The Blork Blog

OK, technically it’s on the grill, not on the BBQ, but up here in Canada we don’t get "real BBQ," so we say "BBQ" when we mean "grill." Enough with the cultural semantics. Last Sunday, after mowing the lawn, I found myself with an appetite and two chunks of salmon in the fridge. But what [...]

When preparing to buy a lawn mower, the usual question is "gas or electric?" The answer for me was easy: although I knew I would be annoyed by the long cable of an electric mower, that was a small price to pay in order to not be stuck with a very loud (VERY LOUD) and [...]

No picture from Italy on the Monday Morning Photo Blog today. Instead, a reminder of a sad anniversary.

I don’t get indigestion very often — maybe two or three times a year. I generally have a stomach of iron, so I don’t know why I get it when I do, or what brings it on. It’s never predictable. But when it hits, it hits big. I get a bloated feeling in the stomach, [...]

Entertainment Weekly has come up with a list of the "25 Most Controversial Movies Ever." They don’t say how they arrived at this list, but it’s an interesting mix of films. Some are controversial for obvious reasons, such as Cannibal Holocaust, which was so realistic in its scenes of cannibalism and murderous depravity that the [...]

I’ve made a set on Flickr of our pictures from Rome. It includes a mix of pix from both Martine and me. (Venice, Cinque Terre, and Tuscany albums are forthcoming . . .)

The atmospheric effect you see in this week’s Monday Morning Photo Blog entry is naturally-occurring. That’s not to say I didn’t tweak the image a bit for other reasons, but the beams of light were there already, just like that. (It’s a photograph taken in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. It shows the monument to [...]