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Typhoon's Hunger & Thirst easily landed a spot within my top 5 album's of 2010. And you wanna know why?  Because it is a beautiful album with tho...

I am not typically someone that fries my food. I rarely eat fried foods out and I certainly don't make it a habit to fry food in. But for some r...

Crab season in Northern California is in full swing and if you like crab, you know this time is sacred. I remember a few years ago, Matt and I dro...

I used to write a lot of poetry. I have notebooks filled with raw, young angst. In college, I went up on a stage, terrified, and read one of my po...

I tend to celebrate Thanksgiving twice: once with my friends (in the form of an annual potluck) and once with my family. What I love about Thanksg...

Do you still get excited about getting the mail? I generally don't. Increasingly, I find that friends send fewer handwritten cards (email and Face...

Can you ever really stop looking forward to cake? I mean, there's a reason you get one on your birthday and your wedding day. Cake is a celebrat...

Fall is such a lovely time to cook, don't you think? Fall marks the beginning (and the end, I suppose, depending on how you look at it). For me, F...

It seems rather ironic that I am sharing a recipe with you today for chicken and dumplings. Why? Well, after a frigid, season-long winter this s...

Summer is always so full of promises. It is the season when everything is in bloom, sunshine is supposed to be abundant and everyone is just a lit...

Our readers may have noticed from previous posts that John Vanderslice is one of my favorite people in independent music for a number of reasons: he...