I had my first mouth guard related dream: “This bread is terrible!”

Earlier, someone in the office was playing some jazz that sounded uncannily like the opening music in Manos: The Hands of Fate. That is all.

Do you like Penn & Teller? Do you like the book World War Z? Perhaps you will enjoy this short film.

Ok, I clicked on the link to find a goofy web site for a project, but a spray dispenser for pancake batter is actually a really good idea: because you can make a single pancake just for yourself every morning for weeks!

Airborne, the anti cold preparation, has not admitted that it can’t actually prevent or treat colds, but is now refunding money! That sure took a while! So one only has to live through 9 years of coworkers enthusing about a cold nostrum with no possible mechanism to do what it says it does. Unfortunately, I think homeopathy is still protected from legal action for ineffectiveness by grandfather clause.

The Chicago Tribune has an interview with Tim Gunn about the just-completed Project Runway season, in which Tim dishes way more than I would have expected.

I don’t know what it says, but LOOK! It’s Cardbo! From Yotsuba&!5!

The people at my house really enjoy the San Marcos red and green salsas; I don’t know whether our store carries the chipotle in adobo that is shown in this recipe.

I have a new favorite comic strip. Take a look.

I ran across a picture of Clifton’s Cafeteria in a book called California crazy and beyond: roadside vernacular architecture, by Jim Heimann. It was a fantastical cliff face and forest affair in the middle of an LA street. It opened in the Depression offering pay-what-you-can meals and free food for the destitute.

In looking for more information about Cliftons, it turns out it’s still there! They mention that a few changes have been made: replacing the organ and organist with a moose (I didn’t realize they were equivalent), singing waiters and canaries with Muzak (again, not really equivalent in my book) and artificial plants with real (OK, that’s cool). But they still offer the guarantee: “Dine Free Unless Delighted!”

Update: more information can be gleaned from items in the Los Angeles Public Library’s Menu Collection by searching for “Clifton’s.”