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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Full English with roasted marrow bones and short rib bubble-and-squeak.

Guess “When You’re Gone” might be more apropos, sadly? Always loved her accent and distinctiveness.

Dolores O’Riordan gone at just 46, ridiculous. [emoji20]

Happy Usual Birthday!

Steak and wine in an old college local — The Highlander. Tartan cushions, tartan curtains, pictures of drum majors, not a damn thing has changed. There can be only oooooooone! PS: That’s my side salad because the doctor said to. Couldn’t eat it all, too fibrous. [emoji6]

Happy Birthday! I second the steak.

Woolly bass I bet.

Aforementioned pig’s trotter.

Revisited the little Thai spot we used to like in Esher, Surrey last night. Had the lamb panang curry. It was jolly savoury!

The bar stools on Aristotle Onassis’s yacht were upholstered in whale foreskin. Apropos of nothing.

Glass covers? Looks cool but ... reflections?

Porcupine Tree -- Deadwing

Did I read that right, it was minus one-fucking-hundred degrees windchill in NH today? Noooooo thank you.

Took delivery of the last of our orphan household goods, which have been sitting in a storage locker in Westborough, MA since 2010. OMG so much random and forgotten audio shit. At least I know someone local who might take the Talking Heads LPs.

Francis and the Lights -- Just for Us I dig it.

Happy belated! Sorry, I was drunk.

Think I'm going to go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for all this to blow over.

Yup, snapped awake in the middle of the night and didn't know why. A few seconds later, the shaking started. Believe the effect is due to the p-waves preceding the quake? Anyway, weird, and please notice that Brent had cleverly flown out beforehand to maintain plausible deniability.

The Streets -- A Grand Don't Come For Free One of those classics that you forget about and then every time it comes up on the playlist you are, like, OMG I can't believe I haven't listened to this for this long!

Um ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/01/02/monster-storm-to-blast-east-coast-before-polar-vortex-uncorks-tremendous-cold-late-this-week/? Could make some crack about it being 60 degrees in CA today, but we catch on fire far too easily to start throwing regional shade.

That appears to be a Danish. Goodbye Scandinavia!