Walking home from the corner grocer just now and passed the Mayor’s house as he and Chirlane were putting out the recycling for tomorrow’s p...

I posted nothing...

And why not?  Fuzzy photo, but it was delish.  Next time we'll try going the Franny's route, mit sahne, rather than having the cre...

Puddinhead Wilson has long been one of my favorite books.  I came across this poster for an 1895 dramatization of the book in the Library o...

Steven Aftergood's post today on Secrecy News, The Purpose of National Security Policy, Declassified . “The primary objective of U.S. ...

Woah!  Follow link to Rhizome.  INSERT DISK

In Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tinturn Abbey , Billy Collin s writes: I was here before, a long time ago, and now I am h...

I've been reading Isherwood , and made a note to myself to copy out the section below.  Then, coincidentally, today's the one year a...

Via Bicycle Design .

May I list all the food G made for dinner?  I'm not sure I'm able.  Pickled eggplant, smoked olives, pickled peppers, fresh figs w...

Credit: Jerry Cooke/Time & Life Pictures — Getty Images I've always been fascinated by Gore Vidal , from Myra Breckenridge thr...

No, this is not the most representative photo we took on our jaunt last week to Omaha and Lincoln, but it is the only one with a robotic c...

Hard not to love it.

High Wide & Handsome (Reprise) L. Wainwright III Album: Hide Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project CAPO I INTRO (2x): D  ...

Macinwi sent me a link to Low-Commitment Projects  (specifically to Sandwich Artist ) a couple of months ago, and I've just gotten aroun...

I first read this in, what, 1976 or so? I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair streams black, the merman in his armored body We circle s...

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Now resident at Hard Working Movies .

R station, 4th Ave and 9th.

S p r i n g t i m e     S u r p r i s e 50 best blocks in Brooklyn . well, are they?

No where much.  Where the weak are eaten, mostly, and a quick trip to DC.  Lota been to Sundance and back.  Been working working working.  F...

Glistening, but about as firm as a well done piece of meat, the bresaola emerges from two weeks of curing in salts and herbs. The, washe...

A nice piece of coincidence: one of the books we bought ourselves for Christmas is an extract translation of Pellegrino Artusi’s 1891 opu...

10 pounds of cotechino made yesterday @ D and G's for New Years Day dinner.  Woof! steve.lewis@farawayhills.com. thumbtyped

I've been lazy or busy or both and haven't made my way up to the park for close to a month.  I watched this earlier this morning an...

... so we lit the street-found Harmony baritone uke.

... and I've been thinking of great three and four chord songs that might help.  A little Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain ? Blue Eyes Cr...