The Blork Blog

Ka-boom!

M and I were walking through Parc Lafontaine last night at around 10:00 pm and we discovered that you can see the fireworks from the hill on the north side of the pond. You can’t see the low ones, but the middle and high ones are in full view over the fountain. The only drawback […]

Kristie Helms, author of the upcoming semi-fiction (faction?) novel “Dish It Up, Baby!” interviewed at Underdog Online:
My own government tells me that I can’t get married and that my love isn’t “the same” as a heterosexual couple. And after watching “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire,” I think they may be right.

Last week, after U.S. forces found and killed Quesay and Uday Hussein, I didn’t shed a tear. There are some people who are simply beyond the right to compassion, and those two brothers are among them. Organizations such as Human Rights Watch have documented unspeakable crimes at the hands of Saddam’s sons. It’s not just […]

Jaggi Singh has been arrested yet again!

Now that’s good eating!

It was cool and grey yesterday, so I thought it was safe to fire up the kitchen and make paella. This batch had two new variations; the addition of chicken drumsticks, and the use of authentic Valencian Bomba rice.
I’ve made paella so often now that I don’t consult recipes. That’s the great […]

The key, I have discovered, to successfully reading several book simultaneously, lies in varying the degree of commitment to each. After all, one can be rapturously in love and still maintain the ability to flirt with a shop clerk and eye the ladies on the Metro. But try to coincide two significant love affairs and […]

I’m trying to figure out if there’s a correlation between the quality of my life and the quality of my blog entries. Recently, for example, life has been quite good, with two international holidays, fun girlfriend stuff, interesting meals and movies with interesting people, etc. But I can’t help but feel that my blog entries […]