The Blork Blog

Montreal protesters make the front page of Salon.com. Unfortunately, you need to be a premium member to read the full article…

Just a little something I whipped up on Saturday night. It amazes me sometimes how easy it is to make meals like this. Basic ingredients prepared with a bit of care, and bingo, something delicious!
In this case, I took half a kilo or so of sole fillets and a large handfull of big shrimps and [...]

If you haven’t heard already, Place Ville Marie (PVM) turned 40 yesterday. This comes about a month after my 15th anniversary as a Montrealer. I have vague memories of PVM’s 25th anniversary–which meant little to me at the time as I had only been living here for a a matter of weeks, and was largely [...]

This is “week 1” at the new office digs. The company I work for changed address as of Monday, but fortunately we didn’t go very far–the new location is kitty-corner to the old one. The cosmic flukes that resulted in my formerly having a very large office (over 200 square feet) to myself has been [...]

…on the politics and horn-doggy aspects of current trends in female dress (or should that be undress…)

Google in Pig Latin!

Sunday night I made paella, perhaps one of my finest yet. I’m really getting The Technique down, now that I have a proper paella pan and know how to make the sofrito. I can even manage to get a bit of socarrat, the caramelizaion of the rice you get at the bottom and edges of [...]