The Journal of Rockett Science

From a friend:

Ages ago you told me to read Anne Lamott. I promptly forgot to do that. Then I did. And I remembered that you give the best advice. THANKS!

It’s true. I do give the best advice.

I need to finish my time machine so I can go back and tell my 14-year-old self that someday he’ll be in the same room as the guy who wrote the Dungeon Master’s Guide.

Taken at PAX 2008 by Cassie Wallender, who is a swell dame.

In honor of the spicy, bold taste of the brand’s signature KFC Hot Wings, the world’s largest chicken chain announced today that Americans living in cities and towns that record temperatures hotter than those in Hell, Mich., have a chance to win free Hot Wings. The “Hotter than Hell” offer is for a five-day period beginning today and ending July 4.

Via Food Industry Market (Disclosure: KFC is a client of my agency)

During a recent business trip to Vancouver — my first visit to Canada — I stopped at a Safeway to see if I could find a boxed pastry that a Canadian friend of mine told me to look out for. I saw no Passion Flakies there, but when I took a turn through the cereal aisle I was seized with a sense of profound disorientation as I beheld something I haven’t seen since I was a kid in the 70s: Sugar Crisp cereal.

Sometime after 1979 (Lazyweb?) the cereal’s name was changed to “Super Golden Crisp” in the U.S. But not, apparently, in Canada.

Given how taboo the word “sugar” is in kid’s products now, the Canadian version felt kind of subversive to me. It opened a window onto an alternate world of strange possibilities, where the names of foods highlight their main ingredients instead of concealing them.