lemony fresh feet

Note to self: watch where you're going! Lemons go "pop" when stepped on. Ooops.

(It was a nice juicy one too. Now I feel bad about wasting it.)

Disgusting discovery of the day

Christmas is coming, and that means MINCE PIES!

Out of curiosity, I just looked at the ingredient lists on the two jars of mince we have in the kitchen. The one from England (via the somewhat overpriced British-stuff store in Santa Monica) is fine, apart from containing vegetarian suet which is kind of weird. The American one, however, lists CORN SYRUP as the first ingredient. That's just so gross and wrong.

What is is with the apparent American fascination with making everything out of corn?! Surely anyone with a working set of taste buds would know not to do THAT...

and finally

According to the latest sale flier from the local supermercado, the Spanish word for "Pie" is "Pay". Pronounced - you guessed it - "Pie".

That can't be right.

Honestly, isn't there enough death and suffering in the world already?

... or to paraphrase Marvin the Paranoid Android, "Isn't life depressing enough without making up more of it?"
( A rant about music after the traditional Celtic style )