rakemag This small-town lakeside joint is quickly becoming a small-town lakeside dining destination. Billy’s dramatically upgraded its almost twenty-year-old self with the arrival of chef Casey Leick, formerly of the 510 Restaurant. While the classic prime rib dinner and Lighthouse burger remain on the menu, they’re now joined by sauteed calf’s liver with onions and smoked … Read more
Ann and I would see eye-to-eye more often if I wore six-inch heels First, let me call attention to Steve Perry’s blog over at City Pages. He had the great idea of starting a Katherine Kersten haiku contest and he’s got some hilarious entries. Check it out. And, while we’re on the topic of blithering … Read more
The eyes of Texas…and the brains Two months ago, all us folks at the Rake were asked to name our favorite Texans. One of the knuckleheads who works here answered George W. She admitted she’d done so just to piss me off. I told her, though, that it didn’t bother me at all, but she’d … Read more
I foment world revolution and all I got was my face on a lousy t-shirt As one commenter on this blog said yesterday, this IS like making fun of the retarded kid. Ok, one more round of cruelty today then I promise I’ll leave them alone for a while…at least until I feel like it … Read more
Style beats substance every time Gee where do I start on the Strib’s redesign/repositioning? First, I guess anyone who’s been paying attention has heard the Strib was undergoing a redesign. It debuted today, and I must say I find the use of the pastel colors in the flag the most striking use of pastels since … Read more
Dumb and Dumber A very smart friend of mine…and I mean VERY smart…once said to me when I asked her how she’d accomplished so much at her very young age, “I always try to be the dumbest person in the room.” Now that was damn near impossible for her, I thought. But, she continued, “That’s … Read more
Roman Hruska: until now, the patron saint of government mediocrity You know you may be in trouble when you are a “Conservative” President and the the house organ of the American Fascist Party, the Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Page, takes you to task for the nomination of Harriet Miers. Actually, in one of the few … Read more
Gerrymandering. Wasn’t he the guy who played “The Beaver”? Here is the first line from Tom Delay’s statement on his indictment: “This morning, in an act of blatant political partisanship, a rogue district attorney in Travis County, Texas, named Ronnie Earle charged me with one count of criminal conspiracy.” Imagine, someone with prosecutorial power using … Read more
What’s a guy gotta do to get arrested in this country? The news today, if you are paying attention to anything other than Bush’s attempt to convince us he cares about poor people on the Gulf Coast, is that Private Lynndie England is going to prison for three years for her part in the Abu … Read more
It’s been ten years since this Nobel laureate last published a work of fiction, so the arrival of the English translation of Memories of My Melancholy Whores qualifies as a major event—even though, at just more than one hundred pages, it’s more novella than novel. Still, after a bit of journalism and the obligatory stab … Read more