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Last updated 11/12/2008 10:50AM PDT Los Angeles just announced! See below. Gentle Reader and Friend of the Library, Here are the dates on wh...

I "blogged," (I'm going to stop putting that word in quotes someday, but not today) and you responded. Here is the tentative r...

The pens sit on the shop's counter in the low morning light, drained of ink. A partially consumed rotisserie chicken stinks in its plas...

Two quick items of note this week! The first photograph comes from Matt , who claims to have upgraded from the Ford Taurus pictured here: An...

It struck me that I haven't been making much of an appearance in the old "public figurena" lately, and that it was high time w...

Like many quasi-computer people my age, I passed whole years at a stretch plumbing the depths of HHGG (remember the silly little gifts that ...

Well, that was just about the biggest non-holiday Achewood comic production break I've taken since I don't know when. Sorry for bein...

Good evening. Happy holidays. Are you all set, there by the fire, snug as a bug? I see you have put down your book, but have not finished yo...

The woman on the telephone returned from her revels in the ether long enough to affirm that yes, they did serve hot breakfast in the lobby o...

Bacon no. 8 is "North Country Cob Smoked Bacon," and it's a welcome throwback to my first and favorite shipment, Father's ...

Hempler's Peppered Bacon arrived yesterday. It's thick-cut, looks like a pastrami, and is far lower in fat than its predecessors bec...

Maybe two months ago the warehouse guy found a couple of old cheap racquets in our back storage shed, and suggested we might take them out f...

"Chris, I want you to take a left turn at History, and park the car at the intersection of Progress and Usability." That is what t...

I went to a pretty expensive college, and sometimes people at pretty expensive colleges actually do something that doesn't make me want ...

In deference to the lingering illness that had me running wounded on three of my five sensory cylinders this May, I decided to make soup. So...

Food and I have had a rough couple weeks. Late last month I attended a remarkably well-apportioned bachelor party for an old friend, and in ...

I'm not particularly scared of jowl bacon, actually. The first time I ever encountered face meat—veal cheeks, to be precise—in a restaur...

A few days ago, the dog started barking and a corn-fed man in a brown uniform strode back down my sunny driveway, having just deposited a he...

In the total body of work which comprises Achewood—a body of work which runs the gamut from topics as disparate as cutting-edge gay pornogra...

Part One: Thanks, Players . First of all, thank you to the hundreds of players who have sent in bacon-based recipes. I could never hope to ...