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Apparently, the beef industry felt left out of the appetizer and snack arenas. Enter cheeseburger fries. Deep fried beef and cheese. Also coming to school cafeterias near you.

“Like most bar snacks, cheeseburger fries pack quite a dietary wallop. Each individual fry has about 75 calories and four grams of fat. The fries for schools have less beef per serving but still have about 60 calories and, in fact, more fat �a total of 6 grams � in each fry. And nobody eats just one.”

Wait, someone tell me again – why is it that Americans are so fat? (That’s sarcasm, kids.) And what ever happened to fruit as a snack?

catbird :: Sep.23.2003 :: food :: 1 Comment »

RC: There is a line in the film when you say there is no moment more frightening than when your first child is born.

BM: People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It’s over the day that child is born. It’s over, and something completely new starts.

catbird :: Sep.23.2003 :: socio-pop :: Comments Off

Steve Albini, an independent and corporate rock record producer (who produced Nirvana’s “In Utero”), writes a very interesting piece about how musicians are treated by record companies, including a breakdown of royalty payments and profits.

“The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month.”

catbird :: Sep.10.2003 :: music :: Comments Off

Project Censored has a list of the top news stories not to get significant press over the last year. Although they were all surprising (to me, anyway – I guess I read all the mainstream news), numbers 1 and 6 got to me the most.

catbird :: Sep.10.2003 :: socio-pop :: Comments Off

I work for a magazine that offers free subscriptions. The mag is targeted to parents of college and college-bound students.

A recent subscriber has the email address SoftSwtMoistKiss at isp.com – can you imagine emailing your mom at that email address?

catbird :: Sep.02.2003 :: socio-pop, technology :: Comments Off

A news report this morning talked about the “9-11 kids.” Maybe these kids want to get on with life, heal in their own way and own time. But the media has labeled them a “9-11 kids.” Isn’t it horrible enough to lose a loved one in such a tragedy? Now these kids are also media pawns.

catbird :: Sep.02.2003 :: socio-pop :: Comments Off