The Blork Blog

… also known as "leftovers."

Left: spaghetti with leeks, green grapes, and Pernod. Right: Rotini with hot Italian sausage and spicy tomato sauce.

Via Lightspeedchick, a book meme:
How many books do you read a year?For the past few years I’ve averaged about 25 per year. I aim to maintain that average.
What is the last book you bought? Spies by Michael Frayn.
What is the last book you read? The last book I finished was Eats, Shoots and Leaves [...]

Spring really is here, as evidenced by the breakup of ice in the St. Lawrence River.
Martine and I took a drive out to Varennes, a small town on the south shore of the river some 25 km from downtown Montreal. We saw that the ice in the river was breaking up nicely and flowing eastward [...]

Celine Dion has lashed out at the audiences for her bombastic shows in Las Vegas, complaining that they keep falling asleep. Whereas she is apparently used to the crowds that come out when she tours — ecstatic fans who get themselves all in a tizzy in the days leading up to showtime — the Las [...]

The trouble with cilantro is that you either have none at all, or you have too much.
You buy a bundle at the market and it wilts within a few days. It’s not like Italian parsley, which will stay green and alert for a week or more in a pot of water placed in a sunny [...]

I’m pretty busy this week, with few words to spare. However, one of my favorite photos is up on my Monday Morning Photo Blog, so I thought I’d put in a plug for it.
This is part of a series I did way back in 1993, on the Van Horne viaduct.

Spring is here! Spring is here!
Well… sort of.