“It would be criminal,” says not-so-bad guy Lem to Chuck in last night’s episode of Pushing Daisies, “not to like pie.”
Amen to that. I demand secret prisons for alleged pie-haters (this is America, after all). Or maybe we should make them stand for hours in Marie Callendars.
Cultural Learnings gives “6 Reasons You Need to [...]
It’s a sign.
I go to Dutton’s (my favorite local bookstore) a few months back and order Come to Me, Amy Bloom’s first collection of short stories, on the strength of this LA Times blurb (by Karen Tapia-Andersen):
Back in college, we read a short story by Amy Bloom that sticks with us to this day. It [...]
With a new episode of “Pushing Daisies” arriving tomorrow, lets talk pie.
Here’s a fun review of “Pushing Daisies” from the NY Times: “Loner Finds He Has a Touch for Piemaking and Undeadmaking.”
In last week’s episode, Ned says that “the expression ‘pie in the sky’ entered popular culture in 1911. It refers to a dessert [...]
My whole family was looking forward to the first episode of Pushing Daisies on Wednesday because we cherish its younger sister, Dead Like Me. I had no idea, though, that pie would have a starring role in Daisies. I liked Daisies from the moment it began; but when I saw The Pie Hole for the [...]
Baking blackbirds into pies or of having one of those mistreated blackbirds peck off a maid’s nose does not sit well with some folks.
From “The Peaceable Table: A Vegetarian Journal for Quakers and Other People of Faith” come two attempts to do a nonviolent rewrite of “Sing a Song of Sixpence.” Both do quite [...]
I’ve known about the POTMC (Pie of the Month Club) for at least a year or two. But I put off joining figuring I’d get to it someday (like writing that new show). Then the POTMC web site went down for awhile, and it appeared that the club had gone belly up. I felt terrible [...]
A friend sent me a copy of “Northwest (Mo.) Passage,” a travel article from the Sept. 9 edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The article includes two references to good pie, one substantiated:
…Ma and Pa’s Kettle at Cameron…had 15 kinds of pie, plus strawberry shortcake. Sandy, the waitress, recommended the caramel applenut. My slice had [...]
If you truly mean to dedicate yourself to a life of procrastination, you must develop fetishes. These will consume lots of time while making you feel like you’re doing something constructive.
One of my fetishes is, of course, pie. I just started re-reading Pascale Le Draoulec’s transcendant American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America’s [...]
“we commenced wrighting &c.” — so wrote Captain Clark on September 26, 1806, marking the end of one leg of his journey and the beginning of another. I hope to officially begin wrighting on the 201st anniversary of Clark’s start.
In the mean time, as I studiously avoid putting pen to paper to work on [...]
