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 About a month ago Mike Park posted on IG that he found some copies of Bruce Lee Band's Division in the Heartland 12". I always have some back catalogue Asian Man Records stuff in mind to fill out an order for cases like this (because shipping is brutal these days). In goes the order..which also included Small Crush's Running + Home 7"..and some classic Slapstick descendant albums that I for some reason or another didn't have. Both Lawrence Arms and Alkaline Trio's debut LP's, Guided Tour of Chicago and Goddamnit, then I rounded it out with the Trio's Maybe I'll Catch Fire. I'm of a certain age that I may have procured these classic albums years ago when I was a teenager and didn't have much money, may have. Either way, I was pretty stoked when the vinyl brick came in the mail this past week. The entire Lawrence Arms catalogue has been on regular rotation for years, however Alkaline Trio was sort of in my peripheral, there were a few songs that I really dug that showed up on regular rotation (primarily Radio), however I hadn't every spent much time with their full albums (maybe it's a side effect of download overload, if I was the kind of person who downloaded a lot of music in my teenage years [if]). It wasn't until I started listening to Dan Andriano's solo albums that I thought it just might be time to get fully acquainted with Alkaline Trio, at minimum early Trio. So yeah, I've really been enjoying listening to Goddamnit, Maybe I'll Catch Fire and Guided Tour of Chicago this week. Because maybe there are some people who may not know these bands..I dunno, different veins of melodic punk rock, Trio's more croony with 2 singers, Larry Arms is a mix of smooth and not quite strained..but like, raspy-throaty melodic vocals, also 2 singers (however Chris McCaughan's vocals don't show up much on Guided Tour, so it's mostly on the sort of throaty side). Both have dark and drunken lyrics. (In case you were thinking this was a connection..no, I haven't really enjoyed any post 2005 Blink 182 album, so that was almost a deterrent for me digging deeper into Alkaline Trio)

I had some perogy poutine for supper, and I'm still super full from it...so I'm just going to dip into my phone for past notes.

Paqui, Mucho Nacho Cheese, Real Cheese, Real Spices. They look paperish. The taste is like a cheesy flavour explosion with a bit of corn and just a hint of hot pepper heat. Good corn chip crunch. The flavour distribution is on point. Creamy cheddar flavour (new note: these are on my list to consume more often. I didn't think I was going to enjoy them as much as I did).

Pure Deliciousness simply Cheetos puffs White Cheddar Jalapeno, made with real cheese. 'no artificial preservatives flavors colors. BB 7 May 2019, consumed June 8, 2021. These were a uniformly dense puff with decent puff crunch. Powdery seasoning. Initial jalap bite with a mid range heat and creamy white cheddar flavour. This was a 'merican bag so the nutrition facts were based on 28g (as opposed to the typical 50g in Canada), sodium and fat were both quite high. Pretty good puffs. The corn flavour of the puffs isn't overly present. They're more along the popcorn line of puffs. (oh, and they weren't stale)

Stay hydrated,

Marc

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