reverent

Daily nourishment can be uncomplicated; reverent eating doesn’t need to mean overabundance.

In 2005, he even honored his heroes with a reverent version of “In My Life.”

We witness reverent preparation, much ceremony and more blood than any slasher film, and eventually absorb the unmistakable sense that this macho performative world exists almost defiantly against anyone’s notion of “progress.”

These two Salon stories — one rowdy, one reverent — show the range of his voice and the depth of his seeing.

In one clip, he uses it to deliver a gravelly, reverent takedown of Chuck E. Cheese: “A casino for the juice box crowd, where the ATM is your dad and the mouse always wins.”