It's called the Whole Foods effect

The difference between me and a Wisconsinite:
When I buy $125 of cheese and beer
there's not as much of it

Last night I saw a piece of dance theater based on Hieronymus Bosch's
Garden of Earthly Delights. It was the sort of production where you rarely sat back in your seat and said 'well, they made the safe choice, there.' Writhing dancers in kindof but not really opaque body suits, mostly quiet except for some unsettling laughter. Striking sex act involving a cello. Words really fail, but if you poke at their website you can find some photos:

http://gardenofearthlydelightsnyc.com/

I got nothing more to say on this.

On the first time I thought something would taste delicious and then went and made it and put it in my mouth

Kraft Macaroni and Blue Cheese

of my own devising

Ratatouille got it right.

Leitmotifs

So, owing to not having a good workout coat, I was jogging back from the gym to the office last week with just a basic running shirt and pants in 33 degree rainy, windy weather. While crossing a wide street a particularly nasty gust came along, umbrellas inverted, people cowered and hunched up. If you're a runner, you know this kind of moment. Cake's 'Going the Distance' started playing in my head and I charged on.

Now, the 'we should all have theme music' meme is an old one, but don't we have the technology today to make this possible? My first thought was that you could broadcast from your iphone or what have you, but we can actually do one better. Your theme music should broadcast from everyone _else's_ iphone. The volume can be inversely proportional to your distance from the phones. So the crowd in startbucks starts hearing a quiet 'ta-da da-da da-da dudunnanah ta-da da-da da-da' when you're a block away, then blasts out 'DUDUNNANAH' when you finally round the corner.

We can even do better then that. You could have multiple themes depending on what you're doing. Each person would have their love theme, grieving theme, striving under adversity theme, the montage theme, etc, etc. Then picture everyone's theme music blending.

If we can teach our phones to sing opera, we'll really be cooking...

The sexy Spanish checkout girl
can pronounce the dipthong in my name
but can't pronounce "dipthong".