2002-09-28 1:02 p.m.
What's Shiny Today: Hot Buns Edition
- A KFC drive through in Marin was serving more than chicken. A man
drove up, ordered "extra biscuits" and found to his surprise that "extra
biscuits" was now Secret Drive-Through Code for "a bag of pot." (My mom told
me about this story, since the folks get the IJ, and now it's on the front page
of Fucked Company - as a fuck for KFC, unfortunately, not Marin.
- This is a busy weekend in the Bay Area. Sunday is the How Berkeley Can You Be parade and street fair.
Also this weekend: the Folsom Street
Fair, which is not exactly a street fair in the sense you may be used to.
Instead of cotton candy and lumpy stoneware, think leather, public floggings
and acres of hairy man-ass.
- Speaking of hairy man-ass, the A's rookies went through a typical major
league hazing ritual after their series in Seattle -- their regular clothes
were swiped from their lockers and replaced with tarty girl clothes for their
flight to Texas. What's funnier about it this year is that this picture ran in
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Where are the photos of scantily-clad Mariners
rookies, I ask you? Did Seattle need to get back at the A's for clinching
the AL West there?
- I made Sweet and Rich Muffins out of Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything this morning, with my usual tweaks -- replace 1/2 cup
of the white flour with wheat flour and put in a little vanilla and Grand
Marnier. What, you say you don't have this book? Why the heck not? It
deserves a spot on your shelf right next to the 1975 edition of Joy of Cooking.