friday facts | Cosmopoetica

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