This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent. Seahawks vs. Cubanos Preview With all this talk of the first black president, we are forgetting the first black heavyweight champion to release his own grill. Our George Foreman cooking machine was able to press down, heat, and more importantly, leave those cool grill marks on our......

We were just about to lean into a nice Sunday morning, working on our NaNoWriMo effort, when we opened the New York Times Web site just to see if any disaster had befallen us overnight that may take precedence over our literary venture. What we saw, buried toward the end of the day's headlines, was this: "Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With Matching Ego, Is Dead." We gasped, choked, looked around the empty basement of Stumptown......