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I bought some mesquite smoked brisket last week at Kroger. The counter lady gave me a sample before she cut my order. It was tough but smoky. I said go ahead because I was intoxicated with the idea of food shopping alone.

Earlier in the week I had bought some provolone and smoky sharp cheddar cheeses. I was going to put the brisket in the microwave topped with the cheeses. I thought that the microwave would melt the fat in the brisket making it a little more tender. I was looking for a hybrid Philly sandwich. The brisket stayed tough.

I was listening to a show called I’ve Never Seen Star Wars. The premise is a well-known person does or tries something they’ve never done before and give it a score. Today a war correspondent (Kate Adie)tried porridge(score:6 out of 10) and sat through the first season of The Sopranos(score:9). She didn’t see it the first time because she was covering Kososvo.

Another show I was The Cavity Within. It’s a no laugh track sitcom about dentists. Radio 4 extra reruns a lot of old radio comedies. They go back as far as the 50’s. The interesting ones are The Goon Show, Around the Horne, and I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again.

The Goon Show was in the 50’s and featured Peter Sellers.Goons. Around the Horne was in the 60’s and had Marty Feldman. I’m Sorry had John Cleese. BBC radio has a theater in the main building. What American radio station has a stage?

2012 bracket picks

As ususal my bracket picks were toast 5 minutes after the first games started on Thursday. I usually flip a coin on every game heads I pick the lower seeded team. But this time Brooke had 2 schools in the tournament,Harvard and Missouri, so I picked them to go all the way to the final with Missouri winning.

I also applied another rule. I picked the state school over it ‘s opponent say Kentucky over Iowa State. If two state universities were playing I flipped a coin. All the other games I used the coin.

I say a coin but it was really the random number generator on my task picker worksheet. Odd numbers I went for the favorite, 0 and evens the longshot. I broke my rule one game because Southern Mississippi beat UH for the C-USA football championship.

I lucked out on a few games but as you can see on the PDF I’ve got more red than newspaper’s balance sheet. Kansas is my last hope for a pick in the Final Four. I have to admit feeling satisfaction watching a randomly picked team mess up all the expert’s picks.

Last night we played music trivia at Mike’s Place. They have great appetizers there. Two in particular, the fried mushrooms and fried jalapeno slices. We had been looking for great mushrooms near us for years. Nobody could beat Mulligans, a defunct bar on FM 1960 in Humble, over 40 miles from the house.

These jalapeno slices are for people who like to pour pepper and Tabasco on their fried pickles.

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