Noble Dust

These are what I wear to bed on Christmas Eve.

How's Fred?

Miss you too, Clarky.

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:heart: Life is good here. Lots of uncertainty but lots of great stuff happening; lots of change. Still not feeling the philosophy bug, although I'm b...

That will probably continue unless you can convince me to stick around. I only have eyes for you, Fred.

Hello.

That looks heavenly. I think bread is my favorite food. Is that homemade?

What's the alternative? I suppose you could try to julienne tomatoes, but seems like a lost cause.

Cool factoid for the music dorks: Quincy studied with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen.

Got it, thanks for the confirmation.

In other broth news, I've been making various miso soups with miso made by a chef friend. The smell is odd as it cooks, but the flavor is great. Good ...

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This looks great. Are you reading chronologically from start to finish or jumping around?

Always. It's the principle of the thing. Slight crouch, straight back, defensive position, but ready to strike.

The denser the meatball, the more dog used.

I'm enjoying imagining little peanut Clarky all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed eating popcorn on the side of a sound stage somewhere in midtown. It feel...

The solution is to get a mac.

I've been sober for a little over a year, so I'm no longer your resident wine expert; sorry Clarky. My advice would be to eat Welch's fruit snacks ins...

Interesting, I wasn't familiar with the distinction, but as it happens, the last bag of chickpeas I bought were a new brand for me, and they looked sm...

Oh and as to your secrets, you Brits are probably second best at making Indian food, so I'll take your word for it. Good tomatoes are only in season h...

I have a complicated relationship with chickpeas. I adore hummus, but can find the texture of basic cooked chickpeas to be a bit chalky or grainy for ...

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Is that your first time using an emoji in your TPF career? Did I pop the cherry?

:groan: I have no idea what that emoji is really supposed to signify, but I think it was designed specifically as a response to your comment.

I actually didn't notice. It's a strange choice to be sure. Anyway, tonight I made a vegan red lentil curry. It's quite good. Coconut milk and coconut...

I lobby that posting pictures of uncooked meat should be a bannable offense.

I'm currently waiting for that bureaucratic monolith to either bestow mercy upon me or throw me to the dogs. In the meantime I'm naturally spending mo...

Yes, you're quite the Taoist in your non-action. I, on the other hand am nothing but a seething, twisting ball of aesthetic conclusions. I aspire to y...

I'm from the midwest as you know, not Italian (as you may not have known), and grew up in a suburb. Lasagna was made with ricotta growing up. It's rea...

Textural aberrations past a certain threshold are egregious enough culinary choices to elicit the label abomination. There is a consensus reality on t...

I haven't been around much either; the forum hasn't been blessed with a sprinkling of my estimable finely ground dirt in a bit. Currently unemployed, ...

Texturally they're totally different; the substitution is, thus, an abomination.

When playing music in a group, listening to the group as a whole while playing is arguably the most important thing to do. While this may sound corny ...

RIP David Lynch. :broken:

The uneven pickle coverage is giving me anger, but the freshly cracked black pepper is a pro move, no doubt. The next step is full seasoning: salt, pe...

Sometimes I just feel like I'm

*Large thumbs up photo*

As NYC increasingly becomes a nepo baby playground, one of the few joys not yet yanked from the frostbitten hands of us starving normies is the NYC ba...

Nada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGXzlRoNtHU

Me too. But I do that in part because I often feel like an underdog in life, so there seems to be a strange ego component to it either way. :chin:

And because it's a dog-eat-dog world that wants to see winners win and loser lose. :razz:

All good! We each bring our own approach to reading and commenting. I appreciated that you got so in depth on mine. I wasn't able to do the same on yo...

And as always, thank you for your detailed and thoughtful exposition. Your thoughts have helped me flesh out the story myself in hindsight.

Yes, I think so too. Thanks for your thoughts, and grateful this was a favorite of yours (if I remember rightly).

:pray: Appreciate your thoughts as always mate.

I'm glad all of this worked for you. I did try to make these references vague enough to not pinpoint the locale to any specific place. In my mind whil...

Oh trust me my burger brother, I’m aware; smashburgers are all the rage up here in Gotham. I know how to smash my meat; don’t think that I don’t!

Those look like some proper hockey puck burgers. I.E. the kind that are pre-formed and cramp up in the middle because the meat has been over-worked. :...