The Blork Blog

Incidently, the blork blog turned three years old a few days ago (December 27). My, how my life has evolved since then!
Yes, at roughly 240,000 words and 795 posts, that could have been a novel.
(Note: there has been some strange behavior since my “leftovers” post, with it appearing and disappearing randomly. The […]

Last night’s menu of Christmas leftovers:
- Classic shrimp cocktail
- Christmas Turkey Minestrone Soup
- Mushroom-truffle tagliatelle
Specifically:
1: Classic Shrimp Cocktail
We had some leftover cocktail sauce from the shrimp ring on the hors d’oeuvres table from Christmas Eve, so I decided to make a classic shrimp cocktail, as follows:
Line two large chilled martini glasses with lettuce; spoon some […]

Mid-afternoon on Christmas eve. The turkey is brined and ready for the oven. The apple-sausage (un)stuffing is in a pan, waiting its turn in the oven. The beets are roasted for the beet salad. Various vegetables are primed and ready to go. A couple of rubbermaid roughnecks are in position, stuffed with snow and a […]

My kind of evening…

Here’s the scene chez nous last Friday night. I’m on the sofa, there’s a Java Log in the fireplace, a snifter of cognac on the coffee table, M at my side, Spiff on my knee, and a wireless Internet connection in my lap. Of course that was before all Hell broke loose, […]

In a moment of weakness (pre-Xmas shopping fatigue) M and I went to one of those chain restaurants that tries to feel homey and welcoming, but in fact they are off-putting and clinical in their sameness.
I ordered a “Bloody Caesar Chipotle,” which is, as the name implies, a Bloody Caesar spiked with chipotle pepper sauce. […]

Hummer Haiku (by “Tim”)
Hulking black Hummer
Purchased in rank atonement
small peckered driver
This and more at Fuck You and your H2.

Not much action on the Montreal version of Craig’s List. There are only five items for sale, and four of them were posted by me.
Not so surprising though, as it’s unilingual English and severely underpromoted. The ol’ viral network thing works well among Montreal Anglos, but it’s a pretty small lab. It’s like there’s this […]