This was made 3 years ago but popped into my youtube feed when May Oliver passed. Lovely. And a nearly empty lineup of fun waves.
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Monday, August 17, 2026
pesto 2026
I've been gravitating towards cooking via gram measurements over cups lately. and pesto is a prime example. What is a packed cup of basil? who knows. but x grams is easily measured. so, from Jamie O, but no cheese/plant based: 40g basil, 1 clove garlic, pinch salt, 1/2T miso, 3T evoo, 50g nuts. 1st five in a blender, grind nuts in a coffee grinder then add to blender at end. I'm growing a whole bunch of different varieties of basil this year; used pistachios for the nuts. Tomaters in the pic are apricot zebra, blue beauty, barry's crazy.
Friday, August 14, 2026
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Travel vloggers
It's a pretty big genre on youtube. Here are some I've really enjoyed the past few years:
Kombi Life Pan Am highway (there's a theme...) except south to north. Took him forever as his vw bus broke down constantly. Legendary channel. Recently european trips that are also fun.
Max & Lee Pan Am Videos started in Baja and were amateur at that point, so that was a bummer, but I really enjoyed their slow way of travel. Super sad ending though: Lee basically had a mental breakdown cause of social media, they broke up, she actually lived in SB for a while, committed suicide by Amtrak!!!!!!!!!! eek. onto happier thoughts.
Eva Zu Beck long career on youtube. She has a video with an Iranian goat herding family that is really stunning. A real pro. Recently got hired by National Geographic to do a show that is decent.
Nick and Mathilde french couple. Started watching when they were in convoy with Eva at the start of Pan Am, they've been on the road now for 4 years and are in central Asia currently.
Toyota World Runners Pan Am, another sad one as after the trip and they got back to Canada they died in a car accident. The videos from this trip are unbelievable, great camera work and narration, and a really cool custom vehicle (Landcruiser with a camper). Peruvian Andes and then Bolivia, Argentina Altiplano videos particularly great.
Dan Cycles the World Pan Am, by bicycle, but via dirt as much as he can. Also great camera work and narration. Seems like a really, really nice and cool guy. Baja and Peru videos were particularly awesome. In Bolivia/northern Chile right now.
Go Alone. Pan Am, but then also a couple of neat vids in southern Africa.
Kepa Acero Legendary surf traveler
Desert Drifter another sad one as he passed in a car accident. SW US hiking: cedar mesa, etc
Dylan Graves: Alaska trip
Dylan Graves has a number of videos on youtube about novelty waves that are enjoyable. This is a more conventional trip, except it's a boat trip in Alaska, not the Mentawais, so not that conventional... Really enjoyable wildlife, fishing, etc, the Alaska experience.
The Occ cast
Old youtube content popped up in my feed. Occy's podcast stopped having new content a while ago, there are some great interviews. I posted about the Jack Johnson one back in 2019. Here are a number of other good ones.
Paul Theroux quote
from Fresh Air Fiend, I'm not familiar with the 2 books mentioned but I love the line anyway...
"The first book that was read to me was Make Way for Ducklings, and the second was The 500 hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, by Dr. Suess. As soon as I could read I wanted to be a hero.
Paulina Borsook interview
great interview from Amanpour & Co, about silicon valley, tech (and not in a good way)
blog reboot
the iphone killed the blog, for me. cause blogger doesn't have an app to allow for posts from the phone (and its camera...). also too many distractions. but I did quite like how the blog is a receptacle of memories. so, trying again.
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