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April 28, 2011

Encona Creole Pepper Sauce (Hot Sauce Odyssey #1)

OK, let’s strike while the iron is hot and all that. Here comes the first hot sauce review! Whoo! It is, of course, at this point that I give you the disclaimer that these posts are going to be basically filler (if they appear at all), and are unlikely to be 1,000-2,000 word ruminations on The State Of Hot Sauce In The World Today. They are just going to be quick ‘n’ dirty reviews. Mainly for my entertainment. Wow. I’m really churning out the horrible intros this week. Read the rest of this entry »

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April 28, 2011

Hot Sauce Odyssey – Introduction

I can’t get enough heat. I’m pretty sure I have some kind of minor addiction to chillis, in one form or another. The taste and the sensation certainly seem to trigger some kind of lovely rush. Read the rest of this entry »

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April 26, 2011

The post where I try to review Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom through the prism (if that’s the right word) of some quotes from the author, in an ultimately futile attempt to do something different around a book that has been written about enough already

So, over the lovely long weekend I finally finished Jonathan’s Franzen’s Freedom. Is there anything new to say about this book? I doubt it, as it has probably been the most talked-about book of the last 12 months. How’s that for a terrible intro, readers? Read the rest of this entry »

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April 20, 2011

Royal Wedding Pizza

The upcoming royal wedding means very little to me, beyond giving all us Brits a day off work (for those who have still got a job) . I am a bit of a Republican anyway, purely in the sense of not wanting a royal family, not in any elephant-based political way, I hasten to add. The whole event reeks of keeping the proles happy for the day with a national holiday and cheap romance amid financial uncertainty and political strife. Hah, watch me with my Political Comment! Read the rest of this entry »

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April 19, 2011

Peeking behind the curtain

Yesterday, I did a little catching up on the backlog of articles I’d allowed to build up on Instapaper. Reading Dan Kois’ piece for the New York Times, “Why Do Writers Abandon Novels?” helped kick my brain into some degree of action, to focus on some related issues that I’ve been mulling over for some time now. Why do we like peeking behind the curtain so much? Read the rest of this entry »

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Month: April, 2011