tea is drunk to forget the din of the world

June 27: pastiche

I always want the word 'pastiche' to sound more like 'pistachio'.

 

...but that may have something to do with the amount of alcohol currently coursing through my bloodstream. That's me on the right, and the Mumbler directly adjacent.

[the title quotation is ironical, and originally came from Tien Yiheng]