on the day after Thanksgiving i wrote a post about our dinner (crispy skin duck, brussels sprouts, sour cream apple pie, bottle of Chinon) and a highly intellectual conversation regarding narcissism, psychosis, and the Peter Pan Complex, or Puer Aeternus in Latin (meaning Eternal Boy). unfortunately our guest asked me to please refrain from posting [...]
Canine Sherman’s fentanyl patch… this week surgery is definitely in the air. the coffee grinder needed fixing… the WOPR got checked out, and i swapped out my laptop’s old hard drive for a new crazy fast solid state drive. wowee! it’s like driving a Prius. no moving parts. silent. the only thing i will miss [...]
It’s the end of summer, and Canine Sherman is happy to share her summer reading list. She’s busy writing her summer vacation essay too, titled “My Trip to the Soft Touch Plus.”
Light arriving at an opaque surface is like me arriving at a buffet. it’s all about which dish will be rejected and which dish will be ingested, since the color of something is determined by which wavelengths of light are reflected and which wavelengths are absorbed. turn away all wavelengths and you are a big [...]
just spent a week up in Mendocino County, tooting around on the beaches and in the fog. there were tide pools full of mussels, apparently the third tallest redwood tree in the world (i couldn’t say for sure because a) i couldn’t see the top of the tree, and b) there were conservation guys who [...]
there’s a theme going on here, but i’m not sure what it is. pretty much it’s a study in color&composition, or two instances of “one of these things is not like the others.”
joy comes in so many flavors these days, and here’s Canine Sherman’s favorite way to express it: joy also comes in the form of salted caramel ice cream. the recipe calls for 5 egg yolks and a shitload of milk/butter/cream. turn the orphaned egg whites into pizza dough, top with salami, avocado and fall tomatoes [...]
but sand will still fly off your shoes in the most unpredictable way…
a messload of legal hubbubery between the California Coastal Commission and David Geffen has resulted in a little coastal access pathway leading from the PCH to the nice stretch of beach in front of some expensive houses. despite the security guy (who takes long lunch breaks in between taking advantage of people who aren’t sure [...]
