The Blork Blog

A few weeks ago I wrote about my recent pizza experiences in San Francisco. In particular, there was my revelation about Pizzeria Delfina on 18th Street, which makes a pretty good approximation of a Neapolitan-style pie.
We ate another San Francisco pizza about a week later. It was our last night in the city before coming […]

My recent post about introversion sparked a lot of comments and discussion, and has lead me down a few paths of exploration. Here are a few of the things I found:
There was a report about “innies and outies” on CBC Television last January, on the Sunday night news show. You can see it here. (It’s […]

Bill Cosby’s new book is tantalizingly titled Come On People, which sounds like something you’d buy from one of those sleazy sex shops on rue Ste. Catherine, or maybe mail-order from one of Larry Flynt’s “plain brown wrapper” stores.
It’s a rather ambiguous title, no? After all, it doesn’t specify which people, nor even which type […]

Yesterday, Patrick at i.never.nu posted a passionate and erudite denunciation of the current trend towards the mainstreaming of blogs. He points out that until recently, many (most?) bloggers were happy to be apart from the mainstream; we revelled in our independence from the need to generate revenue streams and to follow marketing plans. It was […]

Corprew Reed, over at Corprewland, has painstakingly re-written T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” in LOLcat-speak. (Found via Stony Curtis). Below is my side-by-side comparison of the beginning of the first section (IM IN UR WASTELAND BURYING UR DEAD). I don’t think I need to tell you which version is the Eliot one:

For the whole […]

I am an introvert, and I’m OK with that. No, I’m way ok with that. It’s who I am, and there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s not like “I have only one arm and I’m OK with that because I’ve adapted.” There’s no adaptation needed with introversion. It’s the way I am, and ever since […]

I was cleaning out my wallet the other day and I found this claim check:

Notice a few things wrong with it? How about this; no date, no business name, no phone number, no address. What kind of an idiot designs a claim check like that?
WTF!? Where did that come from? Or more importantly, what did […]