...A Swedish king, especially. Svenska aptitretare. Gravlax and knäckebröd (Swedish crispbread), with its traditional accompaniment: ice-co...

Someone - I cannot remember who - once characterized this site as a “Kitchen Sink Blog,” meaning that I write posts that cover a broad range...

We, on this happy planet, sit - Our job: converting food to shit. “Hmmm,” quoth SWMBO. “That’s more of an epi log .”

Mrs. Bruni’s first grade class at Unqua School, April 1959. Click to embiggen; click here for the full-size, high-resolution image. Here y...

Welcome to yet another Friday Random Ten at Blog d’Elisson, that insufferable weekly feature in which I post ten tunes, pooped out at random...

Next week is Passover, and I’m already practically quivering with anticipation. Quivering, I tells ya! This is the holiday when Eliyahu ha-...

A few weeks ago, we, along with a group of friends, decided to host a Regressive Dinner. It was similar to those Progressive Dinners, wherei...

Neighbor plays footsie with SWMBO the Mistress of Sarcasm. Who needs slippers when you have a warm, compliant Neighbor to keep your tootsie...

Seneca the Younger’s most renowned phrase - per aspera ad astra - is one that all astronauts can appreciate, as well as all Kansans, whose ...

From Pete at A Perfectly Cromulent Blog comes this illustration of Encroaching Sexuality in Advertising. Look, sex has been used to sell th...

All the cleaning ladies All the cleaning ladies All the cleaning ladies All the cleaning ladies All the cleaning ladies All the cleaning lad...

From Houston Steve’s brother-in-law Roy comes this little gem: Texas A&M University holds an annual contest for the most appropriate def...

The Momma d’Elisson at age 18. It was just such a spring day as today, with the forsythia coming into bloom, when I held her hand for the la...

In Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, the Bene Gesserit are an exclusive and secretive sisterhood, the members of which possess the ability to con...

It is a rainy Friday here in May-Retta, Georgia. How rainy is it? you ask. Well, as we used to say in Texas, it’s raining like a cow pissin...

Hakuna en profile . Hakuna sees the Ark set sail Upon the Bloggy-Sea: “Hey, who’s that topping off the list? It’s Neighbor-Cat and me!” Frid...

Midnight in the Garden Garden in the Valley Valley of the Jolly (ho ho ho!) Green Giant! Years ago - well before we knew we would eventually...

Somebody at the Grey Lady’s website is clearly not minding the store... because somehow I managed to creep onto the margins of today’s World...

Hungarian Goulash, served over a bed of trofie pasta. It doesn’t exactly shout “Springtime!” but I had a jones for some Hungarian Goulash a...

I’m staring at my Nemesis; She has my full attention. The tortures I’d commit on her? Too horrible to mention. I’d arch my back and hiss and...