenerate tendencies, started in college. Every bookstore and headshop sold them – cheap – and what a way to cover up a blank boring wall. Each was a form of self expression, as you could announce your musical likes, political tendencies, sexual attractions, or just general coolness,Continue reading “posters”

trio

Here it is a brand new month. Some in this climate where I live dread February – more cold and dark. Will we ever get through it? But it’s a sunny morning here in Ann Arbor, and we’re one day away from that extremely underappreciated holiday of Groundhog Day, which happens to occur on aContinue reading “trio”

CC&hLPA!

Some readers of this blog may have picked up by now my deathless devotion to that 70s band out of Ann Arbor, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen. Has any band had a wilder name? And, I submit, no band was more fun. In my life, I’ve never had more fun than what IContinue reading “CC&hLPA!”

one toke

It’s been established that smoking wards off coronavirus (1 ,2), although that fact has not been widely promulgated. Could you be protecting yourself even better if you were smoking dope? I apologize if this is old news. Two days old to me, which is when my dear friend and high school classmate in Houston sentContinue reading “one toke”

songs

A movement needs some good songs. We – all of us skeptical about what our betters are telling us to do about this little virus – are starting to get some. Check out the latest, out of Canada, where they have it way worse than we do, even with the “free health care”. Matt BevnerContinue reading “songs”

Off with the masks!

My wife and I have decided the masks are forever off. Should anyone question us on our decision, our response will be “we’re just not doing that bullshit anymore”. Sure, there might be some situations when donning a mask is a social grace, like entering the UPS store or teaching a class, when a fightContinue reading “Off with the masks!”

the end

The best thing about 2022, besides it not being 2021, is that Mr. Corona in his current Omicron configuration, will sweep over us, leaving us at last mostly immune to further coronavirus. Ditch the mask, give your friend a hug, and enjoy the concert. It came to me there’s a way to make this happenContinue reading “the end”

Hogmanay!

You think we Yanks do a New Year’s blow out, check out what the Scots do! They’ve been celebrating Hogmanay this time of year since Mary Queen of Scots returned from Paris in 1561 (1). The church forbid public celebrations of Christmas, as it was seen as an appropriated pagan tradition which discounted the sanctityContinue reading “Hogmanay!”