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playlist: still burning

My taste is all over the place across the board, really, but especially when it comes to music. Here are some tracks I’m liking lately, with Ella Henderson’s ‘Ghost’ the reigning favorite dance track.

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1. Ella Henderson – Ghost

2. Iggy Azalea – Black Widow ft. Rita Ora

3. Parliament – The Motor Booty Affair (classic funk, no one else seems to like this song quite as much as I do, which is baffling)

4. Bloc Party – She’s Hearing Voices (and old favorite)

5. The New Pornographers – Challengers

6. Tom Petty – Zombie Zoo (caught this on the radio around Halloween and have been listening to it ever since)

7. Modest Mouse – Dashboard

8. Cansei de ser Sexy – Music is My Hot Hot Sex

9. Blue Oyster Cult – Burnin’ for You

10. Le Tigre – I’m So Excited (great cover)

11. Darius – Velour

12. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe (cutesy but damn catchy)

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drinking: hot toddies

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Toddies are just the thing when you’re under the weather. So say I. This is such a flexible beverage, you can use brandy, whiskey, scotch, bourbon… (or, I mean, you can use anything you want), any kind of tea or just hot water, any herbs or spices you want to toss in…a hot liquored up infusion of any sort I would say falls under this toddy umbrella. Toddy is such a cute word.

While it is flexible, mine generally tend to be something like this:

1-1.5 oz bourbon (often like the slightly sweeter bourbon over whiskey for this application, here Buffalo Trace)

1/4 lemon, juice of

cloves, allspice berries, cinnamon stick

1 Tbs honey

tea (lemon, chamomile, or something fruity, or whatever, here I’ve used Teavana’s Youthberry, a sweet white tea)

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Match Convivio mug, spoon, and Libeco Grainhall napkin on loan from Didriks.

Elaborate beverages cheer me up. Don’t they you? Get someone else to make one for you and it’s even better.

It just got distinctly colder here in Cambridge, so a toddy here and there is all the more welcome. They’re easy drinking, though, so they can sneak up on you…