Long weekends call for new music, a little dancing as everyone relaxes, and blue, blue skies—

Full playlist below image. Apologies for the beginning pop—pretend it’s a beverage opening, please. More music in the kthread spins section.

You, Me, & the Bourgeoisie – The Submarines
Little Secrets – Passion Pit
Technologic (Daft Punk cover) – Peaches
Down the Line – [...]

I always crave seafood on summer weekends, and this afternoon I sautéed a soft-shell crab in lard to top roasted red potatoes with pesto.
(Flour the crab, tap off excess, fry in two tablespoons of fat on high heat for two minutes a side.)

Tempted to make pesto from whatever green winks at me in the [...]

insisting you notice her even as she sweeps grandly away, trailing drops across leaves,

that bend in the sun, recovering from her fierce appearance,

and like filmmakers that race to shoot while streets are wet,
I am learning to wait in readiness, part of the Nature Paparazzi corps,

to catch her exit and the dazzling [...]

I’m about a month late for the Global Voices Book Challenge, where their wide world network of bloggers posted about “a book from a country whose literature [they had] never read anything of before.”
Since I rarely follow directions anyway, I chose to read Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth, a collection of fictional short stories presumably [...]

As we corner in on a long weekend, the rains have increased to their usual frequency for this time of year, bringing out spiders,

and reviving plants I watched wilting earlier in the week.

Here’s to a few days framed with sun, as we turn toward restorative summer—