The Blork Blog

The Jazz Festival has started!

Think the picture’s wild? Check out the movie! [.mov, 2MB]

I’m the guest photoblogger today at Digital Apoptosis!

As part of the Domestic Goddess’s “Taste Canada” project — for which I have officially missed the posting deadline but I’ll do it anyway — I offer this glimpse of a not very Canadian meal, which perhaps is what makes it so Canadian.
What better way to deal with another hot and humid day than to […]

Do any of you know what kind of insect this is? Which is to say… do I have an infestation of some kind of killer post-Elvis nuclear meltdown outerspace destructronic hybrid Armageddon bug in the woodpile, or is it just some silly harmless thing?

Spiff, my valiant orange cat, died yesterday at about 1:45 PM.
He was 14 years old. During our time together, we lived at seven different addresses, and he endured my moves through four different jobs and six different “significant others.” I’m quite sure that our current arrangement was most satisfactory to him. Our house has seven […]

Mikel tagged me on this one…
How many books do I own?

Despite what Martine might think, I’m actually pretty good at culling the flock, so to speak. I currently have about 600 books, of which I’m about to cull maybe 25 or 30. The ones I keep are those that are (a) a particularly good read, […]

A couple of days ago I posted the recipe for Blork’s Own Lynchburg Lemonade, in which I warned people that it contains two whole teaspoons of sugar! To be honest, that’s two heaping teaspoons.
I don’t have much of a sweet tooth, and I’m very aware that we North Americans eat far, far too much refined […]