Thought Oktoberfest was only for omnivores? Turtle Island Foods, the wonderful people who brought us modern-day marvels (vegan fare that doesn’t taste and look like cardboard), have quite a delicious selection of tasty pseudo sausages. Brown up sliced Tofurky Italian Sausage and Beer Brats (the first veggie sausages that were made for the [...]
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The story of Cinderella has got to be one of the most replicated and remade romantic fairytales. I actually never saw the Disney classic, but I had the read aloud/along storybook/recording. Like most girls, I thought her dress was keen (the animals made it for her!). Unlike most girls, I thought the [...]
“Knut is dead! Thursday midday.” That’s what an anonymous handwritten fax threatened today at the Berlin Zoo. What made it even worse is that the target is completely oblivious to any danger; he just kept rolling around in the dirt in his cage and chewed on his friend’s fingers. Knut is a [...]
Bimmers bug me, mostly due to the fact that the 3-series are gamut with the “new rich” who apparently don’t know how to use their turn signals and are prone to cut you off like a Subaru, but if I were given a free one, I would probably choose a 7-series (I admit to coveting [...]
You know the car wars; the battle for buyouts continue until everyone merges with each other in some weird way. Ford purchased Jaguar (I cried that day) then Volvo and LandRover, Daimler-Benz joined Chrysler, VW bought Bentley and Rolls Royce right out of BMW’s grasp, although they later granted BMW the rights to build [...]