It’s night and I’m inside an impossibly expensive house. The house is on stilts because it’s on the side of a mountain. Why I’m inside the house is unclear but there I am anyway and I’m looking for something but I have no idea what. To clarify: It’s not that I know I’m there to...
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Home-Made Chicken Soup
So I’ve been doing a lot of cooking lately, partially because it’s cheaper to make your own food and partially as an attempt to reduce the amount of nonsense I consume in the course of a week. I have no desire to turn this into a food blog but sometime last spring I made an...
Jerome
Jerome died last week. There was a point in time when I would have called him my best friend or even my brother. I’m older now, though, and I don’t have romantic notions of friendship like I used to. I don’t really believe in such a thing as a best friend but I do believe...
Honor Roll Student
Salt
My wife and I went out on a date last night for the first time in way too long. I took her to see SALT with Angelina Jolie, because she’s been stoked for that movie since the first time she saw the commercial. About SALT: I fucking loved it. If you took one of the...
John Cleese Explains Extremism
My friend Phil linked to this. Watch it and think very carefully about the “news” programs you watch on a regular basis: