Branching out into some of the collaborators on  DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS now…

Chuwi: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR / Chuwi: Tiny Desk Concert - YouTube
Chuwi: Tierra (EP)
Chuwi: Pan (EP)

They’ve released only singles and EPs so far. I should source or build a playlist of all their tracks…

Edit: chuwi (Apple Music Playlist by Janelle Trasancos) - I probably would rather have one that goes from newest to oldest, but this is a thorough, chronological one on Apple Music that appears to start at the beginning and was just updated last week, so this will do for now.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: Chuwi EPs and Singles

These tracks really popped out in mixes, and I had to grab the album. I’ve listened three or four times now and I think I want to like this a little more than I actually do. Still objectively great, though, and I still will probably give it more listens in the future.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: the apple tree under the sea

It’s 2025’s ANGIE but with 4 more tracks now and a different cover image. Nothing to complain about.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: AngieAngieAngie

Almost endlessly listenable, it turns out. Guess maybe that’s why he’s the most-streamed artist in the world…

Un Verano Sin Ti has been sitting in my library for 4 years now and I don’t know if I ever listened to the entire album until now. So behind.

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: más Bad Bunny

I’m running over a year late on music right now, oh well…

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Standalone post link: Listening Log: DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

A Christmas present to myself arrived in the mail today, an Autumn Eternal fan shipment.

I’ve wanted a physical copy of this album for years now, glad they re-released it. Also, obtained my first ever metal t-shirt to match my now metal hair. (Picture of my metal hair not shown; I usually keep it in a bun, anyway, which probably isn’t very metal.)

Purchased:

• Panopticon - Autumn Eternal 10 Year Anniversary Edition CD (Pre-Order) – The Bindrune Webshop
• Panopticon - Autumn Eternal Shirt (Pre-Order) – The Bindrune Webshop

Also considered:

• Panopticon - Autumn Eternal 10 Year Anniversary edition 2LP – The Bindrune Webshop - these look beautiful but I couldn’t justify getting vinyl, don’t know when I would ever actually listen to it on vinyl
• Panopticon - Laurentian Forest Metal Shirt Design – The Bindrune Webshop

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Standalone post link: Items Obtained: Panopticon Autumn Eternal CD and T-shirt

I wrote a letter to one of my senators, John Curtis, thanking him for calling for an independent investigation into the ICE shootings in Minnesota and urging him to go further.

https://www.facebook.com/SenJohnCurtis/posts/pfbid029JSzJGFgxFMYUSjCYs8wB76S9MR6u8emAD93XgdaeRxEt4ZMYXVzGiM4bDHpepVKl

Senator Curtis,

Thank you for calling for an independent investigation into the tragic Minnesota shooting.

I urge that you go further, that ICE agents and DHS officials be investigated for not just this single shooting but all the potentially unlawful actions and violations of constitutional rights that they may be perpetrating in Minnesota and elsewhere in the nation.

I urge you to vote against any funding for DHS until these matters can be thoroughly and transparently investigated and any agents or officials having been found to have acted unlawfully or unconstitutionally are removed from their positions. The American people must be able to see that lawful, constitutional, and humane policies and practices are put into place and followed by ICE and DHS. If these organizations cannot act constitutionally and humanely they should be dismantled and reformed with new leadership, including up to the impeachment and conviction of the president if he and his administration continue in this unconstitutional manner.

I look to you as my Senator to uphold the Constitution and be a check on unlawful and unconstitutional actions of the federal government and the Trump administration.

Thank you,

Joshua Whiting
[Street Address Redacted]
Millcreek, Utah

I don’t know that there is any hope or reason to send a letter to Sen. Mike Lee, other than to maybe to get myself added to some kind of list of Democrats and other problematic constituents to ignore, if I’m not already there. Please correct me if you know something about this and I am wrong and it is worth contacting him.

I also just cancelled my Home Depot credit card for good measure. Not a big deal if you tell me Home Depot is actually wonderful now and doesn’t support or collaborate with ICE anymore, because I haven’t used the account in a year or two anyway.

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Standalone post link: Letter to Sen. Curtis RE: ICE Investigation

The long-haired chihuahua stood on the armrest of the passenger seat and gazed at me serenely through the window of the white minivan, an actual American flag draped behind it, shrouding the entire second row of the van.

The most noble and patriotic of long-haired chihuahuas, it did not once bark or agitate at my presence, its luscious, golden locks just brushed and billowing in the slightest of breezes, likewise the flag billowing behind it, perhaps the vehicle’s air conditioning causing the effect. I regarded and saluted in my heart, but could not stop in the middle of the handicapped parking area to take a picture, and so instead continued with my raucous shopping cart to my car and made this note.

(4:50:38 PM @ Winco Parking Lot, South Salt Lake (40.72347533489298,-111.8903883259518, 4265ft elev))

Sunset, the geese again standing and sitting in the softball fields. At least fifty Canada geese safe and at ease in the grass behind the towering chain-link fences, an impromptu suburban wildlife refuge in the peach particulate haze. I continued driving.

