I’d like to give a shout-out to the Weather Gods, because apparently they read my blog. Back in August, when I complained that none of the monsoon rains that were pelting the rest of the state were hitting my neighborhood, the Weather Gods responded, and hammered the district with a series of storms that washed […]

Skin crispy all over . . . Note that the drumstick is beginning to fall off even before I have laid so much as a fork to the epidermis. Kathy deserves credit for the meal, really. All I did was make the Highly Dangerous Stuffing the night before. (Sausage, bacon, butter, hard-boiled eggs, onion, garlic, […]

From David Ceska’s Thanksgiving piece:With The Sopranos finale as precedent, whenever I or any of my writer colleagues are stuck for an ending, we’re now empowered to just stop the thing in mid-sentence somewhere near the end and just walk away. If someone calls us on it, we can point to David Chase’s “artistic” example. […]

For those celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday, have a lovely one. For those not celebrating the holiday, have a nice Thursday, wherever you are. If you are celebrating Thanksgiving, you’re going to get sick of turkey pretty soon and need an alternative. And if you’re not celebrating Thanksgiving, you’ll need something to eat anyway. That’s why […]