Skirt Steak Stuffed with Charred Scallions
A couple of months ago, I purchased Come In, We’re Closed An Invitation to Staff Meals at the World’s Best Restaurants, edited by Christine Carroll and Jody Eddy on a […]
The Perfect Chicken Adobo
My mother is an amazing Filipino cook, though she would never admit it. Like most Filipino cooks, she has her own Chicken Adobo recipe – and she really has no […]
Summer 2012 Reading Lists
It’s summer and I know you all have extensive reading lists that you ‘hope’ to read. It might be a pile of books in the corner or an amazon.com wishlist […]
What is Everything? Reed Richards’ Life Lessons in Hickman’s Fantastic Four
By the end of Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four #603, the situation seemed doomed. After preventing an invasion of earth, the group witnesses the Mad Celestials defeat Galactus and turned their […]
Cold War and Noir Combine in Brubaker’s Winter Soldier
Noir is a difficult genre to define. Stylistically it is characterized with moody and dark lighting, fog, and highly asymmetrical visual compositions. It’s content usually, though not always, is character […]
Will Digital Comics Destroy the Bookstore?
Probably not. This last weekend at WonderCon in Anaheim CA, Mark Waid, writer of the critically acclaimed Daredevil series, told the audience that comics need to adapt to the digital […]
Moby Dick Chapter IV and V – The Counterpane & Breakfast
Due to the apparent laborious nature of writing a blog post about every chapter of Moby –Dick, plus the fact that several of the chapters are only a couple of […]
