If you happen to have homeade chicken broth, so much the better. I didn’t have any croutons, though, and they would have been yummy. 1 qt. chicken broth2-3 c. dried cheese tortellini (woo hoo!)1 10-oz. can of diced tomatoes (good ones)1/2 bunch spinach, chopped1 10-oz. can of white kidney (cannawhatsit) beans1/2 tsp. thyme1 clove garlic, […]
There are many kinds of monkeys, but they all smell the same. Bad. –Bubbles. (From the character commentaries on the PPG Movie.) (Ray’s going through the extra features, runs across the Bubbles commentary, yadda yadda yadda: “She talks a lot!” Lee and I crack up.)
Went to Pan’s Labyrinth last night. What other people have been saying is true: this is an adults-only movie. That being said, I would disagree this is a fantasy; I see it being more of a horror movie. Remember Vincent Price? Those were horror movies. Pan’s Labyrinth is a horror movie. The stuff we call
Old Fish, New Fish. Lee got a new fish today, a black goldfish with a tail like a kite and disgustingly bulging eyes. He let me name it Alucard. Update: Lee says it’s a black moor.
More book reviews… The Grand Tour, Patricia C. Wrede & Carolyn Stevermer. Not as good as The Enchanted Chocolate Pot. For some reason, the authors chose to have the characters travel together and write diaries instead of travelling apart and writing letters…so, there’s a lot of “my version of events” “your version of events.” And
misology (mi-SOL-uh-jee) noun Hatred of logic or reason. [From Greek miso- (hate) + -logy (science, study).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
Behind again. Here are more book reviews: Magic or Madness, by Julie Larbalestier. If you use magic, you use up life. If you don’t use magic, you go crazy. First part of a trilogy — I plan to read the rest of it. The writing is straightforward and good. YA. Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon. What
I went through a brief pagan phase a number of years ago; it didn’t last long. I thought about it too much and let it go — but I kept a sense of the passing of the seasons, and a sense that events can be influenced, by changing yourself more than anything else. This was
