NOVEMBER THEME
The Harvest
My Favorite Things to Eat: A Former New Yorker Talks About Food
What are my favorite things to eat? Good question. Thanks for asking. Bagels. Mozzarella. And what are the two foods I loved most in New York that I can’t find now that I live
Fruit Flavored Terror: Monster Memories
As a kid I loved monsters. Not the ones that hid under the bed or lived in the closet obviously - those were terrifying and nightmare inducing if one actually managed to get to
The Worst Guy to Have Dinner with in Ancient Greece
Once upon a time there lived a guy named Tantalus who was, for reasons that will become clear, a rather unpleasant fellow. Tantalus was the king of a place called Sipylus and had a
John Oliver on Why Americans Waste Food
Last night John Oliver on Last Week Tonight discussed the ridiculous reasons we in America waste nearly 1/3 of our food. We we throw enough food in this country to fill 730 football stadiums worth
The Essence of Spam: Things You May Not Have Known About the Canned Wonder & the Electronic Annoyance
Recently this site was attacked by that most dreadful of foes, an army of relentless and tireless robots; robots with only one goal, to deliver their package of evil and horror. A payload so unpleasant
“Where the search for the truth is
conducted with a wink and a nod,
And where power and position are
equated with the grace of God,
These times are famine for the soul
while for the senses it’s a feast,
From the edge of my country,
as far as you see, looking east.”
― Jackson Browne
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