Not Intent on Arriving

See if you would have grouped these six categories together.  Last night, at the Pig N’ Whistle.

1) Crusades

2) MLB Baseball Teams

3) Taxonomy

4) Children’s Book Authors

5) Modern Sex Terms

6) Washington State Counties

1) Putin Pop Song: A $300 bet to write a pop song? Results in the new theme song for Vladmir Putin.

2) Alternative Power Source: A dog park powers itself by a new source of power. Dog poop!

3) Shocking Ads: Italians have always been huge fans of controversial ads. Here’s the latest batch, and their objectors.

4) Photoshopped Again: All to make the Egyptian president look better.

5) Somebody Made a Lot of Money: To come up with this logo for the Democrats. Ouch.

6) Weird New Book: The story of the Englishman who sent himself in the mail.

7) No Homo: Video makes fun of Jason DeRulo and rap music in general.

8) Acid Attack Faked: The Washington state woman who claimed an unknown assailant threw acid in her face during a trip to Vancouver faked the attack.

Apparently these are commonly known things… but I’ve never seen them in the USA until today.

1) Harvey Danger— Flagpole Sitta

2) Head Massager

My host mother in Cosenza had one of these, but I thought they were not available in the USA.  I was wrong. Amazing!!

Nestled away in the corner of  Piece of Mind‘s parking lot, I found the best tacos in the world (to date) in the most unlikely of spots. A truck.

More specifically, it’s a place called “Flair Taco.” I’m impressed with their wide variety of options out of a simple truck. I’ve now tried tacos with pollo, pastor and carnitas. All three had delicious meat, fresh onions, fresh limes and warm tacos.  At $1.50 a pop, they’re very reasonably priced.

Flair Taco

See here and here for some online reviews of the truck.  And… go find it.  You won’t regret the decision.

1) Run Away: After radical Islamists called for her death, one cartoonist flees into witness protection. The FBI recommended it.

2) Foxy Knoxy Unplugged: A fellow inmate with convicted murderess Amanda Knox will write a book about the young American and her time in the Italian jail system. The writer: a Brazilian lady in jail for drug crimes.

3) Glee!: It’s coming (soon). A cover of Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind”

4) New Form of Self-Service: A wine dispenser that lets you fill up in the supermarket.  In my mind, a good idea.

5) Soda or Pop: Apparently, lots of scientific resources have been given to determining how people across the county refer to their sugary soda products. Nice map here.

6) Google Doodle: Today’s design honors one of my favorite authors— Agatha Christie. Unfortunately, it’s not being shown in the USA. See it here.

7) Shocking Upset in Delaware: Christine O’Donnell won the Republican Senate nomination in Delaware yesterday. Past crusades have tried to fight masturbation and included an appearance on “Politically Incorrect.” Now, national GOP personnel, including Karl Rove, have abandoned her. Her defeated opponent, Mike Castle, refuses to endorse her and new polls show a huge shift against Republicans in the race. My favorite quote on the race:

I could buy a parrot and train it to say, ‘tax cuts,’ but at the end of the day, it’s still a parrot, not a conservative— Tom Ross, head of the Delaware Republican Party

8) Corn Sugars: Apparently, corn refiners think High Fructose Corn Syrup has a bad reputation.