I call this pizza the Green-Preserve-Pizza. Besides the usual cheese and tomato sauce and tofu, this pizza has green olives, capers, and a pickled jalapeño pepper. See...those three items are both green and preserved. There's a reason one of us is writing this blog while the rest of you are just reading it.
30.9.09
Pizza of the Day!
I call this pizza the Green-Preserve-Pizza. Besides the usual cheese and tomato sauce and tofu, this pizza has green olives, capers, and a pickled jalapeño pepper. See...those three items are both green and preserved. There's a reason one of us is writing this blog while the rest of you are just reading it.
21.9.09
16.9.09
The Weird Book Room
I recently received an invitation from Abebooks to check out their Weird Book Room. It's a pretty fantastic collection of literary oddities, some of my favourites being:-The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
-Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them
-Cheese Problems Solved
-The Thermodynamics of Pizza
-Nuclear War: What's in It for You?
And on and on they go. It's worth checking out.
Pizza of the Day!
Данас је пица моцарела је и швајцарски сир, маслине, тофуа, тиквице, парадајз, песто и гљива.
8.9.09
A Trip to the Record Shop!
Three different days, three different records, two different record stores and one merchandise table. In reverse chronological order...
5.9.09
1.9.09
Four Minutes Well Spent...
Just think...in the time you were watching that, those guys ran a mile. And what did you do? Nothing. You just sat there. Now get outside and do something.
28.8.09
Molotov Baseball!
I hope this gentleman procreates one day.
We need to keep that shit in the gene pool.
6.8.09
31.7.09
28.7.09
Guinness Floats!
At the last Whitecaps game I attended, Sparky and J-Mac and I were talking about Guinness Floats. Lately, at the Whitecap's matches, they have been serving Guinness in waxed paper cups that make me think I am drinking a milkshake. Or a float. And because I'm drinking Guinness, it makes me wonder what a Guinness Float would taste like. So, I decided to find out.
I really thought it might be good. I thought the sweetness of the icecream would balance out with the bitterness of the stout in a flavourful way. I thought wrong. It wasn't very good. Oh well, now I know.
I really thought it might be good. I thought the sweetness of the icecream would balance out with the bitterness of the stout in a flavourful way. I thought wrong. It wasn't very good. Oh well, now I know.
7.7.09
A Business Proposal...
RAHMAN KASSIM
BSC(HONS)ACCA
MALAYSIA.
Email: rahmankassim56@gmail.com
Dear,
I am RAHMAN KASSIM (BSC(HONS)(ACCA)MALAYSIA.I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail contacted you independently of our investigation and no one is informed of this communication.I would like to intimate you certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you. I know you would be wondering why writing you with a request such as this but I only urge you to read on. I decided to contact you through email due to the urgency,any way I need your co-operation in receiving US$10.5Million that has been in a dormant account with my bank since 1997 under inheritance claim. 30% of the total sums will be accrued to you upon the confirm,confirmation of the funds in your nominated account. Although it may seems small but you have to understand and accept this since 40% of the total sum will go to charity, as my entitlement here is also 30%. I need your co-operation here because the account holder an Iraqi Chieftain and businessman died at the war I find out this during the course of our internal audit, I have tried to reach any of the next trustees, but to no avail and since I am not in position to make the claim, I can establish you before the bank as the heir to the bequest.It is very important that the claim is made, as the bank will turn the funds over to the treasury anytime from now if it remains unclaimed. I will provide you with detailed information on the modalities of this operation.once I have your interest but I must say that trust flourishes business.Therefore let your conscience towards this proposal be nurtured.
GM.Mr Rahman Kassim
BSC(HONS)ACCA
MALAYSIA.
Email: rahmankassim56@gmail.com
Dear,
I am RAHMAN KASSIM (BSC(HONS)(ACCA)MALAYSIA.I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail contacted you independently of our investigation and no one is informed of this communication.I would like to intimate you certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you. I know you would be wondering why writing you with a request such as this but I only urge you to read on. I decided to contact you through email due to the urgency,any way I need your co-operation in receiving US$10.5Million that has been in a dormant account with my bank since 1997 under inheritance claim. 30% of the total sums will be accrued to you upon the confirm,confirmation of the funds in your nominated account. Although it may seems small but you have to understand and accept this since 40% of the total sum will go to charity, as my entitlement here is also 30%. I need your co-operation here because the account holder an Iraqi Chieftain and businessman died at the war I find out this during the course of our internal audit, I have tried to reach any of the next trustees, but to no avail and since I am not in position to make the claim, I can establish you before the bank as the heir to the bequest.It is very important that the claim is made, as the bank will turn the funds over to the treasury anytime from now if it remains unclaimed. I will provide you with detailed information on the modalities of this operation.once I have your interest but I must say that trust flourishes business.Therefore let your conscience towards this proposal be nurtured.
GM.Mr Rahman Kassim
20.6.09
Pizza of the Day!
Thursday's pizza was full of tofu, cherry tomatoes, artichokes, black olive tapenade, garlic, plus mozzarella, Parmesan, and Piave Mezzano cheeses.
10.6.09
Paddling to the Sea or Jogging the Memory
I was listening to Eleanor Wachtel interview Michael Ignatieff on Writers and Company yesterday, when he mentioned a children's book, called Paddle to the Sea (by Holling C. Holling), about a boy who carves a toy Indian in a canoe that makes its way from Lake Nipigon, through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and all the way out the St. Lawrence Seaway. Immediately I had this image in my head of a small wooden canoe going over the Falls. I did a bit of research and found this:
I have no idea when I actually saw this, though I suspect it was in elementary school at some time or other. You can watch the film in its entirety, thanks to the NFB's fantastic website, here.
I have no idea when I actually saw this, though I suspect it was in elementary school at some time or other. You can watch the film in its entirety, thanks to the NFB's fantastic website, here.
4.6.09
3.6.09
On Supporting A Sports Team...
"It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitive as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look — I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring — caring deeply and passionately, really caring — which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naivete — the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball — seems a small price to pay for such a gift."
~Roger Angell
~Roger Angell
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