Saturday, April 6, 2013 @ Automotive World

marmoreal \mahr-MAWR-ee-uhl, -MOHR-\, adjective:

• of or like marble: skin of marmoreal smoothness.

First appearing in English in the late 1700s, marmoreal comes from the Latin term marmoreus, which literally means "of marble."

window eating

• The act of standing in front of a refrigerator with the door open for an over-excessive amount of time and then closing the door without taking anything. Usually done by picky eaters or one who is bored out of his/her mind.

If your so hungry stop window eating and just grab something!

Trivia
When it comes to showbiz slang, what’s a chopsocky? How about a zitcom?

• A chopsocky is a martial arts film; a zitcom is a TV sitcom that targets a teen audience.

History

• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Mormon church was founded by Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York (1830)
• Olympics: the first modern games opened in Athens (1896)
• North Pole: Robert Peary and his assistant, Matthew Henson, along with four Inuit men, became the first visitors to the site; their claim has been disputed (1909)
• WWI: US declared war on Germany and entered the Great War (1917)
• Twinkie: golden sponge cake snack food with creamy filling was invented (1930)
• Teflon: nonstick coating was accidentally invented by Roy J. Plunkett (1938)

Birthdays

• Raphael Sanit 1483 - Artist
• Rose Schneiderman 1882 - U.S. women’s rights activist
• Walter Huston (Houghston) 1884 - Actor (Treasure of the Sierra Madre [1948])
• Lowell Thomas 1892 - Broadcaster, journalist
• "Pappy" Wade Ray 1913 - Country musician, entertainer ("Grand Ol' Opry")
• Herb Thomas 1923 - NASCAR auto racer
• Mimi Benzell 1924 - Opera singer
• Dorothy Donegan 1924 - Jazz pianist
• Gerry Mulligan 1927 - Jazz musician, composer
• Joi Lansing (Joyce Wassmansdoff) 1928 - Actress ("Easter Parade", "Singin’ in the Rain")
• André (Ludwig) Previn 1929 - Pianist, composer of film scores ("Gigi", "Porgy and Bess"), conductor
• Ivan Dixon 1931 - Actor ("Hogan's Heroes"), director, producer
• Merle Haggard 1937 - Country musician, songwriter
• Billy Dee (December) Williams 1937 - Actor ("Brian's Song", "The Return of the Jedi", "Batman")
• Roy Thinnes 1938 - Actor ("The Invaders", "Outer Limits")
• Philip Austin 1941 - Comedian and writer
• Barry Levinson 1942 - Director, producer
• Marty (Martin William) Pattin 1943 - Baseball pitcher
• John Stax 1944 - Musician (The Pretty Things)
• John Huarte 1944 - Football player
• John Ratzenberger 1947 - Actor ("Cheers")
• Bert (Rik Aalbert) Blyleven 1951 - Baseball pitcher
• Marilu Henner 1952 - Actress ("Taxi", "Evening Shade", "Cannonball Run 2")
• Janet Lynn (Nowicki) 1953 - Figure skater, Olympic bronze medalist
• Michelle Rooker 1955 - Actor
• Warren Haynes 1960 - Musician (Gov't Mule, The Allman Brothers)
• Stan Cullimore 1962 - Musician, songwriter (The Housemartins)
• Frank Black 1965 - Singer, musician (The Pixies)
• Vince Flynn 1966 - Author
• Paul Rudd 1969 - Actor ("Friends")
• Ari Meyers 1970 - Actress ("Author! Author!", "Kate & Allie")
• Jason Hervey 1972 - Actor ("The Wonder Years", "Back to the Future")
• Markku Lappalainen 1973 - Musician (Hoobastank)
• Zach Braff 1975 - Actor ("Scrubs")
• Candace Cameron Bure 1976 - Actress ("Full House")
• Bret Harrison 1982 - Actor ("Grounded for Life")

Terry Richardson's First Taste of POPwate @ Automotive World

POPwater is shaking up the beverage industry with the launch of the "FIRST TASTE 4-pack" today. The company was started by a group of strange but endearing individuals from the POP culture community who wanted a healthier beverage that tasted great and wasn't filled with artificial ingredients. So that's exactly what they did.

