Pax Arcana
In the 1970s, consumers had very few choices of mustard at the supermarket. Flavors ranged from yellow to extra-yellow.
Then something happened. As with beer, salsa, olives, and lots of other things in the supermarket, demand for fancier types of mustard skyrocketed. All of sudden you could easily buy spicy brown mustard, mustard with seeds [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 31, 2009
Friday Random 10: Ketchup Edition
July 30, 2009
I swear it’s not mine
Pax Arcana
The L.A. Times is reporting that Bai Yun the giant panda is pregnant, and is expected to give birth next month. Which is a total surprise to me — I mean it’s not like I know the intimate details of Bai Yun’s sex life or anything.
Doctors at the San Diego zoo — which [...]
July 29, 2009
Quien es el bandito?
Pax Arcana
According to the Newton Tab, it appears there is a bandit of some sort run amok on the leafy streets of that suburb. At first the bandit merely covered someone’s car with flour, but recently he or she covered another car with flour, eggs, and salsa.
The presence of an exotic foreign ingredient like salsa [...]
July 28, 2009
I like Shatner’s version
Pax Arcana
I’ve tried to ignore the dim light shining down upon us from the great American north, but I admit I am captivated by the free-form verbal jazz odyssey that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been on lately. And nothing brings her, um, talents into sharper relief than this clip of William Shatner doing [...]
July 28, 2009
Ready for some cold, milky refreshment?
Pax Arcana
If you’re like me, you’ve often found yourself near exhaustion and covered in sweat from tending to your stable of Arabian studs (these bandwidth bills don’t pay themselves, people, and boy do the Arabs have money). At times like those, you probably reach for a fizzy carbonated beverage to slake your thirst.
Now, thanks to [...]
July 27, 2009
Monday evening filler: Butt Stank Deodorant
Pax Arcana
Hamilton Nolan at Gawker says this is a real thing. I’m not so sure. It’s a thing, to be sure, but it is a real thing? Are things like this on TV? Am I talking English now? My whole world is inside down and upside out from watching this maybe-real commercial.
[...]
July 24, 2009
Friday Random 10: Anniversary Edition
Pax Arcana
It’s as gloomy and shitty as ever outside today, but thanks to the Joy of Sox my spirits are buoyed. That’s because today is the five year anniversary of one of the greatest games in baseball history — the July 24, 2004 brawlfest between the Red Sox and Yankees that featured not only loathsome [...]
July 23, 2009
The Wall Street Journal is concerned about your cankles
Pax Arcana
While I have criticized the newspaper industry and its often boneheaded business sense at length in this space, it is true that these organizations still provide the overwhelming majority of in-depth and important newsgathering. For example, did you know that some people have thick ankles? And that thick ankles are often derisively referred to [...]
July 20, 2009
Monday Morning Filler: Kurt Cobain is looking pretty pasty
Pax Arcana
Since it’s Monday morning and you’re all probably just getting over your weekend long meth binges, here’s a little something guaranteed to make you throw up in your mouth just a little bit:
Via Father Scott via Will Leitch
July 17, 2009
Friday Random 10: Funk Brunch Edition
Pax Arcana
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been pretty stressed out lately. The economy is in the shitter, the Mets effing suck, and it’s done nothing but rain for two months in a row.
In dark times our spirits beg to be uplifted. What I need — what we ALL need, I say — is [...]
