#Jan 12

[dogperday]

menthols

hey you got any newports

[hey-color-palettes]

Could you do a color pallette for the name Ahanu please?

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[thequalitylady]

National Kiss A Ginger Day

Everyone enjoy kissing your ginger today!

[delux2222]

Happy Birthday, Hendrik J Valk (1897-1986)

Forest – Opus 1209, 1972

Master of the clear line

Hendrik Valk was a painter and graphic artist of the twentieth century. At a young age he experimented with stylization and abstraction and around 1918-1920 Theo van Doesburg invited him to join the artists of De Stijl. Valk, however, chose to follow his own path. He developed his 'Valk style', in which he stuck to the visible reality, which he reduced to the essence in sober straight lines. Valk eliminated everything superfluous. With the exception of the thirties, when he worked a period more realistically - with sometimes surreal or absurdist outings - he stuck to that vision throughout his life. [waanders.nl]

[disarmluna]

Lily Rose Depp in LA

Jan 12 

[almondmilkyear-2023]

happy almond milk year!!

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two days since official thomastair content was released

[msbarrows]

Jan 12 - Today was make-a-vat-of-soup day. Sometimes I do that to make a particular soup, like turning leftover baked ham or New England boiled dinner into pea soup, but mostly it’s a very hearty kitchen sink sort of soup based on a meat, a bean, the bag of leftover veggies I accumulate over time in the freezer (the last spoonful of potatoes, the little bit of steamed mix veg still in the dish, etc.), and a 3-cup tub of a tomato-vegetable sauce that also gets made in vat quantities. The TVS contains diced tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, zucchini, basil, oregano, and parsley - I make it a couple times a year, as it makes 12 cups of sauce after cooking down, which is enough for quite a lot of different uses before I need to make another vat (mostly as soup base, sometimes as pizza sauce, or as a sauce for pasta).

I went with my most common meat-bean pairing, which is browned ground beef and chick peas. Chicken or mild Italian sausages with kidney beans is also pretty good. Basically I combine the meat, beans, TVS, a few cups of stock (bouillon packets or cubes is fine), and whatever accumulation of leftover veggies I have on hand in the freezer, and let it simmer a while. Possibly throw in any suitable leftovers from the fridge, maybe add in some celery and onions or carrot coins if the leftovers in the freezer was on the scanty side. Season it with a big spoonful of Italian seasoning mix, and maybe some wine if there’s a bottle open and needing using up (neither my brother nor I are wine drinkers, so it only gets bought when I want to make something like spaghetti sauce or beef bourguignon, neither of which needs a full bottle). If there isn’t already a bunch of potatoes in the frozen leftovers, I might dice some to add, or throw in a handful of macaroni. Or lentils. Or split peas.

It always ends up as a very thick, not particularly attractive, but very tasty mess of a soup.

Later in the evening when it came time to freeze up containers of the soup, I also got around to finally doing something I’ve been procrastinating on for months - hauled out all the margarine/sour cream/ricotta/cream cheese tubs I keep on hand to freeze stuff in, matched them with lids, and threw out the couple dozen unmatched lids. Tiny steps.

[yourolddunsparce]

Just a small post about this week in hip-hop: What the fuck. Drops from 21 Savage, Lil Nas X, Kid Cudi, Boldy James, Bruiser Wolf, a single from Benny the Butcher, yesterday was INSANE for us. I’d like to say we’re so FUCKING back, but that also means my lazy ass has to write about like 7 different things instead of just Boldy James. Happy Saturday everyone, I’ll be listening to all these albums and giving you all my thoughts soon!

Signing off, Y.O.D

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: in the coldest, darkest days of the year, people's fancy turns to vacations abroad. Hence, today AdeptApril's Storm BBS calendar shines its #ANSIart light on Shop for Travel day. Ooh, that suitcase has little wheels on it!

[hey-color-palettes]

Hey can I please get a palette for the name “Allyson”?😅😙

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[thatsojasminesworld]

41 Days till I’m 30 so may tears will happen

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[delux2222]

Happy Birthday, Long John Baldry (1941-2005)

When, in 1975, Elton John sang plaintively that “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” that someone was blues singer Long John Baldry, who was born on this day.

Baldry, known as Long John because of his 6ft 7in stature, had formed a band known as Bluesology some years earlier. The line-up included Reg Dwight on keyboard and Elton Dean on saxophone. When Dwight later launched a solo career, he “borrowed” band members’ names and came up with Elton John.

Before that he was sharing a flat in the East End of London with his fiancee, Linda Woodrow, a secretary, and lyricist Bernie Taupin. Reg and Linda met on Christmas Eve in 1967 at a cabaret club and by 1969 were engaged to be married.

With the wedding day getting ever nearer, a desperately reluctant Dwight, secretly gay and unable to think of a way out of the situation, sank into depression and tried to commit suicide.

That’s when Baldry, backed up by Taupin, took Dwight to one side and told him that he had to forget suicide, face up to his sexuality and call off the wedding. And that’s what Dwight did, although he did not come out as a gay person until 1988.

The 1975 song, written by Taupin and set to music by the then celebrated Elton John, tells the story. The opening line, "When I think of those East End lights" is a reference to the London flat. Linda Woodrow is the “Princess perched in her electric chair,” and the “Sugar Bear” who “saved my life tonight” is Long John Baldry.

In 1984, Linda Woodrow moved to the US, got married and had three children. She says that when Elton John – “Reg,” as she still thinks of him – arrived home at 4.30am that day after drinking with Taupin and Baldry and told her that the wedding was off, she was “devastated.”

Now, she says, she has moved on. “There is no bitterness,” she adds.

Little known outside the UK, the genial Baldry was liked and respected by many stars, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton. And he launched the career of Rod Stewart, who became Sir Roderick in October 2016 – knighted at Buckingham Palace for his charity work as well as services to music.

Stewart said in a Reader’s Digest interview in 2004: “Long John Baldry launched me on my musical career. I was 18 and playing harmonica and singing a Muddy Waters song in a railway station, when John ran over to me from the other side of the tracks.

“I had just been to see him play at a club. He was one of the top bluesmen in England. And now he was asking, ‘Would you like to join the band?’

“Picture this elegant man with a proper English accent, never without a tie, a towering six-foot-seven. I was a huge fan and I was intimidated by his offer. I immediately said yes.

“I wasn’t very good on the harmonica, but my gravelly voice had caught his attention. For me, just shaking his hand – knowing all the great musicians whose hand he’d shaken before – was mind-blowing.

“John taught me so much – things that apply to my life and things that made me the human being I am today. See me on stage and you’re seeing what John taught me.

“Everyone looked up to him and he turned some of us into musical legends, but it was never what he expected for himself. He just played the clubs and was happy doing that.

"He was never a huge recording star so he may not be a legend in the proverbial sense, but he’s a cult hero with his own following and the fans who flock to his performances.”

A year after this interview, Long John Baldry, whose only big hit, “Let the Heartaches Begin,” topped the charts in 1967, died in Canada from a chest infection. He was 64.

As he was fighting for his life, a distressed Rod Stewart kept a bedside vigil – and paid the medical bills.

by Ray Setterfield

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