VOTE.

I have this thing about voting.  If you have the right to vote and don't, then you don't really have a right to complain about the current state of affairs.  So get out and vote if you have not done so already.  I honestly don't care who you vote for, as long as you do it.  OK, maybe I care a little but I'd rather everyone just get out and exercise their right to vote.

OK, so Marc and I were offline for awhile vacationing in Maui and Kauai.  Great times and we'll post more on the trip once we get the pictures posted.  There are pictures of me doing some hula-like dancing at a luau.  Beware.  There was an article in the NYT that amused me about the liquids rule that we must all abide by when flying.   You need to scroll down a bit to see what I am talking about.  As a matter of fact, I was talking to Marc about this very same rule on Sunday as we were going through the airport security checkpoint.

So as technology evolves, there are now these video blogger awards called the vloggies.  One of the categories was Best Cooking Vlog and the winner was Wine Library TV.  Maybe it's not officially a cooking one, but I know that Marc and I manage to cook a bit with some wine.  Anyway, some good info here that you may want to check out.

Some other food and wine related tidbits - Frank Bruni talks a bit more about his recent trip to Italy and compares regions for food and wine.  Makes me hungry just reading it.  I guess I was not into cooking at the same level back in '97 because there was some big family drama going on with the family associated with "The Joy of Cooking" over style and makeovers, etc.  Crazy what could happen when it comes to family legacies and protecting their integrity but still keeping it fresh for the current audience.

Shifting gears a bit to the eerie sort - there was a developing story over the weekend about an indie actress who committed suicide in the West Village.  Turns out that this woman was actually murdered, and that Ms. Shelley was my former neighbor from when I lived in the West Village (see Abingdon Square link). Actually - 2 doors away.  The circumstances of the murder are what make this eerie.

Finally over the time we were away, we were informed that Team Bobby's JDRF fundraising efforts were tremendous and had the largest fundraising effort for the East Bay region.  Big shout out to my cousins Claire, Rebecca and Bobby for all of their hard work.