Enumerated Update

Happy Monday, friends.  Here's where we are:

1) Birthday: William George's birthday was last Friday (possibly mentioned previously one or one thousand times).  Updates on that very soon.

2) Dylan: Jakob Dylan is as underrated as Bob Dylan is overrated.  Thoughts?

3) Holy Grail: Here's another one we ponder all the time... why is Bruce Springsteen considered the voice of America, whereas John Mellencamp is relegated to so-so status?

4) Gallaghers: Why can't Liam and Noel patch things up and release new Oasis music? Things were said, lamps were thrown, but with time and some anger management therapy, they could get back in the studio.





 5) Costco:  During my last Costco jaunt, I contemplated making a deposit into the tell-us-what-you-think box.  My suggestion?  Open at 6am for those of us with children; open later for those buying wine and grazing on all the samples.

Just a thought.

6) My Optimist: Last week Skip sent a text informing me that Cook's Illustrated had called (no message) and speculating that they might have seen my homage here on the blog.

Y'all.  Isn't that the sweetest thing? That he can imagine someone at CI reading this tiny little blog? So I told him it was probably a call from subscriber services, and then he called me a dream crusher.

The call could also be of a "cease and desist" nature, alerting me not to publish any more recipes.

7) Martha: I have been meaning to write about this for weeks and weeks.  When Martha Stewart has legal issues, I'm usually interested in every detail of the case.  The little matter of a decade ago? Yes. The JCP/Macy's debacle? Yes!  Ms. Stewart is an extremely interesting entrepreneur.

"[Martha has] an enviable level of confidence. Martha couldn’t care less if you agree that pomegranate-seed-removal is an everyday skill, whether you like her particular method of doing so, or if you’re annoyed by her way of communicating it to you. She is absolutely convinced that if you heed her advice, you’ll be happier. She’s relentlessly selling her own taste and vision, and she assumes she will earn your affection because you’ll become dependent on her particular way of doing things. She became one of America’s first self-made female billionaires on the strength of her own good ideas and her willingness to sell them. This very entrepreneurial spirit has her back in court this month — this time because Macy’s claims she agreed to sell her products in their stores exclusively, then turned around and created a pop-up shop for J.C. Penney. When asked by Macy’s lawyer Ted Grossman whether people really buy or need two Martha Stewart casserole dishes from two different department stores, Martha replied, “They might have two houses. They might have two kitchens!”"

The full article contains some colorful language, but if you're up for it you can read the article in its entirety here.  The NYT piece referenced within the article is here.

That's it for us.  What's happening with  you?