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Ceramics Saturdays: Taos Ware

There are a few Puebloan pottery styles that eschew glazing in favor of simply burnishing the dried clay with a curved potsherd to a gloss. In the case of Taos ware, this technique allows the glittering mica flecks embedded in the local red clay to shine–as they do in this gorgeous bean pot by PamContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Taos Ware”

Friday Favorites: Cocktails

I like cocktails because they’re the cooking of drinking. Instead of opening a bottle or can, you make something. I generally like to improvise cocktails with whatever I have in the frig/on the tree at the moment, using the following formula: But I also have go-to cocktails–most of which come from three sources: the SouthwestContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Cocktails”

For Fall: Marrakesh Express Cocktail

This is one of my all-time favorite cocktails for any season, but it’s particularly nice in fall when you start being able to get pomegranates at the grocery store. The recipe is by Maggie Hoffman, one of my favorite food writers. I replace the simple syrup with maple syrup a lot of times because, asContinue reading “For Fall: Marrakesh Express Cocktail”

Eric Jacobus’s Video Essay on Donnie Yen’s Action Style

I loved every minute of this savvy and engaging deep-dive for fans of Donnie Yen and/or martial-arts films. Jacobus (a stuntman, action designer, and indie action filmmaker) breaks down Yen’s filmography with aplomb–including several films that even *I* haven’t seen, and I consider myself a pretty major Yen fangirl.

Ceramics Saturdays: Ácoma pottery

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”

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”