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About Me

Alla rriba, rriba En ual de roncales, Tengo yo mi esca Y mis pedernales Y mi curroncito De cieruos cieruales, Hago yo mi lumbre Sientome doquiera...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The Wicker Man, the Green Man, and the Green Children of Woolpit.

My Blog

Pizza wheel to grind...

One from the archives! There cannot be a greater city for pizza in the entire world than New York. Naples, as the folkloric birthplace of pizza as we know it, will probably always be able to claim "Hi...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:57:00 GMT

Forget YouTube...

My top ten desert island Wikipedia articles of the moment!   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism_in_the_Eastern_Alps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_chord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:22:00 GMT

Tartan Week

I looked out the window at work on this fifth day of Tartan Week to see hundreds of shmura matzah-laden RVs streaming up Sixth Avenue in the annual Lubatvitcher Rebbe "Mitvah Tank" Parade.&n...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:58:00 GMT

Urban Appalachia

My toilet is broken.  So I have no indoor plumbing, my dusty wooden floors are strewn with bottles and there's at least one bird loose in my home.  I have holes in my clothes and I need...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:53:00 GMT

I need three pints of duck fat...

...and I don't want to pay for it.  I don't suppose anyone can help me with this.
Posted by on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 07:08:00 GMT

What I've been eating...

The obvious self-absorption involved in maintaining a blog always irritated me, but Ive since gotten over that enough to indulge my own gastronomical narcissism.  This is my online food diary...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:03:00 GMT