Apr 30 2007
A gentile phones his mother and says “Hey Mom, I know you’ve been cooking all day, and I know it’s your birthday and all, but I can’t make it for dinner tonight.” His mother says “OK dear. But thanks for calling.”
Borrowed from the “Falling off the Funny Bone” panel at the Blue Metropolis literary festival.
Apr 25 2007
A lot of people have been posting maps of where they’ve been in the world, via the map generators at World 66. Hey, I like going places, and I like maps, so I might as well do it too.
Here’s where I’ve been in Europe:
(Obligatory link: create your personalized map of europe)
As you can see, there […]
Apr 23 2007
I hereby declare summer 2007 as “The Summer of Ribs.”
Until very recently I’d never cooked barbecue ribs. It seemed like an awful lot of work – all those obscure and highly specialized techniques steeped in shadowy folklore. Who can keep track of the various kinds; Southern ribs, Texas ribs, Louisiana ribs, country-style ribs. Ribs with […]
Apr 19 2007
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Over the years I’ve accumulated a lot of computer and electronics junk. I’ve got a couple of near-dead laptops, an old cell phone, a Palm PDA, couple of printers, and a scattering of barely recognizeable parts. But what to do […]
Apr 18 2007
I’m reading the David Sedaris memoir, Me Talk Pretty One Day. It has a piece called “Youth in Asia” that has nothing to do with oriental teenagers. But reading it – in fact, just reading the title – conjured up something from my own youth; a story of what might have been, and thankfully wasn’t.
Grade […]
