That’s not dye or Photoshop — the lobster is naturally this colour. A rare genetic mutation turns one in 4 million lobsters blue, including this one, caught off Prince Edward Island’s north shore on Monday.
I wonder what colour it turns when you cook it.
I get worried whenever I see our marketing dude Mark Hayes playing with CAT-5 cable, Tums, hand sanitizer, mouthwash, mint Lifesavers, two squirt guns and Vaseline hand lotion. Very, very worried.
The T-shirt is right — either go with:
…but don’t mix the two. That way lies madness (or, perhaps the Gipsy Kings). It ain’t pretty.
Back in 1987, Disney and Star Wars first came together with Disneyland’s Star Tours ride, the first such attraction based on a non-Disney film. That same year, Guns ‘n’ Roses released Appetite for Destruction, an album with a slew of rock hits, including Welcome to the Jungle, the second single off that album (a song that got a big boost from the “Dirty Harry” film The Dead Pool).
We would have to wait until 2011 for Disney, Star Wars and G’n’R to join together and form a triumvirate of awesomeness. In case your brain refuses to accept what’s happening in the video above, it’s Welcome to the Jungle featuring the Mos Eisley Cantina Band as backup dancers, Chewbacca as Axl Rose and the Ewoks as guitarists and percussionists (they’re playing on the helmets — or is it decapitated heads? — of fallen stormtroopers and TIE fighter pilots).
I normally don’t go for the live entertainment at Disney parks, but this one I’d love to see.
Here’s an intriguing read from Foreign Policy magazine: The New Geopolitics of Food.
An excerpt:
In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have over the last year, it means the difference between a $2 loaf of bread and a loaf costing maybe $2.10. If, however, you live in New Delhi, those skyrocketing costs really matter: A doubling in the world price of wheat actually means that the wheat you carry home from the market to hand-grind into flour for chapatis costs twice as much. And the same is true with rice. If the world price of rice doubles, so does the price of rice in your neighborhood market in Jakarta. And so does the cost of the bowl of boiled rice on an Indonesian family’s dinner table.
Welcome to the new food economics of 2011: Prices are climbing, but the impact is not at all being felt equally. For Americans, who spend less than one-tenth of their income in the supermarket, the soaring food prices we’ve seen so far this year are an annoyance, not a calamity. But for the planet’s poorest 2 billion people, who spend 50 to 70 percent of their income on food, these soaring prices may mean going from two meals a day to one. Those who are barely hanging on to the lower rungs of the global economic ladder risk losing their grip entirely. This can contribute — and it has — to revolutions and upheaval.
The full article is here.
Although it looks as though we’ve finally escaped the seemingly endless runs of rainy days, it’s a good idea to keep this advice in mind.
“Blah, blah, blah, rightness or wrongness of an action or divine command, holiness of an object, yadda, yadda, yadda…the real question is: Where are the kitty treats?”