BROOKLYN, NY Jan. 29, 2025—Seeking calm as you consider the last 10 days’ news? Glenn Gould’s Bach piano concertos and Simon Preston’s Complete Bach Organ Works (latter is 19 hours; links are Spotify) are my go-to right now.
While I usually watch movies on the treadmill, the Kennedy HHS hearings this morning had me so riled up I opted for Rocky and Bullwinkle, “Moosylvania Saved.” How prescient is this episode? Bizarre. (Youtube link pulls the “Moosylvania” segments from multiple shows in season 5 into one 14-minute stream.) Aside: Yes, I still have the Bullwinkle watch my friends gave me in high school. And it still works.
The latest in comfort food: A revival of interest in 1950s/’60s Chinese-American restaurant fare is definitely in the making. Moo goo gai pan showed up in the NY Times (reprinting a 2023 recipe) and the Times crossword puzzle in the span of a few days; and egg foo young and chop suey have come up in general newspaper/magazine reading. All in this 10-day news cycle. That’s a trend, folks.
Moo goo gai pan and egg foo young, incidentally, are both Cantonese; chop suey appears to have been concocted in the U.S. All were staples of Chinese-American restaurants back in the day. Happy Lunar New Year!
nightmayer 
Ira, I feel you. Death Metal played really loud works for me after suffering through a grifting clueless Cabinet nominee’s imbecility. Sort of like the “music” the Christian Bale character played in “The Big Short” – Pantera and Mastodon and such.