Monthly Archives: July 2018

I’m sure pretty well everyone has linguistic pet peeves and which ones bother you can say something about the way you think. How picky and self-superior you are. You can find these lists online but I thought I’d make my … Continue reading →

July 2018 I’ve been complaining about loud restaurants for a long time. And they’re getting louder. I’m not sure when this started or why it seems to be increasing, but lately I’ve read some suggestions. The big one? MONEY. A … Continue reading →

July 2018 We had really been looking forward to eating at this downtown Eastside restaurant, universally well-reviewed and recommended by a lot of friends. It’s a class act, but sadly on this night we didn’t go home a hundred percent … Continue reading →

Trilling, Lionel. The Liberal Imagination. New York Review, 1950. NF; 7/18. Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like. Lionel Trilling, Partisan … Continue reading →

June 2018 This little restaurant in a nondescript part of North Vancouver is a real find. It’s a mother and son operation, everyone there continental French but the cuisine pretty well entirely Italian. “Why would French people serve Italian food?” … Continue reading →