August 12, 2024
I'm just gonna say it: chocolate chip cookies are definitive proof that there is intelligent life in the universe.
July 11, 2024
Why my YouTube channel exists:
"I checked this album out from the Chicago Public Library in 1976 when I was nineteen. I lived in the Viceroy Hotel and after work I would spend hours listening to this parable over and over.
"Forty-eight years later now I still know it by heart.
"Thanks for posting!"
(Comment on a reading of Kafka's "An Imperial Message" by the German actress Lotte Lenya, from a 1962 LP on the Caedmon label)
July 3, 2024
Coda:
(1) Audience participation (I love this)
(2) Recent visitor unsuccessfully trying to get out of the frame before I snapped the pic
June 30, 2024
The weekend in review from the kitchen of Chez Stas: after a marathon day of cooking yesterday, my fridge has laid claim to
(1) a loaf of goat cheese, bacon, and olive quick bread;
(2) sauteed Maitake mushrooms; and
(3) steamed blueberry pudding.
Not pictured (because not as visually interesting): oven baked pork ribs with homemade BBQ sauce and roasted broccoli.