Michael R. Barrick's blog

This appears to be an invasion from Sqornshellius Zeta.

I did a thing. This is the second attempt. The first one was a disaster. This one: not awful. First time I followed a recipe from the Internet. This time I 80% followed a recipe from my dad’s old cookbook and 20% winged it off memories of “helping” my mom half a century ago and nailed it.

The cat’s out of the bag—really it’s been a black and white cat doing these black and white paintings all along

Me at work today

Marpole south of 70th: the EastVan of the West Side.

My new vyshyvanka shirt. I can’t wait to wear it.

What’s this? A package from Odessa on my desk this morning…

I’ve been all about the Ukrainian side of the family lately (funny how an attempt a violent genocide does that), but this is a message from the Gitano side (although I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some Roma on the Ukrainian side, too) that the Nazis wanted to wipe out—if the fruit in your sangria doesn’t look like this, it is bullshit.

Yay! My GAF vyshyvanka shirt made it out of Odesa and is in Canada

A painting of Charles II, painted sometime in the 1660s by my great-great-great-great-great uncle, Jacob Huysmans.