Random (un)Memorial for Monday 6/24/13

Resurrected and happily remembered:  twinkies!

I think this is a first for me and my posts.  Something that was memorialized in a post on 11.19.12 is now making a return (or soon will be making a return -- word on the street is that the aforementioned treat will be in stores by July 15th).

So I guess my opening is the opposite of my regular Monday phrasing of "gone but not forgotten".  I was going to say "the twinkies are coming back!" but I didn't want folks to get confused and think I was reporting on the upcoming parade a few blocks away this next weekend.  Although, if the fancy shoe fits ...

Anyway -- I know bells can't be unrung, but can memorials be taken back?  And, as someone who is a fan of Tastykakes and Little Debbies, am I really as excited about my third choice returning to store shelves as this might appear?  Here's why I am -- the company that bought the rights to make these snack cakes also owns Hardees/CarlJrs ... of which there is one just across the border on the toll road in Indiana ... and they have deep fryers in their kitchens ... which means ...

... opportunity to put deep-fried twinkies on a fast food menu someplace to which I have regular access (instead of waiting for the once a year state fair/carnival setting), let's not be missed (I'm talking to you, executives)!

DOES THE POPE COUNT THIS AS A MIRACLE?:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/twinkies-set-make-sweetest-comeback/story?id=19468409#.Ucjg5Du-qUI

AND MAYBE WITH A NEW PITCHMAN AS WELL?:
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2013/03/12/twinkies-new-owner-zach-galifianakis-will-ferrell-could-be-new-pitchmen/?mod=wsj_nview_latest

SO ... TODAY'S NEWS MAKES THIS POST (AND ITS HEADSTONE) A BIT PREMATURE:
http://capcognition.blogspot.com/search?q=twinkies&x=-1058&y=-301

Random Memorial for Monday 11/19/12

(Almost) gone but not forgotten:  the snack treat that should have died back when it was theorized that it makes you kill people (RIP Harvey M).

Look -- part of me wants to care, but I just can't muster up the feelings because:

1.)  I grew up on (and still often crave) Tastykakes, which apparently survived its brush with the Great Recession earlier this year and which I can still get from a Chitown food joint or load up on whenever I get back east.
2.)  This development seems to somehow be related  to our political divide (what with the unions and all) and I'm trying to uphold a no-politics moratorium for the time-being post-election.
3.)  I live in Wrigleyville, which means I'm just a short-walk-a-few-blocks-toward-the-lake away from having all the Twinkies I could possibly pick up on any given late night -- wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

All that aside, unless your people can work out a miracle in mediation, golden sponge cakes with creamy filling, you will be missed (not so much by me -- but by some folks somewhere, I'm sure).

WHAT'S ALL THE FUSS -- TWINKIES MAKE YOU KILL PEOPLE SO GOOD RIDDANCE:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/insanity/7.html

LAST CHANCE IN MEDIATION:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323622904578129282702373350.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

TRY THESE INSTEAD!:
http://www.tastykake.com/

Random Scandal Sheet for Sunday 7/14/13

What Chicago is talking about this week:

The Verdict.

I have to tell you, I'm just not that sure what I have to add to the national conversation at this point -- although I will say if Facebook and other social media had been big during the trial of my century (that's the one with the dancing Itos and the Glove nursery rhymes and the original Kardashian baby daddy [not the current Kanye one]), I have a feeling that second civil war that various factions have been hinting at as a possibility would have happened back then.  (Or maybe a few years after that, when Clarence and Anita testified about pubic hair on pop cans [oh picture the meme possibilities].)

And I have to tell you that I've searched the interwebs and I can't find anyone who referred to the Zimmerman weight gain as a "twinkie offense", so maybe I can be the first?  I mean twinkies and hate crime murder cases go together like gloves and hands that fit into them (since the days of H. Milk), and surely this was a strategy to fatten up the Zman to appear less threatening to a jury, right?  What with the return of the snack treat from the depths of bankruptcy around the same time as the trial, that wordplay just seemed like a slam dunk.

And one more thing I have to tell you -- it is odd how the subconscious works.  I could have sworn the other night that I was awakened from my sleep with the sounds of someone outside the window yelling "help" (with a cheap AC unit installed, the sound barrier to Wrigleyville is compromised).  Upon reflection, it might have just been Murder (the sole remaining pet in the apartment) playing her usual game of "whine and seek" (she puts the cat in caterwaul, let me tell you), or it might have been a random drunkard yelling something that sounds close to the help word (or the word itself), but there were no sounds of shots fired after that which I thought was a scream (in my 'hood, we tend to stab each other and eschew guns [at least for now]) and there were no bodies on the corner the next morning, so I'm thinking it must have been my dream state processing the gorging of related news stories I had stuffed into my cranium throughout the preceding 24 hour period.

And so life goes on -- well, for those of us who survive overzealous watchmen ...

TWINKIE OFFENSE GOOGLE SEARCH DOES TURN UP THIS ARTICLE:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/333601/twinkie-offense-mark-steyn

WHO KNEW?  CATERWAUL THE CAT IS AN EXISTING CHARACTER:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caterwaul-the-Cat/217133498345787

ARE YOU TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND THE PUBIC HAIR REFERENCE?:
http://www.zimbio.com/America's+50+Most+Scandalous+Political+Scandals/articles/20/Clarence+Thomas+Anita+Hill+Pubic+Hair+Can

Random Memorial for Monday 7/22/13

Gone but not forgotten:  the Moo and Oink stores (with their accompanying commercials).

Every time I head down LSD (that's Lakeshore Drive, not a trip courtesy of the hallucinogenic drug) and leave town over the Chicago Skyway, I can't help but get sad when I pass the (now dilapidated) former Moo and Oink store.

Not that I ever shopped there -- I wouldn't know a chitlin if it rose up out of the display case and slapped me silly -- but I did so enjoy my potluck Thanksgiving meal back at TCF when I worked there after first moving to Chicago (oh the soul food that fed my soul that day) ... and I do still get my regular fixin' of collared greens every now and then at Shirly's house.  [I bring those experiences up because I have to think those items were always for sale in these stores.]

Having researched the info for today's post, I discovered that the brand and the logo and the mascots were bought and products are now for sale at some existing grocery stores (and online) -- but until they bring back the great commercials, I won't be entirely satisfied.

Real estate that *still* makes me say "moooooooo and oiiiink" when I pass by it, you are missed.

IT'S HARD TO BEAT THIS COMMERCIAL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz8fTbLjo9c

IT'S LIKE THE STORY OF THE TWINKIES, BUT MORE MEATY:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/12/14/moo-oink-name-goes-to-highest-bidder-530000/

NOT DEAD YET!:
http://www.moo-oink.com/