The Blork Blog

As I mentioned in Part 1, I don’t know exactly why I mythologize the places I do. Sometimes it starts with reading or hearing about a place I’ve never been to, causing me to conjure up images and stories. Other times it happens when I visit a place and there is some kind of resonance [...]

Long live the Blork Blog. As of five minutes ago, I have cancelled my subscription at Typepad, effectively deleting both the (Typepad version of) the Blork Blog, and the (Typepad version of) the Monday Morning Photo Blog. The only thing more off-putting than if they had begged me to stay before completely wiping out three [...]

I have a small collection of wacky books, strange little titles that I’ve picked up here and there just for their oddball appeal. They include, among others: Common Courtesy – In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem that Baffled Mr. Jefferson, by Judith Martin Date Talk – How to Talk to a Boy . . [...]

Or, to be precise . . . Florentine white beans with tomato and sage (Fagioli all’uccelleto) and grilled smoked sausage.

Apparently, when Canada.com needed a photo of “a blogger” to illustrate an article on business blogging, they reached into their vast and unending supply of “photos of people blogging” and came up with a photo of me. The (not particularly flattering) photo was taken a year and a half ago, when The Montreal Gazette did [...]

I’ve always had a thing for places. I like to read about them, look at pictures of them, and whenever possible, I like to go visit them. I also like to mythologize them. Sometimes I hear about a place, and something about it — usually nothing I can put my finger on — sends my [...]

Here’s the thing with the Web: I could have written a long essay about the history and modern usage of focaccia, the Italian flat bread, but instead I’ll just point you to this Wikipedia entry. On the other hand, that article doesn’t say anthing about me and focaccia. So here goes: I’ve never quite figured [...]