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Navarro is more the thinking man's rock star. He's a great guitarist who did stints with Jane's Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but Don't Try This at Home, co-written by Neil Strauss, is a windy, toweringly self-indulgent account of a year in Navarro's life. At the time--the year was 1998--Navarro was an agoraphobe whose primary hobbies were masturbation and intravenous drug use. So he didn't get out much. Instead, prostitutes, musicians, hangers-on, girlfriends and ex-girlfriends trooped through his house to entertain him. Navarro hectors his sycophantic...
...rock world is a small one. Lee used to date Carmen Electra, who later married Navarro, who played in the Chili Peppers with Kiedis, whose memoir Scar Tissue, written with Larry Sloman, is more genuinely satisfying than either Lee's or Navarro's. Kiedis, we learn, grew up in Los Angeles, raised by his hard-partying, actor-slash-drug-dealer dad--and yes, was baby sat by a naked Cher. His appetite for pleasure was precocious and prodigious; he says he slept with his dad's girlfriend when he was 11 and snorted heroin...
...Iraq war. The challenger's assaults have turned what should have been a cakewalk for Daschle into the political fight of his life. The tight race has both sides engaged in plenty of retail campaigning and may be decided at all those pancake suppers and chili cook-offs...
...Others?the slightly sour beef rendang or the piquant bean sprouts with salted fish?are more Malaysian. Much of Nyonya's menu is devoted to elegant versions of soups and stews sold in Penang streets. The penang assam laksa is one: a tangy fish broth flavored with turmeric and chili pepper, with vegetables and rice noodles. But the show-stealer is the dessert called kuih, sticky rice cakes flavored with leaves from the tropical screwpine tree...
...Others - the slightly sour beef rendang or the piquant bean sprouts with salted fish - are more Malaysian. Much of Nyonya's menu is devoted to elegant versions of soups and stews sold in Penang streets. The penang assam laksa is one: a tangy fish broth flavored with turmeric and chili pepper, with vegetables and rice noodles. But the show-stealer is the dessert called kuih, sticky rice cakes flavored with leaves from the tropical screwpine tree. Sometimes Nyonya's fusion creates confusion; a crestfallen customer recently asked: "You don't serve sushi?" But with food this good for less than...