While living in France I had the chance to sample all sorts of different foods. There was the simple, cheap joy of a beef and lamp kebob, the hearty warmth of a traditional Alsatian plate – Sausage, bratwurst, ham and potatoes. The crunch softness of a real French baguette, filled my soul like […]
Popularity: 12% [?]
Filed under:
France on February 23rd, 2007
That right there, is the highest bridge to ever be built. It is currently still underconstruction in the mountain range of Massif in France. It is approximately 984 feet high, which istaller then the Eiffel Tower.
Click on the picture to be taken to a blog with more info and some spectacular pictures.
Popularity: 10% [?]
Popularity: 10% [?]
This week is not quite as interesting as the last, but still there is a pretty good selection of pictures to choose from. For a bac-o-bit of information that you neither asked for, nor need, nor has anything to do with this article, I’ve only just this week discovered Curb Your Enthusiasm. Love […]
Popularity: 11% [?]
“Embraceable You” – Billie Holiday
From The Complete Commodore Recordings
I often say that Montgomery, Alabama, a place where I lived for a number of years, is the buckle of the Bible Belt. It is, to put it kindly, a very conservative place with about two churches on every corner. While there, I met a beautiful young […]
Popularity: 9% [?]
Ok, I’m sorry. I forgot this was due yesterday. Can’t say that I was busy then, mainly just sat around the house too afraid to step outside into the cold misery. Really, I did forget and I said I’m sorry, what more can you want? Blood? My soul? Ok, […]
Popularity: 19% [?]
For those of you with long memories, or an extended curiosity of my sidebar, you may know that I used to write a regular article entitled “Fresh Boots”. This series was dedicated to the new bootlegs I had acquired over the previous week. It was a good piece, I thought, and it isn’t […]
Popularity: 11% [?]
A friend of mine and I used to toss around the idea of creating our own local advertisement agency. The local part of that never really mattered, since anywhere you go the commercials for the local places are god-awful. We figured we could do a better job of it, and as such could […]
Popularity: 13% [?]
Beware the Ides of February kids, and remember the Man in your youth, or the crap that you done back then will bite you in the arse. That’s Shakespeare, right there, he wrote the Bible, so he knows a few things about love.
Fathom my surprise when upon looking at the little kitty calendar […]
Popularity: 10% [?]
Filed under:
Personal on February 14th, 2007
I’m giving the CD Pick of the Week another shot. It really helps things along when a fellow Blogcritics gets his list of CDs being released for the week out on time. Otherwise I have to go to other sources and they never format things properly.
Lucinda Williams: West
How the crap did I […]
Popularity: 11% [?]
There are lots of great movies to choose from this week. It’s really almost impossible to choose just one. I have to go back to the whole concept of my pick of the week. There have been several weeks now where the pick was really easy, but it didn’t necessarily mean that […]
Popularity: 10% [?]