20 December, 2009

Meat Pies: Australian For Food

I’m a god now…
…well, according to my lovely daughter at any rate.  Find out why and how I’ve achieved godhood by reading my Meatist column on Australian meat pies.
(My wife thinks I’m a god too. Of SEXY-time.)

December 20th, 2009 | The Meatist | , , , | 2 comments
12 December, 2009

Double Your Meaty Pleasure

Meat sauce, nitrous, and couscous.
In case you’ve missed them, my two latest Meatist columns are available on the New Times website.
The December 4th column is on meat sauces and features my friend Robey’s Bolognese recipe as well as a meaty alfredo sauce.
December 11 finds me doing whippets in the walk-in while learning about combining sausage [...]

December 12th, 2009 | The Meatist | , , , , , , | One comment
12 December, 2009

Stupid Heads

This is where I live.
Is it too much to ask that my kids’ teachers know at least a little more than my kids?  I’m constantly getting emails from school staff with horrible grammar, misspellings, and, of course, what I call the spastic colon (is it really that hard to understand that plural’s don’t get colon’s [...]

December 12th, 2009 | Thought It | , | 5 comments
3 December, 2009

Shit That’s Got To Stop

If I were king (not queen, not prince, not duke)
I’m the first to admit that I’m easily irritated.  At least once a day (though I’ll admit that number can go as high as 40 or 50 times a day), I’ll complain to Joanna about something that really “irritates the shit out of me” (an expression [...]

December 3rd, 2009 | Thought It | , | 27 comments
1 December, 2009

Barnes & Noble Delays nook Shipment

Gives textbook lesson on how NOT to treat customers.
Note: This article originally appeared on Technorati.
Everyone knew that the Barnes & Noble nook (yes, they irritatingly spell it with an e.e. cummings-style lower case “n”) eReader would be popular. EPUB, eReader and native PDF support, memory expansion, Wi-Fi , the ability to share books among [...]

December 1st, 2009 | Thought It | , , | 3 comments