The Monday Morning Power Digest: April 25, 2022

Good morning, gentlemen. The temperature is 110 degrees.

Mondays are just better when it’s springtime. Can’t be bothered by anything. Worst comes to worst, there’s a ballgame on at 7:10 and there’s a salmon filet about to expire in your fridge that’s begging to be grilled. Let’s be great this week.

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Monday Grungeday

Get the week started with a timeless underrated power ballad.

Zillow House That Would Financially Ruin Me of the Week

4018 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, NM 87505

Price tag: $22.5 million
Beds: 21
Baths: 26
Sq. footage: 18,663

Last week, it was Anne Rice’s palatial New Orleans estate. This week, it’s Georgia O’Keefe’s Sante Fe hideaway. The pueblo that vaginas built.

The home was briefly owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, where I can only assume he used the home for Molochian child sacrifice and gathering komprimat on sitting US senators and Fortune 500 CEOs via closed circuit television. So, you’ve got a security system already built in. Place is move-in ready.

This house may not be feasible as a residence. 18,000+ square feet has maintenance headache written all over it. However, the property shows great potential as an Airbnb or VRBO for high end clients visiting Sante Fe for a World Economic Forum retreat, Skull and Bones 25-year reunion or Russian oligarch bachelor party. Plenty of space for the whole crew. Those are screams of joy, dear neighbor. No worries! Just make sure the place is clean when you leave.

BBQ Hot Tip of the Week

Rest your meat. Let it rest. All protein with any fat content should be rested. Ever had dry food off the grill or smoker? You didn’t let it rest. You basted and spritzed for hours. You can wait a few more minutes.

Even though you removed your meat from the heat source, it will continue to cook. Let the fats continue to render and allow it to reabsorb its juices. The juice you consume from meat is not water. It’s liquified fat. Fat is flavor. Give her a nice rest.

Have a cozy resting place ready for your meat ready to go when the cook is almost finished. Chicken, burgers and steaks can be covered with foil, but bigger hunks of meat like ribs, brisket and pork butts should be rested for extended periods of time in a temperature controlled environment. Preheat your oven to its lowest temperature and begin the rest. If the oven doesn’t go below 160 degrees F, take two ziploc bags or bladders and fill them with hot water. Wrap the meat tightly in butcher paper or foil. Set the bags in a cooler and rest your meat in the cooler. Make sure they don’t touch the meat.

MMPD Meat Resting Guide

Brisket: Half the cook time (Ex: Cooked 12 hours, rest for six)
Chicken: 10 minutes
Burgers: 10 minutes
Steak: 10 minutes
Ribs: 45 minutes-1 hour
Pulled Pork: 1 hour

Now, if you don’t have that kind of time, 30 minutes is a good rule of thumb for anything.

Underrated Monday Move of the Week

Long walk after work. Get the breeze in your hair. Get the heart rate elevated. Fill the lungs with fresh air. Unleash the endorphins.

“Hey So That’s The Guy Who Did That” of the Week

Even now in my mid-30s, I’ll still catch fleeting memories from childhood. A song, an old building, old neighborhoods, etc. I caught a glimpse of a picture the other week and my mind immediately went to a place it had not been in a long time. It was this.

I love this type of art, I just never knew who did it. It is quintessential postmodern art deco. It made my soul hurt with overpowering nostalgia. It’s that ‘80s. “The Nagel Woman” is iconic and I never knew who she was until a fortuitous Googling of “80s woman pop art” last week.

The artist who created her was Patrick Nagel. He worked for ABC and Playboy until he tragically died of a heart attack at 39 during a charity aerobathon in 1984. A painfully ‘80s way to die.

That’s the beauty of art. Even though this guy has been dead for nearly 40 (!!!) years, his work still resonated with me.

I went to order a print online and wouldn’t you know it, even a print of The Nagel Woman is like $20,000. Maybe some day. Gonna need a few more MMPD subs before that happens.

Good stuff. RIP.

Mad Men Quote of the Week

“Bravo.” -Bert Cooper

I have quoted Robert Morse in multiple MMPDs. He passed away at the ripe age of 90 a few days ago. Bert Cooper was a powerhouse of a character. Wise old Japanophile millionaire ad man.

Dog of the Week

This is my 8-year old rescue dog, June. She’s a menace. She’s the best. She doesn’t understand the concept of not getting on the couch. I am also powerless to those eyes.

That’s it for this week. Go get ‘em.