Culinary tips regarding the Holy Bulb of Gilroy: The Onion.
For a hell of a good, funny tale of woe coupled with a killer recipe for spiked Apple Cider, read Tim Connor’s Hard Cider for Hard Times @ http://www.pocketexpressblog.com/2008/11/07/hard-cider-for-hard-times-food-and-drink
Happy Armistice Day or whatever the hell it is today – Frank

Gotta be the change in season – sleeping with windows open for the zippy autumn night chills; Jack back in preschool collecting germs to bring home them home like a disease vector; Elisa acquiring viruses from parent colleagues then kissing me goodnight with infected lips – which has given me …

 
They’re slow death from a happy tummy. A disease waiting for me to catch it, the bane of what little effort I put into the gym and the harbinger of ditching my regular clothes for muumuu’s and hospital johnnies.
 
They are mini corndogs.
 
Some cruel bastard came up with these intoxicating turdlets of deliciousness. I …

Chefs…Let’s just say that I don’t like them.  Not all of them, but the vast majority completely overshadows the few so it’s easier, in everyday chit chat, to state that I detest all them fuckers. The local ones who matter to me either know it or benefit somewhat because I’ve …

Funny thing about Nature is that for our 100,000 to 200,000 years as Homo sapiens Nature liked to kill us off pretty early in life. For most of our species’ run making it to forty meant you were really old. And dying of starvation in a ripe stand of wheat surrounded by slow, delicious animals was a possibility because all those roots, tubers and grains you’d consumed in life had fucked up your teeth something fierce, having ground the enamel off long before your hair could turn gray.