Everything is made from scratch and with the freshest of ingredients. On any given day, the homemade mac and cheese, fallen chocolate cake, oatmeal blueberry pancakes, potato cakes (especially dipped in the roasted red pepper sauce) could easily qualify as smack-yo-mamma good. I mean, how do they make something as simple as a fried chicken BLT taste that good? 

A full, fat, happy belly for around or under ten bucks in a perfectly laid-back spot. What are you waiting for?

Oh YEAH. Compliments of today’s NY Times article- here’s The Get Off Your Butt Map. (Yes, I know I am a bit behind the eight-ball. This show is not brand-new. Whatever. Better late than never.) What could be more fun than competing in lawnmower racing, building boats out of cardboard, chucking pumpkins or ski joring in your free time? For real. This guy Dave (the host) has pretty much to coolest job ever. He travels around the country going to and sometimes participating in, these mad events. I just emailed him and told him that I am ready and willing to be his sidekick when he finds he needs one. I will keep you posted when and if he responds. 

Besides the above, another thing that I ran across today that I think is just unspeakably cool and I know a million of you already know about; Shazam. 

Hold your IPhone 3G up to any random sound/song anywhere and the phone tells you the name of the song, the artist, album name and links you to ITunes.

Is anyone else out there baffled, amazed, confused and absolutely thrilled like me, about the plethora of availability and opportunity of everything to all of us in the USA? Man are we lucky.

Those are two of the items in the book 11,002 Things To Be Miserable About. This book of course is a poke at the 11,001 Things To Be Happy About. “Racist Grandmothers” was in there too.