OK

fixin to listen to TK 

GOOD morning sweetheart

I LOVE you VERY much

👾🫚

goodnight sweetheart

I LOVE you VERY much

I gotta go to sleep

👾🫚

They bought me

a set

of encyclopedia

for winter holiday

pretty pretty shortly thereafter

my aunt joan & my gran gran

WORLD BOOK

I went with my Aunt Joan

she worked

as an assistant buyer

for finger furniture

& they had tickets

I'm not sure

the exact context

I was maybe six or seven

I was pretty into it

BUT

I didn't really understand

a lot of what was going on

I THINK I was asking

LOTS of questions 

the SEATS were on the CLUB level

SO we went to the BAR

it was REALLY cool

all like

BLACK & GOLD

DARK

the bartender made me a 

SHIRLEY TEMPLE

WHAT I say

to myself

& I THINK I've said to YOU before

is my first memory

it was night

I was SLEEPING 

& I WOKE up*

*I was in the bedroom I shared with my dad at my gran gran's house** we had matching*** twin beds.

**which in later times was Edith & sunrise's bedroom and also my gran gran's bedroom

***except for texture-- one of the beds had a bumpy hobnail type thing

I WOKE up

I got out of my bed

I LOOKED up

at the EASY RIDER poster

my DADDY was asleep

he was laying

on his stomach with his BACK up

I climbed into the bed

I climbed onto his back

& I fell asleep

LIKE THAT

the MEMORY

that I STYLE as my first memory

because

I do have a vague

POTTY TRAINING memory

which isn't interesting

OR

CLEAR ENOUGH

to make a STORY about

THAT

is what THAT

REALLY MEANS*

*what is the earliest story you have about your perception of yourself in the world

(continuing)

if you are on MORE than ONCE

TK likes you

NOT Gary

I'm no fan of HIS

we know each other

well enough to give each other sh*t

THAT is true

HE GETS the community building

THIS is when I KNEW

I was gonna marry her

YEAH he reads the non-flattering emails

one of the great things about the show

NOTHING is explained

if you KNOW

you KNOW

CHUNKY not crunchy

PAUL SIMON is great

& WAS actually a very good guest

multiple times I saw

SEE KIDS

dreams really DO come true

road not taken

when I got the job at videocentral

back in my early twenties

I had ALSO applied to work

in the library at Rice University

& after I took the VC job

Rice called me

I had already accepted the job at VC

& I felt like that meant

I shouldn't interview for Rice

& SO much groundwork for my life

came from THAT VC job

over the years

I have WONDERED

would I have found

Dan Bern

Tori Amos

Melissa Ferrick

would I have

worked at Starbucks

&all the things that came FROM THAT 

I feel like

THAT decision

MIGHT have led to a COMPLETELY different life

& whenever

I'm feeling like

POOR LIFE CHOICES

I always go back to THAT juncture

idk what my most wasteful purchase was

I have a bunch of memories from early childhood

BUT

I mostly don't have any REAL

WAY

to determine

what happened WHEN*

*so I don't know what my "earliest" memory was

(continuing)

GEORGE WILL intern

POOL

big screen TV

ORIOLES tickets

pretty great pay

TEAM LOYALTY Connecticut

GEOGRAPHY is destiny

I do remember this

I just don't remember it

& didn't really get context 

Oh yeah

I thought I had some

CRUNCHY peanut butter

I looked through the cabinet

it was with chocolate

I see the virtue of crunchy

BUT

I still prefer smooth

I think

SUZANNE 

I think I listened to this one before

I REMEMBER her

having a last minute judging gig

OK

I found a LLpod about cilizza

I'mma listen to THAT 

GOOD morning sweetheart

hope your day is

BEAUTIFUL so far

I LOVE you VERY much

👾🫚

WHAT can I use the cookie emoji for?

