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Salad with romaine lettuce, chioggia beets, Nantes carrots, toasted nuts, queso fresco, and a pesto vinaigrette using carrot greens pesto.
A dinner plate has a piece of black cod, topped with a yellow sauce, along with corn, cherry tomatoes, rice, and beet greens.
Photo of Spain fans in the stadium for the World Cup, reacting after they finally got a goal. The crowd has their backs to the camera because they’re all looking down at the field, except for one guy, his mouth and eyes all wide circles, crazed in excitement, is looking back directly at the camera, fists clenched.
A loaf of dark brown chocolate milk bread. It came out of an 8x4 loaf pan.
A grilled cheese sandwich cut into two halves and sitting on a plate. The cheese and tomato bacon jam are running out a bit, but it’s holding up okay.
A translucent cobalt blue bowl holding a salad with romaine lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, oil-cured black olives, croutons, and avocado is topped with shaved Parmesan.
Four pieces of tomato basil bruschetta on a plate.
A platter is arranged with broccolini and thin slices of Meyer lemon. Broccolini looks like if you stretched normal broccoli to make it long and thin, with larger flowers. The broccolini and lemon slices have been roasted until browned and crispy, and topped with Parmesan and Meyer lemon zest.
Bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich on white bread.
Carrot greens washed and loaded into the base of a mini food processor. It’s sitting on a scale reading 30 grams.
A chicken thigh with a Balsamic sauce, next to polenta, basil, and gorgeous deep red cherry tomatoes that have been roasted.
A Caesar salad, only it’s made with shredded cabbage instead of lettuce.
A chicken salad sandwich with romaine lettuce on wheat bread.
Four baguettes on a cooling rack.
A stack of four slices of white bread. In the background is a second stack of four slices. It was baked in a Pullman pan, which has a lid and so makes nice, square loaves.
A cardboard box is printed in red and green ink, with a graphic of a stylized farm field with rolling hills and a windmill, and lettering that says “Fresh California Fruits • Vegetables.” It’s retro and charming as hell.
A slice of banana bread with a coffee glaze on top.
A loaf of banana bread is topped with sliced bananas and a brown sugar & rum glaze.
Large pot of rotkraut, a sweet-and-sour cooked side with red cabbage, apples, red wine, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, and a few spices.
A pale blue carnation is bundled with tiny white baby’s breath flowers and variegated leaves, making a sweet little corsage/boutonnière.
The schedule for the Westwords Crossword Tournament in Berkeley, CA, plus a four-pack of Twist-Erase III mechanical pencils, my prize for being Distinguished Rookie. 0.9 lead thickness, ooh la la!
The Parent Trap, 1961: Hayley Mills as Susan pretending to be Sharon, calling her twin
Promotional image for the animated TV show Central Park, showing the show’s characters in a semi-psychedelic pop-art style in a field of green wavy lines representing the park, with an abstract city skyline in the background.
International treasure Charo singing while dancing with me. I am appropriately rapturous.
International treasure Charo masterfully playing flamenco guitar, perched on a tall stool, wearing a turquoise blue ruffly confection of a dress.
A slice of a single-layer chocolate cake, dark brown and dense, topped only with a dusting of powdered sugar.
A bottle of Slivovitz plum brandy, in an oval green bottle. Product of Hungary, 94 proof, kosher, and it tastes like soapy gasoline.
Spiral roll with bubbly Brie spilling out, and little hunks of ham.
A spiral roll, like a cinnamon bun, only savory. Olives, tomatoes, mushrooms, and parsley are peeking out.
A black cat sits primly, with the teeniest pink tongue blep. At the edge of the frame is her doofy brother.
A slice of coffee cheesecake, with a couple bites eaten from the end. The crust is crushed Oreo cookies, and the cake is tan.
Six spiral rolls on a baking sheet, sort of like cinnamon rolls, but pizza flavored.
A spiral roll, like a cinnamon roll, only savory. The filling has caramelized onions, bacon, blue cheese, mozzarella, and a little bit of fig chili jam.
BEOWULF PROBLEM SOLVING CHART CAN THE PROBLEM BE ATTACKED? - NO - - You are wrong. It can. - YES - - TANGENT ABOUT HOW GREAT YOU ARE - - PARTY - - IS THE PROBLEM SOLVED YET? - - - YES - - - - BRAG ABOUT HOW HUMBLE YOU ARE - - - NO - - - - COULD THE PROBLEM KICK YOUR BUTT? - - - - - NO - - - - - - NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU - - - - - YES - - - - - - OKAY DON'T FIGHT WITH ANY WEAPONS THEN - - - - - - FIGHT - - - - - - SHINY THINGS - - - - - - [arrow pointing back to] TANGENT ABOUT HOW GREAT YOU ARE
Cover art for The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History, by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson
Bowl of tomato-based fish stew.
