MAY 29, 2009 7:00PM

Cuisine of Errors #4: Ragu alla Bolognese

There's an alchemy that happens in a cooking pot that absolutely fascinates me.  I'd probably love to sit down with a big book of molecular gastronomy and pick through the chemistry of exactly what happens to tomatoes when you simmer them in olive oil, and what happens when you brown meat.… Read full post »

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MARCH 26, 2009 12:53PM

Road Trip Log: In Which, Our Captain Sets off For The Desert

Log of the Captain of the Good Ship Chartreuse Goose, and a record of its travels to lands distant and exotic this Nineteenth of March in the year of our Lawd 2009.   In which, the Captain and his trusty First Mate voyage with Captain’s aged yet vigorous parents in search of… Read full post »

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MARCH 5, 2009 12:28PM

Notice to Facebook/Twitter/Myspace Users: YOU ARE BORING

TO:  All Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and other "social networking site" users, particularly those under the age of 25.

FROM: One of your brethern.

RE:  Shut the fuck up about your boring-ass life already. 

 

You already know this, but since honesty and self-evidence is in d… Read full post »

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MARCH 4, 2009 4:23PM

Fatback or bacon: what is and isn't porkbarrel spending?

So apparently John McCain has discovered The Tweeter. (You and I may know it as Twitter, but anyway.) And he decided to make some political points, later lovingly fluffed by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, by mocking every bit of pork that the economic stimulus bill.… Read full post »

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JANUARY 7, 2009 9:17PM

Spaghetti all'Amatriciana

I made some good shit the night before last.

Real good.

So I figured I'd share it with y'alls.  

Amatrice is a little town close to Rome, in the hills of Lazio. Apparently, it's the tradition that the Pope's personal cook comes from Amatrice.  I can sort of see why, really,… Read full post »

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JANUARY 7, 2009 5:28PM

Intelligent Design and Natural Philosophy

Another semester of teaching begins, but the old one seems unwilling to die - one of my former students has filed a complaint about yours truly to the dean, complaining about my lack of sensitivity & openmindedness & other good things regarding her creationist views, which I mortally insulte… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 3, 2008 7:52PM

Fear and Loathing in Kathmandu

It's not terribly often that you meet a mind that is both absolutely original and completely unhinged.   Hunter S. Thompson, who I had the pleasure to meet only a few years before his suicide, is one.   For a squarer, more contemplative type like me, there's a wild, black rush of… Read full post »

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