MONTHLY REVIEW: November

MUSIC

Portuguese-speaking Canadian Nelly Furtado flexes her Spanish muscles with Mi Plan.

Country singer Miranda Lambert has a Revolution with her third studio album (I know that was lame, deal with it.)

Need a sure-fire CD to put on repeat? Check out Canadian Ainsley McNeaney!

The music video for Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" rocks! Have you seen it yet?

So does Jay-Z's newest studio album, The Blueprint 3. HOVA!

We pimped out Anjulie last month but her single "Heat" is still rockin' our socks off!

Brit Ronan Keating's cover of Sugarland's "Stay" is worth checking out!

MOVIE

Pay tribute to the King Of Pop by seeing This Is It and realize why he deserved the title.

Laugh it up with Babs in this oldie but goodie, What's Up Doc?

BOOK

Need a little non-fiction in your life? Check out any of Mary Roach's fantastically entertaining and interesting books, including "Stiff," "Bonk," and "Spook."

Hooray! Cakewrecks is now a book!

Pop-culture best-seller Go Ask Alice is new again, 40 years later.

WEB

Need something of substance to go with all your web-fluff? Check out the postings from the intelligent Racialicious.

Then head on over to highIDEAS and soak up some humorous sugary trash.

Advanced NFL Stats might give you an edge in your football pool this weekend. I mean, you couldn't do worse, could you?

Make Your Own Ringtone of yourself winning that pool and use it when your losing friends call.

Be a smartie pants with the English language with the Etymology Dictionary.

Find topical humor pictures at Pundit Kitchen to send to your friends instead of the standard fart jokes and bad luck forwards they're always sending you.

RECIPE

For breakfast, start out with this delicious Indian Potato Salad with Cilantro Omelete. Head over to Hell's Kitchen for lunch and finish the day off with a scruptious Pumpkin Pudding.

ON HOLIDAY

ZONINO! is on holiday being thankful and such until Monday. Happy Turkey Day!

YOUTUBE: Turkey Lady

ZONINO! will be on vacation for the next couple days to give thanks to the things in life that are ZONINO! So, in the meantime, enjoy this Gloria Gaynor-inspired Thanksgiving Day tribute brought to you by the Turkey Lady herself.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Sergio del Limonar

BOOK: Go Ask Alice

The diary-book, Go Ask Alice, is by no means a literary masterpiece. It is really no more than the rambling thought of an average teenage girl in the late 1960's. The only difference is this girl got messed up in the drugs of the era and wrote about it in detail.

The extraordinary thing about this piece of work, published in 1971, is not only the candor and emotion the anonymous author exhibits, but the remorse she feels toward her family, friends, and herself. It's difficult to read at times, especially as she relapses. Sometimes this seems to occur suddenly as we are only privy to her diary entries which are often times sporadic and even lacking dates at times.

Although the authenticity of the book - whether it was an actual diary or really a work of fiction - is still up for debate. Regardless, the ideas in the various entries and the roller coaster of emotions the girl goes through are enough to influence another generation to stay off drugs.

Sergio del Limonar

EAT OUT: Hell's Kitchen

As their website says, "We just crank out damn good food." Truer words have never been spoken. This is not a restaurant for fluffy pretentious food. This is place to eat food you can recognize on your plate but be blown away by its flavor.

Hell's Kitchen, found in Minneapolis (80 South 9th St.) and Duluth (310 Lake Ave S.), Minnesota, is a foodie's dream. The food is traditional and plentiful, free of frills and trends, but exploding with taste, probably because everything is made from scratch. Each restaurant has its own menu, which you can check out online before visiting so your salivary glands can start getting ready early.

My favorites so far are the Portobello Mushroom "Burger" and the Mac & Cheese. The Sweet Potato Fries on the appetizer menu are incredible as is the "Breakfast All Day" menu.

As an added incentive, come on Sundays for Brunch (10am - 1pm) and hear live Gospel Music performed while you each. (In Duluth the music is recorded.) This is a popular event, however, so be sure to make reservations.

Sergio del Limonar

WEB: Pundit Kitchen

You know those LOLcatz with the sickenly adorable pictures of felines in compromising positions with horribly misspelled captions attempting to be cute?

Well, how about doing it with people? How about doing it with people who have voluntarily put themselves in the spotlight, like our elected officials? I can't tell you the number of times I've wondered what some story editors at my local city's newspaper would like to put under the picture of world leader so-and-so shaking hands with his majesty this-and-that.

Wonder no more! Pundit Kitchen takes nationally run photographs from various news services and attaches (mostly) humorous captions to them. Like this one of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.



Buzzy

CALENDAR: Cats Let Nothing Darken Their Roar

Mrs. Fitzsimmons 2, who is also still on maternity leave, sent me a link to a sight hawking calendars with weird phrases on them, such as the title of this post. Well, it turns out that each of the titles on this attractively, and slightly retro, designed calendar, spell out the name of the month within the phrase itself.

Even the name of the calendar, spells out "calendar." Go to Cats Let Nothing Darken Their Roar and click the link for "The Calendar" on the left side to see the rest of the months with their bizarre and poetic phrasings.

If you like what you see, each calendar runs between $32 to $60 depending on the size. A time keeper and a conversation piece all in one? What more could you ask for?!?


Sergio del Limonar