Friday Facts (2008/10/10)

Date October 10, 2008

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[photo by Eva the Weaver]

Some facts in lieu of a post:

  • I believe a significant part of the next 25 years of new music was prefigured by E.L.O.’s concept album Time
  • Grating the frozen butter into the flour with a cheese grater makes perfect biscuits and pie crusts every time
  • Baking Illustrated is the best baking book ever
  • A partial list of songs that have, at one time or another, made me weep:
    • “Still Fighting It” (Ben Folds)
    • “Father and Son” (Cat Stevens)
    • “Hallelujah” (Leonard Cohen by way of Jeff Buckley)
    • “On the Radio” (Regina Spektor)
    • “Needle in the Hay” (Elliott Smith)
    • “Leaving Town” (Aimee Mann)
    • “In the Sun” (Joseph Arthur)
  • My new therapist is a leggy, toothy blonde named Kirsten. I haven’t had a lot of luck in my life with women named Kirsten (and all variations thereof)
  • Book 9 of Ulysses (“Scylla and Charybdis”) is freakin’ complex
  • I’ve had the song “To the Dogs or Whoever” in my head constantly for months
  • I share a birthday with my Grandma Lori Beaver
  • Incidentally, you really want to have Google’s Safe Search on when searching for anyone with the last name of ‘Beaver’
  • I also share a birthday with Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe’s sergeant at arms
  • I’ve looked too long for words that can save me
  • Four weeks ago about this time, David Foster Wallace was hanging himself… it still hurts
  • Loneliness is a lathe

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