Screwtop Winebottle

Some sort of carmelized onion, potato, spinach, copious feta...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:26:00 -0600

Some sort of carmelized onion, potato, spinach, copious feta frittata. Tasty.

#Recent food A sort of beef bourguignon with mushrooms and...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:25:00 -0600

#Recent food

A sort of beef bourguignon with mushrooms and guinness, that I winged. Was only ok. Potatoes were still good from the previous meal.

#Recent food My attempt at this so called Ducasse method...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:17:00 -0600

#Recent food

My attempt at this so called Ducasse method steak(previously). I got too anxious and didn’t let the Maillard reaction do its thing long enough. ALSO, my steak wasn’t from fracking Lobels. Still, not bad.

Paul Simon - The Northern Line Paul Simon performed an anecdote...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:57:00 -0600

Paul Simon - The Northern Line

Paul Simon performed an anecdote and its song in a barn in Exeter in 1965. Evidently the reel-to-reel this came from contains 14 more songs.

Related: BBC Radio 2 2007 - Mr Simon’s Big Trip (living and playing through England)

An exploration of the ‘missing’ 13 months in the life and career of Paul Simon, immediately before Simon and Garfunkel hit the big time.

Paco Peña - Bulerias When I was 15 I would fall asleep and...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:38:59 -0600

Paco Peña - Bulerias

When I was 15 I would fall asleep and dream of right hand technique like this. Effortless.

Today I’m realistic and would settle for the HANDCLAPS.

Interviewer to Scott Thompson: What happened to your voice? Dave...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:53:00 -0600

Interviewer to Scott Thompson: What happened to your voice?
Dave Foley: Oh, can I explain? Scott is preparing for his one-man show, Bea Arthur - The Final Days.

13 minute interview with The Kids in the Hall. Unrelated to his voice being gone in this interview but Scott talks about his being diagnosed and successfully treated for cancer last year. I’d not known… Anyway, love these guys.

“He’ll have you in a dither with his...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:27:04 -0600

“He’ll have you in a dither with his zitherlele.”

International intrigue has possessed me and my ukulele. I’m going to be happy for a while now.

A Little Miss (Went out to pi…….ck a flower) A...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:20:25 -0600

A Little Miss (Went out to pi…….ck a flower)

A cappella from the documentary Homemade Hillbilly Jam. A film about my favorite local, contrarian-(George brought the Whiskey!), disaffected, all-family, southern Missouri, hillbilly band Big Smith.

“Don’t call me trash til you slept in my trailer!”

Big Smith - Texas Can Wait

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:52 -0600

Big Smith - Texas Can Wait

"KP v.lucky to wring that lbw decision out of Enamul Haque: that was missing off-stump by a mile!..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:15:20 -0600

“KP v.lucky to wring that lbw decision out of Enamul Haque: that was missing off-stump by a mile! Bangladesh 163-5 and in trouble”

- A recent and favorite blog, “separated by a common language”, held a twitter competition. This above was the winner, explained.

Competition: RT to me a tweet (not by u) that is (unintentionally) so full of Americanisms or Briticisms that it would flummox a UKer/USer.

The prize: I’ll send you a packet of whatever cookies/biscuits you most miss from UK or US.

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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:30:00 -0600

Paul Simon and his son Harper Simon in the studio recording the...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:06:00 -0600

Paul Simon and his son Harper Simon in the studio recording the song Bingo; also, video of the vinyl record making process. My life as a guitar is a series of strums and it goes a little something like this.

Friday Night in San Francisco is a 1981 live album by Al Di...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:04:45 -0600

Friday Night in San Francisco is a 1981 live album by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia.

This album marks the period in my life that I like to think of as the greasy years. This is not where my life as a guitar started but where it was soon to go. These stories will all take place in my bedroom.

IRS tax forms do my head in. AND I even paid someone to do 99% of the form filling out work this...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:55:00 -0600

IRS tax forms do my head in. AND I even paid someone to do 99% of the form filling out work this year. The 1% is still too ponderous for my brain.

thekitchn’s Chocolate Toffee Matzo. So I bought matzo...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:18:00 -0600

thekitchn’s Chocolate Toffee Matzo.

So I bought matzo last night. And triscuits.

Cute overload — Panda Eyed Lamb - Lambing Live - BBC...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:46:53 -0600

Cute overload — Panda Eyed Lamb - Lambing Live - BBC Two

BBC2 - LambingLive

Springtime in Britain brings lambing season. It’s the biggest event in the farming calendar and, this year, BBC TWO will be there for every long night in the lambing shed. From young ewes lambing for the first time, to orphans who’ve lost, or been rejected, by their mothers. From the farmer’s hard graft and determination, to the glimmer of hope as a hypothermic lamb is nursed back to health – this is Lambing Live.

Over five nights in March, Kate Humble will be following this life and death drama as it unfolds on a 900 ewe sheep farm in South Wales. She’ll be joined by Countryfile presenter and farmer, Adam Henson, and the family who’ve been running this farm for generations, the Beavans. But this story doesn’t start in Spring. Since September, Kate’s been apprenticed to the Beavan family, grappling with the fundamentals of being a shepherdess. She’s been learning how to pick the best ram, how to raddle, how to trim feet and tails – next up will be her very first lambing in February. In March Kate will have to put her newfound skills into practice but, until then, there’s still a lot to learn……

How many lambs will be born? How many will survive? Watch and find out from Sunday 7th March on BBC TWO. And check the webpage for regular updates on the Lambing Live sheep as well as Kate’s trials as a shepherdess.

My kind of reality television.

Restored and modernized Balbegno Castle near Aberdeen is for...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:35:00 -0600

Restored and modernized Balbegno Castle near Aberdeen is for rent as a holiday home but I want it for my own.

Via noraleah comes the end to my happiness.

horowitz plays islamey by balakirev I’ll let the reader...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:05:54 -0600

horowitz plays islamey by balakirev

I’ll let the reader choose whether to listen eyes open or closed. I suggest a 6:52 stare.

rebeccalando: I would like to live in a world where this might...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:53:09 -0600

rebeccalando:

I would like to live in a world where this might actually help.

This is hilarious. It may not help in the biblical sense but it sure helped me this morning.

woollypocket.com - Woolly Pockets are flexible, breathable, and...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:13:38 -0600

woollypocket.com - Woolly Pockets are flexible, breathable, and modular gardening containers. They`come in two styles: those designed to be placed on horizontal surfaces, and those designed to be hung on walls for vertical gardening. You can use Woolly Pockets both indoors and out; they have built-in moisture barriers to help protect furniture, and they’re equally at home outside in the elements. They’re perfect for creating urban gardens where you have space to garden but no land to garden in. Woolly Pockets are lightweight and can be folded flat, which makes them very easy to use, move, and store just about anywhere.