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What’s for supper?

Rojie asks:

If you had a personal chef, what would you make him/her create for you?

Desserts. Lots of delicious desserts that look like chocolate and smell like chocolate and taste like chocolate and smear all over my fingers and lips like chocolate that have lots of protein and no fat or artificial sweeteners or calories

I like to cook a lot but I don’t really have the time to cook what I’d want, and often when it gets close to dinnertime I’m too tired to start making something exciting. So with a personal chef I’d have them make dinners that I’d like to make. I’d have them make dinners that were plant-based with 40 grams of protein and using no oil in the process.

And now that I’m thinking about it, my personal chef will have to make those dinners with no fresh vegetables or fruit because I’m fine being paranoid about Cyclospora and not taking chances. I don’t like the word “explosive” to precede any bodily function that might happen to me after eating food. So everything will have to be cooked until 158°F (70°C), or until we, as a nation, come to our senses and realize just how important Federal health agencies are to… I don’t know, health? Safety? People? Life? The US response to the worst Cyclospora outbreak in history? Put a ‘major tariff on Mexico because of the lettuce’. Apparently that was supposed to be a joke but with nearly 12,000 people sick and more states added to the list, it’s not funny. It’s about as funny as threatening to put a “big tariff” on Canada because of wildfire smoke crossing the border.

I guess when one’s diet consists of red meat, fast food, sweets and pop (or soda to you folks that live in a different part of the country than I do and don’t know that pop is the correct word for pop), protecting 340+ million people from a foodborne parasite might not be high on their to-do list. Just scrape that lettuce off the Big Mac and you’re good to go.

And speaking of tariffs, where are the $2,000 tariff dividend checks? What’s that? In the mail? Got it.

And still speaking of tariffs, the US supposedly collected $194 billion dollars – look at all the zeroes: $194,000,000,000 – from tariffs in 2025. With that kind of money lying around, why did the US House – right before their month-long vacation – have to approve an additional $95 billion for the war in Iran this past Wednesday? Why not just take it out of $194 billion? It’ll be equal parts interesting and nauseating watching what happens when the US Senate votes on it. They probably take a month-long vacation too, who knows.

When’s the last time you had a month-long vacation? I quit a job once and took a three year vacation but that’s another story.

Well, this went a little off the topic so it’s time to stop. But what a way to work up an appetite! Now it’s time to go eat breakfast. I wonder what I have that’s still safe to eat and won’t cause explosive anything?

Changes are always gradual, but Tuesday November 3rd will be here sooner than you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgiCS2Yj6l8

Zwei hinreißend verdorbene Schurken (1988)
verfügbar bis 02.06.2026

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/128680-000-A/zwei-hinreissend-verdorbene-schurken/

https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt0095031

#ZweiHinreißendVerdorbeneSchurken #DirtyRottenScoundrels #FrankOz #DaleLauner #StanleyShapiro #PaulHenning #SteveMartin #MichaelCaine #Film #arte #artetv #artemediathek #mediathek

„Planes, Trains & Automobiles“ – Das ist Klassikeralarm im ZDF! Leider wiedermal, wie so häufig, in der völlig falschen Jahreszeit. Und das ärgert mich. Weil es hier um Thanksgiving geht. Dem amerikanischen Fest der Familie. Und dem Fest der echten Zumutungen, vor allem der überfüllten Flughäfen. Keine subtile Warnung hier, nur das volle Leben. Mit Steve Martin und John Candy. (ZDF, Wh.)

Steve Martin. Kermit. Banjos. (https://youtu.be/5gNuj8UkyC4?si=veywyqWrZs7SRcT4)
#RetroView #KermitTheFrog #SteveMartin #TheMuppets

Loni Anderson, ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ Star, Dies at 79
#TV #TVNews #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #BurtReynolds #LyndaCarter #Obituaries #SallyField #SteveMartin #SuzanneSomers #ToriSpelling

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/loni-anderson-dead-wkrp-in-cincinnati-1236336519/

Rhiannon Giddens’ All-Star Roots Revue at the Bowl Has Steve Martin, Our Native Daughters and Others Covering the Full Banjo Spectrum, From Black Consciousness to Comedy: Concert Review
#Variety #ConcertReviews #News #Reviews #AllisonRussell #OurNativeDaughters #RhiannonGiddens #SteveMartin

https://variety.com/2025/music/concert-reviews/rhiannon-giddens-hollywood-bowl-steve-martin-concert-review-1236437150/

Happy Halloween! While I’m not dressing up in costume for an office party, I do feel the mood for spooky fun. I’ve got the house to myself while I work, so it’s time to crank some tunes!

