{"id":3303,"date":"2009-03-04T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2009-03-04T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T01:19:00","slug":"more-chum-to-chew-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3303","title":{"rendered":"More Chum To Chew On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bet you thought I had found all the chum for the day. Think again. Here\u2019s some more to chew on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>ABC: Following in the Footsteps of Fox<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/03\/04\/DD0B167U8J.DTL&#038;type=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\">some bad news buried in the SF Chronicle review of \u201cAshes to Ashes\u201d<\/a>: \u201cABC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118000748.html?categoryid=14&#038;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">announced this week<\/a> that they&#8217;re canceling [the US version of \u201cLife on Mars\u201d] with closure &#8211; meaning people will find out about Detective Sam Tyler&#8217;s fate.\u201d Sigh. Just as the series was getting damn good.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>I\u2019ve always wondered why they have doorbells<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> Not only is business booming for those with clearances. The SF Chronicle is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/03\/04\/DDOB167RUL.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">business is booming for fortune tellers<\/a>. Now, what I find most amusing is this quote from the article: \u201cRosemary 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.\u201d Wait. Psychics have a professional trade organization? Do they have conferences? Why? Don\u2019t they know ahead of time what is going to be said?\n<li><i>Frim the \u201c<b>But I wouldn\u2019t want to eat there<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> Time Magazine is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/arts\/article\/0,8599,1882569,00.html?cnn=yes\" target=\"_blank\">reporting on an unusual restaurant in Taiwan<\/a>: Modern Toilet, a popular Taiwanese restaurant chain that&#8217;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 &#8220;diarrhea with dried droppings&#8221; (chocolate), &#8220;bloody poop&#8221; (strawberry) and &#8220;green dysentery&#8221; (kiwi). I\u2019m just speechless.<\/ul>\n<p>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\u2019ll write it tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bet you thought I had found all the chum for the day. Think again. Here\u2019s some more to chew on: From the \u201cABC: Following in the Footsteps of Fox\u201d Department: There is some bad news buried in the SF Chronicle review of \u201cAshes to Ashes\u201d: \u201cABC announced this week that they&#8217;re canceling [the US <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3303\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,69,1],"tags":[73,131],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-television","category-lj-xfer","tag-restaurants","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}