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I am a pioneer on the frontier. Winter is coming. On the left is an apple, leek and butternut squash gratin and on the right is a soup comprised of the excess ingredients. I am so hungry.

I am a pioneer on the frontier. Winter is coming. On the left is an apple, leek and butternut squash gratin and on the right is a soup comprised of the excess ingredients. I am so hungry.

A stack of cabbage leaves to be stuffed and rolled.

A stack of cabbage leaves to be stuffed and rolled.

7 months ago

October 17 - October 24: Slow, Strange City Symphonies

The Hole, Tsai Ming Liang (Taiwan, 1998)

You, The Living, Roy Andersson (Sweden, 2007)

My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin (Canada, 2007)

October 9 - October 16: Three from 1961 United States

The Misfits, John Huston

Splendor in the Grass, Elia Kazan

Cape Fear, J. Lee Thompson

It was a dark and stormy night. The Northwest Chicago Film Society appropriately screened Dave Fleischer’s Swing You Sinners (1930) and the Don Knotts classic The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966). 

The weather’s been shitty here. Wind, rain, cold. That’s why it’s a perfect day for cotton candy. 

The weather’s been shitty here. Wind, rain, cold. That’s why it’s a perfect day for cotton candy. 

Sunday dinner, 10/16/2011: Brianne and I went to the Logan Square Farmer’s Market and Christine helped us collect items for a beef stew. I was reminded of the friends collecting items in Stone Soup. Later, Christine came over and enjoyed this beef stew.