October 31, 2012

Spooktacular Brains

If you are what you eat, this Halloween treat will make you brainier by the spoonful.

It's ghoulishly delicious, and delightfully jiggly.

October 30, 2012

Halloween Bag Monster Costume

It's not too late to be something truly frightening for Halloween - the Bag Monster!
Can you find some old clothes (if you don't have a Tyvek suit at home) and rustle up 500 plastic bags? Sadly, most of us only have to ask a few friends and neighbors to come up with the bag supply on short notice.
Then just follow these simple directions: http://smchealth.org/BagMonsterCostume

The suit will keep you warm and dry (but be careful - it's not wise to drive while wearing it). And if enough people in your social circles see the Monster this year, by next Halloween it may be difficult to rustle up enough bags to make another costume.

October 29, 2012

Andale at SFO

Getting ready to board my flight from Terminal 2 at SFO, my bleary pre-dawn brain saw the sign for Andale cafe and couldn't quite process it. Familiar, yet . . .  out of place.
Ahh - the Google shoot!

Hadn't realized there was more than one Andale when we shot the Google's Green Gourmets episode.

At SFO, it was too early too find out if the menu was prepared as well as at the Googleplex. Possibly. But I'm certain no one gets to eat at this one for free, not even with a Google employee badge.

October 10, 2012

Steampunks and Food Trucks

What do steampunks eat? (Besides tea and crumpets, of course.)

Well, if they are out at Craneway Pavillion in Richmond, CA after the Boilerhouse restaurant has closed, and they want to enjoy the first ever Steamstock music festival until all hours, they might subsist on any fare available.

Fortunately, the Naked Chorizo food truck allows one to not merely subsist but thrive. In addition to chorizo, they offer traditional Phillipine dishes such as lumpia and chicken adobo, as well as a yummy Arroz a la Cubana.

So all the fans of alternate histories got to travel around the world as well as through time, without ever leaving the festival.  A delicious happenstance, indeed.