I feel a million dollars
when you’re just in my hand

A friend just introduced us to the world of Malbecs from Argentina. So tasty! First time in a LONG time that I’ve drunk nearly an entire bottle myself without noticing… and no ill effects either. From our Wine Deck:

“A sturdy, intriguing red… Considered to be Argentina’s best wine and becoming an international success. Forceful but well-balanced and lightly spicy, different enough from other reds to be intriguing. Luscious and vibrant, with a slight blackberry bite. It’s a pleasantly contradictory wine - medium-bodied but full-flavored, with a lovely deep garnet color. Spicy and substantial meat dishes are the best partners”. Meat’s a relative term - right?

The Easter Bunny Hates You

From google video.

If you have any interest in economics at all I have to recommend the Bloomberg on the Economy podcast.  Tom Keene is the Charlie Rose of economics.  His guests are top notch and they talk about the latest issues from the perspective of economics.

Coke + mentos = 12 foot geyser. Catch this story and video on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Does anyone else remember the flaming pop tarts in the toaster?

When we finally kiss goodnight
How I’ll hate going out in the storm

As if all blasted this rain isn’t crazy enough. Today was the second day that I’ve seen snow in SF.  Weather forecast 29 floors up: it’s snowing. Too bad it turns to freezing rain by the time it hits street level. Yik.

He’s my goofy doofy dog
Mango scented

With this picture, I’m finally willing to publicly admit this. Bailey has a theme song. But if you were home sick with a nasty cold, and 80 pounds of yellow dogginess jumped onto your chair-and-a-half uninvited to ask “Mama - are you ok?” - wouldn’t you sing his praises too??? I was laughing so hard, I cried.

And many more
On channel 4

Here are the cakes I made myself for various birthday celebrations. Happy to report that they’re getting better and better!

Manju’s favorite cake ever
Chocolate torte with a raspberry cream filling and a chocolate glaze. Awesome day of and days later.

Strawberry-covered chocolate
3-layer chocolate cake with a ganache filling (with strawberries) and a strawberry buttercream. Interestingly, this one was incredibly delicious the second day.

Don’t ask why
16 candles down the drain
Caught this on live tv (actually, Mtv) last night and could only gape in awe at the putridness of these brats. But gosh it’s good reality tv. There’s a marathon running on Saturady complete with a “reunion” of last season’s Paris wannabes. And to think - all I got was a baby grand piano… hmph.