The Blork Blog

The blork blog turns two years old today!

I’ll spare you the ruminations on the commercialization of Christmas. So too will I spare you the lecture on the Christian hegemony of the holiday season. Instead I will say this: I’m not just being “politically correct” when I refer to this time of year as “the holiday season” instead of simply Christmas. It is [...]

It was bound to happen. I moved into chez blork in May of this year and chose red as my primary theme. Three red walls, red sofa, two red armchairs. Me in the red trying to pay for it all. A few weeks later, M moved into her new place, conveniently only two blocks away, [...]

A few events over the past day-and-a-half have reminded me of the virtue of patience and the luck of good timing. It all revolves around a few mysteries that have been resolved unexpectedly. Lame Movie Mystery. In May of 2001 I buggered off to Paris for a week, just because. I had a fabulous time, [...]

I thought it was funny when I was in Baños, a small town in the shadow of an active volcano high in the Andes mountains of Ecuador, and one of the little bars in town was a rinky-dink hole in the wall with HARD ROCK CAFE BAÑOS painted badly on a slab of wood out [...]

I was feeling a bit peckish on Saturday afternoon, so I whipped up a bit of ramen. No, not your typical 29¢ salt and MSG special from the depanneur. This splendid lunch was made from scratch, and it took only a few minutes. First, I pulled a jar of blork’s homemade chicken stock out of [...]

I love it when this happens. M and I are planning a quiet night with a DVD and a delivered pizza, so I thought I’d check the Web to see if anyone has anything to say about delivered pizza in Montreal. You see, I never get food delivered (long story, tell ya later), so I [...]