There are times while reading Blood, Bone, & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton that I find myself smiling from the simple pleasure of her prose. A good writer can tell you how she makes pasta. A great writer makes you want to dust the flour off your hands once she has finished telling you how she makes …
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Genghis Grill-In Awe of The Master
I’ve always been a fan of all you can eat places-who doesn’t love having more food than they can possibly eat? Genghis Grill sell their buffet as either one bowl-about the size of a cereal bowl- or all you can eat. The result is that some people don’t want to spend another couple of dollars …
Made in Dagenham
Among the Coming Attractions on the DVD of The King’s Speech was the trailer for Made in Dagenham. It looked like my kind of film, an underdog story, a cute British cast, and good old Bob Hoskins. I grew up in the 1970s with no father to speak of, a working mother, and an older …
The Woman Who Fell From The Sky
“Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything!” ~Steve Martin The Woman Who Fell From The Sky is the story of an amoral American home wrecker who moves to Yemen for a year to be the Editor of an English language newspaper. Ok, the homewrecking bit comes late in the story, but it …
Shop Class as Soulcraft
The story of a philosopher who seems a bit surprised that there are so few job openings at the Big Philosophy Companies and ends up becoming an electrician instead. After discovering that being an electrician is not really his calling, he moves on to being a motor cycle mechanic. But he never gives up …
Paul-An Alien Road Picture
A man in black shoots a radio and says-It was a boring conversation anyway. Just one of the many inside sci fi, super nerd jokes in the silly sci-fi flick Paul. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who everyone seems to think are gay, find themselves in nerd heaven-Comicon in San Diego. As a nice follow …
A Volcano, an Ice Cave, and Some Wolves
Tourist Stuff in New Mexico The Wife likes animal sanctuaries. I tend to have mixed feelings about them myself. For one thing none of them are made with Photographers in mind-a dozen shots of chain link fences with blurs behind them are not really worth bothering with. Of course, that’s how some of these places …
Sandia Peak Ski and Tramway
From the bottom of the hill the cables running up the side of the mountain don’t look all that impressive. The mountain itself doesn’t look all that impressive. But distance can have that effect. Once we are at the bottom of the hill where the boarding station sits, the mountain looks a good deal more …
52 Loaves by William Alexander
The story of one man’s obsession to bake the perfect loaf of bread. Our hero ate a bit of bread at a fancy New York restaurant and was transported by it. He asked what it was called, and the waiter told him it was Peasant Bread. He then decided to bake his own Peasant Bread. …
