Yesterday’s post was a little heavy, man. So today I propose lighter fare. Here’s a flip book extravaganza from the great time waster, YouTube: A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything I will give credit where it’s due: I found…
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Eating and Killing
If you think the blog title today is brutal, you must be a Fruitarian. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it’s for people who only eat fruit. There are also strains of vegans that only eat food fallen naturally from…
The Art of Making
Last night I got several hours free in the kitchen so I made things. To work with your hands at a simple task that creates food from raw ingredients, this is a pure joy for me. I made a new…
The Tragedy to Beat All Tragedies
My wife likes to pick out movie to watch based on sometimes inscrutable logic. Recently she checked out “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” from the library. I’m only giving you one spoiler alert and this is it, though even if you…
Shopping And “Shopping”
On Friday I made the mistake of going to Trader Joe’s. I love Trader Joe’s—the quality and variety of food, the prices and specialty items, the friendly service. But every time I go there I want to shoot myself in…
Don’t Panic! It’s Organic…
It’s an overused phrase and I’m finding it to be less and less true. Part of my food revelation is that “organic” is a very loose term and can hide all manner of sins. If we just go by the…
Food Should be Good
I suppose it’s all been building up to this. I’ve been trying to shop the outside of the grocery store. And buy more organic items. I’m reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Two nights ago we watched Food, Inc. …
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Gotta Bun in Da Oven?
This may come as a shock to some people, but women of the world are having babies. I know, I’m all smart an stuff, right? When my wife got pregnant she did a great job of wearing cool clothes and…
Art is Subjective
I love that my daughter makes art at school. It first started when she was an infant—her teachers put a paint-covered marble in a jar with a rolled up piece of paper and had her shake it around. I’m looking…
[cough cough]
Hey kids! Here’s a tip: when you’re feeling sick, don’t go out and exercise in cool weather. What might’ve been a minor cold last week turned into an epic deep lung cough. So…yeah, don’t do what I did. However, we…
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