About a year ago I came across online a chef named Roberto Cortez who hosts periodic themed modernist dinners. It was instantly obvious that his visual style and presentation were out of this world. But what you can’t tell from pictures is how does it taste! Still, I was dying to find out…
Nominally, this is an issue novel, about a 15 year-old girl dealing with the fallout of having slept with a guy when she was thirteen. But really it’s just a well written and well characterized slice of teen life story.
This excellent novel was a bestseller in the 1960s and that in of itself is a sad testament to the intellectual decline of the American reader. Its a novelized biography of the fourth century Roman Emperor Julian, known as The Apostate.
Finally, after 3.5 years, the Canon 5D Mark III is here (or at least on the way)!
Something tells you nothing on the Westside of Los Angeles is decent regular Chinese food. While in the Bay Area I try to take advantage of the bounty provided by Northern California’s Chinese-American population.
On February 7-8 I ran a Kindle Select sale giving away The Darkening Dream free (Kindle version) for 48 hours. Free downloads were fantastic and the book was nailed to number 4 overall in the Kindle store for almost two days (details…
Steak Land is a very ambitious film. On a diminutive budget, it attempts to paint a fairly complete vision of a post-apocalyptic America — and is successful enough to be impressive.
My son’s first visit to San Francisco would not have been complete without a visit to Ghirardelli’s world-famous chocolate and ice cream factory.
HBO has released more trailer goodness (2/24/12). This is one of the best yet, featuring all sorts of footage from the new season.
Another foray into the wonderful world of San Francisco dining. This time to the lovely dining room of Jardinere.
This one of these movies where everything goes a really wrong – for everyone – except the audience.
As we ramp into GOT season 2, HBO releases yet more and more goodies. Here we have one of those overwhelmingly positive video previews – but with lots of good footage. Enjoy.
Kokkari was a great “find.” In truth flavors are rarely even this pure in Greece, although there was this one restaurant I ate at on Rhodos that was very similar.
Another interesting production video on filming beyond the wall (Iceland).
The video interviews of myself and other members of the Jak & Daxter team talking about the game 10 years later.
Waterloo & City is a choice member of the new wave of upscale Gastropubs bringing rich (but delicious) modern bar food to the city.
My publisher might be small (one book released and another in the queue) but I was determined to produce a hardcover edition for my debut novel. Find out why and how below the fold.
Lords of the forest, this was some unique stuff. The flavors were a bit more understated and far less Vietnamese than a year ago. Ultimately odder, more elfin, and celestial, but certainly more unique.
On February 7 and 8 I put The Darkening Dream on 48 hours of Kindle Select free promo. The book tore through the charts to “sell” (I mean give away) over 21,000 copies. In the first 24 hours it propelled itself to…
A Twitter friend during on big promo push for The Darkening Dream that I create an AMA on Reddit. I had no idea what this is, but I looked it up and it sounded like fun.
