Searching for the Writings of Thomas Jefferson on Amazon Yields a Slinky

 

In 1785, the Continental Congress created a report proposing what kind of money unit should be established in the United States - coinage of gold, silver, copper, etc. Titled "Propositions respecting the coinage of gold, silver, and copper," it was partly authored by Thomas Jefferson. Searching for this document on Amazon returns an error and a slinky.

But they make the slinky out of metal rather than paper, so there's that.

Irish People Try Smash Burgers

 

Are Smash Burgers superior? 6 Irish people can't be wrong.

I myself have been trying to perfect smash burgers recently and it's been a struggle but I'm learning and making progress. The amazing thing about smash burgers is: it's pretty fool-proof - even when I've messed up everything, the burgers are still good.

The Mr. T Set

 

Popcorn in Bed - Tombstone

It's been a while since I re-visited "Tombstone." Pretty classic.

Looking at the chat, I'm surprised at how many people claim the line "I'm your huckleberry" is actually "I'm your huckle bearer."

A copy of the script is online and it says "huckleberry." Also, Val Kilmer confirmed that it's "huckleberry":

The proponents arguing for "huckle bearer" did not give a lot of justification for their position, youtube chats don't allow for a great deal of explanation, but one reason I heard repeatedly was "huckleberry doesn't make any sense." Which itself makes no sense. People really expect to listen in on conversation from the past and understand every word intuitively?

Idioms of the past usually don't make sense. "I'm your huckleberry" means "I'm the one you want," "I'm the man for the job." You can read about further examples of that in the old west here.

Led Zeppelin at Live Aid (1985)

 I'm increasingly getting the ultra-strange experience of remembering a certain blog post and finding that it actually doesn't exist. Many years back I got the full DVD set of Live Aid and made detailed notes for a blog post (or series of blog posts) about the whole thing. Today I find no such blog post exists. Where was I writing all those observations? What am I remembering? I'm not going to try again.

Regardless, one of the main stories of Live Aid was how Led Zeppelin reunited for it but when the time came for the full concert footage to be released on DVD (the one I watched), they refused to let their performance be included.

Remembering all of this recently, I wondered whether the footage had shown up on the web, and found that it had.

I don't post it here because it's great, but because of the historical uniqueness of it. "Rare" footage of a famous performance and all that.

Also on youtube is an overlong mini-documentary about the reunion - what went wrong and why. It's titled "Not Phil Collins' Fault: The Story of Led Zeppelin 's 1985 Live Aid Reunion." Check it out if you're interested enough to spend an hour.

Late Night - Baking with Bev Tanner

 

A standard late night baking segment.