Why

We were invited to a cook out. In all due modesty I make decent brownies, so they asked me to bring brownies. For reasons I'm not going to explain we aren't going to the cook out. I still made the brownies.

My excuse is that I had already melted the butter and choclate by the time we knew we were not going. But still......

I'm using the 'Brownies Cockaigne' recipe from the good edition of the Joy of Cooking.

Modern Ghost Towns

Some striking images from Russia.

Resistance is futile

You will be assimilated.

Retro Eye Candy

From 1966. When I saw this movie in re-runs on television a few years later, I realized that women were nifty.