Dying to know how hamburgers came about in this world? While there are multiple theories, many believe the Mongols started the craze when raw beef was kept under saddles while they tried to conquer the world. The meat then became tender enough to eat after spending a good amount of time – ahem – between a horse and human backside.
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People love eating pizza, but every style of pie has a different consistency. If “New York-style”–thin, flat, and large–is your texture of choice, then you’ve probably eaten a slice that was as messy as it was delicious. Colm Kelleher outlines the scientific and mathematical properties that make folding a slice the long way the best alternative…to wearing a bib.
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Donna Simpson once catered to chubby chasers. She appeared in online “fat fetish” web camsites, attracting thousands of subscribers who paid $14 a month to watch videos of her eating or modeling in a bikini. Her fans sent her tons of food to gorge — so much so that her weight mushroomed to 600 pounds. Now, Donna’s desperately trying to lose weight to lead a normal life for the sake of herself and her children. Vice catches up with her in Akron, Ohio.
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See the Victoria’s Secret lingerie that some critics have tainted with the brush of racism. Hear why Michelle Obama wants to starve children and be shocked as Chris Matthews displays his ignorance of both math and current events. It’s all on parade in Stephen Green’s Week in Blogs. H/T PJTV
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Kids forever have complained about their school lunches. But now the complaints aren’t about the quality of the spinach, but the paucity of food. Since the passage of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act 0f 2010, and its mandate reducing the intake for school lunches down to 750-850 calories, more students say they’re starving. Student athletes, in particular, fault the new mandate for leaving them drained of energy for afterschool practices. H/T iOwnTheWorld
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In four days, on Monday, September 24, Call Me Stormy will unveil our most ambitious project to date — A DAY OF BACON — an all-out, non-stop salute to bacon. Every hour on the hour, covering an entire 24-hour marathon, we will post a clip from a movie, cartoon, TV show, stand-up comedy routine, music video or newsreel celebrating the wonders of bacon. Why bacon and why now?
No other meat tastes as sweet as candy. None is so richly aromatic. And none so well represents our spirit at a time when we are under assault from violent extremists who are hellbent to limit our freedoms, including the choice of bacon as a breakfast entree. We could use a laugh and a pick-me-up, and bacon’s just the right thing to do the trick.
Join us on September 24 for a sizzling good time. Tell your relatives and friends — hey, even casual acquaintances — to drop by. If you’re a blogger, spread the word and feel free to post your own bacon clips on Monday or to reblog any you find on Call Me Stormy. We’ll get the ball rolling today with an early-bird sneak peek at what’s to come — represented here by Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) from NBC’s Parks and Recreation reacting to an offer to sample vegan bacon.
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Robot chefs that make sliced noodles have become a common sight in Beijing restaurants and noodle bars. The Chinese restaurateur who developed the robots says they are extremely efficient and also less costly than paying for human help to make noodles. The robots sell for the equivalent of about $2,000 US dollars. Wonder how long before we see robot chefs in the United States? And will they look like Fembots, Autobots or Decepticons? H/T Geek Press
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Meanwhile, in Tokyo’s Red Light District, the Japanese have opened the ultimate robot restaurant — with bikini-clad girls strutting their stuff and riding around on giant robots, also wearing bikinis, in a cabaret act that took three years and $125 million to create.
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PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was founded in 1980 in Virginia, but not too surprisingly, the radical animal rights movement first became a fad in California. Perhaps none of the activists to the cause was more eccentric than Lewis Beach Marvin III, wealthy heir to the S & H Green Stamp fortune, as his late father had served as the chairman of Sperry & Hutchinson Co. In the 1960s, Marvin established a 60-acre compound near Topanga Canyon above Malibu, where, emulating Noah, he gathered together and sheltered scores of animals of many different species, allowing them to roam freely. At his mountaintop retreat, he also built the Moonfire Temple, site of orgies, Acid Tests and pagan rituals involving countercultural figures ranging from The Doors to members of the Charles Manson Family.
What specifically did Marvin believe? We can get a sense of his hardcore dogma from this 1966 clip when he appeared in “the beef box” on The Joe Pyne Show to assail the slaughter of any animal for any purpose whatsoever.
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Notice the distinctive skull and crossbones hat he’s wearing? He let Jim Morrison wear the same hat on the night of March 1, 1969 when The Doors performed in concert at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, Florida — the infamous concert in which a highly intoxicated Morrison fondled himself on stage, leading to his arrest on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior in public after allegedly exposing his genitals. Did Morrison really whip it out? No known photographs prove that, but stills show the singer arriving on stage carrying a lamb — one of the creatures from Marvin’s menagerie. Watch this compilation (extreme language alert) to get a sense of what transpired that night.
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The Doors had hooked up with Marvin in 1966 when they agreed to perform a benefit concert at Will Rogers State Park in California to raise money for Marvin’s campaign to ban weapons-related toys during the height of the Vietnam War. Marvin continued to press his activism, helping to establish the Animal Freedom Fighters in Venice, California, and addressing the throngs at Woodstock with an anti-meat message, again carrying a lamb on stage, and telling the masses, “The killing of animals causes the killing of men.” He died in 2005 at a monkey refuge in Panama.
Why bring up Marvin now? For starters, he plays a prominent role in Mondo Hollywood, today’s Trillion Dollar Movie, containing two extended interludes devoted to him. In the first segment, starting at 12:34, we meet the multi-millionaire shacking up with his pet monkey, Mr. President, in a rented garage for $10 a month while he builds the Moonfire Temple, having already dropped a bundle on acquiring his mountaintop. He resurfaces much later in the film, at 1:08:47, cavorting in the temple as he delivers a sermon that evolves into a full-blown rant: “The universalist, the pacifist, the vegetarian and the compassionate are smothered, are overwhelmed and driven to the place of death. Each of us must become a Christ. Each of us must die before we would take the life of another.”
Exploring Marvin’s life and his connection with The Doors brought to mind all of the recent celebrities going nude to publicize PETA’s militant broadsides against its latest targets. These celebrities actually aren’t as daring or shocking as they might think. In retrospect, they are simply upholding a tradition that’s now a half-century old, with roots tied to a pagan temple in California and a quixotic, early animal rights activist. Kinda figures.
Many men are into breasts, but New York’s Nanny Mayor Michael Bloomberg has carried his fascination with breast milk to an illogical extreme — so much so that he’s now not only upset civil libertarians, but also earned the scorn of the liberal women on The View, and even been subjected to ridicule on RT, the global Russian TV network. When even the Russians are pouncing on Bloomberg’s penchant for “regulation rather than promoting policy through education,” you’d think His Highness might see the arrogance of his ways. But after waging war on cigarettes, sodas, trans-fat and now baby formula, somehow it won’t be surprising if he refuses to back off his pious pedestal.
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Fox and Friends reports on a U.S. Department of Agriculture newsletter that encourages employees to go meatless every Monday on the grounds that raising cattle, chickens, sheep and other animals can cause global warming. You’d think that the USDA would be duty-bound to promote US livestock, but apparently, pop stars like Paul McCartney and Moby have been pushing the “Meatless Monday” meme for a few years, so it’s now gaining traction among the subalterns within the rank and file of the federal bureaucracy.
We say: It’s high time to plant a counter-meme. If the planet’s heating up, come Tuesday, go topless. H/T small dead animals
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