Yay for Strongbow Cider!

So I'm reading Keidra's blog post about wanting to party with Keif, thanks to a lovely London tabloid article (which was very funny by the way), and it got me thinking about all of the people that I'd want to party with. Call me a fangirl from hell, but it'd be Bono. We're talking about a guy who can get deep into conversation and at the same time go berserk.

For example, I've read Bill Flanagan's book, U2: At the End of the World. Some of my favorite excerpts about the B-Man? Drunken discussion about music, God and the whole enchiladas and stealing a dinghy while in Australia, which ends with him stripping off his underwear. There's more stuff, but admittedly, I'm to lazy to look it up and quote it. Read the damn book.

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I also gotta pimp a site for a friend. Katie's got a interesting survey regarding unicorns. I won't say it much anymore. Just check it out and answer the questions bitches!

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This New York Times article about the growing epidemic of adult diabetes is admittedly scaring the shit out of me, the person who thinks that diet is an ugly word.

I think what bothers me more is that I can identify with people going for food that isn't healthy for them. Hell, I live out of the drive through some weeks. Admittedly for me, it's not a socioeconomic thing -- it's a time issue more than anything else. Most of the time I don't have the time to prepare a healthy meal.

What disturbs me about this article is hearing about how the upper class have more access to healthy foods, while the poor have more access to fast food:

Nutritious food exists, but it isn't easy to find. Dr. Carol R. Horowitz, an assistant professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, heads an East Harlem coalition trying to improve diabetes care. She oversaw a study several years ago that tracked the availability of diet soda, low-fat or fat-free milk, high-fiber bread, fresh fruit and fresh vegetables in food stores in East Harlem and the Upper East Side.

Stores on the Upper East Side were more than three times more likely than those in East Harlem to stock all five items. It did not seem to matter that East Harlem has more than twice as many food stores per capita as its wealthier neighbor to the south.

Not exactly fair. Not exactly cool. It's like L'Etoile in Madison -- nationally recognized for it's emphasis on local, fresh goods, the cheapest meal is $28.

Don't get me wrong, it's good stuff, but to say that you're educating people about how to eat is a little delusional. The rich already know how nutrition works. They have the money for chefs, nutritionists and other folks. What about making something that tastes as good as onion rings, but good for you? And at the same price of Culver's goods?

But what do I know? I've just finished off my Strongbow and I'm ready for bed.