Oh me oh my

If you've fed a substance containing castor oil to a cat, does that mean that you officially live in a 1930s cartoon and can expect your furniture to start swaying around to hot jazz at any moment?

The Russian submarine in Providence

Yesterday, Kibo and I went to Providence, RI and visited jwgh and Kerri Hicks. The touristic high point (as opposed to the meeting-nice-people high point) was our visit to Juliett 484 aka K-77, a Soviet submarine that you can crawl through. This is extremely cool if you like looking at Cold War military hardware, or just marveling at the misery of the sixty-odd guys who had to live in there. It was, of course, unbelievably cramped inside, and must have also been terribly hot, noisy, and stinky while under way. K-77 was diesel-electric-powered. During the tour you go through the chamber containing the gigantic diesel engines, which heated up to something like 160 F when they were in operation, so the usual method of reading the gauges was through a glass peephole in the bulkhead. At one time the sub had nuclear missiles in it, quite possibly aimed at me, though in the later part of its career it just followed American warships around.
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the album takes shape

I was present at the recording of the vocals for the secret bonus track.