Well….if you have come here before, you know that I can be pretty weird at times….something that I am a little proud of and describe as being 45 degrees off the rest of the world….and today, that weirdness manifested itself in the great pork roast experiment, where I took two identical pork sirloin roasts and prepared one with a marinade that I let it soak in overnight, and the other prepared identically except no marinade…and the results are in…marinating the roast is the way to go…much more flavorful and juicy than the other one…..now, I don’t think I’ve ever known of anyone else using the scientific method of controlling all variables but one to see which recipe tastes best…I know it probably happens but I’d like to think that it is my weirdness that drove the experiment….and to get clear cut results is pretty cool, too….
Category Archives: Misc
Doctor Who revisited…
Well…just finished up my roast experiment and am watching the Doctor Who marathon on BBC this morning and I think my opinion is changing somewhat on the question of Peter Capaldi as the Doctor….he is certainly different than the other doctors and much less funny, but his portrayal is growing on me as I revisit the series. There was a line in one of today’s episodes that just struck me as being the definition of caring for someone…”do you think I care so little for you that betraying me would matter?” That was the Doctor to Clara after she attempted to blackmail the Doctor into saving Danny after he was killed by a car walking across the street…another one of Steven Moffat’s great lines that are woven through the series….now I’m going back to watch the rest of them….more later…
Let’s talk some tv…
Well…sitting here with the Dr. Who marathon running in the background and that gave me an idea to talk about tv a little…have been watching some intriguing shows over the past few weeks and thought it would make a good topic…but first, I need to bitch a little about Dr. Who…after watching ones with the earlier Doctors…it just makes me dislike Peter Capaldi in the role even more than I did before…his Doctor is a lifeless caricature of the fun, funny, and nuanced performances turned in by the earlier actors and I think they need to find a reason to find a new Doctor. Just found a new show called the OA on my son’s server the other day and I’m not sure what to make of it yet…it something like stranger things in the way it tells the story but seems a little contrived at times…but, I am going to watch a couple more tonight to see if it improves over time. I have been watching Westworld, too, and I like the show enough to be down to the last two of the first season…which I may watch tonight…and then there is Good Behavior that is growing on me as I watch…good character development and writing and it has kept me interested in every episode so maybe that’s a good one, too….who knows? I do know that my tastes are not for everyone…but, good tv is good tv….
Another one for the B-3 count….
Well….just watched a show on The Mamas and Papas and that bled into one on Blues Traveler who had a Hammond B-3 on stage…so, add another one to the B-3 count…
A funny music day…
Well….it was really an odd day yesterday…didn’t watch any shows but ones on music an AXS tv….the day started with a 2 hour doc on the Allman Brothers….then the farewell concert of Cream was on from 1968…then there was a concert by Eric Clapton from 2007, and the day ended with Joe Walsh on guitar Center sessions….so, I spent the day vegging it out and watching most of the day. Music has become much more important to me as I have been isolating myself from the world and it was cool to learn a bunch of stuff I didn’t know….so, you’ll probably see me writing more about it…
Another one for the B-3 count…
Well…watching a special on Eric Clapton and saw him doing “I Shot the Sheriff”….and in the background, there’s a Hammond B-3…now, I think I may have used him before, but not as a solo…so this counts…add another one to the B-3 count…..
Find the cost of freedom…
Well…yeah, you’d think that this one would be a heavy essay on freedom and the cost to maintain it…nope, it about the song “find the cost of freedom” by CSNY on their live album “Four Way Street”….every time I hear someone play Taps on tv, Find the Cost of Freedom comes into my head…not sure how that association came to be but it happened last night…enough that I had to get my mp-3 player out and listen to the song….still takes my breath away…only two verses that are identical but every time I hear it I get chills…and the rest of the album is not bad, either….
Why is this?
Well….since I have time…I sit here thinking a lot and a really weird thought came to me…maybe it’s more like an observation….when was the last time you saw a bicycle ad on tv? You see ads for everything else…and many things you don’t want to see…but why is it that they don’t advertise bicycles? I mean, they sell millions of them every year but they still use the direct sales method that has been abandoned by every other industry as being too labor intensive…why aren’t the manufacturers trying to take market share away from their competitors? That’s done even in soft drinks and chips where the item profit is much lower…so I just don’t understand….can they sell all they can build without advertising? That could explain it but why wouldn’t they want to try to grow their market share or their sales? Not sure what to say but it was just a thought….
Old stuff….
Well…out on the bike today I cam to the realization that I am surrounded by old stuff…my life is entirely made up of old stuff….my car is 23 years old….I have a stereo that I bought in 1974…my newest pair of jeans is over 15 years old…..my road bike is from 1971…the gloves I wore to keep my hands warm on the bike today are from 1980….I wonder what that means? Is it that I’m cheap? Is it that I don’t like change too much? I’m not sure about any of that but I do know that over my entire life of owning cars, there have been very few of them that were not used up completely…that went straight from me using them to the junkyard. I guess it’s more that I just have never felt the need to have the latest and newest thing….I’m okay with that, too….I did buy new knives a few weeks back…but they were only $3.99 for three of them…I wonder what that says? Not much I’m afraid….
Comfort music?
Well…you hear people talk all the time about comfort food…that food from your childhood that you still eat and that makes you feel good when you do…like mac and cheese and and tomato soup…but, on the bike today, a new idea popped into my head…is there comfort music? I think so…every time I need a lift or some easy music on the ride, I always turn to my Joe Walsh playlist with songs like “the ashes the rain and I”, “Live my life again”, or the turkey song and the smile comes back and the troubles seem less than they were. I wonder if anyone else feels that way? Hmmmm….