
If you're a regular follower of "Benito's Wine Reviews," a local wine and cooking blog by Ben Carter (and you should be), you'll notice he has a thing for themed glassware. (See here for Halloween.)
In a recent post, he's pulled out his moose mugs, a nod to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and a perfect vessel for egg nog.


There are worse things in the world.
Updated: The brunch has now been moved to December 20th.
“I consider it a journey,” says Wanda Abioto.
Abioto’s journey, which she says started 25 years ago and is ongoing, is that from vegetarian to vegan to living-food enthusiast.
She recently founded a supper club, The Dreamery, to promote the living-food lifestyle and is holding a series of Sunday brunches at downtown’s Safari restaurant, starting December 6th.

According to the press release, not only will forward Bobby Chaumont be there but also lots of snow.

There's a picture of Smokey on the bag, and my heart raced at the idea that they might be dog-flavored! Alas, they're Zapp's "Regular" flavor, though there's nothing to complain about that.
Proceeds from the chip sales, according to the bag, go to "scholarships, athletics, and general funding of the university."
Ike's has them on sale for 2 for $3.