Happy birthday, and many happy returns of the day! I am gleefully preordered and waiting for Gates of Garnet and Gold to drop like whoa. 😁

@maiastrong01.bsky.social - can you help boost as well?

Also their other two albums from the 1990s: Anthem and These Days. Just a stellar band and utterly glorious in live concert to boot.

For example: tonight's dinner was a riff on miso soup. I wanted to add tofu to it, and voila, I had a box of tofu. Yay! But now I will have to go on Tofu Quest to replace it, as none of the local groceries carry boxed tofu anymore, only the nice (and more expensive) fresh varieties.

Merry Happy to you and yours as well!

No real point to this, except me wondering how I ever came upon that blog in the first place, whatever happened to the original writer, whether it was always part of "The Sneeze" or if it got glommed up somehow, and all the other things one wonders about ancient web history.

Which...I don't think that's the intention, and that it's meant to be used as an ingredient in things, not eaten cold out of a can. But I have to admit the "food fright" factor is high on that one.

Such a lovely, well-written article. I'm looking forward to the book!

I have that exact same edition on my shelf. Such a joy to see it!

That jumped out at me too...

SQUEEEEE!!!! Also, poor Tybalt's nerves are going to get another workout, it seems. Looking forward to this!

All batches done, batch 1 put into containers, batch 2 cooling, very tired now, the kitchen might not stop smelling of roasted cereal for weeks. The cereal holiday gods have been appeased for another year. Good night and good luck to all.

Last bit of batch 1 is almost done. The rest is cooling. Now to rest a bit, then get going on batch 2: extra spicy edition.

Oh no! I'm so, so sorry. It's so not fair.