Author: extraface from vox

hooray, it's bread-baking season again.

Working on Anadama bread tonight. Here's what one of my more successful breads looked like last season: a baked good Read and post comments | Send to a friend

QotD: My Weekend Plans

What are your weekend plans? Recovering from a few weeks of intermittent travel, and preparing for an eighties party tonight. Planning my wardrobe for that as we speak. Oh, I'll also watch the Raiders perform this weird, awkward ritual that loosely resembles our current sport of "Football". Read and post comments | Send to a… Continue reading QotD: My Weekend Plans

QotD: An Unforgettable Home

What's the most memorable building you've lived in?Submitted by Shelly. The house I grew up in was a beautiful 1890's Victorian. As a kid, my favorite feature was that it had a secret safe built in to the staircase — if you looked hard enough you could see a hinge in the wood paneling. Find… Continue reading QotD: An Unforgettable Home

The long-avoided hobby assessment part one: crafting

This is going to be long and self-indulgent. Please skip if you'd rather not spend a thousand or so words inside my head. I'm half-assedly dragging around the remnants of a lot of hobbies, interests, and side projects these days. I seek clarity about which of these are still truly of interest and value to… Continue reading The long-avoided hobby assessment part one: crafting

QotD: Surprise!

Do you like surprises? I like surprises of the awesome variety only. One of my least favorite kinds is "Surprise! You're at a play where there's audience participation!" Why, what'd you get for me? Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Heard this morning on the way to work

"I never made the first team I just made the first team laugh" -Billy Bragg, The Saturday Boy, on the album Back To Basics Read and post comments | Send to a friend

QotD: Set Your DVR

What TV show(s) will you be watching this season? Why?  Submitted by ducnly.vox.com. Lost – (but I will bail as soon as it becomes Gilligan's Island). Deadwood – Season's over, but whenever those mini-movies come out I'm there. The Wire – As Tom (Tom Talk tom) said earlier today, it's the best show about work… Continue reading QotD: Set Your DVR

Question while I make some dinner

Anyone know why it's standard for supermarket Ricotta to come in 15 oz. packages? Why not just throw another ounce in there and make it like the rest of the wet ingredient packages? Read and post comments | Send to a friend