Lobster Quiche - Whip It Real Good: A perfect late summer lunch or dinner item, accompanied with a salad of garden greens, ripe tomato, and a simple vinaigrette. And discipline. ... Read More
Taste Test Suzy’s Super Sex Bomb Hot Sauce!
To my abominable foodie friends: After scrutinizing the canon of the culinary grimoire and subsequent trials and tribulations within the dark laboratory, ... Read More
Bowie Memories
In my bedroom in DC, listening to an FM station during a raging thunderstorm. I remember hearing "Riders on the Storm" (Doors, obv.) and thinking that cut was pretty apropos. The next song was "Fame". Inexplicably, the thunderclaps from the storm coincided perfectly with the percussion and lyrical crescendos throughout the song. it was a perfectly synchronous auditory experience. Radio wavelengths crackling across the ionosphere, ... Read More
Lunch with The Moms at Ashby’s Deli Kennebunk Maine
Momcat: (tucking into a massive pulled pork sandwich) “No ones invited us over for Thanksgiving, have they?” Me: “Not yet. Maybe we should be nicer to people.” Momcat: “Sounds like a lot of effort.” ... Read More
April – River Road
After several more attempts to call I was connected to a taciturn manager to whom I managed to adequately explain the nature of, and the reason for my inquiry. “So you’re the nut on River Road with the sign in your front yard?” he asked. "I take umbrage at that characterization sir, but yes, I am the curator and editor of The Sign of the Apocalypse!" "I thought it was a new church for a while," he confided. "Love your work. My family talks about it at the dinner table almost every night!" ... Read More
Redeemed Repaired
Unfortunately, she was not willing, and as much as I wheedled, diddled, and choked her, she simply would not start. Nothing to it but take her over to Ray’s Redeemed and Repaired Small Engine Shop for a proper tune-up. ... Read More