Bean Porn

We ran out of frozen Borracho beans; so, a made a new batch today. Here’s the pot of beans and various spices waiting to be […]

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Corkscrews That Tick Me Off

I mean spirochetes, of course. They cause a legion of human maladies ranging from Leptospirosis to Syphilis to Lyme disease and Relapsing Fever – not […]

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Lamb Loin Porn

Tonight’s dinner was a baked lamb loin crusted in panko with a side of peewee potatoes and sauteed shitake mushrooms. The salad was fresh pineapple […]

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Stupid is as Stupid Does

You may remember this famous schoolyard retort popularized by Sally Field in the 1994 movie Forrest Gump. It means that we reveal ourselves through our […]

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The Permanent Record

Susan and I have been rewatching the 90s TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We are now just a few episodes from the series finale. […]

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21st Century Caligula

You may remember that the Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus aka Caligula had a four-year reign from AD 37 to AD 41. It ended […]

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Puppies and Kittens

In the TV horror genre series Z-Nation, one of the protagonists announces the approach of marauding hordes of zombies with the proclamation, “Puppies and Kittens.” […]

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Building Blocks

Nature builds living things from building blocks. The basic blueprints of life are written in four chemical basis – their letters are A-G-T-C. Triads of […]

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Innuendo

I’ve been a bit distracted this week what with getting the Roomba vacuum set up and cleaning up the place. And then there is the […]

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Terms of Service

You buy a new computer program, maybe TurboTax or a game, and you install it on your PC or laptop. Before it installs, you see […]

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