Dear Steve Albini,
As a big fan of your cooking blog, Mario Batali Voice—your advice
about cooking pork was really helpful; adding apples to the pot was the
secret ingredient as far as I’m concerned!—I’m horribly let down that your
recipe output has diminished so much as of late, and your blog has only been
updated twice since February, when a semi-regular posting schedule was
maintained.
and sometimes managing a blog seems so damn unrelentingly
pointless and unrewarding…
But I’m a greedy, selfish blog-reader-foodie, and I
want more of your witty insights, baseball analogies and frank, no-nonsense cooking
advice delivered in a stylish but conversational manner!
Y’know, if you don’t have any time to sit and type up
a missive, maybe just scribble some notes on a cocktail napkin, scan it in, and
publish the jpeg in Mario Batali Voice…
For some reason, I think you’re a fan of horror movies,
so in addition to it being the Spooky Halloween Season,
that is another reason for me to post an eclectic group of one-sheets (in almost alphabetically order it seems; hmmm....how'd that happen?) promoting
[cue movie announcer voice:] “the
frightening, horrifying and disturbing!”
(However, if you’d rather have a posting of cute kittens, I’ll do it—just let me know…It’s the only kind of bribe I can afford,
but it’s still a bribe!)
Thanks for “listening,” enjoy the movie posters, get
back to the kitchen, and please make sure to visit my other site LERNER INTERNATIONAL for further observations and explorations of the Cinema of
Weirdness*.
Have a Happy Halloween,
—Ivan