(5:03:30 PM - @ 1300 East, Larry H. Miller Softball Complex, Big Cottonwood Regional Park, Millcreek (40.67538577924466,-111.8542093145097, 4314ft elev))

Standalone post link: Patriotic long-haired chihuahua and Canada geese softball sunset | Two pictures not taken on the way home from work, 2026-01-15

ART
is
PUNK
is
JOY¹
strong strokes of white paint on the back of the person’s long coat
walking down 1100 East toward Sugarhouse
drizzly dark January afternoon
cold but not as cold as it maybe should be

(4:03:18 PM - Salt Lake City (40.728079, -111.859654))

Standalone post link: ART is PUNK is JOY | Picture Not Taken

I realized that though I’ve been making this chili for years I never have set down my version of this old recipe. So, this afternoon before I cooked I documented everything I was going to do, and now I’m sharing it here.

This is based on a recipe that was all just in my grandma’s head as well. My mom one time attempted to transcribe the recipe from her mom’s oral descriptions and shared it with me and Gin when we got married. I’ve tried a bunch of variations over the years but have ended up back at what is basically the original with the addition of some warm spices with the chili powder.

The ironic thing is that I didn’t really like this all that much when my grandma made it when I was a kid. (I had a thing against beans.) I never even tried to make it until long after my Grandma’s death. I make it frequently now because Gin really likes it, I like it, and Mia likes it. (Will doesn’t like it that much, but I guess you can’t win them all. Or maybe he’ll end up improving it again in a couple of decades.)

Ingredients

• 2 or 3 yellow onions
• ~2 tbs oil (vegetable, canola, etc.)
• 2-3 lbs ground beef (closer to 2 lbs if lean, 3 if fatty)
• 2 cans (16 oz.) or 1 can (28 oz.) of tomatoes (crushed, diced, stewed, or whole tomatoes)
• 2 cans (16 oz.) or 1 can (28 oz.) of tomato sauce
• 1 lb of dry beans (I usually use pinto beans but small red beans and a lot of others will work as well)
• ~2 tbs apple cider vinegar or other vinegar
• ~2 tbs chili powder
• ~1/2 to 1 tsp of each of the following spices:
  • granulated garlic or garlic powder (or 1-2 cloves fresh garlic minced)
  • ground oregano / mexican oregano
  • cumin
  • paprika (sweet or smoked)
  • allspice
  • cinnamon
  • ground pepper

Steps

1. If cooking beans in a regular pot on the stovetop, they should have soaked overnight before this, and getting the beans cooking should be the first step. Add the rinsed, soaked, and drained beans to a pan with at least an inch of fresh water over the top and simmer, covered, for I believe 60-120 minutes. Check occasionally and add water if necessary. If cooking beans in an instant pot, see step 8, beginning after the chili meat mixture is simmering.
2. Chop up the onions. I usually dice them.
3. Heat a dutch oven, large soup pan, etc. over medium heat
4. Add oil and then add onions. Saute for about 10 minutes (until they start to brown or caramelize or at least become translucent)
5. Add vinegar and spices and mix around, kind of toasting the spices a bit, but they should mix with the oil and vinegar and liquid from the onions
6. Add ground beef - break up and cook with onions and spices until browned - I usually salt the meat a bit when I put it in
7. Add canned tomatoes and tomato sauce, and simmer uncovered for up to 2 hours, stirring every 10-15 minutes
8. If NOT cooking beans on the stovetop already: once the onion-meat-tomato mixture has been simmering for a while, rinse the beans and add them to an instant pot with enough water to cover them about an inch deep, and pressure cook for about 30-40 minutes, doing a quick-release (10 minutes?) at the end
9. Add salt to the beans when finished
10. Add beans to the chili mixture, including some or all of the bean liquid
11. continue to simmer for a while altogether until it cooks down a little more, then serve

Serve with

• tortilla chips
• guacamole
• sour cream
• lettuce
• shredded cheese
• limes
• hot sauces (for me because no one else in my family likes it hot - one time I used some different chili powder I got that had more heat and no one else liked that batch, so I froze it in portions and had it all to myself for the next while)
• tomatoes or tomato salsas (gratuitous because the chili has so much tomato in it already)

Having it over cornbread or baked/microwaved potatoes are also good options.

References and Notes

Source of recipe: my variations and enhancement of a recipe from my Grandma Naoma transcribed by my mom, that I never actually made while she was alive.

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Original Recipe

Transcribed by my mother and given as a printout in 2008

Ingredients

2 medium onions
3 lbs ground chuck or lean ground beef
2 16 oz. cans stewed or crushed tomatoes
2 16 oz. cans tomato sauce
1 small bag of small red beans
5 tsps vinegar
6 tsps chili powder

Directions

1. Wash and drain beans
2. Boil beans in water and salt with the lid on approximately 2 hours (or until tender)
3. Brown onions in oil
4. Add vinegar and chili power
5. Add ground beef and brown with above ingredients
6. Add tomatoes and tomato sauce
7. Simmer approximately 2 hours
8. Combine beans with sauce mixture and simmer a little while

Servings

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Standalone post link: Recipe: Grandma Naoma's Chili (Josh's Version)