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On the Plate Tonight: Thursday, August 28, 2025

Bone-in ribeye, topped with butter-sauteed, sliced shitake mushrooms; steamed asparagus; baked yukon gold potato. Olive oil rather than butter over the veggies. Light salt, generous black pepper. Liberal use of Tabasco Family Reserve. I seasoned the meat with a dry rub of salt, garlic power, onion powder, and cayenne pepper about 3hrs before grilling, and let it get to room temp. Asparagus in the InstantPot. Potato cooked in microwave, and then a few minutes more in the air-fryer covered in olive oil. Rating: 65/100 Delicious but basic. That I wasn't actually cooking until 10pm (on a work day) probably accounts for the mediocrity.
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Progressive lesbian sea change

For approximately five years I have been listening to poppy mellow prog and folk rock. I sometimes call it Beatlesque...My senior year introduced this insidious taste as I unconsciously conformed into the lesbian counterculture...Cocteau Twins, Lori Carson (and Golden Palominos), Jewel, Sarah McLachlan. Cocteau Twins remain a favorite, particularly their Heaven or Las Vegas. It's like children songs from the future, in some fusion creole dialect. Fortunately, I easily ignore lyrics. The important thing for me to do is heap generous praise on another mind-blowing record from Beck. Sea Change is so much less frivolous than his other masterpieces that it may be my favorite album of 2002. Björk's Vespertine, Bebel Gilberto, and the new Beth Orton - Daybreaker, all above average prog, but none of it lives up to Beck. He's a po-mo god! There are songs here with gravity, a feeling I've notoriously missed when listening to Beck in an unaltered state of mind. On Sea Change, however, the production is so unbelievably liquid and multi-ethnic. Adrien 1:00 AM

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the best of what exactly?