From the Bookshelf

Another stop on the ‘End is Nigh’ tour. This week: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller, Jr. A rather whimsically ominous look at the folly of mankind. Here’s a description from wikipedia:
It is set in an abbey in the Southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, and takes [...]

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From the Bookshelf

Continuing on my tour of the ‘post-apocalyptic’ sub-genre, I just finished reading The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Good book. On a scale between ‘unsophisticated writing’ and ’shit, where’s my dictionary’ this book would fall somewhere in the middle under ‘just right’. Here’s the breakdown. Most of mankind is [...]

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From the Bookshelf

Finished reading Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. It’s about one man’s survival after most of the earth’s population is wiped out by plague and the story follows the protagonist throughout the remainder of his life. Most of the book deals with how nature retakes the planet and how the main protagonist struggles [...]

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The Lord and Literature

So I just finished reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Disregarding the plot for a moment, this book was bursting with long descriptive poetic passages and words that would give the oxford english dictionary a run for its money. I got used to it, I even came to enjoy it, but above [...]

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The Lord speaks: on fry news, talking pictures, and literature

Not much going on these days out there in the fry world….unless you count all that crap about trans fats and acrylamide…which is all very boring in my opinion. French fries are bad for you…okay, WE GET IT. Consider this dead horse officially beat.
Not to worry, soon all this transfat stuff [...]

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The World Outlook according to Philip M. Parker

So, I’m surfing through Amazon.com looking to see if they have anything fry-related that is worth posting and I come across this Philip M Parker guy.
This guy has authored A LOT of books dealing with the ‘world outlook’ of various things. And all these books cost….WTF…$795.00 USD?!?…but don’t worry each book ships free with [...]

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Fryday’s French Fry Fun Fact–Fries in Literature edition.

Apparently this is one of the earliest known references to ‘Chips’.
From ‘Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens (1859):
Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder; Hunger was shred into atomies in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.
Remember when you could [...]

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