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Today we have a pizza shoot-out between the Tsaiberspace Homemade Pizza and Freschetta frozen pizza.

On the surface, the two pizzas appear to be formidably equally matched. However, the Freschetta was not sufficiently filling; we had to top off our appetites with a ½-can of Chunky soup each. The Tsaiberspace pizza wins by a nose on intangibles; all that remains is to master the technique of generating a crispy whole wheat crust.

Paso Robles is in Southern California near Bakerfield. What you see here is a picture of a label stolen from elsewhere on the web, because I soaked the bottle for too long and let the label disintegrate. That was unfortunate because the label itself is actually kind of interesting. The label is shaped like a upside-down T, instead of the usual plain rectangle.

We had this wine on our trip to Provincetown. The wine had the typical full, dark Cabernet taste, but also had a very distinct Merlot-like tartness, so this would not be my first choice to drink on its own or with a meal. However, we were also having cheese at the time; the tartness went very well with the cheese.

This wine was OK.

Pictures from dining out at Olive’s Restaurant in Charlestown, MA.

Pictures of the 20,000th wonder of the world (more pictures from Day Trip to Provincetown, MA):

7 friends + 1 minivan + 2 tanks of gas = 1 gay old time.

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I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. — Hannibal Lecter

I had tried Chianti before and didn’t like it, but was willing to try it again. Unfortunately, I was disappointed again. The wine was rather thin and tart. But after briefly educating myself a very little bit more about Chianti, I suspect that this is simply a matter of taste. Chianti appears to be commonly blended with Merlot, something I’ve discovered that I do not have a taste for.

So for me, this wine was Not Good.

A septagenarian hitman races with the cops, his former employers, and Alzheimer’s to do one last job.

	Handguns: with silencers and laser sights.
	Assault rifles: oh, yes, also with laser sights.
	Explosions: one anemic car bomb.
	Stylized violence: in Dutch, with subtitles, with brooding European actors.
	Body count: two victims, one cop, and seven baddies. Barely double digits.
	Pigeons: not quite John Woo style, but … OK.

The closest Brookstone to me is at Quincy Market (the Copley location has closed). Since it was a nice day, we walked there, braving the Boston Marathon tourist crowds, and continued along the Freedom Trail up to North End.

Would you like to take your next vacation to the Boston area? If so, you should look into renting a Boston timeshare to get the most out of your vacation. To find the best deals on timeshares you should check into a timeshare sales directory to get a full listing of timeshares available in the area you’d like to visit.

I bought a Brookstone umbrella in 1995. It was very nifty for its time because not only was it automatic open, it was also automatic close (common today, but not so common back then). Yesterday, my trusty 11-year-old $30 umbrella finally gave up the ghost (as Murphy would have it, in the middle of the Harvard bridge, during drizzling rain, on my walk to work). Some spring must have broken or something, because the umbrella would no longer extend or open.

Their 100% satisfaction guarantee is also a product guarantee for “normal life of the product, under standard use”. I knew the umbrella had seen nothing but “standard use”, but I had no idea what the “normal life of the [umbrella]” was supposed to be. There was only one way to find out: I retrieved my 1995 receipt from my trusty envelope of “things with lifetime warranties” and went to the store to determine whether or not my umbrella was still covered under warranty.

The exchange went without a hitch, no questions asked, and not even a request for the original receipt! Of course, they don’t carry my model of broken umbrella anymore. The equivalent model that I received in exchange (“Super Size Family Umbrella”) is actually an upgrade; the new umbrella is lighter, and its canopy includes ventilation for graceful resistance to high-speed winds.

I am a happy Brookstone customer.