So I saw What’s Up, Tiger Lily?, the Woody Allen film about a bunch of Japanese spies running around looking for the world’s greatest egg salad recipe.  This inspired me to make some egg salad, which I ate on a bagel for lunch. But this started me thinking: What is the world’s greatest egg salad […]

So a visit to the local farmers’ market produced beefsteak tomatoes, lemon cucumbers, and sweet corn.  I would have bought more but we’re flat out of space on the counters and in the refrigerator. So I’m thinkin’ roast chicken tonight, with a tomato-and-cucumber salad and roasted ears of sweet corn.  Maybe the tomatoes and cukes […]

I just watched the first few episodes of Season Six of Entourage, which features the premiere of Vinnie Chase’s new movie, The Great Gatsby, directed by Martin Scorsese.  I am unclear whether Vinnie is playing Gatsby or Nick Carraway.  (I sure as hell can’t see him as Gatsby.) In fact I can’t really see anyone […]

Sage Walker and I used to call this band “the teenage Finnish witches,” for all that they haven’t been teenagers for a while now.   While they’re not teenagers, they’re still pretty witchy. And come to that, Teenage Finnish Witches would be a good name for a band. My paternal grandmother, by the way, was an […]