Month: July 2012

  • Shared today on Instagram: Butternut Squash Soup with Star Anise and Ginger Prawns.

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  • Sustainable House

    Anybody want to live in a completely sustainable house in Chippendale? My friend Michael Mobbs is going away for a while. You’ll have to look after the chickens!

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  • Women Who Rock – #47 Lucinda WilliamsLucinda Williams’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is #47 on RS’s list of Greatest Albums from “Women Who Rock.” I’d heard of Lucinda Williams but never really listened to her. After going through this album a couple times, I’m kicking myself. I need to listen to it about…

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  • Women Who Rock – #48 Bonnie RaittBonnie’s Raitt’s Give It Up is #48 on RS’s list of Greatest Albums from “Women Who Rock.” My only experience with Bonnie’s discography was her later Top 40 stuff, so this early blues was a revelation. She sounds so young! It’s definitely not what I expected, with some of…

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  • Favorited today on Twitter: thedailymeal: Taco Bell Gives Whole Town Free Tacos: Chain soothes hoaxed Alaska residents with 10,000 taco airlift http://t.co/gtBGEah4 riabalsan: A weekend read, The Long History of the Espresso Machine: http://t.co/e0MEJwVT. (Via @SmithsonianMag.) You can follow me here.

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  • Shared today on Instagram: Paper Dolls (Jacket) blocking. Might need to stretch the yoke even more…

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  • Women Who Rock – #49 The BreedersThe Breeders’ Last Splash is #49 on RS’s list of Greatest Albums from “Women Who Rock.” I discovered the Breeders when I happened to catch the video for “Cannonball” late one night on MTV (maybe “120 Minutes”?) in high school, and I was hooked. I bought the tape and…

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