For those of us who miss the disturbing eBay items site

Last night’s leftover chicken breast (sauteed in butter and olive oil with hot pepper, salt, and marsala) cubed with pieces of cucumber, in a yogurt / lemon / dill dressing, topped with smoked paprika.

Fruit salad: grapes, banana, blueberries, strawberries with a yogurt dressing

Potato salad in a dressing of three vinegars, olive oil, black pepper, dill, parsley, a little white wine, a little salt.

Toasted pita.

Hello mudda, hello fadda

CBS Was Warned on “Kid Nation,” Documents Show

Pullquotes:

Four children received medical treatment for accidentally drinking bleach, one child was burned on her face with hot grease while cooking in an unsupervised kitchen, and most of the children were required to work 14 hours or longer per day.

CBS officials had used the “camp” designation to characterize the reality show in discussions with parents.

CBS contended the children were not employees because they were not performing specific work for specific wages.

Bonus points: The Attorney General investigating the event is named “Buzzard.”

I think they intended to recreate Lord of the Flies but the effect was more Kamp Krusty. For this kind of bad publicity they should have at least got one or two pig heads on a stick, if not a full Battle Royale.

I suggest SURVIVOR: EXPOSED! in which infants will be left on mountaintops. As the show progresses, we find out which ones survive, raised by wolves, and return to the city to wreak a terrible vengeance.

My Own Private Anaheim

Especially for changeng and courtesy yoscott, I am proud to present the. Hmm. Urban Bear Jamboree? Guy has a whole series like this. Be careful, Stuart, or Carlos will run away and join the circus.

That was tiresome.

Flat front left tire on the Long Beach Freeway in the beautiful city of Commerce this morning. Inconvenience; grime; noise; moderate danger; expense. Saving graces:

* The useful and free Freeway Service Patrol tow people, who rather than just taking me off the freeway so I could change my tire safely, changed the tire for me with high powered tools in about 90 seconds.

* Modern cars, which can take a front left tire blowout at highway seed without becoming the Grim Reaper’s Whirling Gondolas to Hell.

* Working spare.

One word beer review

New Belgium Brewing Company “Mothership Wit”: YES!