Today's Favorite Photo

Combining two of my favorites!

Guess who had a baby!

Two of my favorite things from my childhood got together and got busy!!!!!


Breakdancing hooked up with ....

...the remote control car and they got busy!!!!!!!

New Harry Potter trailer

I think I almost wet myself watching this....
Damn shame the movie was finished a year ago and Warner Brothers decided to wait...

Oh you nasty girls....

Allure magazine has a spread coming up called "The Naked Truth" which features women in various forms of media. While this normally would have flown well below my radar, two of the women featured appeal to my foodie and geeky side respectively. So for the first and maybe only time on the window naked women....

Padma Lakshmi host of one of my favorite reality shows "Top Chef"

and Eliza Dushku of Dollhouse though she will always be Faith the Vampire Slayer to me.

Naked hot Scifi, Food chicks...what is the world coming too.....

Checking more than one box

With the upcoming census fast approaching, more and more people are making the demand to be heard for there multiple racial backgrounds. One company is cashing in on the need to be heard.

“Multiracial Apparel was designed to bring awareness and pride for those who identify as multiracial and/or multiethnic. It is the first company of its kind to celebrate mixed race people and families. Other identities we explore through our clothing line include those who are involved in interracial relationships, as well as transracial adoptees and their families.”

Ahh Labels.

Food is a history lesson

Travel Channel ran a marathon of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern this weekend. Now for regular readers you know what a big fan of food I am in general. Food Network is tagged as a favorite on the remote and I get email updates from the network all the time. The travel channel also has some food show that I tune into but I never realized until today that food can be more than pleasure and sustenance. Food is also a history book and map on the mentality of people.

This idea came to me as I caught the last part of the Ethiopian episode. Andrew was in a hut with the natives eating camel. In itself not a big deal, we eat many animals here in this country that others in different countries might look twice about. No the thing was they were eating the camel meat raw. Now I like my steak rare and I love the sushi, but raw camel meat, yes I would try it because I am open to trying a lot of stuff, but I wondered how this came about.

I know a couple things about Ethiopia, not a lot but a friend of mine married a woman from there and I have had several chances to sit and dine (nothing like the feast they prepare) and ask my ignorant raised in America questions. Ethiopians are a hardy people who have never been conquered by any other nation and people. I mean in their whole history they have repelled everybody that rolled up on them. That in itself is amazing, but back to my point. The eating of the raw camel meat came about very matter of factly. Warriors who were out on a war campaign at night needed to eat, and because these people are true warriors they did not want to give away their position with cooking fires, so they ate the meat raw.

As I learn more and more about food it serves to build bridges for me when it comes to other cultures. Who knows, maybe some day world peace will be brought on by every culture sharing their version of chitterlings.

Well maybe not!