I have a burning desire to say

🍪🍪🍪

BUT

I don't KNOW what that MEANS 

I'm getting BLUE hwy

in my head

& I'm guessing THAT means

you wanna KNOW

BUT

I can't tell you right now

I've had a pretty good day

mood & thinking wise

I feel like I'm sorta

getting back to normal

& I had a different interpretation

+ not feeling

SO inhibited from just talking

not so WORRIED about being LIKE interpreted

I LOVE you

BUT this has all been KINDA

strange & disorienting

& KINDA rollercoaster-y

I kept trying to decide

WHAT to write today

& I don't even remember

what the different things were

BUT

I FEEL like something GOOD is coming

I'll settle into a rhythm

or something

I feel LUCKY

even if I am confused

I gotta go to sleep

goodnight sweetheart

I LOVE you VERY much

👾🫚

I FEEL you 

MAYHEM

my brother has his MFA from Yale

I copied Neil's perfect bracket

NOW I'm behind a woman

who pronounces it MAR-kwet

BRIDGE

WHY am I EVER getting in a car again

FOAM rubber

THEY don't know either

BUT they're afraid now

I am not a bar-b-q chip guy

not great

too much honey

I don't really eat chips

I LIKE them

BUT

I'm not really sure what I like anymore

WHO is cilizza

he seems to be important

BUT

there's this whole vibe I don't quite get

we know it's not fair

that's just the way it's got to be

AND maybe

the reason TK & WILBON are paired up

is they are both kinda opinionated

BUT they don't generally agree

MAYBE

STRONGER HANDS

BUSTER 

TK can't get enough of the cows

flesh out all the sides of you

I f*CKing LOVE coffee ice cream

statement from OHTANI's lawyers

SEEMS suspect

SHADY character-- so MUCH smoke

WYATT LANGFORD next big STAR

LOMAN-ettes

LIGHTLY worn brooks bros suit jacket

without the pants

one of the revolutionary factions

in the French revolution

was called SANS-CULOTTE

which translates*

*for me, anyway

to the NO FANCY PANTS party

PARIS commune

ep152

ep167

ep281

when do we get ELEVATED Mr Tony flavors

coffee ice cream, johnny Walker blue, red wine over the sink

OK

GOOD morning

I had stuff unexpectedly free up

SO

I can listen to TK earlier

I'm sure he'll talk about the bridge collapse

which I KNOW happened

BUT

like no CONTEXT

hope everything is GREAT so far today

I LOVE you VERY much sweetheart 

I LOVE you VERY much sweetheart

I have to go to sleep

🫶👾🫚

well

I've got

you can feel it all over

playing in my head

& I CAN

FEEL you

I'm pretty happy with 

I made SOUP

when I made that stuff for 

my mom before

I had been planning to make

this soup from moose wood

BASQUE white bean soup

I didn't REALLY follow

the recipe

REALLY just

CONCEPT, rough proportions

I used vegetable stock

piece of kombu

couple garlic cloves

bay leaf

--pressure cooked that for a few minutes

couple carrots

couple stalks celery

large yellow onion

couple campari tomatoes 

half head cabbage

one package great northern beans

--these I got start by pouring boiling water on them, letting them soak a little, draining the water, & pouring boiling water again

--then I can just pour the second water in without having to drain it because the whatever it is that supposedly causes gas has gone with the first water

SPICE

tumeric, cumin, white pepper

sweet smoked paprika

new york shuk fiery harissa

lucky foods Seoul gochujang

I pureed it with

the stick blender

I was thinking I was making it for mom

BUT

I decided 

it tasted MUCH too HEALTHY

SHE probably

wouldn't even like it anyway

I'm eating

 THIS

I would make it the SAME

it's LIKE

the best thing I've made

in a while

there's NO meat

there's no OIL

the beans are the only thing

that even REALLY has calories*

*it was from their low fat favorites cookbook

that's roughly

250 calories & 18g of protein

but it's ALSO

super HEALTHY

highly recommend*

*the recipe had fennel seed & bell pepper no heat at all 

CANNOT comment on the UNheated version

😁