All Gone Book - Every year since 2006, All Gone has put the best "street culture items" of the year in a book. Some pretty dope stuff. You can check out the digital versions and buy the 2009 book on their site...but hurry up, before they're all gone. (I had to.)
Ben & Jerry's flavor graveyard - I find this amazing interesting. I want to try about 87% of these flavors. For a straight up list, check the wiki BJ discontinued flavor list.
In The Rain mixtape by Dj Steve1der - All rain tracks by everyone from The Dramatics to Biggie to Raekwon to Michael Jackson to Bill Withers to Prince.
February 07, 2010
November 04, 2009
I Enjoy Getting Food in the Mail
Over the past week, I got two care packages in the mail. Both contained food.
My parents sent me apple cider donuts, Boston newspapers sports sections, chestnuts, a birthday card, New England fall foliage (seriously; they sent me leaves), a sonic toothbrush and a slinky. It's like the tastes, smells ans sights of autumn in a box. Love it.
Jessie on the other hand sent me dulce de leche from Argentina. And lots of it. If you don't know, dulce de leche translates into ohmygawdthisstuff is ludicrouslyamazing.
Lets start with this cone shaped candy, Havanna Havannets. (Read more about it in this NY Times article on dulce de leche.) Basically it's a milk chocolate cone filled with dulce de leche. I started at the point and didn't know there was a cookie at the bottom. Let me put it like this: if I gave these out as Halloween candy, kids and parents would be googling "havanna havannets candy" before the got to the cookie. Once you eat this, you want more.
Ohhhhh Yes. Now, I'm not a huge fan of regular Oreo cookies: too much chocolate. If I eat them, I'll split them and only eat the half of the cookie that has most of the "cream" filling with a glass of milk. Well, these dulce de leche Oreos are a different story. I eat them whole and I eat them with great pleasure. I'm starting to think that dulce de leche makes everything better.
Alfajores Jorgito. Guess what this is! Dulce de leche chocolate cookie! Guess what else it is! Amazing! On another note, the kid on the package looks like he's up to something.
And a jar of dulce de leche made by Veronica. I want to eat this with bananas, pecans, crepes, and ice cream. Lucky for me I found AmigoFoods.com, which is "Your Latin food store on the internet!" and they carry lots of authentic Argentine food including 17 dulce de leche products including this Veronica jar. As if I needed another reason why I should be running more.
Dulce de leche is Nutella's sister. I have yet to have them together...be right back. Ok. Dulce de leche and Nutella is a food orgry that I recommend to everyone with a mouth.
And oh, something that's not dulce de leche but still shocking and great. Lays "lomo con cebolla caramelizada" potato chips. That's tenderloin with caramelized onion potato chips. I was excited to see what these taste like...and then I was excited to eat more. I really like them. Other flavors: parmesano ahumado con hierbas (smoked paramsean & herbs) and pechuga de pollo al limon con hierbas (lemon chicken breast with herbs). These are potato chip flavors people. I want these sold in the US.
Here are some Lays Resto commercials, done by BBDO.
May 09, 2009
Tropicana Orange Juice
I saw the Tropicana OJ package redesign a while ago but it wasn't until last week that saw Trop50 (less calories and sugar) cartons with the new cap. I really like the new orange orange caps. When I first saw them, I smiled and said to myself "Hmm. Nice. I like that." The new caps caused me to do some research about the whole redesign and I found out that because of loud criticism against it, Tropicana is changing back to their old/classic design - the one with the straw in the orange.
Eight Major Failures of the Tropicana Redesign
NY Times article about the switch back
While I am a fan of the classic straw in the orange logo/design, I hope they keep the new caps.
"Sealed with an orange to maintain freshness." Get it? Cause the cap is an orange...yeah, you get it.
July 30, 2008
great pizzas. bad calendars.
Regina Pizzeria makes one of the best pizzas I've ever had. Unfortunately, their calendars aren't as good as their pizzas. Jessie gave me this Regina's coupon calendar and she also pointed out that (according to the calendar) today is the 28th. And yesterday was the 31st..ummm yeah. Somehow I need to get a free pizza out of all the confusion their mistake caused me.
June 28, 2008
May 11, 2008
something wasn't right
'Don't Feel Bad' - Styles of Beyond & RZA. I like this song.
A few weeks ago my Nikon camera started acting up. Pictures were coming out looking like demons had invaded my camera. Then 2 minutes later, the demons were gone and I could take the picture. When I got back to LA, the demons had permanently rented out my camera and all of my pictures looked demented. So I went to the Nikon website to try and find out what the hell was going on and/or where to take it to be fixed. I found out that a "service advisory" had been issued for my camera in Feburary of '07.
"It has come to our attention that in a limited number of COOLPIX 3100, 3500, 4500, 5000, 5400, 5700 and SQ digital cameras, an electronic component may, in some instances, fail affecting your camera's performance and/or operability.... if your camera presents symptoms that can include (1) images with a strong color tint, (2) images that are totally black and/or (3) images with visible defects, Nikon will, upon confirmation that the problem is associated to this Service Advisory, service your camera free of charge."
Nikon's verbiage said nothing about demons but I sent my camera to them anyways....and a few days later I got an email saying they would fix the camera free of charge. And 4 days after that, my fully repaired and cleaned camera was waiting for me when I got home from work. Nikon gets an A+ and a gold star in my book.
July 01, 2007
Mr. Clean Shoes
I have more food in my stomach than I do in my kitchen right now, so the plan was to go do a big food shopping. Instead, I decided to try out the Jason Markk sneaker cleaner that I got a few weeks ago.
7 pairs of sneakers later, I'm still cleaning snekers. This stuff is amazing.
First, the packaging is smart and awesome. Secondly, the stuff works and it works really well.
If you have a bunch of sneakers, buy this for yourself. If you know someone who has a bunch of sneakers, buy this for them. The bristles are stronger than those on that toothbrush that you're used to using to clean your kicks and the brush is the size of at least 10 teethbrushes, so your kicks will be looking super clean super fast. If you're sneaker game is weak, this stuff won't change your kicks, but it will clean the shit outta your wack kicks.
March 01, 2007
I’m a serial cereal eater.
I love cereal. It’s part of my breakfast almost every morning. It’s also often a bedtime snack. There are lots of different kinds that I like and lots of enhancements that I use on the regular. (Some examples are pecans, bananas, raisins, and almonds.)
It’s very rare that I sit down at the kitchen table for my whole breakfast. I’m usually walking around and watching Sportscenter, being online, and finding clothes to wear that day while eating my cereal. This used to be my favorite cereal bowl. I got it in Italy and sometimes refer to it as my Italian World Cup. What makes it worthy of such a name is the handle. It makes it super easy to hold in one hand without the possibility of dropping it.
Everything was great until I got a new bowl and a box of cereal in the mail from Jessie...and then things got even better. This new bowl does not have a handle. It’s called the Sip-a-Bowl and it has a friggin’ built in straw. Got that? A built in straw AND grooves that make it easy to hold. The straw allows me to easily drink some of the milk throughout my cereal eating. No more spillage anxiety. No more cereal hitting my nose when I go to drink some milk and the bowl is super filled. Basically, this is a great invention and I wonder how long it's been around with me not knowing about it.
Even Jim Jones needs a closer look at my breakfast bowl ballin'.
