dougs digs

The website Phat Phree did a fine job taking my exact thoughts on the subject just a step further (as they also seem to do. . .they complete me), "Rachel Ray is passionate about food. In fact, if you and her and some indeterminate meat wrapped in bacon were on a sinking ship and she could only save one, which do you think she'd pick? The answer is bacon, but bacon is the answer to so many of life’s questions. I don’t trust her smile."

So, yea, you get the point. Well, apparently someone else not only refuses to program her show in their DVR, but also thinks little Rachel is a puppy killing, apple pie hating, non-American flag lapel pin wearing . . . terrorist.

Rachael Ray ad pulled as pundit sees terror link

Malkin claimed scarf similar to those worn by murderous Islamic extremists

Dunkin' Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists.

In the ad, Ray is wearing a scarf that Michelle Malkin said in her nationally syndicated column resembled a kiffiyeh, Middle Eastern garb that is "popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos."

Dunkin's Senior Vice President for Communications Margie Myers issued a statement saying the scarf "was selected by a stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. "However, as of this past weekend, we are no longer using the online ad because the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."

In her column, Malkin also noted that it could appear at times that actor Colin Farrell, rapper Kanye West and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have been photographed in similar scarves that were "distinctive hate couture."

HT

• my first expereince on Amtrak (who knew they would allow us to order beer on a 7:30am train ?)
• elderly women not locking the trains bathroom doors (Josh is just now regaining his vision)
• a city with a rapid public transportation system that is rapid + public transportation + a system . . . what a novel idea (oh KC why do you hate me so ?)
• my first Cardinals game at the new stadium and with club level tickets in the 'all you can eat & drink' Bank of America Club (unlimited hotdogs and the leftover water they were cooked in, aka - Budweiser, never tasted so good going in and tasted so bad going out)
• and finally the impetus for this whole excursion, my second Radiohead concert (why do other bands even put out music, it's like other boxers fighting the pre-Buster Douglas Mike Tyson . . . what's the point?)

enjoy some tasty morsels from the show:

"Myxomatosis", "Idioteque", "Fake Plastic Trees", and my favorite point of the show "You and Whose Army?" (though you can't really tell, the video and lighting displays were mindblowing, especially during this song)

"Myxomatosis"

"Idioteque"

"Fake Plastic Trees"

"You and Whose Army?"