But outside of that, I've no use for dough

[sovay]

Tonight I was told by the teller at the bank in Stop & Shop that my leather jacket makes me look like a Ravager from Guardians of the Galaxy. I told him that observation had made my evening.

Then I went home and spatch and I made steak tips with helljam (tamarind now permanently incorporated) and cheese grits on the side, much to the complaint of Autolycus who had to be locked out of the kitchen after he leapt onto the stovetop and began daintily licking melting butter out of the saucepan in a display of maximum chutzpah and minimum regard for flammability. I am presently in a somewhat endorphin-illuminated food coma, but I'm still pretty pleased.

Films I watched this weekend include A Dark Song (2016), The Ritual (2017), and Starred Up (2013), all of which I hope to write about because they are good, recent, and two of them made an excellent if unplanned double feature, but I don't know what I can promise with work and other commitments in advance of the 'Thon.

Torvill and Dean's free skate to the condensed Boléro is still unparalleled.

Comments

[kore]

OMG, helljam? //goes to look

Aww yeah Torvill and Dean. I remember my mom and I watching that with our mouths open. She said "I'm surprised the ice didn't melt!"

[sovay]

OMG, helljam? //goes to look

I can't remember when we started calling it that. It's a variation on my family's barbecue sauce, tailored to differing food tolerances (my mother can't deal with much chili powder, spatch can't deal with much onion) and the fact that everything is better with tamarind; it was designed for St. Louis-style pork ribs, but goes very well on other meats. We've just started talking about using it as a base for pulled pork.

Aww yeah Torvill and Dean. I remember my mom and I watching that with our mouths open. She said "I'm surprised the ice didn't melt!"

I can't remember if I watched it live: I might have, since I've watched the figure skating with my mother as far back as I can recall. But my parents taped it off the broadcast and I remember watching the tape growing up. I've still never seen anything like it, and the rules may have changed so that I never will, but who knows? Last night my mother saw Mirai Nagasu land the first American women's triple axel at the Olympics. (I remember Midori Ito in 1992.)

[kore]

WHOAH, first triple?? I remember Midori Ito too, wow. Hard to think that was so long ago.

[kore]

Also wow, that was PERFECT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pyV0G7HeEc

And that face! https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180212070846-01-mirai-nagasu-0212-exlarge-169.jpg

[sovay]

And that face!

Completely deserved!