Sometimes I just don’t have the guts to deal with whole fish.  I’ve never wholly regained my bravado since the Saturday in 2002 when my kind and thoughtful brother, on the way home from his job delivering spanking fresh fish to temples of gastronomy The River Café, J. Sheekey, Moro, Gordon Ramsay, The Ivy et al, dropped

In the hope that the sun shines bright enough to make a lycopene boost imperative, I bring you my easy but delicious version of Gazpacho

You’d have thought that with all the plodding around I might have slimmed down a bit, but as there’s no setting out foot without gastro attached and with Spanish temptations tickling an ever-ready appetite, we ate fabulously, well and mediocrely; never badly : with some judicious shopping and despite the facilities even eating in was pretty good - and

Great view, not such great food So we fetched up at Sa Nacra, a waterside bar/restaurant in (or on) Cala Santandria on both our first and last days in Menorca.  I suspect we ordered the wrong things, but I got the idea the setting is so perfect nobody feels they have to pay much attention to the

Thunderclap followed by dramatic downpour started our first full day with a bang and skewered all tanning plans - but what on earth to do in a vacation-villa ghetto with no sunshine?  There’s this: or the teeming toddlers’ activity club (no pics natch) but I’m not short enough, so once the clouds had shed their motherload we

Call me weird but I just don’t like it when my waitress takes such obvious offence at any punters daring to invade her erstwhile empty restaurant.  I understand her feelings; years of food service taught me there’s nothing so intrusive as a damn customer when you’ve just gotten used to a bit of solitude.  But

here’s a group video project we did for the comm105 visual literacy class. it’s a really simple 50-second 1-shot video set to music with no ambient sound. the inspiration for the project was the documentary Lumiere & Company. Released in 1995 and created by Philippe Poulet (the only thing he’s done according to iMDb), the

M. Night Shyamalan (along with Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan, and Michel Gondry) is one of my favorite directors working today. After crashing into Hollywood with The Sixth Sense as “the next Hitchcock,” he continued to impress (me, at least) with Unbreakable, The Village, Signs, and Lady in the Water. For the general public, it seemed

I was going to review Jack Johnson’s “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing” music video, then Scott showed me this video and I couldn’t resist. An obvious parody of recent R&B videos and taking advantage of having Justin Timberlake, this video was made by Andy Samberg for Saturday Night Live and won a Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding

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