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Category Archives: Review
Review: Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
I bought this book not because I knew anything about it or because I’d heard it was any good but because I’d heard, via twitter, that the publisher was adopting penguins in the name of bookstores that sold a certain … Continue reading
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
In the collection of books that I bought for my nook immediately following 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I started reading them around Christmas. I think I was expecting more descriptions of action and … Continue reading
VT’s Portion Control Challenge
I sort of went off the rails. Well, not necessarily in terms of portions but certainly in terms of the food pyramid. On Thursday, I had cheddar brat pigs in a blanket for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They just sounded … Continue reading
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Review: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
This book was the most recent Bathtub book (which is to say, a book I keep by the bathtub so that I can pretend to have the time to be leisurely whilst having a soak before bed). In this tale, … Continue reading
Something I learned from flipping through Martha Stewart’s Magazine
Hot apple juice is an excellent substitute for hot water when making tea on a cold morning. And, even though Martha Stewart recommended the Earl, I’m quite happy with the Lady (and even happier with Republic of Tea’s Vanilla … Continue reading
Review: The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
At the beginning of 2010, my sister and I saw the movie Invictus. It is an excellent sports film about the 1995 Rugby World Cup and Nelson Mandela’s enlisting of the South African team to win the cup and help … Continue reading
Review: Yves’s Grain Strips with Buffalo Sauce
You know that you’re not supposed to shop when you’re hungry. I know it, too. But, that didn’t stop me from picking up a few essentials around dinner time the other night. As I walking down the dirty hippie cooler … Continue reading
Pop Culture Homework Assignment: Sugar Hill
I added this film to my queue because it is a film about revenge and Voodoo and killers brought back from the dead. In particular, it includes an invoking of my favorite Voodoo loa, Baron Samedi. Sugar Hill’s boyfriend Langston … Continue reading
Pop Culture Homework Assignment: Dear Zachary
I just spent the last ninety minutes in tears. I knew this film was going to be a bit of a tear jerker, it started as a memorial to a murdered friend in the form of a letter to his … Continue reading
Chili, from cans (and taco pizza).
So, when I make chili, it tends to be an affair of looking at what I have in the cabinets that seems like a chili ingredient, opening those cans and mixing them together to see what flies. This time around, … Continue reading
