Just the thing to celebrate making it through cold and flu season! 3 parts lemonade (homemade or Simply Lemonade brand) 2 parts elderberry tea, 1 or 2 parts vodka, lots of ice in a big glass, stir. Looks very pretty with the lemonade and the tea...
Read morePictures from the 2008 Pacific Pinball Expo
Up on flickr now, 55 shots of classic pinball machines and their insane graphics. Check it out!
Read moreCupertino Heirloom Tomato Salsa
I’d gotten it in my head I was going to make some salsa fresca with a variety of heirloom tomatoes. This was something I hadn’t really delved into much due to the limited availability of such in my old digs. But, a few months ago I...
Read moreToday’s Special: Fresh Roasted Peanuts
Hot out of the oven. Conveniently, I was already set up with the lights and everything to make it look so pretty.
Read moreI’ve got a bike!
And it’s nothing like the one in the song by The Pink Floyd. Godspeed, brother Wright. As mentioned here recently, I have deep-sixed internal combustion and gone back to self-powered 2-wheel goodness. Here’s the hot ride in late night...
Read moreI’m a Mowin’, Roastin’, Compostin’ Fool
So, yeah, we just moved. Still getting settled in, but some new systems are starting to slide into place… Here’s a few from today. First time out with the new manual mower. Will pay for itself in about 6 weeks. We don’t really...
Read moreLost Highway
In Denver now… Day three of the move. Be in Utah soon. Abandoned hangars… Bison… Antelope Island…
Read moreThe drawing table was one of the last things packed…
Finally got everything loaded and got on the road at 6pm today. In Paducah, Kentucky now… be in Kansas tomorrow night.
Read moreMissing: Chevy Malibu, aliens in trunk. Good riddance!
There goes excessive carbon footprint guilt. There goes all those repair bills. There goes those insane fill-up costs. Hello effective public transit and new bicycle in the South Bay. Yes, after 10 years of painful internal combustion agony that...
Read moreGoodbye, Old Friend
The mug I purchased from the BBC shop at Bush House off the Strand while on our honeymoon has lost it’s latest battle with the Kenmore dish washer. The handle surrendered completely, and the hairline crack down the side has become...
Read moreWafaa Bilal meets RPI and gets a Virtual Jihad of another color entirely
I have this deep conviction that, given the chance, most Americans would take anything that smells like art or an artist and ship it to the giant island of plastic waste in the middle of the Pacific. With that mindset it should come as little...
Read moreHelp George Tabb: Keep This 9/11 Survivor’s Voice Alive
George Tabb Benefit, Thursday March 13 at 10pm with Mike Watt + the Missingmen at Safari Sam’s, 5214 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA, (323) 666-7267. Visit MySpace.com/HelpGeorgeTabb. I have to admit to being way clueless. My apartment in...
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