. Favourite Beer of the Week

If, like me, you find yourself with no friends on a Saturday night, I recommend to you - La Fin Du Monde. Made by the people who brought you "Ounibroue 16" and named in honour of the people who thought they'd reached the end of the world when they hit America, it's strong and tasty and triple fermented, whatever the hell that means. Goes great with Lentil and Vegetable Bake and roast potatoes and season two of Gavin and Stacey, and Nif. :)

. Sometimes I dance like this

. Point Reyes

Stalked by seals with the Lessards. Photos here.

. GTA4

Finished!

. Favourite Beer of the Week

Reinaert Flemish Wild Ale is from Flemland, or Belgium as it is sometimes known, and I like it very much. It is more sparkly and less rich than last week's Favourite Beer of the Week. Let's call it medium bodied. And it is 9% alc./vol, which is weaker than a Unibroue, but still pretty strong compared to most American beer, or piss as it is sometimes known.

. Dish of the Day

Today's Dish of the Day is by Camilla Engman and Karin Eriksson, and was made in Sweden. Other Swedish dishes include knäckebröd, smorgasbord, meatballs, and Ingrid Bergman, whose daughter Isabella Rossellini recently made a series of insect porno movies.

. Favourite Beer of the Week

Unibroue beer is from Chambly in Quebec, the Frenchy bit of Canada. Chambly is known for its canal and large fort. Quebec is known for its Celine Dion and Eric Lessard. "16" is Unibroue's 16th Anniversary Celebration beer. This bottle is a bit over a pint and a half, and 10% alc./vol. And it tastes great. Do you want some? Tough, it's all mine. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

. Reset 1962

Last weekend I navigated the Hodgson-Lessard party on a 6 mile hike through Tilden Park in Berkeley, and got us lost only twice.

. Favourite Album of the Week

My Favourite Ablum of the Week is Third by Portishead.

Remember when we first heard them? We were at your brother Nick's house on our way to a party, and we were watching TV, and when the commercials came on Nick would mute the sound and turn up the stereo. He had a pre-release copy of "Dummy" because he worked for Richard and Judy and got sent hundreds of CDs every week from bands that wanted him to book them, so he was playing that, and I really liked it. I think we all did. I didn't really like the party, but then I was not one for really liking parties back then, being so shy and self-conscious. Whose party was it anyway? I didn't know anyone there. I suppose they must have been friends of Nick. Was it a BBQ? I remember it was outside and it was cold and dark. I had borrowed one of boy Joe's second-hand coats, because I didn't have a warm coat, and you said it looked like the kind of coat our dads would wear, which made me more self-conscious. I thought you were embarrassed by me, but you were probably just joking.

Thank you for giving me this CD for my birthday. I really like it. And I miss you. But not in a gay way.

. Maria

Veneer [vuh-neer] .noun

-	to give a superficially valuable or pleasing appearance to.
-	a deceptive, superficial show; a façade: a cruel person with a veneer of kindliness.
-	to face or cover (an object) with any material that is more desirable as a surface material than the basic material of the object; to conceal, as something common or crude, with a deceptively attractive outward show.

. 15 x 15

Our front yard is the size of a Mini, squared. It is still a force to be reckoned with — meet my new best friend, The Bear Claw!


Our flowering plum tree's first drupes:


The slimy interlopers who run a tough plant cartel, all the way up the steps to our front door pots. I gently fling them into our neighbors' yard.

. kulebyáka

A Russian pie made with sturgeon, hard-boiled eggs, lentils, rice, mushrooms, and herbs, in a puff pastry shell, and bastardized beyond recognition by Anthony (and Roz Denny's "Best-Ever Vegetarian Cooking" book) with onions, broccoli, vegetarian worcestershire sauce, no eggs or fish, and the wrong kind of pastry. Very nice. I also recommend Roz Denny's "Shepherdess Pie", emasculated by the removal of manly meat products and the substitution of womanly beans and vegetables.