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A Japanese friend who was staying with us made a little traditional desert for us. It has cocktail fruit in it, and a tofu jelly which had a very similar texture as the fruit.
Continue readingLook deep into the fire. Look deep into hungry flames. Let them sanctify your sacrifice, let them purify your candy-bearing spirit animal. Okay, maybe it’s not that exciting.
Continue readingWhen I was at the grocery store I saw this sign and took a picture. No good reason for it, I just thought it was kinda funny and taken generally a repudiation of all those bastard vegans. But then a…
Continue readingThey say if you meet the Buddha on the road you must kill him. However, if you meet him in a park along Little Stacey Creek in South Austin, then you should just chill. Austin is too cool for that…
Continue readingI went to Worldcon in Reno (aka the strangely googlable ‘Renovation’) a little more than a month ago. So it’s time to write the obligatory con blog. This was my first Worldcon, and I was a little disappointed in how…
Continue readingThere are times in life when moderation is called for, and then there are those times when you’re eating at an Ethiopian restaurant. A big group of folks went up to “Taste of Ethiopia” in Pflugerville. All the meals were…
Continue readingWay up on 183 is a Szechuan restaurant called A+A Sichuan Garden. It’s definitely a different sort of Chinese food than we were normally accustomed to. All the dishes came marinated in spicy red oil. I of course ordered the…
Continue readingMy new house has a bird feeder in the back yard, so one of my first thoughts on moving in was, hey, wouldn’t it be great to have a birdfeeder out the back window, so I could see all the…
Continue readingAbout a month ago, right at sunset, there was this huge cloud over Austin. At the time we were a bit short of rain, so it was an extra-exciting event. So I was inspired to shoot this time-lapse of the…
Continue readingMatthewBey.com is getting a revamp. Until the old site is ported into the new site, and the layout gets pretty, just go ahead and visit the old site. It’s just fine. For now.
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