Poster for the animated series Common Side Effects. A bearded man in a fishing hat and an open shirt is behind a woman with brown hair, who is holding a small turquoise mushroom in her hand that they’re both looking at.
Spoilers for Wake Up Dead Man ahead: I am desperate to know every detail about the phone scene with Bridget Everett. The way I sat up when she popped on screen! “I know her!!” (I do not know her.) It’s a seemingly simple scene, but good god. So masterfully done by Everett, O’Connor, and Johnson. - On a scale of 1-10, how thrilled was Rian Johnson when he lined up Bridget Everett? She was made for this. - On a scale of 1-10, how incredibly bonkers happy was Rian when she gave him the gift of that whole performance?? - What were the filming logistics? Did Everett record her phone parts first in a studio booth somewhere, and then O’Connor filmed his part to her recording? Or was she there on set so they could be reacting to each other more genuinely? - Did Everett get to actually be with the other actors at all? I want that for her, since it seems like they all bonded, and she’s such an important part of the movie, even if it’s small. - Did she get to keep her painted portrait from the credits? Please I want that painting to be hanging in her bathroom right now. I want her to be watching her guests pee. I could do this for a half-dozen things in the movie right now. That green glade of trees, or Blanc’s Lloyd-Webber slip showing. And that one lady who is brilliantly insightful and nerdy on anything Catholic here on Bluesky, please universe let her watch this movie and give us all her angles on it, I want to hear from her!
Alice’s Restaurant, by Arlo Guthrie, on vinyl.
Butter, molded into the shape of a turkey, with rosemary and sage at its feet. It is a particularly dignified turkey, though the bar may be low.
A wedge of focaccia is on a plate. The focaccia has a blend of stuffing herbs on top, and inside the dough.
In a scene from the tv show Detroiters, Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson share a glass of beer with two red straws, like li’l cuties, cause that’s what they are.
Two Italian Rainbow cookies on a small plate. They look like mini cakes, with three layers dyed to look like the Italian flag (conveniently also Christmas colors): green, white, and red. The cookies are topped with a thin layer of chocolate.
A small billboard for Cliff’s Variety, showing a clown juggling household goods, with the words, “we don’t clown around with our selection.”
Four metal baking sheets are held in a rack, making a sort of tower, with about four inches between them.
A ziploc bag with a bunch of little orange hockey pucks.
A rich, deep yellow broth.
Promo for the Netflix show Death by Lightning. Michael Shannon as James Garfield, with his eventual assassin played by Matthew Macfayden standing creepily right behind him, and an 1880s US flag behind them.
Bowl of thick butternut squash soup, with a white dollop of labne on top (it’s kind of like sour cream). The bowl is in a fabric bowl cozy.
A fireplace has pinecones on top of a candelabra in it for some reason (when all you have is a candelabra, everything looks like a pinecone), and on the hearth, it’s decorative gourd season, motherfuckers, with bonus multicolor corn cobs. In the foreground is a bunch of fake fall leaves.
Diced cubes of dried fruit look like little jewels.
Eight ciabatta rolls, each about the size of a large, fat potato, cooling on a baking rack.
On the left: Wendy Corduroy, a character from the animated series Gravity Falls. On the right: my kid dressed as Wendy Corduroy. Both have long hair, a plaid flannel shirt, and a trapper’s hat.
A black cat says, “bleh!” with her pink tongue sticking waaay out. She looks over it. In front of her is a cute but impractical black cat mug, behind her is a plastic jack-o-lantern.
A black cat has stretched her neck beyond natural proportions, like some sort of Tim Burton cartoon nightmare, to administer thee most delicate of chomps to the far side of a plastic jack-o-lantern trick-or-treating pail.
A French Dip sandwich on a plate next to a ramekin of beef jus for dipping.
Four baguettes cooling on a rack.
Fireplace is decorated for Halloween: a black lace spider web across the mantel, black dahlias, black tapered candles, a raven, a dog skeleton, fall leaves, and so many decorative gourds.
On the left: a photo of an animatronic at the La Brea Tar Pits (the the tar tar pits), of a saber-toothed cat attacking a giant sloth. On the right: a colored pencil drawing I did on black paper of the same scene, only the cat is wearing a Viking helmet and throwing horns with one paw, and the sloth is shredding on a purple zebra print electric guitar.
On the left: a photo of an animatronic at the La Brea Tar Pits (the the tar tar pits), of a saber-toothed cat attacking a giant sloth. On the right: a colored pencil drawing I did on black paper of the same scene, only the cat is wearing a Viking helmet and throwing horns with one paw, and the sloth is shredding on a purple zebra print electric guitar.