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Archive for October 2025

you two so alike

On 23 October 2025

ANOTHER ONE RIDES THE BUS It was the late 1980s and we did not have the internet really, and making parody songs was something my friends and I did a lot. I don’t remember this being distinctly or overtly Weird-Al-inspired, but of course that was the cultural soup we were floating in as teenage noodles, […]

you are the only one

On 1 October 2025

A very good thing is old-timey (and sometimes even modern British) cookbooks referring to “goat’s cheese.” It most certainly is not the goat’s cheese. It is cheese of the goat, sure. But the goat didn’t make the cheese, didn’t even know CHEESE WAS A THING at the time of their being milked. (Yelled through a […]