{"id":183653,"date":"2024-08-23T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T17:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=183653"},"modified":"2024-08-23T12:49:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T17:49:48","slug":"odds-ends-august-23-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/odds-ends\/odds-ends-august-23-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds &#038; Ends: August 23, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-174635\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Odds-and-Ends-header-v3.1.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage metal box labeled &quot;Odds &amp; Ends&quot; with a blurred background, photographed on April 14, 2023.\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Odds-and-Ends-header-v3.1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Odds-and-Ends-header-v3.1-372x230.jpg 372w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Odds-and-Ends-header-v3.1-320x197.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Odds-and-Ends-header-v3.1-640x394.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3AAuvYo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/amzn.to\/3AAuvYo&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1724424207221000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2sv2kzgjJwdikUiiX5Q04F\"><i>And Then There Were None<\/i>&nbsp;by Agatha Christie.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>We recently finished reading this book aloud as a family (nothing relaxes kids before bed like a tale of serial murder). Having sold over 100 million copies,&nbsp;<i>And Then They Were None<\/i> is not only Christie&#8217;s most popular novel but one of the bestselling books of all time, and it lived up to its renown. Christie manages to make a plot that might seem ridiculous \u2014 ten people are invited to an island and killed off one by one \u2014 not seem ridiculous, and keeps you guessing whodunit til the very end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/deZWRE3\"><strong>Huckberry Icons of Style<\/strong><\/a>. Fall is just around the corner, so it&#8217;s a good time to start thinking about picking up some new items for your wardrobe. Huckberry has published &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/kVBbqVv\">30 Icons of Timeless Men&#8217;s Style<\/a>,&#8221; which offers short profiles of figures from Steve McQueen to Johnny Cash describing what made their signature styles distinct. They&#8217;ve also put together a shop of modern smart casual clothes that draws inspiration from these icons to help today&#8217;s men put together some classic-looking outfits of their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l6U1JB7z-I8\">&#8220;Ladyfingers&#8221; by Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass.<\/a> <\/strong>My dad was a big Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass fan back in the day. He owned all the albums, including the iconic <em>Whip Cream and Other Delights<\/em>, which featured a pretty gal seemingly dressed only in whip cream. Lots of great songs on that album, but my favorite is &#8220;Ladyfingers.&#8221; This song features Herb Albert&#8217;s signature trumpet playing that blends cool jazz with Latin flair. Surprisingly, my 13-year-old son Gus is a big fan of this song. He loves to cue it up during sunset drives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/annals-of-gastronomy\/an-ode-to-old-bay-the-great-american-condiment\">An Ode to Old Bay, the Great American Condiment.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>In a previous edition of Odds &amp; Ends, we highlighted one of the McKay&#8217;s favorite seasonings: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3MkbE6C\">Old Bay<\/a>. We put it on eggs, meat, and sandwiches. I like to use it when I make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/living\/food-drink\/easy-crispy-chicken-sandwich\/\">this healthier, at-home version of the classic crispy chicken sandwich<\/a>. Well, Old Bay recently got the hagiographical treatment in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>. Casey Cep takes us on a historical tour of this Maryland staple and why you, too, should make Old Bay a standby in your spice rack. Long live Old Bay!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To find one\u2019s work in the world and do it honorably, to keep one\u2019s record clean so that nothing clandestine, furtive, surreptitious can ever leap out upon one from ambush and spoil one\u2019s life, to be able, therefore, unafraid to look the world in the face, to live honorably also with one\u2019s own soul, to walk life\u2019s journey unhaunted by the ghosts of people from whose ruin one has stolen pleasure, and so at last to be a gentleman, one, that is, who puts a little more into life than one takes out\u2014gather up the significance of such character, forty years old, sixty years old, eighty years old\u2014one may well celebrate the solid satisfactions of such a life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014Henry Emerson Fosdick<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Then There Were None&nbsp;by Agatha Christie.&nbsp;We recently finished reading this book aloud as a family (nothing relaxes kids before bed like a tale of serial murder). 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