Best New Immigrant Dishes Using State Animals and Birds
Alabama — Black Bear Pepián
Alaska — Whale Mantu
Arizona — Ringtail Tacos
Arkansas — Northern Mockingbird Pupusa
California — California Quail Adobo
Colorado — Bighorn Sheep Criollo
Connecticut — American Robin Moambé
Delaware — Gray Fox Callaloo
Florida — Manatee Griot
Georgia — Right Whale Curry
Hawaii — Miso Monk Seal
Idaho — Bluebird in chocolate sauce
Illinois — White-Tailed Deer Bigos
Indiana — Northern Cardinal Thar Hin
Iowa — Muskrat with Salatat Dakwa
Kansas — Bison Borscht
Kentucky — Grey Squirrel …
American Glossary
NatCon — If it walks like a con, and talks like a con, then it’s probably a con.
Mid — What we’re all secretly shooting for.
Vibe Coding — AI brain-rot.
Cringe — A marker of your own fatal insecurity, which will keep you from producing anything of note.
Al Qaeda — Twenty-five years after 9/11, their lawyer represents New York City.
Two-Party System — When the fat theater kid runs against the millionaire sociopath and you don’t know which party either one represents.
Public Lands — Privatized by Big Oil.
Venezuela — Privatized by Big Oil.
The Mossad — If they were really trying to kill you, you wouldn’t still be talking about it.
Chronic Venous Insufficiency — Keep on hoping.
…Critic's Corner
Sweet Jane
When John Cale left the Velvet Underground, everything changed. The viola player was the unsung hero of the band’s experimentation and overall weirdness. Though they only put out two albums with Cale — “The Banana Album” and White Light/White Heat — he became a signature part of their sound. Not to suggest Lou Reed wasn’t still a total freak, but, post-Cale, the Velvet Underground was almost way too normal.
As a Velvet fanatic and music obsessive, I have started to develop this theory about Lou. All he ever wanted out of life was to be experimental and niche, but his deep dark secret was that he was a sane person who worked very hard to cast off his sanity. Being raised in an upper-middle class suburb of Long Island, his parents just wanted the best for little Lewis. As an adult, Lou recounted terrible stories of physical and …
