Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 8:36PM | by Otter With just hours to go before the Meeting of the Courts closes Mardi Gras, it’s not too late to take a trip through the Mixed Drink Widget.
Adult Beverage, Recipe in Recipe Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 7:03AM | by Otter Late for work: this will have to be quick. Seems I'm always rushing these days.
NPR's got a first listen up of Tom Waits' "Bad Like Me."
I've only gotten a few minutes' listening in so far. That's what the commute is for.
But, like all Tom Waits songs, what I've heard is the sound of a man aching in the arms of a difficult universe.
It's on my Amazon list because Tom Waits' music gets into your bones.
Which, when you're making good lamb-broth, you should break. The marrow flavors it, and provides a strong nutritious flavor.
Cancer, Music, Recipe, Tom Waits in Music, Musical Review, Musical Review & Recipe, Recipe Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 1:08PM | by Otter
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If you said to me, "Otter, we are going to shipwreck you on a desert island where it is always Christmas and never winter, and you get only one Christmas CD and one thing to eat," the choice would be fairly clear.
Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 11:26PM | by Otter 
The questions I get asked most often are, “Do you believe in hell?” and “What can I do with my turkey carcass after Thanksgiving?
The short answers are “Yes, we create hell,” and “You strange child of god, you make a gumbo.”
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 1:04AM | by Otter What was worth noting in that video is that they used technology to defeat technology. They danced with machines in that video, they didn't give the impression that they danced with machines.
Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 8:01AM | by Otter Imagine that Calexico slipped Burl Ives the tongue. Or that Kansas got naked and went skinny dipping with Iron & Wine. Or that the eerie melodies of Appalachian / Celtic folk music got stoned and went restlessly looking for the 1980's with Liberace, the Washington State Lumberjack Men's Glee Club, and the Beatles.
Okay, that's not helpful. I admit that.
BP, Fleet Foxes, Recipe, Review, Shrimp, WWOZ in Musical Review & Recipe Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 11:34AM | by Otter 
Consider a Lethal Dose
Folk rock dips its ladle into American roots, blues, jazz, and rock, but it’s something much greater than the sum of its parts.
Like gumbo.
Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 3:28PM | by Otter On those occassions when you feel like your raw intelligence is that of a postage stamp compared to your kids, friends, enemies, and other people whom you suspect of having more money, better breath, and better sex than you have, you might consider popping in the unlikely CD Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Allison Krauss.
Be sure the CD player is on shuffle. This CD is rigged to make the most of Plant's subtle, crooner-ish, bluesy, been-to-hell-and-left-my-soul-there voice and Allison Krauss's unearthly I-was-born-old harmonies. Consequently some of the songs feel a little long unless you're crazy about roots music meeting the blues and smooching them. (I happen to be.) It will help not to know what's coming up.
