The Weekly Walk With Me

Tuesday Edition

It was brought to my attention two weeks ago that I hadn't posted a Weekly Walk With Me for the previous Sunday.  I didn't realize anyone was really paying attention and apparently neither was I, because it has now been a full month since I've made such a post. Sometimes I just get busy doing and don't think about talking about doing. So it goes.
To make up for lost time and avoid being indebted to anyone, here are 10 things (in no particular order) that happened in this white girl's world while you were waiting.


1. The release of Alabama Shakes, Sound and Color.  It's like grease stains on hot tar.

2. I found this perfect gift for a friend and it makes me really happy.  Now let's hope he doesn't break in shipping and kill us all with his 1920s mercury glass toxins.

3. My wife met R2D2 on May the fourth.  It was kind of the best thing ever since she had a conversation with him and everything.  I hope this experience will quench her thirst for Star Wars nostalgia for a bit and I won't come home to anymore surprise Chewbaccas in the living room. I would share a picture but she only supports my creative genius in small doses and doesn't want anyone to know she's married to an asshole. She doesn't know I already tweeted it.

4. Montage of Heck-Yep, I watched.  And it was a brilliant piece of film. However, I never thought of Kurt Cobain as the voice of my generation. I always thought he was a bit of a poser, though he did have his moments. It appears I may have been right. And I am more disaffected now at 38 than I ever was at 17.

5. I now have a fan base in Turkey.  Thanks for reading, Turkey!  One day let's chat about how much I love lokum!

6. I  discovered I am fairly good at corn hole, which as a concept is an offense to my sense of good taste. But it happens.

7. This little treasure I scored from a Frenchman.  The pink Island label. Vinyl nerds know.

8. I figured out how to make the perfect buffalo cauliflower (chicken wing substitute).  I would share the recipe but no one reading this cares. My secret is honey.  Isn't the secret always honey?

9. Speaking of honey--did you know there is educational porn on Netflix?  You do now.  It came up as a suggestion after I watched a documentary about sex workers.  Sacred Love Making: hosted by a woman named Kitty pretending she's not from Kentucky or trying to be sexy wearing a collection of cheap sateen shirts with late nineties cut outs. She was teaching a white guy named Ishmael how to connect with his lover-a woman who by the looks of things tossed around the idea of becoming a lot lizard but decided showering at truck stops wasn't her thing.  There was a lot of talk of soul and passion and love and trust. There's also an Asian. It. Was. Everything.  You owe it to yourself: NSFW-ish

10. Ryan Adams. Live.  I wasn't sure I could even do it.  He's basically responsible for every song I've ever drunk alone to. I was a little disappointed I didn't get 'English Girls Approximately' or 'Come Pick Me Up'--I don't care which version.  It's the single most heart breaking song of all my heartbreak songs. But I did get his 'Wonderwall' and 'I Love You but I Don't Know What to Say', which pretty much left my guts right there on the concrete.  So basically, it was almost perfect.