One of Todd Rundgren’s coolest (I won’t say “best” because they’re all great) bands at its tightest, with a song titled Unloved Children. [Video] Must be a factory somewhere Keeps on cranking them out Seems like they travel in pairs Not worth the trouble but too full of...

Alinea has made a name for itself in the Chicago food scene for mixing food and science.   For starters you actually order over the telephone when you make reservations--they offered the twelve-course chef's tasting menu  for $145 or the twenty-six course tour for $225.    I...

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the co...

Wow. Now I've raved about the lovely landjager sausages from Bobby Nelson and they sure have that handheld bite-ablilty but after several Spotted Cows while watching the Cubs game I remembered I had a nice small saucisson sec from Cook au Vin on Elston.  It's not what I expected. It's definitel...

Have you noticed how often the psalms have her who prays them worrying about what other people think, or being laughed at? Fair enough. (One of my sins, a big part of my recidivism, my vanity and pride taking the form of worrying that other people will think that I care what other people think of me...

An extraordinary outpouring of tributes to Tim Russert continued nonstop yesterday as ordinary people left flowers and notes at NBC's Washington bureau, the presidential candidates praised his fairness and his network planned a special edition of "Meet the Press" for this morning....

I have created a new category on this blog dedicated to top local hard core Welsh surfers that never feature in the glamour mags. Even worse, it has been pointed out, the lack of support in some of the British......

Il Best Of di Nearing Zero è fin troppo generoso di vignette rimarchevoli: segnalo Radioactive Isopopes, Reverse Psychology, Fly Hell e The Radiocarbon Dating Technique....

Today was Memorial Day in the United States, but it was also Catherine’s second birthday. So we celebrated both! In the morning, we had a tiny little birthday party with the three of us, with blueberry muffins baked fresh from scratch by Rebecca. We stuck some candles in one of them for “...

Orion Cough Drops (목의보감) Also in bags. ( Bionuri Cooperative Network ) And I am mad, too! I take one day off, and guess what happens. Orion nearly kills me with his slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. May the Scorpion take him! My son, En-Uk, had chosen a bag of medicinal candy from amo...