• Mr. Show, The Complete Third Season
• March of the Penguins (Widescreen Edition)
• Whiteout
• Horatio Hornblower: Loyalty
• The Fugitive
• The Golden Bowl
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume 4
• Street Fight
• The American President

Also, a season of Buffy borrowed from Sommer and two seasons of Six Feet Under (which I have never watched because it's so sad) borrowed from Drew.

So I finally got around to making Mark Bittman's no-knead bread from that Times article a few years back. It really is as astonishingly easy as everyone says it is, and would be a great standard to bring to a dinner party--everyone loves fresh bread and it's awfully inexpensive.

You need a Dutch oven in which to bake it, and while I'm sure lots of you have fancy Le Creusets, I will take this opportunity to reiterate my belief that all you need is a good heavy cast-iron pot. I have this one, thanks to my dad, and use it constantly.

You may have noticed that my comments are off. I was getting a ton of spam. Eventually I'm going to mover-ing over to Wordpress but for now if you have a comment you can do one of the following (in order of preference)

1. Get on a bus to Philadelphia and tell me in person
2. Write me an email
3. Send me a text message
4. Keep it to yourself
5. Call me (good lord I can't stand the telephone)

Right before I left for Christmas I bought a new bike helmet and it is AWESOME. I highly recommend it for all your head-protection needs*. It's called a Giro Hex and it feels like no helmet at all--I don't know how they do it, but it's magical. I got it in super-reflective white but I would like to point out it is also available the following fantastic color combination: *Astronauts not included

I have more to say about Montreal (mostly about things at which Montrealers fail--see: merging, omelets, respectful treatment of Native American history), but before I forget, I have an idea for brunch that you need to hear.

Let me preface this by saying that as a rule I disapprove of brunch. Eggs should be eaten in the privacy of one's own home. Possibly even in the privacy of one's own bed, depending on the runniness of the yolks. But if one must venture outside for brunch, one is inevitably confronted with a terrible riddle: savory or sweet? Given this binary choice, the answer is obvious--savory always wins the day. But what if it didn't have to be a choice? Imagine a brunch option in which you could receive either Savory Item, Sweet Item, or 1/2 Savory + 1/2 Sweet. A soup-and-half-sandwich for the hungover crowd, if you will (and I think you will). I'm sure it would cost a bit more to produce and they should price it accordingly--I would pay extra for variety, and the sheer number of awful tapas restaurants in every major American city would suggest that others both feel the same and will exhibit even less price sensitivity.

Please talk to your local brunch proprietor and encourage them to adopt this option.