I bet you thought I had found all the chum for the day. Think again. Here’s some more to chew on:
- From the “ABC: Following in the Footsteps of Fox” Department: There is some bad news buried in the SF Chronicle review of “Ashes to Ashes”: “ABC announced this week that they’re canceling [the US version of “Life on Mars”] with closure – meaning people will find out about Detective Sam Tyler’s fate.” Sigh. Just as the series was getting damn good.
- From the “I’ve always wondered why they have doorbells” Department: Not only is business booming for those with clearances. The SF Chronicle is reporting that business is booming for fortune tellers. Now, what I find most amusing is this quote from the article: “Rosemary McArthur, founder of the American Association of Psychics, a professional trade organization with more than 100 members, said 90 percent of her customers are now asking questions about their jobs and the economy.” Wait. Psychics have a professional trade organization? Do they have conferences? Why? Don’t they know ahead of time what is going to be said?
- Frim the “But I wouldn’t want to eat there” Department: Time Magazine is reporting on an unusual restaurant in Taiwan: Modern Toilet, a popular Taiwanese restaurant chain that’s expanding into China and other parts of Asia. Every customer sits on a stylish acrylic toilet (lid down) designed with images of roses, seashells or Renaissance paintings. Everyone dines at a glass table with a sink underneath. The servers bring your meal atop a mini toilet bowl, you sip drinks from your own plastic urinal (a souvenir), and soft-swirl ice cream arrives for dessert atop a dish shaped like a squat toilet. What do they serve? Curries, pasta, fried chicken and Mongolian hot pot, as well as elaborate shaved-ice desserts with names like “diarrhea with dried droppings” (chocolate), “bloody poop” (strawberry) and “green dysentery” (kiwi). I’m just speechless.
You know, I was going to conclude with a serious piece about the importance of arts funding, but that last piece of chum is causing some intestinal blockage. I’ll write it tomorrow.
