Roger Ebert: Despite some hard times, the guy (seen here with his wife Chaz) has been trying out a more mischievous, free-form sort of writing, and this time, he wants to tell you about rice cookers — and it's pretty great.
Roger Ebert's blog isn't exactly breaking news — it was recently named the second-best-written blog on the Internet by this site — but if you haven't checked out "The Pot And How To Use It," then you're in for a treat. (Literally, perhaps, if you're a read-along-and-do kind of person.)
More about the many things Roger Ebert can teach you, after the jump...
Ebert's previously discussed how his inability to speak post-surgery has freed him up to become a better, more avid writer, since it's now his primary mode of communication. But his ruminations on rice cookers and the many, many tangents that lie therein is pretty much where he uses his newfound blogging habit to go completely, magnificently off the deep end.
I don't want to spoil the many surprises. Suffice it to say, however, that he illustrates a story about his Aunt Mary with a class photograph that pointedly doesn't include her, headlines one paragraph "You can skip this paragraph" and suggests a mythological creature for you to consume so offhandedly that you might find yourself halfway through the next paragraph before you realize, "Wait, did he just say...?"
It's long, it goes off in a thousand directions and every word is gold. We should all be this crazy.
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