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]

Also I thought you might like this

http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/fishlm/folksongs/les01.htm
SOLDIERS' SONGS: THE FOLKLORE OF THE POWERLESS
Les Cleveland
Copyright Les Cleveland, 1984 and used by permission. All rights reserved.
A later version of this paper was published in New York Folklore 11 (1985)

Warning, a lot of these are, as might be expected, pretty offensive, but the thesis is interesting.

[sovay]

Warning, a lot of these are, as might be expected, pretty offensive, but the thesis is interesting.

I actually have the book that article became part of! Dark Laughter: War in Song and Popular Culture (1994). It's fantastic. Thanks for making sure I'd seen him!

[kore]

Of course you do! oooh that sounds great.


-- THEN THAT GUY MADE ME CURIOUS AND I LOOKED UP 'RING DANG DO'
*MISTAKE*