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A Song of Ice and Fire.

First Book: Game of Thrones.

This series has completely taken over my summer.

Currently on the most recent volume, A Dance with Dragons, and I really don't want to finish it because who has any clue when George RR Martin will finish the series.

Prior to starting this I finished Drood.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.

Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying?

Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to Dickens's final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.

I'm in. It's just as boring as Facebook.

I've got invites too

Ease up on Spezza...He's still relatively a point a game player...

And I also still like to point out that he had a better season that Mr. Heatley last.

BTW...they are already giving away pre-season Sens Tix on the Radio!

It's getting closer!

I just remembered the wifey is out of town this week...

Unfortunately, the KFC next door is closed, but Hintonburger.............

The players backed him up in today's Sun. Funnily enough, it's Garrrioch that wrote the article...

I'm slowly moving away from the Sun as my online read. I'm glad the online Citizen is free again.

Speaking of whining

Looks like Garrishmuck to it personally

It's on Somerset between Kent and Lyon. And if you want company, let me know! I could go for some Jean Albert's!

Next time you are in Ottawa you gotta hit up Jean Albert's then for chicken and waffles!!!

Thier chicken can be hit and miss I find but everything else is great!

I think the trick is to go when it's busy. When I've been and it's quiet I find the chicken super dry, but I went for a huge party once and the chicken was FANTASTIC!

Garrioch perhaps?

Kovalev also criticized sportswriters in the nation's capital, saying they knew little about the game. "Ottawa journalists don't watch hockey at all," he explained to the paper. "When they fly with the team and go through the (metal detector) at an airport, their bags are filled with beer. You realize right away what these people do when they write about the NHL.

Yeah...those unis sure suck CAC.

Result?

379 mls of buttermilk

30.2 grams of cornstarch

252 mls for flour.

Don't mess with this recipe Dunn.

I just got drastically remembered about this happening. I didn't even clue in that this would be at 10:30. I don't think I should drive.

Don't you mean...I got super lazy and didn't feel like leaving my house?

Wait, that sounds like your brother.

is the barber pole serious? seriously?

"O.G."

Original Gangster

I knew you'd be in here...I always mix up the pho bo ga's....Is that the one on the north side of the street?

Really (about the teabags) when I make it at home I just use the generic broth in a box, unless I've got some home-made.

In O-town?

I've heard bouche rave about Saigon Boy....what are your other faves?

Went to Saigon Pho last night on Bank St. was good and super filling.

HBD!!! Hope you enjoyed that wine!

Maybe we should finally do a little pool tournament like i mentioned, what, a year ago?

obviously not the same but it'd be a good reason to start tippling in the afternoon on a Saturday...

Let's get this going for realz...According to the sign outside the Orange Monkey, they've got HUGE BURGERS

Albion Rd. apparently won't be ready till next year. As good as April Wine is, I'm still hoping for a Trooper date somewheres...

...awesome Canadian 70's, 80's, 90's classic rock shows to end the summer.

Colour me dissappointed.

the tomaters oh the tomaters...Went to the market this past weekend and they were everywhere too soooo red and awesome!