TeamPOPwater, which includes Troy Carter (Atom Factory CEO and manager to artists including Lady Gaga & John Legend), Terry Richardson (world famous fashion/music/photographer), Atom Factory artists, mad scientists and more, is ready to debut the fruit flavored sparkling beverage with only 30 calories, 7 grams of sugar and just the right amount of POP.

"After working closely with our friends at Coca Cola and Pepsi on various music related initiatives over the years, we were inspired to create a beverage that had music and pop culture in its DNA. Terry Richardson and our creative team are bringing this vision to life and we're excited to have them tell this story," said Troy Carter, founder and CEO of Atom Factory.

Starting today, you can preorder a limited edition 4-pack of POPwater's signature flavors (orange, pineapple, apple and grape) plus a POPwater t-shirt and a bonus first taste download - including free shipping to any US address. Watch POPwater Creative Director Terry Richardson try his first taste in this new video and stay tuned for the official POPwater release on April 16th. Product will be hitting shelves in Los Angeles this month as well, with a national rollout to follow.

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Terry video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUiwKtnIT60

Preorder: http://popwater.com/pop-water.html

Thursday, March 28, 2013 @ Automotive World

sundry \SUHN-dree\, adjective:

• various or diverse: sundry persons.

Sundry first appeared in English before the year 900. It is derived from the Old English syndrig meaning "separate," "apart," and "special." While sundi and sundrie were acceptable spellings between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, since then they have fallen out of use in favor of sundry.

prexhausted

• Preemptively exhausted. When you are exhausted just by thinking about something.

It's March and I'm prexhausted by finals.

You want to go out dancing tonight? I'm prexhausted, sorry.

Trivia
What vitamin C–rich vegetable did miners pay for with gold during the 1897 Alaskan Klondike Gold Rush?

• Potatoes, which they hoped would prevent scurvy.

History

• Andrew Jackson: US president was censured by the Senate for his actions in the Bank War; the censure was later expunged from the record (1834)
• Turkey: key cities changed names: Constantinople became Istanbul and Angora was tweaked to Ankara (1930)
• Virginia Woolf: distinguished novelist, critic and essayist (A Room Of One's Own) committed suicide by drowning; she had been suffering from depression and bouts of mental illness for many years (1941)
• Three Mile Island: the most serious nuclear accident in US history took place at a power station in Pennsylvania (1979)

Birthdays

• Santi Raphael 1483
• Paul Whiteman 1890
• August Busch 1899
• Rudolf Serkin 1903
• Frank Lovejoy 1912
• Jay Livingston 1915
• Dirk Bogarde 1921
• Thad Jones 1923
• Freddie Bartholomew 1924
• Eric Dixon 1930
• Bill Anthony 1930
• Charlie McCoy 1941 - Country musician
• Mike Newell 1942 - Director
• Conchata Ferrell 1943 - Actress
• Ken Howard 1944 - Actor
• Chuck Portz (The Turtles) 1945
• Barry Miles 1947
• Dianne Wiest 1948 - Actress ("Law and Order")
• Milan Williams 1948 - Musician (Commodores)
• Ronnie Ray Smith 1949
• Reba McEntire 1955 - Actress, country singer
• Tracey Needham 1967 - Actress
• Max Perlich 1968 - Actor
• Salt (Cheryl James) 1969 - Rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)
• Vince Vaughn 1969 - Actor
• Brett Ratner 1969 - Actor
• Mr. Cheeks 1971 - Rapper (Lost Boyz)
• Ken L. 1973 - Actor
• Annie Wershing 1977 - Actress ("24")
• Julia Stiles 1981 - Actress
• Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) 1986 - Musician

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 @ Automotive World

furl \furl\, verb:

1. to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff.
2. to become furled.

noun:

1. the act of furling.
2. something furled, as a roll.

