In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I was determined to tackle new Irish cuisine.

I ended up inventing Jewish food.

I guess it’s not just the corned beef that the two ethnic cuisines have in common.

Having stumbled down the path of the unpredictable, I feel no responsibility to provide a nice Celtic-influenced rock band or such. Instead, it’s time for Beth Ditto because I’m still in the mood for electronica and I need a sultry chick to enliven my shattered nerves. Ditto — ordinarily the lead singer of Gossip — has a new four-song EP out, and if you want to know what I’m talking about, you need to just go buy it. Really truly. Impulse purchases of this nature are what iTunes is for. Read the rest of this entry »