When the men had limbed their haul of timber and lumped it into pyramids on their sledges and dragged it creaking over the snow back to the village, when the sun had broken and run on the horizon like a watery egg, when the night had bled in enough from the east that you couldContinue reading “Advent Calendar Story (Owl in Winter): Day Two”
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Advent Calendar Story (Owl in Winter): Day 1
I had so much fun doing my advent calendar story a couple years ago that I thought I’d do one again this year. My Christmas theme this year is Enchanted Forest, and the advent calendar in my collection that fits the theme best is a beautiful one my friend Steph gave me several years agoContinue reading “Advent Calendar Story (Owl in Winter): Day 1”
Colonial Thanksgiving
I love this woman’s channel: she cooks like it’s 1799, with zero commentary. This Thanksgiving dinner looks pretty legit, and you know I’m a sucker for live-fire cooking. Happy Thanksgiving! youtube.com/watch
ESC #30: Birthday Edition
I had kinda given up on ever being able to make the “linguine ricci di mare” recipe from my Try file because it involves fresh sea-urchin roe (most commonly known by its Japanese name, uni). When its fresh, uni is one of the best things you can put in your mouth on the planet: itContinue reading “ESC #30: Birthday Edition”
Ceramics Saturdays: Aga Khan Museum
I knew next to nothing about Islamic ceramics when I walked into the Aga Khan Museum of Islamic Art in Toronto last month. I knew they had beautiful faïence wares, often intricately decorated, but that was about it. The collection at Aga Khan blew my mind–in particular the Bellerive Room, which showcases Prince Sadruddin’s personalContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Aga Khan Museum”
Loading…Review of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (for Switch)
I’ll just get straight to it–the reasons to play this game are (1) the characters and their development (2) the design of the world and how it looks on the Switch (3) the combat dashboard, which manages to winnow a quite technical JRPG combat system down to something that’s not only playable but enjoyable. ReasonsContinue reading “Loading…Review of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (for Switch)”
ESC #29
In which we encounter the only true failure of the ESC series to date…. An Asian theme on this one. The winner for everyone was the dessert. The lumpia were very good as well, and the chive green beans straightforward and flexible. David Chang’s Spicy Pork Sausage Ragu with Rice Cakes was the problem here;Continue reading “ESC #29”
Madame Cleo
A throwback for anyone who watched late-night TV in the 90s…. I get the biggest kick out of these shorts filmed by a mom of 2 (now 3!) sighthounds, so I thought I’d share silken windhound Cleo’s Halloween production with you. (Make sure to tune into part 2 as well. Boo!) youtube.com/shorts/4bTH5-ayvD4
Drama Queen: Black Knight
I actually watched this one a year ago, I think, but never posted on it. But after I watched Officer Black Belt with Kim Woo Bin, which was awful, I went back and rewatched Black Knight to remind myself what he can do with a decent script and director. Black Knight is based on aContinue reading “Drama Queen: Black Knight”
Loading…Review of Spiritfarer
You know when you don’t want to say goodbye to a character in a video game that you’re having a special experience. That’s the main strength of Spiritfarer: the designers at Thunder Lotus have put so much effort into crafting the various spirits you pamper, cajole, and coax into the afterlife that it’s hard toContinue reading “Loading…Review of Spiritfarer”
The Rookery 