• ITEM: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Read it before it disappears: NYT piece on eating by the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma (currently on my nightstand).
• ITEM: Here’s just one reason why ethanol sucks: It makes corn tortillas too expensive for poor Mexicans who depend on them. Repeat after me: Don’t burn food!
• ITEM: Rolling Stone: “Why Gore Should Run — And How He Can Win”
• ITEM: “Cineplex Drove Me to Piracy”: The best breakdown I’ve read about how much modern multiplexes suck.

• ITEM: Good news from NYC: The 2nd Avenue Deli may rise again.
• ITEM: The Candy Desk of the United States Senate.
• ITEM: Jon Carroll waxes eloquent on winter, diabetes, and bakeries.
• ITEM: I could watch this baby panda sneeze over and over all afternoon.

Richie Unterberger will be presenting and discussing two hours of rare Beatles audio clips, as well as showing a few rare Beatles film clips and discussing and signing his book The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film, on Wednesday, January 17, from 7:00-9:00pm at the Park Branch of the San Francisco Public Library at 1833 Page Street in San Francisco.

I strive daily to cultivate peace and compassion. I am often blissful, sometimes troubled, sometimes stressed, and usually a bit lonely. Change is possible!