Jerry Stiller.
Festivus is your heritage.
My Favorite Kind of Gin
Gin Wigmore. Yes that is her voice. Viva New Zealand.
Little Wing, Take #2
Sound engineer Eddie Kramer describes Hendrix in studio. Chas Chandler tells Jimi to dial it back a notch and he’s all “ok man, cool.” Apologies for about 30 seconds of unnecessary leader tape. Also: Glockenspiel!
There are a million “How to Play Little Wing” videos. I love this guy because he’s unpretentious, has underlying dread of even attempting the song, and has a typical reaction to Hendrix about 2:00-3:00:
“is there a pattern in this strumming? What’s the pattern? What is happening?”
Sourdoughcumentary
I never realized what a world unto itself sourdough was. First part of a documentary above, and a good article on the world sourdough library here.
All modern recipes begin with a starter, basically a flour-and-water slurry colonized by bacteria and wild, airborne yeasts that eat, breed and exhale carbon dioxide, which helps the bread rise. The tangy taste and brightly acidic smell derive from lactobacilli, cousins of the bacteria that curdle milk into cheese and yogurt. Starters are bespoke to the environments in which they were created; no two sourdoughs taste exactly alike.
These Bastards Again
See you there.
Now More Than Ever
Spell your porm correctly.
Pull Shapes
Enjoy some shameless poppery, bastards!
I like the Pipettes for obvious reasons and have plugged them before. Please groove on this weird video.
Temperature Timeline
XKCD is great fun. I enjoyed this for the historical perspective, and had no idea that Boston and New York were iced over as recently as 20,000 years ago.
Also: if this pandemic doesn’t get us, liquefied Antarctica surely will.
Have a nice day.
Non-Human Persons
”A 33-year-old orangutan granted legal personhood by a judge in Argentina is settling into her new surroundings at the Center for Great Apes in central Florida.”
Story here.
“Ape King” documentary presumably to follow.
Hi, I’m Johnny Cash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppttxQoc74Q