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Mediterranean Chicken Stew with Cinnamon Couscous
This may look disgusting from my crummy iPhone 3GS photo, but it was actually delicious. View the original recipe at The Kitchn for better photos. Followed exactly, there was enough left after dinner for five lunches. for chicken stew 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 medium onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, minced 2 teaspoons dried oregano 1 (28-ounce) can crushed tomatoes, in puree 1 (15-ounce) can chickpeas, rinsed and drained 1 cup low sodium chicken broth 2 bay leaves Pepper, to taste 1 rotisserie chicken, cut into bite sized pieces, skin removed 1/2 cup pitted kalamata olives, coarsely chopped 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice for cinnamon couscous 2 cups low…
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Happy Idiot
I watch the jocks come out in the post parade. one will win the race. the others will lose. but each jock must win sometime in some race on some day, and he must do it often enough. or he is done as a jockey. it’s like the girls on the street trying to score for their pimp or each of us sitting over a typewriter tonight or tomorrow or next week or next month and doing it well enough once in a while or he is done as a writer, he’s a whore who can’t score. I think I would like a little more kindness in the structure but…
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Directors Guild of America’s Tribute to Steven Spielberg
If you follow any weblog that covers film news, you’ve probably seen this, but if not I thought I’d post it here. Hosted by J.J. Abrams and James Cameron, it’s just under two hours of discussion with Steven Speilberg on how some of your (or at least my) favourite stories came to be. At the very least it’s an interesting look into one man’s approach to storytelling.
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Old Man Logan
Old Man Logan by Mark Millar Illustrated By: Steve McNiven Format: Trade Paperback Comic Published: 2008 Publisher: Marvel The second Mark Miller comic I mooched during my time in Vancouver was Old Man Logan. It’s a ‘what if’ story, set fifty years in the future in a world where the supervillains won. They teamed up for once and managed to kill most of the superheroes in America. Wolverine, who now only goes by Logan, is one of the few left alive, and he’s just trying to live life with his small family on a farm. He hasn’t drawn his claws, or hurt anyone, for fifty years, not since he went…
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Civil War
Civil War by Mark Millar Illustrated By: Steve McNiven Format: Trade Paperback Comic Published: 2006 Publisher: Marvel About eight years ago I decided it would be fun to get back into reading comics. I hadn’t read any since I was a kid, so I wandered into the comic book shop and picked up the first thing that caught my eye – the trade for Ultimate X-Men Vol. 1 by Mark Miller. The Ultimate line was a non-canonical reboot of some of Marvel’s most popular books. It was a great idea, as it meant new readers could jump in without needing to know everything that had been happening for the last…
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Bastion Soundtrack
Here’s a quick selection from the Bastion OST I mentioned earlier, available free to stream or $10 to buy from their website:
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Dawkins on Religious Indoctrination
Finishing up The God Delusion, and this jumped out at me as being very true. I think we should all wince when we hear a small child being labelled as belonging to some particular religion or another. Small children are too young to decide their views on the origins of the cosmos, of life and of morals. The very sound of the phrase ‘Christian child’ or ‘Muslim child’ should grate like fingernails on a blackboard… Our society, including the non-religious sector, has accepted the preposterous idea that it is normal and right to indoctrinate tiny children in the religion of their parents, and to slap religious labels on them –…
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Bastion
Genre: Action Role-Playing Published: 2011 Platform: Xbox 360 Developer: Supergiant Games Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Time Played: ~10 hours Achievements Unlocked: 200/200 In Bastion you play as Sebastian, a kid who awakes after the world has been ravaged by an apocalypse refered to as The Calamity, which left the land crumbled and infested with creatures. It falls on him to try to rebuild the world. This is a game that strikes gold on all levels. I feel like a lot of the games I’ve played lately have one or two things really going for them and everything else is acceptable enough not to ruin the good points, but the…
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Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit
Parker: The Outfit by Darwyn Cooke Format: Original Graphic Novel Published: 2010 Publisher: IDW Publishing This is the second Donald E. Westlake novel that Darwyn Cooke has adapted. The previous book was great, and this one is just as fun. Both follow Parker, who is essentially James Bond as a ruthless criminal. What could be better than that? Very little. In The Hunter, Parker was left for dead after being betrayed and spent the book hunting down those responsible. Since then, he’s recieved a new face through surgery and has been anonymously enjoying the rich life. Unfortunately, someone blows his cover and squeals to the Outfit, a mob-like organization he…
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Blackened Sesame Salmon
When I was sick last month and confined to a liquid diet, I watched the food network about eight hours a day, just to remind myself that there was indeed still food out there somewhere. I became slightly obsessed with Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and eventually picked up Guy Fieri’s cookbook. This is the first recipe I’ve tried from it. 1 tsp chili powder 1/2 tsp wasabi powder 1/2 tsp ground ginger 1 tbsp sesame seeds (he calls for half black and half white, but I just went for white) 1/2 tsp fine sea salt 2 tbsp fresh lime juice 2 tbsp chili-garlic paste 1 salmon fillet, skin and pin…