An Order of Toast PDQ

James

We were with you the Queen Mary II crossing trip, (along with Dave M and Jean) and Linda also save a few of those little jelly jars as mementos.

The use of the jars seems so very pish posh and British, it would be a pity to open them. It will be something the kids will be wondering about when they purge the physical remnants of our (really just the wife's) life time of squirreling things away after we pass on.

III

Back in the day, Snyder's and Clancy's Drug Store, at their lunch counters, used to charge 10cents more if you wanted your sandwich toasted. I wonder how many chose the untoasted version?

A great tune written by Robbie Robertson mentioning Spike Jones

"Now me and my mate were back at the shack We had Spike Jones on the box She said, "I can't take the way he sings But I love to hear him talk" Now that just gave my heart a throb To the bottom of my feet And I swore and I took another pull My Bessie can't be beat"

An especially good visit. A snip-snappy cool cat jingle bookended with a walk-through memory of a small world. I love every minute of this.

I've been meaning to do a post about it, but this reminded me of a rabbit hole I leapt down a while ago about Milton Glaser. Among his many famous designs, he did the cover art for 1966's The Baroque Inevitable. Baby Teeth font, technicolor instruments and spiral hair, and unlikely scripts combined for a work of art in its own right. The album was a sort of satirical pop-sound orchestra doing covers of a variety of tunes, from Sinatra to Dylan and Beatles. The producer, John Simon, has his own interesting story starting with The Cyrkle (Red Rubber Ball), Simon & Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, and The Band.

Aluminum is one of my cause celebs. Aluminum is the most common metal yet scrap AL is about thirty times as expensive as the much less common iron. Why is this?

JosePluma, Local Man of Mystery (View Comment):

Aluminum is one of my cause celebs. Aluminum is the most common metal yet scrap AL is about thirty times as expensive as the much less common iron. Why is this?

I haven't listened to this episode yet, but I think I can answer the question. As I recall aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, but it is much more energy intensive and costly to refine than iron ore. The energy gap between melting down and refining existing pieces of aluminum vs refining aluminum ore is apparently much larger than the energy gap between melting and refining hunks of steel vs refining iron ore. It's still very worthwhile to recycle iron and steel, but more so for aluminum.