Marmalade encrusted pork ribs  •  I really have been remiss with my one man memes. Forget about the self-taught adult novice banjo, I've really never began the series on statutes of minor provincial cabinet figures throughout Canadian history. And it has been too long since I did a jetsicle story …

portland was really concerned last Friday. It was like watching someone betting his savings on the junk bond market, hoping that things would turn around, that the numbers would be higher. It was instructional, sitting at a reader's house waiting for chatters to chat in a different country. What …

By this late in a week off my brain stops doing pretty much everything. While the calendar says I am house hunting today my brain is saying that I better shave off those experimental sideburns. My mind should be at ease. But it is not. Disturbing my brain as I slowly wake over my javais this …

It's still a week off for me and I have some real important tasks ahead of me:  •  Arrange ale and lager acquisitions in preparation for stories at A Good Beer Blog.Tune banjo, guitar and ukuleles to piano.Read a bit about baseball.Nap.Do taxes.Start running the stairs a bit so the first game of …

Hmmm:  •  Trombone or banjo?  •  Pulled pork or burger?  •  I have nothing else to think about today.  Tough old life.

I am starting a collection of passages related to beer and popinjays. I have one:  •  “At Schiedam in Holland before the Reformation, monks, beguines, other religious, inmates of the leper's house, and ship carpenter building ships all drank excise-free beer. The schoolteacher, a minor town …

We are off come Thursday for a bit of visiting on the salty shore and then house hunting back here. Ten days without a tie on.  •  I usually do not overly anticipate such things but when a small person asked just now what we are doing next weekend I realized I might be eating local oysters and all …

That is the magic formula, the secret to all idle thought and a crushing blow to economic production. Even though this is the shortest weekend of the year, it is still worth anticipation and therefore chattery:  •  British Columbia is passing an Apology Act. Here is the text in first reading. It …

Cyn has pointed us all to the story of the century, the harbinger of the slavery to robots to come - scientists say that we will grow our own meat someday soon:  •  “Scientists are trying to develop an industrial process that grows meat tissue from a few cells in a lab – or even at home, in a …