So, here’s my review – but a warning: this is full to bursting with spoilers, so it’s a review for people who’ve seen it and are interested, for whatever reason, in a fellow Star Wars fan’s view. If you haven’t seen the film yet then for pity’s sake don’t read any ...
Hello again. It’s good to see you. The Chinese word for eggplant is “qiezi” (茄子). It’s pronounced sort of like a lispy tyed-ze. When Chinese people have their pictures taken, they say “qiezi” instead of “cheese”. Try it. It does the same thing to your mouth. And, of...
President Yoon Suk Yeol has just been arrested for illegally declaring martial law at the start of December, as well as having been impeached, in large part due to citizens protesting in the streets every day for the past six weeks despite the freezing cold winter weather in Seoul. After th...
I felt like Oliver Twist, begging for more… You can’t tell how wet we are from this photo… just take my word for it. Another of the Carnegie estate homes (Dungeness) burned to the ground some time ago, and one can explore the ruins, as can the wild horses. Right near there is...
window. For the umpteenth time I reminded myself to clean the windows as they are hard to see through when the sun blazes through them. It’s like driving up the 309 Road into the setting sun and struggling to see out the streaked and crazed windshield of the car. I add it to the ...
horn of plenty Golconda license to print money jackpot rich vein golden goose source of supply goldfield gravy train goose that laid the golden egg fund supply store source reserve repository stock more ❯ Noun ▲ A quantity or supply of something kept for use as needed ...
In this walk, Richards and Curl also included a number of wine bars (or as they had it, places that were “not a pub in the true sense of the word, but included as a drinking establishment”), which they chose to letter from A to F, rather than number like pubs. All but one of...
And now for your second-to-last reminder of the long, longed-for Greenmarket return of… Saturday, December 7th:Shred-A-Thon’s Back Edition!! At the 92nd Street Greenmarket, 10am-1pm Spread the word to family, friends, neighbors and folks you’re just met… ...
Anyone seen the filmSliding Doorsin which Gwyneth Paltrow inhabits two parallel story lines: one with luscious flowing locks, and t’other with sassy Brad-Pitt era slick-fringed crop? (There’s probably a proper hair-dressy word for this style. Do say if you know.) ...
IN PARTICULAR, that report used an expensive definition of the word “microplastic” which might lead you to believe that the plastic fragments are measured in micrometers (like PM10 and PM2.5), in fact, for ocean pollution purposes, “micro” is “5 MILLI meters or less”. Nonetheless, ...