Gourmet, 1978

We found this in Yellow Springs, it's a bound compendium of 1978 Gourmet magazines, as people used to do:

It's pretty intense - there is more text in one article than in last Sunday's Times, pretty much. And the recipes are pretty odd, as well - flavor was, back then, a distant second to technique. So, I have to decide whether it's better to have to read long articles (1978), which is great, or to actually be able to put thirty cloves of garlic in every dish (as we do now).

Wait! 2010 for the win!

New cell phone

Old Soviet-looking phone dead! New one with QWERTY pad got. Facile comments from half-wits along the lines of "Does it come in Mens?" enabled!

By, say, mid-March I SHOULD be up to speed!

"should"

Freshest hairstyle of the one-oh!

SERIOUSLY! It's the hype!