New at my blog: Opening-Day Hot Dog Relish

 Every day I fill out Twitter's spam form. Every day I get no result.  Not sure if Sisyphus or Tantalus is the correct analogy here.

Please see my new post Opening-Day Hot Dog Relish in its natural habitat.

Baked Fish-sauce Balls and some Administrative Nonsense.

 
New #MeatballMonday post at my real blog!!

(Twitter won't let me post links to my radishthegreat domain anymore. My hosting company assures me there are no issues with malware or spam on the server, this is strictly a Twitter issue.  Please click through and read about today's meatballs.)

I also added a cookie banner.  Blame California.

I've started a new "real" blog

 It's not ready yet. It's off on the same hosting platform as The Blog No One Reads, and I expect the same level of traffic. Outtakes mostly; stuff I want to share with strangers but not with family. 

https://radishthegreat.com/blog/

also you need the /blog in the URL for some reason I don't understand. Turnkey setup my butt.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Photos up on Dances With Bratwurst

At the beginning of February I got the Official Blog working again, and challenged myself to make one post per week.  I've been successful three weeks in a row.

OH MY GOD IT'S SO MUCH HARDER THAN SHITPOSTING ON TWITTER.

But the photos are good, if I do say so myself.  Go have a look.

I need to figure out how to make the text darker, and photos pop up when I post to Facebook.  But that's for another day; the photo selection and editing and writing and editing and proofreading have taken up three hours of my day...

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Found Object to Finished Object #3: Garlic Boy

What better way to say "I Love You" than with the gift of garlic?

Found this cutie on a plastic produce label and instead of throwing him in the found objects pile, I decided to craft something right away.  The background fabric was hand-dyed in a previous life when I had access to a place to get messy. It's about the size of an ATC but I didn't cut it exact.

I'd like to make a series of these things with found objects, but it's going to depend on finding the right objects, and I can't force that...

Live Music: Steel Panther in Munich

WARNING: LINKS ON THIS POST CONTAIN NUDITY, DIRTY LANGUAGE, SATAN, DRUG REFERENCES, AND OTHER HORRIBLE STUFF. DON'T BLAME ME IF YOU CLICK ON THEM.

Death to all but Metal!

Steel Panther, the Greatest Band Ever

Not profane, just horribly terribly enjoyably beautifully wrong: Backstreet Boys cover.

Their music is too dirty to be played on US radio, but there's different standards over here, and every time I hear "Community Properity" I crack up.  The pan-European (mostly France) tax-funded TV channel Arte (which I would describe as a "PBS without cooking/crafting/children's shows/BBC content") has shown them playing at at Wacken and Hellfest.  They're hilarious. Also they can shred.

Somehow Mr Radish remembered how much I laughed at the television and bought us tickets to see their sold-out show in Munich last night at a venue known for hardcore metal ("Fallujah" and "Bloodlet" were playing in the smaller building adjacent to the arena, I'm not looking them up.). We're old engineering-type people.  This is insane.

It was great.  I laughed so hard my face hurts this morning. And we didn't particularly stand out; lots of people in denim jackets with concert patches, lots of people in black concert tees, and even a few other people who look like they also bought tickets because they enjoyed seeing the Wacken footage on Arte. Lol.

I wore a Weird Al Yankovic shirt. It's my most metal apparel.

And the beer was reasonably priced for Munich.

I also enjoyed the warm-up band Wayward Sons from the UK, in the way I enjoy local bands playing their own songs--they could play, they got the crowd going, and they looked like they were enjoying themselves.

I forget how much I like live music until I'm hearing live music.