“roti” au poivre — consider making the La Jolla potatoes your side dish. It’s a wholly unappetizing-sounding but absolutely delicious combination of potatoes, cheese and bananas that comes with its own bit of Hollywood lore. It was invented by actor Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock in the ...
He’s a one-man medicine hour show on the road. And He never rolls His eyes or turns people away or complains how He never gets anything in return. He just does what needs to be done. He;s a fairy god-mother on steroids. Nothing is impossible. But blindness? It was one of the ...
Pâtés en croûte, pies, terrines, gold medal-winning white ham and delicatessen dishes; Maison Vérot, a benchmark delicatessen, is constantly renewing itself with the seasons. [Read more]L'Arbane, an unusual cocktail bar with a €10 happy hour on the Saint-Michel side of...
Many letters deal with writing "The Rum Diary", his time with (and beating by) the Hell's Angels and the book about them that made him famous, and trying to get published in the early 1960s when he was a struggling author. All but two of the letters are written to Thompson's ...
Wish I was at home for Christmas Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a reply You’re 25, there’s money in your pocket, and this is London Featured Posted on December 7, 2016 2 It’s 1984 on a Friday afternoon in Aberdeen, Scotland. After fourteen 12-hour shifts of offshore servitude...
He'd taken on extra work driving a snowplow during the storm because the city was shorthanded. They paid him $30 an hour he'd said. *** His S-U-V is in the driveway and there's a light on in the front room even though it's an hour or so from getting dark. Dale likes a ...
I used to lodge in a South London townhouse where my friends, Ann and Hans kindly allowed me to use the shed at the bottom of their garden. This was my writing hut. With awning windows that opened to sultry air and sunlight, and a corrugated roof that drove off the more brazen element...
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Plus: Olly will lie through his artificially whitened teeth to get on the radio; Helen was lured onto Late Night Womanʼs Hour under false pretences; and Martin the Sound Man used to love a good read of the Argos Catalogue.In today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App, Olly describes ...
Whenever he made a trip out of the city, no matter what time of day or night, people were to leave their homes, get on their knees, and make deep bows as he passed, or else face the brutal punishment of his soldiers. The magistrate was fierce in his anger as well as his pride. ...