Monthly Archive for November, 2006

Instructions for reading this blog entry: For your safety, please stay at least 30 centimeters from the computer, do not attempt to lick (or kick) the screen, or order any of these food items off eBay.

With or without your permission, I am going to share a number of my “food firsts” with you.

First, I was psyched to get the Halloween Peeps, because I remembered how the kindergarteners I worked with used to go crazy for the Easter version. Perhaps the batch was bad, but this one tasted like the cardboard it was in. NEXT!

Tootsie Roll incapacitated my mouth for a full minute. Not cool. NEXT!

The Rap Snack was more about the packaging than the actual chip, which tasted pretty normal. I just wanted to put it out there that Lil’ Romeo is telling us to “Stay in School” while we eat his “Bar-b-quin’ with My Honey” chips. His spelling, not mine. NEXT!

Ah. The nacho-plosion. I don’t like nachos, or guacamole, or cheese, or jalapeno, but I was hungry. People, don’t.

The things I do in the name of my Tummy.

Tomorrow is Trash Collection Day.

It means One Thing.

Hello Kitty Pumpkin Head (henceforth referred to as H.K.P.H.) must go.

This is an honest portrait of H.K.P.H. after a week.

She fell off the ledge, bumped her head—see the dent?—and her insides are now outsides. It almost looks like she’s got snot hanging out her nose.

It breaks my heart.

I’ve put together a tribute to H.K.P.H.’s glorious existence (when her ears were still perky) to celebrate her short but extremely meaningful (to Dot) life.

Condolences in the form of more Hello Kitty paraphernalia are accepted.

Jay, Dave and Peter had their First Thursday art opening last night. The show Respect featured a giant wall mural they painted of 100 faces of people they admired, respected, were inspired by…

If you spot Dot (yes, she is shameless), you win a prize!