Michael R. Barrick's blog

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This appears to be an invasion from Sqornshellius Zeta.

I did a thing. This is the second attempt. The first one was a disaster. This one: not awful. First time I followed a recipe from the Internet. This time I 80% followed a recipe from my dad’s old cookbook and 20% winged it off memories of “helping” my mom half a century ago and nailed it.

The cat’s out of the bag—really it’s been a black and white cat doing these black and white paintings all along

Me at work today

Marpole south of 70th: the EastVan of the West Side.

My new vyshyvanka shirt. I can’t wait to wear it.

What’s this? A package from Odessa on my desk this morning…

I’ve been all about the Ukrainian side of the family lately (funny how an attempt a violent genocide does that), but this is a message from the Gitano side (although I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some Roma on the Ukrainian side, too) that the Nazis wanted to wipe out—if the fruit in your sangria doesn’t look like this, it is bullshit.