Detroit City

View from Mala's place in the D.

Food and Culture

There's a show on the Travel Channel that I enjoy called 'No Reservations'. I like the mix of food and a culture and how the host Anthony Bourdain chooses to go to weird places that most travel shows wouldn't go. Then he gets drunk (sometimes really drunk) on camera. Its great.

Anyway, I just saw the Beirut episode and it was really interesting. They just happened to start filming the show the day Hezbollah captured and kidnapped Israeli troops. So, for the rest of the show there wasn't much talk about food as you can imagine. They had some help getting to safe places and watched the war from a hotel, documenting their small little bubble. At the end, Bourdain and his crew end up on a US Navy ship eating Tuna Casserole and Mac n' Cheese...a far cry from the Lebanese cuisine they had hoped to discover.

Oh and speaking of weird places you wouldn't travel, the next show is about Cleveland.

Dinosaurs, Fighter Planes, & The Cold War

Remember when you were a kid and toys envoked the same excitement as a Friday badfest with friends? Well folks, I have been pondering recently how getting wasted now is the manifestation of Christmas morning then...


Here was my Jager of yesteryear...


here was the Black & Tan times forgotten...


and here was 30 pack of delicious dirt beer that we all loved...


ahh...life was good.