This is one of the best things I’ve seen in a while. Fun to imagine these goats wandering around in the Darnielles’ yard.
Fact: on the website I made to log my tea-drinking, I used to have “nunc est bibendum” as a motto. As with most Latin sayings, it’s cute and pithy.
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Yellow seersucker from Jo-Ann Fabrics. Cheap stuff; annoyingly thin. I imagine that’ll be good for . I made a bunch of corrections to last week’s terrible, awful draft, and it is dramatically improved. However, the neck is still about 1” too big. As you can see, I have yet to sew on the buttons… but I will do that soon. I’m actually going to wear this one. And I’m taking what I learned and applying it to next week’s shirt! Onwards!
The Mountain Goats live at the Wexner Center, 2011-04-11
http://www.archive.org/details/tmg2011-04-11.flac16
I taped this show, and I just finally got it edited and uploaded! The Wex people were very very nice and helpful and the soundboard recording sounds really great. Go listen to it!
New tea for jun 2011
It’s been three months since my last tea order, and I’m just about out of what I have! Time for some new summer teas. The theme for this order is low maintenance! Most of these teas will admirably take a beating. I can make a pot at 10am and finish drinking it at 5pm when it’s cold. Unfortunately, that’s how I roll in the summer.
Season’s Pick Keemun BOPF. “Season’s Pick” is code for “on sale”. I always like to have Keemun around, and since I bought a high grade last time, I figured I’d opt for something coarser this time around. Cheap Keemun is good cold, which is perfect for summer.
Lapsang Souchong. Until a few months ago, my cabinet was never without some kind of Lapsang Souchong, and I’d drink it every saturday morning, no exceptions. This february, I decided to take a little break from it. But I have missed it a lot and will be very happy to have it back in rotation.
No.1 Tippy Orthodox GFOP Darjeeling. I’m really not a Darjeeling connoisseur but this is a pretty safe bet. The most expensive tea I ordered this time around, but one of the least expensive Darjeelings.
Rose Congou. I ordered some of this last spring (originally discovered an alternative to Lychee tea) and really enjoyed it. It’s a somewhat astringent black tea with dried rose petals (which really do add a lot of flavor). Freakishly inexpensive: $3.90 for 125g!
Yunnan TGFOP. I haven’t had any Yunnans for a couple months and I’ve really missed them. This tea is unique among the rest of what I ordered because I’ll always put milk in this one. Good for when I want to pretend it isn’t summertime.
Summer Blend. According to my logs, I haven’t had this since aug 2009. It’s a great, refreshing black tea with juniper and bilberries. Really unique and delicious, but very sensitive to over-steeping.