The Blork Blog

I’ve been seeing these adorable little sweet peppers in the grocery stores lately. I hadn’t bought them because they’re quite pricey —  $4.99 to $5.99 for a 681 gram (1.5 lb.) bin, depending on the store. That’s more than regular sweet bell peppers, which I refuse to buy once they go over $3.99 a pound.

But [...]

While plugging away at this blog over the past five years, I periodically fall into a bit of a slump where I feel like the whole thing is a big waste of time, or that I’m not writing very well, or that I’m just shouting into an empty canyon. It’s true that I get a [...]

I like a good tuna salad sandwich. Unfortunately, a good tuna sandwich is hard to find, as most restaurants seem to think that tuna salad consists of (a) cheap, undrained flaked tuna, and (b) a lake of mayonnaise.
Forget that. Make it yourself!
First of all, spend the extra 70¢ and get chunk light tuna in water, [...]

One of the things that makes English an easier language to learn than many others is that it is largely gender-neutral. Unlike French, for example, where a car is feminine but a truck is masculine, we don’t have to worry about such confusing, seemingly arbitrary, yet alluringly poetic distinctions. No, in English it’s all business.
There [...]

I saw this ad for the Atkins Carb Counter on a Web site the other day. It was an animated GIF that flipped back and forth between the "before" and "after" pictures of one Jimmy Moore, who we are to believe has lost 180 pounds using the Carb Counter.

Unfortunately for our friend Jimmy, he seems [...]

Yes, this is yesterday’s news, but bear with me.
A brief review of the James Frey kerfuffle from a few weeks ago: Dude writes a book (A Million Little Pieces) based on his real life, but with some extra stuff in there to make it juicier — or maybe just to make it a better [...]

Unless you’ve been living in a duck blind, you’ll know that U.S. V.P. Dick Cheney shot a companion a few day ago while they were out quail hunting. He used a 28-gauge shotgun and 7-1/2 shot cartridges. For those not up on your gun lore, that means a not-so-powerful gun that shoots a spray of [...]