First off is Skatune Network‘s Skalloween album, released in 2021. For those of you who don’t know who Skatune Network is, they are an incredible one person Ska band who arranges and performs Ska covers of our favorite video game, cartoon, and pop music. This 8 track album features music from Beetlejuice, appropriate with the sequel that just came out, to Scooby Doo, a cartoon which pretty much celebrated Halloween all the time. Skatune does an amazing job with all of their tracks, and they collaborate with other great artists on this album as well. I’ve made a YouTube playlist of the album below, but you can also find the album on Bandcamp (link) and on other streaming media platforms.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP4XUsocAKg-JEzqfmqKn2t1FEMaDWXyx&si=fPt5sAOZ5qWTr6-j

It’s a Halloween movie! It’s a Christmas movie!! IT’S BOTH!!! The Nightmare Before Christmas, released over 30 years ago, has one of the most iconic movie soundtracks which Danny Elfman ever wrote. As I observed when I wrote about this soundtrack for it’s 30th anniversary, it was the combination of Elfman’s amazing score with the voices of the actors which makes this soundtrack so successful. Elfman even provides the singing voice of Jack Skellington (speaking voice provided by Chris Sarandon, who also played Prince Humperdink in The Princess Bride)! I’ll admit, I’ll stop and listen to any song from this soundtrack whenever it comes up in my Plex, but I’ll always try to watch this movie on Halloween. This year, with the recent passing of Ken Page, the voice of Oogie Boogie, I’ll also be sure to raise a glass when his song comes up.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n3P6QbzwRveRljRWtG8nzdhLwKw0XfxEs&si=9pwBnL1iD1PClrae

Of course, we can’t have a Halloween playlist without some drum corps, so here’s the 1994 Bushwackers performing music from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

https://youtu.be/yEUOxjbGEzs?si=VAbxc1nDLd5PutGQ

On the twenty-third day of the month of September
In an early year of a decade not too long before our own
The human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence
And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do
In the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places

So began Alan Menken‘s and Howard Ashman‘s musical adaptation of the Roger Corman B movie classic, Little Shop of Horrors. The stage version made its way to the silver screen in 1986, and the gems from this soundtrack are plentiful. Steve Martin absolutely drills “You’ll Be A Dentist”, while Ellen Greene goes from tender wistfulness in “Somewhere That’s Green” to full out Broadway belting in the show stopping “Suddenly Semour”. Levi Stubbs of The Four Tops sets the standard as Audrey II, while Rick Moranis cemented his status as a comedy horror schlep as Seymour after his turn in Ghostbusters as Louis Tully. The movie is a joy to watch and the soundtrack is a joy to listen to.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6zRCxFyiWGRQH-F5wvejJx9wgc6kWtBa&si=xG9IWRjCaAuvrOTL

There’s one musical which has a special place in my heart that also fits with the season. That is The Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never quite fully explained. This was a musical I remember listening to multiple times while in high school along with all the theater kids I shared classes with. It was also one of the first drum corps shows I remember seeing live as the Santa Clara Vanguard performed it in 1988 at the Parma, Ohio, show. I would eventually go on to perform music from Phantom with the Empire Statesmen in 2000. This was also the first musical I would see performed live at the Palace Theater in Playhouse Square. It’s the 25th anniversary concert performance of Phantom which I listen to more than the original cast soundtrack, though, as I find the audio mix is much clearer and the performances of Sierra Boggess as Christine Daaé and Ramin Karimloo as, in my opinion, The Phantom are as powerful, if not more so, than Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford, plus there’s less of the campiness that the original version of Phantom had.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXfCGfEFi5PfZCNOG13HTJObGIXgYXVQ&si=kNY07qsCCCSdk0Xi

Here is the 1988 Santa Clara Vanguard performance of Phantom of the Opera:

https://youtu.be/RV6AaSqUXiQ?si=fKwxrGLQJF7gOEGV

And here is me with the 2000 Empire Statesmen performing Phantom:

https://youtu.be/dc8yZ_5yRzw?si=BFT-0kqcbPxhZBOc

https://medi-nerd.com/2024/10/31/2024-halloween-playlist/

#AlanMenken #Bandcamp #Beetlejuice #Bushwackers #ChrisSarandon #DannyElfman #EllenGreene #EmpireStatesmen #Ghostbusters #Halloween #HowardAshman #JackSkellington #KenPage #Kevin #LeviStubbs #LittleShopOfHorrors #Music #OogieBoogie #PalaceTheater #PlayhouseSquare #Plex #PrinceHumperdink #RickMoranis #RogerCorman #SantaClaraVanguard #ScoobyDoo #SierraBoggess #Skallowen #SkatuneNetwork #SteveMartin #TheFourTops #TheNightmareBeforeChristmas #ThePhantomOfTheOpera #ThePrincessBride #YouTube

ADORO IL GENIO - CINEMA!

Ispirato alla #realtà e ad uno dei nostri film preferiti.

#adoroilgenio #21settembre #solstizio #Cinema #film #itreamigos #cult #filmcult #stevemartin #martinshort #chevychase #commedia #western

M. Emmet Walsh, Actor in ‘Blood Simple’ and ‘Blade Runner,’ Dies at 88
#MovieNews #Movies #BladeRunner #EthanCoen #JoelCoen #Obituaries #SteveMartin

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/m-emmet-walsh-dead-blood-simple-blade-runner-actor-was-88-1235856934/

Board Game Review: Planes, Trains and Automobiles The Game. Read my review here http://bit.ly/3gxvjU5

#PlanesTrainsandAutomobiles #cardgame #boardgame #tabletopgaming #JohnHughes #SteveMartin #JohnCandy #Thanksgiving #FunkoGames