This week’s theme: words that have many unrelated meanings. fizgig (FIZ-gig) noun 1. A squib: a type of firework made with damp powder that makes a hissing sound when exploding. [From fizz, a clipping of fizzle, from fysel (to break wind).] 2. A kind of top spun by pulling a string wound around it. 3. […]
I love books. The books I love most themselves contain love–they’re either about love, or they celebrate the love of something in particular. I threw in a lot of series, so I didn’t bother counting them exactly, but I think I’m around fifty entries. I tried to keep away from the things everyone listed, but
Same rules, different list, from Kate: Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie * Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery * Black Beauty, Anna Sewell Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte Confessions of An Ugly
The instructions were: Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved. 1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien * 2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov3. Dune, Frank Herbert * 4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert
McCormick spices puts together a flavor forecast every year. In 2007: Clove and Green Apple Thyme and Tangerine Tellicherry Black Pepper and Berry Sea Salt and Smoked Tea Lavender and Honey Crystallized Ginger and Salted Pistachio Cumin and Apricot Toasted Mustard and Fennel Seeds Wasabi and Maple Caramelized Garlic and Riesling Vinegar I could do
Carrie Newcomer will be in Colorado Springs on May 4, and in Highlands Ranch on May 6.
Using the 5,000 ft. elevation recipe in Pie in the Sky, I successfully made cracker-crisp French bread. Victory! Today: test Grandma Bouzek’s bread maker…
Watched this over Christmas… Dang. One of the few movies with a transcendental ending that’s able to pull it off. What the Matrix could have been, had it been about 50 times cooler. Saying Akira is a seminal anime is like saying Shakespeare was a seminal playwright….oh, it’s not Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it’s better
Thinking about getting a coffee roaster. Does 3 oz. at a time, costs $85, and beans are about $4/pound. Also, it’s supposed to taste heavenly.
There is a horror of too much information. (Not TMI, as it were.) Instead of trying to find out what things man ought not to know of, we should stick with the tried and true…a sentiment shared by Jorge of Burgos (The Name of the Rose) and the Cthulu stories. I wonder whether I should
