We celebrated my dad's birthday today. The brunch buffet is really a challenge to culinary mores and decency. You're faced with possibilities you did not dream of, like "I actually COULD smother my sticky bun in béarnaise sauce, or pour maple syrup on my pommes rösti...". It is a Babylon of food! With empty eyes and scrambled egg-smeared cheeks we ( Read more... )

Things are soothing out here in the country. You gotta bring your eating pants thought. Right now I'm digesting a dinner of duck, two kinds of potatoes, red cabbage and rich sauce.

"I'm sure he's a good actor, he just looks way to much like Putin".
-- My mom, ruining Daniel Craig forever.

It's windy and rainy outside, and my brother's gone back home. His semester starts tomorrow. The first fall day, as though the season knew what month it is.
It'll be weird not having my brother around, as we really riff off each other. And he's pretty much my favorite person in the world.

Right now I'm decompressing from being around people. It's ( Read more... )

Held my birthday today, and it was lovely. According to my brother (Mr. Solidarity) I'm "seventy half-years old". Or will be come Friday. No wonder I'm tired ( Read more... )

A historical program comes on TV, and my mother exclaims "The American Revolution... but where's Hitler in all this?"

I've got an idea for the TV show to end them all: Two teams compete to make the best version of top nazis's favorite dishes. The working title is "Gastronomy of Evil".

I got new curtains today. The sun can get pretty belligerent up here under the rafters, but now man's ingenuity has defeated the cruel eye of the day-tyrant ( Read more... )

 That sounds like the future (then, I still think 1999 sounds like the future).

I got into the new year in a good way. Took down my mailbox, so that it wouldn't get blown to bits on NYE. People like their fireworks around here. Spent most of the evening with the family. We made lasagna and ate it.  It was a genuine family project. I made the meat ( Read more... )

Mother's better.

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Now my dear mother's sick. Not as bad as I was (she can keep liquids and some simple foods down) but still.

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