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Review of Lawrence Watt-Evans’ “The Unwilling Warlord”
So a few days ago I finished reading the second book in the Ethshar series by Lawrence Watt-Evans. It took a bit of time for it to get going, but I liked it in the end. The third book, The Unwilling Warlord, was quicker to get started. What I have really enjoyed about the Ethshar […]
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Stuff I’ve been (cooking and) eating lately
Honey Glazed Ham Buffalo Wings Big American Texas Poster Big American Texas Burger Big American Texas Burger Last night R. and I invited our friends A. and D. over for dinner. R. was working, and I had the day off so I spent the morning and afternoon in the kitchen cooking up dinner. A few […]
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Lawrence Watt-Evans “With a Single Spell”
Fictionwise.com With a Single Spell A few days ago I started reading Lawrence-Watt Evans’ “With a Single Spell”. At first, I didn’t like it. It took a while to get into the book. I didn’t like the protagonist. He was a lazy, entitled, selfish boy. I had a really hard time empathizing with him. I […]
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Movie Reviews: Up and Avatar
Avatar: a nice sci-fi movie Avatar Na’vi Amazing CGI for humans The annoying floating mountains Grandpa Carl’s flying (in the sky) house A bit before the new year, R. and I went to see the latest Pixar movie, カールじいさんの空飛ぶ家. Simply “Up” in America, and “Grandpa Carl’s flying house” in Japanese. I’ve noticed this trend before […]
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Lawrence Watt-Evans’ “The Misenchanted Sword”
Note that I actually purchased the ebook from fictionwise.com. And it was cheap: about $2 when I got it, but now it is back up to $6 it looks like. Huh. I found this book through Joseph Mallozzi’s blog / book club. It sounded interesting, and I liked that the author took the time to […]
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2009 Christmas Dinner at Tateru Yoshino Shiba Park Hotel
Menu proposé par le chef Rectangulaire Friande betterave, saint-jacques, truffes noir 赤と白と黒の四角い美食家風 Bouillon de faisan et sa garniture 記事のブイヨン仕立て 腿肉のキャベツ包みとクネル Terrine de choux aux truffes noires チリメンキャベツ、フォワグラ、黒トリュフのテリーヌ Poisson-tuile grillée d’écaille sauce beurre d’agrume, avec galette de p.d.t. et truffes 甘鯛のうろこ焼き ブール・アグリュム じゃがいもとトリュフのガレット Noisettes de chevreui á notre façon Rossini 野鹿のロッシニ風 Ou 又は Chapon roti aux truffes, sauce albuféra […]
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Adventures with Flat Everett
Flat Everett Goes to Shinjuku Station Flat Everett catches a train Flat Everett catches a train Flat Everett rides in style Flat Everett makes some Santa-style friends Flat Everett meets a sushi Chef Flatt Everett meets my niece Flat Everett is a new friend of ours that arrived in the mail the other day. My […]
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A Pre-Christmas Dinner
Let’s bake a pie The pie turned out reasonable This turkey is cooked Let’s make Ambrosia Fruit Salad Holy crap, whipping cream is hard! An improvised double broiler Honey glazed ham going into the oven The main table spread The dessert table I’ve been in Japan for a few years now, and I’ve really enjoyed […]
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Up next on the ebook reader: Lawrence Watt-Evans “The Misenchanted Sword”
Lawrence Watt-Evans’ Ethshar book series page. But cheaper at Fictionwise.com. Sadly. Come on Amazon, get some good low-price options going here! I love impulse buying books that can be digitally delivered! Over at Joseph Maolozzi’s blog they did a book-of-the-month club selection of The Misenchanted Sword: A Legend of Ethshar (Legends of Ethshar). I haven’t […]
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Cooking (Cookies) by the Book
Dave starts making cookies Gingerbread men A whole mess of cookies Trio of Cookies (alternate title: Cookies three ways) I committed to cooking dinner for my wife and some friends this week. One of the things I want to do is have some traditional Christmas desserts. So I decided to try making some Gingerbread Cookies. […]
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Foreign takes on Akihabara: fight!
Go and read this post over at Colony Drop by Sean, and then read the comments. I like Akihabara a lot. The first time I went there was back in the 1989 (I believe) when I came to Japan with my dad. I bought a portable CD player (a ridiculously impossible thing at the time) […]
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Top Chef: Tuna Sandwich
Top Chef: Tuna Sandwich I’ve been watching Top Chef season 6 lately. I really enjoy that show. I like eating good food, but I don’t know much about good food. I just like to eat it. I also like to eat bad food, which is great because that is the kind of food that I […]
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