My Tribute To Michael Jackson

The “It Don’t Matter If You’re Black or White” Cookie. WIth millions of people around the world paying their last respects to Michael Jackson today, I felt it only appropriate to chime in with my own special tribute to the King of Pop. And what better way to pay homage than by cooking up some …

Best Michael Jackson Tribute So Far

Forget the tribute song by The Game and Chris Brown. Don’t bother with the one hour specials cluttering up the TV landscape. Ignore the flowers on Hollywood Boulevard. The best ode to Michael Jackson so far is a nifty website called Eternal Moonwalk which has compiled user-submitted moonwalks into one random, never-ending sequence that both …

ADVENTURES IN DOMESTICITY: Late Night Kimchi Pancake Edition

As many of my friends (and now readers) know, I have a penchant for Korean food. Actually, I have a penchant for Asian food in general, and when I find myself a few drinks deep at the end of the night, I like nothing more than to venture into Los Angeles’s famed K-Town (a.k.a. Koreatown) …

Checking In On Our Food Network Stars

Last night, the cabal of judges known as Bob, Susie, and Bobby whittled the field of contestants on The Next Food Network Star down to just five potential superstars, and now that we’re more than halfway through the show’s run, I thought I’d check back in and see how our stars are progressing. Do we …

Today… We Celebrate… Our INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Today is the birthday of not just Geraldo Rivera and Koko the gorilla, but also something I like to call AMERICA. Happy July 4th, everyone! Hope you all have a fun and safe holiday. And if you’re reading this from another country, well, I hope you have a lovely day as well, even if it …

PROJECT SCALLION: In The Immortal Words of Beyoncé — Let Me Upgrade!

Last week I kick-started Project Scallion, a nifty experiment that would test the proposed theory that green onions would re-generate themselves if the bulbs were placed in water. All appearances seem to suggest that the answer is yes; although, the success of Project Scallion cannot be gauged until a full stalk has grown AND been …