I'm a lasagna boy!

How many pounds in a gallon?

Big Bubba, a 22-pound lobster, made his sensational appearance at Wholey's. Whoah.

Pinchy, the lobster on the right, is a normal dinner-sized turf part of a night out. Each of Bubba's claws is about the size of a whole eatin'-sized lobster.
UPDATE: Turns out that Wholey's are looking for $500 to take this centarian arthropod home. Horrors!

Puzzling and refreshing

It's Scottish, but not whiskey. Hendricks Gin also comes in a very nice bottle, evocative of an apothecary's shop.

a fish, a barrel, and a smoking gun

I miss suck. Aside from being the first web site to link to me (!!), it had great graphics by Terry Colon, witty pre-pomo cut-up commentary, and a snarky attitude that presaged everything. Everything.

Last Chance to Taste

I began reading Gina Mallet's wistful Last Chance to Taste, about the declining importance of food in our culture.
I'm ambivalent: are we so leisurely that we can inspect and fetishize our food (well, obviously, yes); but so coddled that we have already forgotten than many of our parents' generation, immigrant or no, faced food shortages even relative to their parent's generation? The embargoes and rationing of the Wars; the lack of air shipping;

At the same time, I strongly believe that we must pay close attention to our food sources. We must eat locally-grown and -obtained food, in season and organically grown. I'm all for sushi, but don't like the chemicals added to it so that it retains its colour.

I'm a nerd!?

I'm putting this here just to pique Greg:

All of a sudden / it's too late

"a pedestrian appears out of nowhere!" it's like being in a horror movie, isn't it?
Salve for the satanic soul of the urban driver.

Beerstorming

From Cody comes this suggestion: write mountain-bike haiku suitable for a pint glass.

nature and bike, one
egg, nuclear, face are three
plants you must avoid

Win a Case of Dirt Rag Pint Glasses By: Jeff Guerrero

Here at Dirt Rag we've come up with more than a handful of ideas in the basement over a pint or two?we call it "beerstorming." While our latest idea came about without the aid of hoppy performance enhancers, the notion still smacks of malty genius. Our own fermented intellectual editor has been kind enough to summarize:

Here?s the idea: a poem, a verse, a haiku or just a few short lines of beer and bike meditation to be printed on an entire run of Dirt Rag pint glasses.

In an email to editor@dirtragmag.com, with ?Beer Storming? in the subject line, send in your own idea. Make it funny or catchy or just plain brilliant! If we choose yours, we?ll send you a case of pint glasses with your phrase printed on each one!