Mussels mania continues unchecked at Harbal! For many years, Thursday evenings at our place have been reserved for “Jesus dinner”, a simple repast befitting our Lord consisting of fish, bread, and wine. It grew out of my weekly foray to East Ann Arbor (EAA) medical campus, where higher ups deemed I should go see patientsContinue reading “clearly non-kosher mussels for Jesus dinner”
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the best
I don’t know how I stumbled onto this. But John Prine Spotify passed it by me once again tonight. Every boomer needs to hear this, again and again. Before this, I didn’t know who Rodney Crowell was. Now I have tickets to see him at City Winery in Chicago on Veteran’s Day. For fun, we’reContinue reading “the best”
quick tune
Spotify runs so many by you. Tonight its the John Prine channel, which features very little John Prine. But some squeaks through, like the one below. This one was borne as something to roll over the credits of a movie. Daddy and them,https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166158/ about a dysfunctional family headed by Andy Griffith (!), with Billy BobContinue reading “quick tune”
Belgae moules!
Kathy and I spent a wonderful early Saturday afternoon at lunch in Hopleaf in Andersonville https://hopleafbar.com. We took a long Red Line ride to Uptown then a walk over to Clark, where the bustling once-Scandinavian neighborhood sits. Our lunch feast was a full order of mussels accompanied by a big cone of frites and ailoi,Continue reading “Belgae moules!”
LT and the future of clean
Today’s departure morning left us temporarily homeless. AirBnB checkout was 10 and our Amtrak 352 to Ann Arbor didn’t leave till 1:25. Fortunately, an Amtrak business class ticket provides wonderful shelter in the Metropolitan Lounge, missing only free beer to make it a thoroughly satisfying experience. But that time of morning, we were looking moreContinue reading “LT and the future of clean”
eat Harold’s
Harold Pierce makes the finest fried chicken in the Midwest, maybe the best on earth https://www.seriouseats.com/harolds-fried-chicken-chicago. He deserves his self-appointed title as “Fried chicken king”. He started in ’51, catering mainly to south side black neighborhoods, with his first restaurant at 47th and Kenwood, right at the border of the ghetto and Hyde Park. TheContinue reading “eat Harold’s”
Chi jazz
Kathy and I never fail to take in some jazz when we come to Chicago. Usually, it’s at the venerable Jazz Showcase in the South Loop or the much older Green Mill in Uptown, way north, sometimes Andy’s in the Near North. Tonight it was Jazz Showcase to experience the irrepressible trumpeter Victor Garcia inContinue reading “Chi jazz”
shameless plug
If you’ve got a Kindle and a spare buck, you can read my new book! Actually, it’s just a 9-page essay about an event from my youth. I thought it was too long and too deep to post on this blog. Here’s the link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095BS8VRJ I think Amazon gives me 30 cents. I probably willContinue reading “shameless plug”
tallow, ho!
Blame it on the Rockies. We were at a Colorado Springs bar munching away at some delicious fries, moved to take a second glance at the menu which indicted they’d been fried in beef tallow. Of course! I’d realized just recently that frying is better done in animal fat. Much maligned lard has fewer caloriesContinue reading “tallow, ho!”
make it add up, doc
Those invites from the “predatories”, journals and conferences alike, just keep on coming. For those of you not in academia, a “predatory” journal exists mainly to fleece authors of often astronomical article processing fees (APCs). Journal costs used to be covered by subscriptions and/or support from organizations. With most journal articles now accessed on-line, andContinue reading “make it add up, doc”
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