Just Souper

February 9, 2010 in cooking

This winter has been full of cold, wet weather. This kind of environment is unfamiliar in LA, a land of single-pane windows, minimal insulation, and even less drainage. Given my druthers, I’d solve all problems with either technology or cooking. While technology may soon enough solve cold and wet through global warming, in the short term the best solution is a cooking one: a hot bowl of soup. So this winter has been full of soups.

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Fear of a Speed Blue Planet

February 7, 2010 in sportsfootballbaltimore

Shortly after I met my wife, we went over to her friends’ place to watch the Super Bowl. Now, she’s known these people for years — the guy since her Freshman year of college, his girlfriend since she moved to LA — so I wanted to make a good impression.

Unfortunately, this was the year the Colts and the Bears were playing in the Super Bowl.

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It’s a rainy day in LA, not as bad in Mar Vista as elsewhere, but wet, in a town without drainage.