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...something that is gender related, but at this point since there are so few men in my life I don't know, I forget. My girlfriends and I interrupt each other all the time and we never take it as an insult. We're just excited. My best friend, whose name is Franca, we'll be talking at dinner sometimes at the same time. We think its great. I never think, "That's so rude." I think it would be rude if she sat there in silence while I spoke. I'm hoping I'm sparking things...
...usually fairly easy for a movie critic to drum up a date for a screening. But persuading someone to join you at the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's solemn, searing postapocalyptic novel The Road is apparently akin to asking if they'll help you transport nuclear waste. One friend essentially declared that even if Pauline Kael rose forth from the grave to endorse this cinematic spectacle of father and son wandering a ruined world in search of uncertain sanctuary, she still would...
That's when we thought about my college friend Ben Wu and his wife Kristin. They have a great house in a really nice town near San Francisco that's not all that different from the one we live in. They're good parents to two kids we really like. They share our thoughts and values about religion, education, discipline, family, home, competition, money and not taking things too seriously, and I know they'd love Laszlo as their own child once he was in their home. Besides, Ben was going to have to teach him how to play sports...
...local market, it usually comes body-temperature, fresh from slaughter. Also in the goody-bag was a ham, contraband in this Muslim nation, but for me a Thanksgiving staple. It was crying out to be scored, studded with cloves, slathered with honey and mustard and slowly roasted. A friend with connections to the American military food supply business had been good to us this year. I am already looking forward to the leftovers - if there...
...come with sachets of dried cranberries that can be rehydrated with orange juice and chopped with local walnuts to make a tasty relish. We also plan ahead. This morning a co-chef arrived from Germany with a suitcase stuffed with slabs of bacon and cheese; another friend brought chorizo from a European vacation; and on a recent trip back from the states I was charged overweight baggage for pecans and bottles of real vanilla extract. (Watch a slideshow of the war in Afghanistan up close...