This post, intended
For the Yanks. Instead, please join
Me in a welcome.
The mini coke can!
If heaven has a mini
Bar, these are in it.
Image source: Slate.com
Read: Is the Coke Mini Can the New Light Cigarette?
Read and weep: Angels Jolt Yankees with Walk-Off
a special lace collar for a special birthday boy
Happy birthday-ish!
Good luck with the four hundred
Forty-five candles.
Read: 5 Ways to Celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday
Visit: Shakespeare’s Birthday Open House
Image source: Austin Shakespeare
shrink wrap
Ice caps and crème eggs
Are shrinking. Woe is me, and
To the polar bears.
Read: They’re Shrinking Our Cadbury Crème Eggs and Denying it
Image source: Candy Snob
moderately joyous
Oh SoyJoy ads, how
You have deceived me. Less Joy
Than I might have hoped.
Some people who agree with me, emphatically: Food Product Review
Image source: PRNews
Thank you, New York Times.
Now I can rationalize
My candy habit.
Savings sour, the sweets
Still sweet. Who needs a mortgage
When there’s Gummy Bears?
Read: When Economy Sours, a Tootsie Roll can still Soothe the Soul
Image source: Shape and Colour
The convenience store
On my block does not have eggs
But sells nutella.
Image source: Cafe Fernando
drip coffee
The list of closures,
Published. Now, start planning for
The Apocalypse.
escher on too much caffeine
Starbucks closing stores.
Without three on every
block, what will I do?
mmmm
Ox tripe in chilis.
No matter how you say it,
It is still ox tripe.
Bean curd made by a
pocked marked woman. Dee-lish! I
will order double.
One whole paddy field
Was planted ere I moved on
From that willow tree!
(courtesy of Basho, 17th century Japanese poet)
lycopene test tube
don’t impugn my friend
the tomato! lycopene
helps prevent cancer!
(courtesy of patrick cyrus gilman)
tomato on the vine = no salmonella!
Poison tomatoes.
My distaste for veggies seems
Smarter, don’t you think?
Angry farmers want
To throw rotten tomatoes
At the FDA.
Maybe they should toss
in some contaminated
spinach salad, too.
Read: Tomato Scare Worries California Growers
Raindrop therapy.
Oil drizzle — thyme and basil.
I smell like salad.
Massages at the
Gym. Heaven. Thank god they
Don’t make you work out, too.
Read: Drop on In
Visit: Sports Club LA Splash Spa
Kung pao chicken
The kung pao chicken
I like the kung pao chicken
The kung pao chicken
(eddie joy, courtesy of patrick cyrus gilman)
