Ever wanna go check out various foods at the Grove’s Farmer’s Market and on 3rd? Now’s your chance! Meltingpottours.com has a walking tour of those places, and to top it off, it ends at a cookbook store! I think I’m gonna have to try this one out, and I’ll let you know how it goes…

As taken from their site, “Melting Pot Tours invites you to experience this food lover’s mecca by joining one of our walking tours or other themed excursions designed with the epicurean in mind.”

Link found on Food Me

That’s right – mad libs star wars = blockbuster movie.  Think about it.  Of course, there are probably only so many people who have used this to their advantage.  Then again, Star Wars was inspired heavily by some Kurosawa films so guess this formula has worked for some time

Anyone wanna try? We are supposed to be due for an earthquake right? the BIG ONE? Thiswould probably come in handy…

As found in it’s description:

Basic preparation will impact the probability of your family’s survival in an emergency. Delicious and Easy to Prepare. Each bucket contains 275 servings of Pre-mixed and Pre-seasoned 100 % Vegetarian and Vitamin Fortified food for you and your family. With a 20 year long shelf life, this kit is perfect for the preparation of natural disasters such as hurricane, tornado, earthquakes or even a camping/hunting trip.

• Easy to prepare
• 275 servings
• Sealed in convenient Weather-Proof Bucket for Easy Transport
• 30 Servings – Potato Bakon
• 25 Servings – Corn Chowder
• 25 Servings – Ala King
• 25 Servings – Cacciatore
• 25 Servings – Western Stew
• 45 Servings – Whey Milk
• 25 Servings – Blueberry Pancakes
• 25 Servings – Barley Vegetable
• Total Weight: 23 lbs.

For best taste and nutritional value, use product before:

20 years of manufacturing date when stored at 60° F (16.6° C)

10 years of manufacturing date when stored at 70° F (21.1° C)

So keep it cool and it’ll last you 20 years.  That’s more than enough time to put us past that Mayan end-date of 2012…

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Cavalcade is a high-budgeted cartoon series that’s supposed to be edgier than the network TV offerings MacFarlane has given to us, and is being distributed via Google’s Adsense video for those sites that match that demographic. As a series being distributed via an advertising channel, it will consist of 50, short, 2-minute episodes, with new episodes being distributed every week. A site’s gone up for the show that has a short trailer, at http://www.sethcomedy.com/.

It seems interesting to me that Google would choose to use their AdSense platform as a distribution model for content. But why not? Video ad unit spaces have been used to display commercial-like placements for brands and products so why not use that same space to display something someone will actually want to watch? I’m sure similar things have been done, but none that I can recall that has as much appeal to me. Will this new distribution model become more popular in the future for similar shorts? Only time will tell, but I know that I’ll be watching the site since I’m a fan.

Found originally on NewTeeVee

I don’t usually post things like this, but looks like Wine and DineLA is coming up and I always do enjoy going to all the fancy restaurants.  If you’ve never done DineLA before, it’s basically a few weeks when a lot of nicer restaurants prepare a prix-fixe menu and offer it with a wine pairing (if so desired) for a price that is lower than what you would normally pay to have it at that restaurant.  It’s a good time to go and try different things from places you have been wanting to try, or just to get a good deal on some food.  Note that when I say good deal, I’m not talking about $20 bucks here, I’m talking about 50-100 for food alone per person.  I will definitely have to do some research and choose some of these restaurants.  Check out the list, or make a reservation via OpenTable.

link: DineLA

With the ongoing articles on ESPN and the internet, commentators mentioning of it during every US broadcast of the gymnastics events is just overkill, and is creating a sense of racist regards towards China. Looking at the comments left by users on ESPN.com you will notice that the controversy has made the average American look like sore-losers, and racist sore-losers at that. Not only are they attacking the gymnasts and Chinese government itself, they are using it to flame the country and it’s people as a whole, and makes me even more supportive of the Chinese athletes. Don’t get me wrong, I have no idea if they are, in fact, of age. All I can say is that with the right haircut, and some change in clothes I can easily fit in and pass as a High School student – and I’m 26. I have Asian, female friends that look as they could be 14 and they’re 25. I have a cousin who is in med school that could pass as 13. Asian people don’t necessarily look their age. And being a gymnast, which is a sport that generally stunts growth, doesn’t add to the fact that the girls may very well be as old as they say. Regardless of that fact however, they’re performed admirably, were under the same pressures and won it for their country. When the USA team captain was asked if she thought they looked younger than 16 she gave a very respectable answer, “…I don’t look 20.” yes, you don’t. And for all the naysayers, I seriously doubt the Olympic committee will go further than looking at official documents because there is nothing further to look into! Good luck finding birth records in a country where the number of children a family can have is limited, and many are sold as soon as their born because the parents are not of age to be married, or get a license to have a child. It is what it is, and just appreciate the fact that the US was able to get silver. BTW, the US had the chance to win it, and they lost it. They didn’t lose it unfairly, they lost it in competition.

But these are just some random thoughts from a blogger.

for more background on it – read the NY Times article!

For more information, read the release