Great pick of the Diamondbacks, eh? Compassionate readers for the most part decided to withhold their “what are you thinking!?” comments on me picking against a team that had lost once in a month and clearly have some scintillating mojo warped right into their wheelhouse. Here’s my excuse, and confession: I have seen Brandon Webb … Read more
Simply the best, most entertaining food site I know: check out Eat Drink One Woman. It’s the project of a young New Yorker named Ganda (rhymes with Wanda), who polls random people on what they eat, provides knock-out recipes, and makes touching, honest, memoir-ish entries that make me feel more human. Also hungry.
October is Fair Trade Month (in addition to being Breast Cancer Awareness Month and, strangely, National Popcorn Month) and in observance of this, Peace Coffee will host an appearance by Monika Firl, Coffee Farming & Production Liaison of Cooperative Coffees, and Teresa Ortiz — a local activist, organizer, immigration expert and former Director of el … Read more
lottalotta couscous Sometimes I get ahead of myself. Getting all wound up with the protein and veg portion of the meal, I end up rather conceding the starch. God, not another pot of mashed potatoes, boring and blah no matter what cheese/herb/sauce is added. Oh, another loaf of bread warmed in the oven? Sure. What … Read more
READINGS True Lies As a former editor here, Jennifer Vogel penned some excellent Rake stories: on the emptying of North Dakota, on the necessity of libraries, on walking around a city that’s not exactly pedestrian-friendly. But none was as, uh, memorable as her own memoir, Flim-Flam Man, a book about life with a father who … Read more
Verlyn Klinkenborg of the New York Times comments here on our state’s pathology of politeness and the tentative nature of most female writers. As a Minnesota writer and a woman who tends to err on the side of brashness, I’m curious what others think. . . .
Take this simple test in Australia’s Herald Sun.
Finally, people are beginning to question why Ann Coulter gets invited to television.
According to Zooillogix, “a military contractor known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is utilizing robotic hybrid insects for surveillance and intel gathering.”