Marco Pierre White: The Devil in the Kitchen
I just finished reading Marco Pierre White’s The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef.
It’s a great autobiography; you get to see what White thinks of as the high points and low points of his life, but you strangely see very little in between. A strong sense of his youthful narrow hyperactive focus comes through, and the book ends when he’s in a pretty good place.
I’m both a little relieved and a little bummed to have finished it. Since I have less than half an hour a night to read this sort of thing (and often only about 10 minutes), it took me a couple of weeks to finish it. I feel like I’ve been in a whirlwind romance and we’ve figured out that we’re not good for each other, but I’ll really miss him.
Cheers Marco, and thanks a lot. I’ve had less fulfilling two-week relationships.
Love that Green Porno
If you haven’t seen Isabella Rossellini’s “Green Porno” on the Sundance Channel, you ain’t seen nothing yet. You’ll learn how insects and sea creatures do it and you’ll laugh and say “wow” in the process.
The Archive of Golden Age Romance Comics
GeorgeOnline tweeted about this wonderful archive this morning, created by a student, Jenny Miller, in his class a couple of years ago. It’s the best thing going for old romance comic scans.
Miller's Golden Age of Romance Comic Archive
Her blog, Heck’s Kitchen, is fun too. Thanks, George!
Google Notebook for course plan?
I’ve used the Notebook in the past, but I never really found a good use for it. But today I’m considering it as a way to post the class plan online; you know, that part of the syllabus that the administration likes to believe that we’re content-centered enough to produce and then never deviate from, that hypothetical “this-is-what-will-get-done-in-class-on-April-3rd” thing that no good writing teacher could map as adequately as a content-delivery teacher could. I mean, tell a piano teacher that she’ll have to say what she’ll have a student do on a particular day three months from now.
But I digress. Google Notebook exports to Reader, which we’ll be using, and Documents, which we’ll be using, and it even exports as an html page, which is the one I like best.
Here’s a link to the exported messing around that I did this morning.
The thing that I was surprised by is that you can’t actually share the Notebook itself except as a collaborative document, and as into social networking as I am, that goes too far for me.
If anyone else is doing this already, drop me a line.
