We have tickets to Can't Stop the Serenity on Saturday (benefitting Equality Now). It's their fifth anniversary, and we've attended for at least three of the previous ones. This time we've decided to re-watch Firefly first -- got through "Serenity" yesterday, which had some great bits I had forgotten about, including Mal saying "I'm a bad man". ( Read more... )

This is the time of year when I buy a lot of cooking magazines from the racks at the supermarket. I've been a fan of the Better Homes & Gardens Special Interest Publications since the late 90s, and some of my favorite holiday recipes come from these books. Usually each year I find at least one thing that becomes a perennial favorite, a bunch of ( Read more... )