I keep a camera in my car to catch local color and came across this gem the other day. You got your W the dumbass sticker (of course), a bunch of other rightwing crap on the other side (probably an NRA sticker in there somewhere), and these two bumper stickers, which are new to me [...]

Okay, so it might not look as impressive as the stuffed trout from last night, but boy howdy was this Spanish comfort food mighty tasty! How can it not be?: onions and garlic sautéed in olive oil 4-5 minutes, add sliced 1/2 zucchini and 1/2 red & 1/2 yellow bell peppers for 4-5 minutes, then [...]

In my effort to expand my culinary repertoire and eat more fish, I made this fish dish from my Spanish cookbook. It was a success, and not too difficult to do. The biggest pain was pulling bones out of the trout so that it could be stuffed and then cut in edible chunks upon being [...]

We saw how Lindsey Jacobellis counted her golden chickens 100 yards before they hatched, showed off, and then choked bigtime, and had to settle for a sour-tasting silver medal. Now we have another lesson to learn from a “brash American,” Bode Miller. What an asshole. Oh wait, that’s not the lesson. The lesson is: don’t [...]

Unlike Lindsey Jacobellis the Showboater, Safa and I completed our sledding runs without mishap. Nashville actually got measurable and stickable snow on Saturday and we took advantage of it. We also got the coldest night of the year at 12 degrees AND we got a power outage from about 1:30-3:30AM, which meant no heat and [...]

I have no pity for Lindsey Jacobellis who, by showing off with an unnecessary “Method Air” (= fancyass midair move) 100 yards from the finish, choked the landing and lost a “guaranteed gold.” I do have pity for Maelle Ricker who was carried off on a stretcher after a much nastier spill and then forgotten [...]

I haven’t seen a James Bond movie in a long time, but finally I have a reason to see the latest once it’s made: Eva Green. The fetching French-Swedish actress who was one of the redeeming qualities of “Kingdom of Heaven” was announced as having been cast as Bond’s latest femme fatale, Vesper Lynd, in [...]

According to this CNET article, I am young and hip in my choice of computers. In fact, I’ve been young and hip for the past 16 years and will die young and hip. They surveyed laptop users at the hippest café in the hippest district of the hippest U.S. city (that would be SF, not [...]