So I am not sure how ya'll feel about a little doggy dress up but I can tell you me and my little girl - love it! She can not wait to get in her clothes and prance up and down the block showing off her designer duds. Seriously... she gets really excited when the clothes come out - pawing at them, "laughing", and sitting very still so I can put them on. She has t-shirts, dresses, bows - and we are working on the shoes. How cute would little (sensible) heels be to go with a fancy little dress? Crazy cute, right?

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Never heard of the Music Specialists? Me neither, but the b-side to one of the group's singles sits it well within skinner's listening habits. Get an earful and see if you can hunt down a copy without selling children into slave labor.

Staying or living in Sacramento? Just a short trip from this capitol city you can experience the flowers and beauty of the Napa Valley.

As the time progresses you can see the grape flowers turn into delicious fruit... which is then turned into even more delicious wine! What more could a guy ask for? the trip is only about 1.5 or so hours and will be well worth it.

Take a short drive from Sacramento to the Napa Valley with the directins below - you will be glad you did!

- Take I-5 South and connect with the I-80 West bypass, and follow the signs to San Francisco.

- Then take Highway 12 towards Napa and turn right on Hwy. 29 north.

- Follow the exits on Highway 29 to enter Napa. To go to Yountville, Oakville, Rutherford, St. Helena, or Calistoga stay on Highway 29.

Clayton Crain is one of the few talents in the industry that can really pull off digital painting style without making it looked forced or too slick. He's also one of the few talents that can really pull off a messy yet simultaneously clean approach to his layouts, making things look murky in their gore yet also telling an easy to follow story.

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Saturday July 24 is National Drive-Thru Day, a day meant to encourage people to use the drive-thru for their convenience. But do we really need an excuse to sit on our butts and buy more junk food that we don’t need, wasting more gasoline while we idle? I think not. In fact, it seems like every day is drive-thru day—and it’s not limited to food, either. Gas stations, dry cleaners, and plenty of other services have drive-thru windows as well. How about instead of a drive-thru day, we instead spend the day both not using the drive-thru as well as making plans on how to not use the drive-thru in the future.

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I so want my mall experience to be like this! YAY Improv- even if it is all pre-choreographed and slightly fake- it still kicks absolute ass over any mall experience I've had in my entire life.

Back at Columbia University there was this guy everyone called Rover. His real name was Terry but if you ever called him that he'd start barking and try to bite you. In other words, a real prick. Well, Terry... I mean "Rover", didn't care who he had to piss off to get the things he wanted. He'd threaten to start a fist fight if the boys got a keg of beer he didn't like or he'd toss water balloons at the girls who wouldn't go out with him. Every day it was something new with Rover and it was never funny. After a solid year of his nonsense I finally decided to stand up to him. My cousin sent me a box of awesome cigars for Christmas and I wasn't about to share them with just anyone. I handed a few out to my closest friends and one to a professor I wanted to impress. Of course, Rover wanted one, not that he even smoked cigars, but that was irrelevant. I put my foot down on that one and Rover just flipped. He started pushing me, calling me some pretty nasty names and even snapping at me with those ugly teeth of his. No matter what happened I held my ground and kept telling him "no". That dumbass didn't get one solitary speck of tobacco from me. So, yeah, I'm not gonna back down on this Arizona issue, either.

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The Fourth of July is synonymous with many things, but one event is taking over, with the event being the Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island.  Thousands gather to watch grown men and women stuff their faces with hot dogs, and ESPN even broadcasts the festivities.  This year's contest proved to be unlike any other.  The contest itself held to normalcy until the very end.  Joey "Jaws" Chestnut dominated the field, inhaling 54 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the coveted mustard yellow title belt, but then a figure emerged from the crowd, with it being none other than former-champ, Takeru Kobayashi.  The crowd began to chant, "LET HIM EAT!

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I had my first McDonalds Frappe this weekend and I have to say, I was not impressed.  I want to say "Starbucks has nothing to fear," but on the other hand, McDonalds has made a bazillion dollar a year industry out of delivering bland over-processed flavorless fat bombs to the undiscerning American public.  So maybe Starbucks SHOULD be worried.

I was curious about how this thing would be made, but most of the process took place behind a big black and silver machine that was clearly meant to look like a proper espresso bar's espresso maker. 

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Once you've made tzatziki, it's pretty much a given that you're going to start thinking about making your own gyros. For those of you thus far unfamiliar with the gyros, it's a Greek "fast food" sort of dish. The name refers to the large turning spit containing a roast; (gyros is cognate with Modern English gyrate, to turn). Slices of the moist-but-crispy meat are combined with tazatziki, Greek yogurt-dill-and-cucumber sauce, on a pita. Other ingredients, like tomato, or feta, or lettuce or even pepper, salt, and paprika, are optional. In Greece gyros are common fare at small cafes and street carts.

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