I’m starting a series on Pueblo pottery: while I won’t be able to do all 19 pueblos here, I’ll highlight my favorite styles, starting with Ácoma. I love the monochromatic color scheme and the geometric decorations. The rounded shapes also feel either very old (cf. Mimbres) or very modern to me as well. Ácoma isContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Ácoma pottery”
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Friday Favorites: ABQ sights and Restaurants
I’m here for a conference this weekend, and several of my colleagues asked me for recommendations of what to see and where to eat in town, so I thought I would just compile them here: Things to Do/See/Eat in ABQ: North/West side: Old town/Downtown South Valley University district/Nob Hill Heights/Sandias:
I went east
I went east to meet the mountain this morning It blinked its sleepy, sunny eyes at me rubbed its rosy, stony cheeks and asked, What are you going to do today? I shrugged and said, The same thing I do every day, I guess: Try and fail Fall in love and get my heart brokenContinue reading “I went east”
Wrestling with the Angel: In Memoriam Bruno Latour
The first time I met Bruno Latour, I brought with me a copy of his newest book (at the time) An Inquiry into Modes of Existence. I had some questions for him about it, which he was generously willing to answer. There was just one problem: my dog Jasper had gotten hold of the bookContinue reading “Wrestling with the Angel: In Memoriam Bruno Latour”
Apple Makgeolli
To celebrate receiving my new ceramic cups from Jeewon Jeong, I brewed a batch of fall apple makgeolli adding peels from some of my Honeycrisp apples to this recipe. It came out great—my best batch yet. (The teapot I used to serve it was thrown by a talented local potter around here, Joe Winter.) EvenContinue reading “Apple Makgeolli”
Aikido and Rhetoric: Dignity
Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small. To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. Morihei Ueshiba Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth – that no evilContinue reading “Aikido and Rhetoric: Dignity”
Friday Favorites: Perfume Houses and Blogs
If some people can be called clothes-horses, I’m a perfume-horse. I wear it pretty much daily (though only in amounts you can smell if you’re me or hugging me). Fragrance preferences are super personal, but here are the houses and review sites I’ve had good luck with:
High-Protein Avocado Toast
Well, at least higher protein…. I mocked avocado toast until I had the version from Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco. I think the key was really good Acme bread, to be honest, but they also added some nice, crunchy sprouts and a spritz of lemon juice. Anyway, it got me seeing avocado toast inContinue reading “High-Protein Avocado Toast”
Ceramics Saturdays: The Poem Jars of David Drake
Boy, I would kill to be in NYC right now: there’s an exhibit on at the Met of the poem jars of David Drake, an enslaved ceramicist from South Carolina. Unusually, he signed his large-format storage jars, pitchers, and other vessels. Even more unusually, he etched short poems into many: (the one above reads “IContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: The Poem Jars of David Drake”
Baking in a Basque Oven
The area where I live is rich in Basque tradition, owing to a wave of immigration in the late 1800s by shepherds hired by the big sheep-ranching outfits here. (Little known fact: the Australian Shepherd dog is actually a Basque breed; the dogs immigrated from Australia alongside their Basque owners to work the sheep hereContinue reading “Baking in a Basque Oven”
The Rookery 