Bathroom blogging in New York City
Amy, Sorenne and I just got back from a whirlwind trip to New York City.
And when we’re all in the same hotel room, and I wake up early to do some writing, I’ll go to the bathroom, shut the door and blog away.
If I go to NYC for five weeks Thanksgiving to New Year’s holiday orgy in the U.S., I could make $10,000 – for blogging about bathrooms.
Procter & Gamble Co. is looking for five people who will, in return for $10,000, spend five weeks in a Charmin-branded, Manhattan bathroom and blog about the experience.
The five “Charmin Embassadors” will work in the Charmin Restrooms in Times Square from Nov. 23 to Dec. 31. Job requirements include interacting with hundreds of thousands of bathroom guests, maintaining their own blogs and content on Charmin-branded Web sites and popular social media sites, and sharing family-friendly video from the restroom space and surrounding areas.
How is friendly-family video defined? Reminds me of one of the earliest episodes of South Park where adults protesting apparently scandalous TV content inundate the studio and are stricken with foodborne illness – the green apple splatters.
South Park strikes out at Chipotle - and dead celebrities
The season premier of South Park took a shot at those dead celebrities that just won’t go away – Hi! Billy Mays here … -- , and a lovely sub-plot aimed at the sanctimonious Chipotle, and how their food makes your ass bleed.
Maybe Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been reading up on E. coli O157:H7 symptoms.
You love to eat Chipotle, but you hate those blood stains in your underwear?
Now you can eat all the Chipotle you want, and still have clean underwear with ChipotliAway.
Stan: Why would you keep eating something that made you crap blood?
Cartman: Dude have you ever eaten Chipotle, it’s really good.
I love that the adopted Canadian kid, Ike, and all the other Canadians, have flapping heads (who can forget, Blame Canada, from the movie?). And bring on more Terrance and Phillip. Video which may offend, below.
What would Brian Boitano do? What would Brian Boitano make?
In another triumph for food porn, uniting the world of figure skating with home cooking, 1998 Olympic gold medalist and South Park enthusiast, Brian Boitano has his own cooking show.
Boitano, now 45, has turned into a hard-core foodie. … You'd certainly be hard-pressed to find another TV chef with his own "South Park" song. "What Would Brian Boitano Do?," a highlight of the 1999 animated movie, not only serves as the opening theme for Boitano's new show but provided the obvious inspiration for its title. In each episode, Boitano hosts a get-together at his home, creating a custom menu for his guests, who range from his single-and-ready-to-mingle friend and 20 bachelorettes to a bacon-loving all-girl roller derby. His take on mostly rustic home cooking is inventive, yet straightforward enough not to intimidate the casual cook. But the show's biggest revelation is Boitano himself. Known for his laser-like focus on the ice, he reveals an irreverent side in "What Would Brian Boitano Make?"
Terence and Philip are Canadian, eh.
Handwashing on South Park, restaurant inspection on the Hills, Chapman vomiting
I have a bunch of food safety images but no literate story line.
So here they are, food safety in public.
And I told Chapman I’d stop using this picture of him barfing if he ever got his PhD. I’ll probably still use it.
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Ontario E. coli victim needs help
Canada has the best healthcare system in the world.
At least that’s what Canadians are taught to believe. Never underestimate the persuasive power of wanting to believe.
The family of a seven-year-old boy who suffered complications from the North Bay, Ontario, E. coli outbreak which has sickened 249, needs help as they remain with their young son in a Toronto hospital.
Sylvie MacDonald, Carter’s mother, said,
“This is a nightmare. And asking for help is definitely one of the hardest things I’ve had to do. We don’t like to do this, but I don’t know how long this could last. It could last forever.”
The child from Mattawa was airlifted to Toronto after he was brought into the North Bay and District Hospital Oct. 24.
Life without Internet
I was reminded of my own Internet dependence, which became clear during the great Manhattan (Kansas) ice storm of 2007. Or traveling in France last year, aimlessly walking around neighborhoods trying to pick up free Internet (hint, the French password protect everything).But I wouldn't trade it for John Adams-era communication, waiting for word of a French alliance to arrive by boat.
