Gripe About MyspaceI recently tried to cancel my Myspace account, because it is causing “personal drama”. It’s an incredibly difficult process these days. You have to confirm twice that you want to cancel, and write why. Then, you have to receive an e-mail and click on a link in that to confirm once more that [...]

Whale Rider Movie ReviewWhale Rider is a lovely little movie about a rural Maori town in New Zealand and their search for a leader. It’s about the struggle for a little girl to be accepted, about the struggle between tradition and modern ideas, fulfilling your dreams, and about love within a family and within a [...]

New – Most Simple Delectable Recipe for Trout RoeMy husband caught a beautiful trout a few nights ago. It was full of roe (that’s fish eggs, also known as caviar). I’ve had commercial caviar before, you eat it on crackers with champagne. And I’ve had catfish, bluegill and bass roe before. They are in a [...]

Ice Cream – The Natural AlternativeThere are hundreds of ice cream flavors on the market. And many of them taste very good. Unfortunately, most ice cream is full of fake stuff… high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, preservatives, etc. Yuck.
I have found a great alternative. No, not some fancy expensive alternative. Just Breyer’s Natural Vanilla. [...]

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonThis is a neat little book that I read almost in one day. I found a lot of myself in it. Some of you may think that this statement is odd. After all, it’s about a British girl growing up in a small town under a severely [...]

Kitchen Tip #1 – time-saving onionsTo make onions easy to deal with (and take advantage of sales, especially on specialty onions like vidalias), chop several onions at once, then freeze for later use. Do the same with carrots, broccoli, and other like veggies.
Thanks to xandert and Morguefile for the photo.

Melvin Durai, the Rajah of HumorI subscribe to a lot of newsletters, but my favorite is the “Funny Columns” from self-described “writer Melvin Durai, who was born in India, raised in Zambia and brainwashed in America”. He apparently now lives in Canada (go Canada!), and most of his columns have a sarcastic political message, often [...]

Movie Review: The Science of SleepI started watching this movie, expecting a documentary from BBC or the Discovery Channel about sleep and dreams. It was definitely not that, but something much better. A Michel Gondry film. The director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, many of Bjork’s music videos, and several other amazing works, [...]

Movie Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindI absolutely love to see Jim Carey in a serious role. I think that Kate Winslet is beautiful. Charlie Kaufman (screenwriter for Adaptation and Being John Malkovich among others) is brilliant. And I think that Michel Gondry is an absolute genius. It also has Elijah Wood and Kirsten [...]

Quick Kitchen Tip #2 – Save money by stretching your meatIf you stretch your meat with pasta, potatoes, veggies, etc. you can buy even expensive cuts of meat and fish with relatively little cost. Most Americans (and people in other developed countries) eat too much meat anyway, and need more fruits and vegetables in their [...]