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Friday, March 28, 2025

This newsletter is a real home run.

Feeling a lot of pressure today due to an influx of new subscribers (one guy). But I will shake off my nerves and endeavor to deliver a newsletter as good as he - and the rest of you - deserve.

Liver. Sausage. Pineapple.

They simply do not make 'em like this anymore:

The centerpiece of this lovely appetizer spread in my 1953 Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook is a Liver Sausage Pineapple. Yes, it is one pound of liver sausage with lemon juice, worcestershire sauce and mayonnaise shaped like a pineapple. The lovely yellow coating on the outside is made out of unflavored gelatin and mayonnaise. You “frost it” with the jello mayo, score it, and stick little olive slices all over it. The recipe says to top “with a real pineapple top for fun!” They also helpfully mention that you should serve hot coffee with this whole spread! Nothing goes better with liver sausage and deviled eggs than a boiling cup of hot coffee! Mmmm mmmm!

Thank you Nacho Underpants from 2007.

Item 2: a list

Some Outs, Ranked:

  1. Called strikeout to end a complete game no-hitter
  2. Outfield groundout
  3. Douple play: flyout/lineout to tag runner trying to score a run
  4. Double play: flyout/lineout to tag runner trying to get an extra base (non-home base)
  5. Lineout to pitcher
  6. Foul fly caught by a fielder who tumbles out of play during/after making the catch
  7. 3-6-3 double play
  8. Infield lineout
  9. Double play: flyout/lineout to force out when a runner doesn’t make it back to their base
  10. Outfield flyout where the outfielder has to exert themselves
  11. Triple play
  12. Pitcher covers first or third base to catch the force-out
  13. Fielder’s choice
  14. Pickoff
  15. Foul ball out with two strikes
  16. Outfield lineout
  17. Swinging strikeout
  18. Called strikeout
  19. Foul fly caught by a fielder who doesn’t tumble out of play
  20. Run-down out
  21. Outfield flyout where the outfielder doesn’t have to exert themselves
  22. Force out at first after dropped third strike
  23. Infield flyout
  24. Normal infield groundout double play
  25. Infield groundout

Item 3: a media recommendation

Sons of Kemet - Rivers of Babylon

Item 4: word of the week

Eidetic

It's been decades since my first concert but popping in an old cassette still brings back an eidetic memory, vivid as a thunderbolt, of a resounding bass matching my heart's relentless thumping. A wailing guitar splitting my brain in twain. Drums like falling meteors hammering into my skull. Vocals that were fine. Four words that sound like freedom. Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Item 5: a photograph

On August 5, 2011, NASA’s Juno spacecraft embarked on a 5-year journey to Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet. Juno arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a five-year, 1,740-million-mile journey, and settled into a 53-day polar orbit stretching from just above Jupiter’s cloud tops to the outer reaches of the Jovian magnetosphere. This photo is from 2024, long after the main mission was completed. Juno is just having fun out there.

See ya!

Thanks for reading. It's been a pleasure writing this newsletter for you. See you next week, although I'll be on vacation, so it's also possible that I won't see you next week. Probably will, though.

Published by:

Jacob Wolman

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