The origins of furl are unknown, though it is believed to come either from the Middle English ferler meaning "to fold," or from the Old French ferliier meaning "chain," "tie up," or "lock away." While furl entered the English lexicon in the late 1500s, nearly 100 years before unfurl, it is now the more rare of the two terms.

Pepperazzi

• Foodie who obsessively insists on snapping photos of everything they eat and of every other dish at the table.

The pepperazzi are stalking each other's dishes at that table over there.

Trivia
What city is home to the oldest Torah in the United States?

• Savannah, Georgia. The deerskin Torah was brought there from England in 1733 by Jews who were originally from Portugal, Spain, and Germany. The sacred scroll is now kept on display by Congregation Mickve Israel, the synagogue they founded.

History

• Popeye: a statue of the spinach-loving cartoon character was erected in Crystal City, Texas (1937)
• Bangladesh: declared independence from Pakistan (1971)
• Camp David Accords: Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement was signed at the White House (1979)
• Mercosur: the Southern Common Market, which joins Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, was established with the Treaty of Asunción (1991)

Birthdays

• Nathaniel Bowditch 1773
• Louise Otto 1819
• Edward Bellamy 1850
• A.E. Housman 1859
• Robert Frost 1874
• Duncan Hines 1880
• Al Jolson 1886
• Clarence Stroud 1907 - Actor, father of actor Don Stroud
• Chips Rafferty 1909
• Tennessee Williams 1911
• William C. Westmoreland 1914 - U.S. Army general
• Sterling Hayden 1916
• Rufus Thomas 1917
• Strother Martin 1919
• Joe Loco 1921
• Bob Elliott 1923
• James Clifton Williams 1923
• James Moody 1925 - Jazz saxophonist
• Pierre Boulez 1925 - Conductor, composer
• Maurice Simon 1929
• Sandra Day O'Connor 1930 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Leonard Nimoy 1931 - Actor ("Star Trek")
• Alan Arkin 1934 - Actor
• James Caan 1939 - Actor
• Rod Lauren 1940
• Braulio Baeza 1940
• Nancy Pelosi 1940 - U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives
• Erica Jong 1942 - Author
• Bob Woodard 1943 - Journalist
• Diana Ross 1944 - Singer
• Johnny Crawford 1946 - Actor
• Fred Paris 1946 - Musician (Five Satins)
• Steven Tyler 1948 - Singer (Aerosmith)
• Richard Tandy 1948 - Musician (Electric Light Orchestra)
• Vicki Lawrence 1949 - Singer, actress
• Fran Sheehan 1949 - Musician (Boston)
• Martin Short 1950 - Actor, comedian
• Ronnie McDowell 1950 - Country singer
• Teddy Pendergrass 1950 - Singer
• Curtis Sliwa 1954
• Dean Dillon 1955 - Country singer
• Charly McClain 1956 - Country singer
• Leeza Gibbons 1957 - TV personality
• Marcus Allen 1960 - Football player
• Jennifer Grey 1960 - Actress ("Dirty Dancing")
• Gabriele "Nena" Kerner 1960
• John Stockton 1962 - Basketball player
• Michael Imperioli 1966 - Actor ("The Sopranos")
• Kenny Chesney 1968 - Country singer
• James Iha 1968 - Musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
• Juvenile 1975 - Rapper
• Amy Smart 1976 - Actress
• Keira Knightley 1985 - Actress ("Pirates of the Caribbean")

• Nina Agdal - 1992

grilled hoisin chicken with scallions

Seems I've been posting either poetry or food, which is basically what I've been up to lately.  I'm always looking for a different twist on boneless skinless chicken breasts. This one is perfect for quick and easy summer grilling.  Toss some sweet potato wedges and scallions on the grill, along with the chicken, and you've got a meal ready in less than 30 minutes.  The musky sweet of the hoisin

roasted eggplant dip

Another thing I like about summer, even though it is my least favorite season, is dips.  I rarely make them in the fall and winter months, so they are a welcome treat by the time summer rolls around. Here's a new one I made last weekend.  It's so incredibly healthy, it might not even truly qualify as a dip. It's my new favorite.  Try it.  It will be yours, too.Roast two halved eggplants, cut-side