This chair is slightly uncomfortable.

I finally stepped out from under the rock I have been living under and watched the first season of Game of Thrones. Although I am a science fiction nerd, I am not the biggest fan of the fantasy genre. Stories of rangers, elves and wizards haven’t really been my thing…that is, until The Lord of The Rings trilogy came out. The depth of the world Tolkien created (and portrayed by Peter Jackson) was unmatched by anything in both the fantasy and possibly the science fiction genres. The mythos of how things came to be, punctuates the legitimacy of the characters through out its story. How could some seemingly derivative story about a king, a dwarf and some dragons possibly live up to the only work of fantasy that I have ever really cared for. Those thoughts combined with the fact that I didn’t have HBO where my primary reasons for not really getting into Game of Thrones.

Boldly go!

Star Trek is back and not only on the big screen. As a lover of trek, I am way more excited about the new 2017 show than I am the third movie in the reboot series. I am not the biggest JJ Abrams fan and I am not sure he was the right steward for the beloved franchise. That said, I will keep an open mind and give Star Trek Beyond a fair shot. So in preparation for the next installment in the series I have decided to revisit all twelve Star Trek films and rank them from worst to best.

Pear and fig pizza

I did quite a bit of cooking this month. I played around with some bruschetta-like dishes as well as a couple of pizza experiments. Those aside, most of the dishes this month are Caribbean. Rachel and I chose that to be our theme for March, which meant that I went to town with plantain dishes.