Cheese popcorn is a fine, fine food. I will not entertain any arguments to the contrary.

Were I forced to choose one food to eat for an entire week (hey, you never know), it would most likely be cheese popcorn. Cheese popcorn is no rival to bacon, of course, but if I eat bacon for a week, well, that would be my last week. Cheese popcorn isn’t a health food, but it ain’t going to kill you either…

So certainally a food a noble as cheese popcorn would benefit from getting "kicked up a notch", as a famous toothpaste spokesman has been know to say?

The fine people at Jay’s added their Hot Stuff seasoning to their popular O-Ke-Doke Cheese Popcorn. What should be a match made in heaven is unfortunately almost inedible.

Why? It’s SWEET. Hot and sweet may work in Chinese food, but it sure doesn’t with cheese popcorn. It’s a real letdown. I actually threw away most of this bag, something I thought I’d never do with cheese popcorn.

When Donna Summer sang that she was "looking for some hot stuff", surely she wasn’t talking about this.

I’m not the most talented singer in the world. In fact, I’m probably not very good at all. But I generally sing only in karaoke bars, usually after a drink or two, and usually in front of friends and strangers, who also have had a drink or two.

This all changed on Friday, when I allowed myself to be talked into participating in a karaoke contest at work. That I allowed myself to agree to sing Cher’s part in "I Got You Babe" AND agreed to wear a ribbon on my head, hippy style- well, I can only blame myself. Whether I made a fool of myself is up to the dozens of my co-workers who watched to decide. I couldn’t make eye contact with any of them, due to my degree of nervousness. Ultimately, I think I was labeled as a good sport for participating in the first place- or at least that’s what I’ve been telling myself.

Our group was tied for fourth out of five entries (or tied for last place). I thought we actually did better than a few others for what the contest was supposed to be about (creativty as opposed to pure vocal prowess), but hey, who am I to judge the judges- just the guy with the ribbon on his head.

We won bagels for the floor, which is pretty cool. I guess it was worth the 3 minutes of nervousness to become the hero on a monday morning for as long as the bagels last.

In all, those co-workers who heard me sing now know why I haven’t quit my day job…

…and you can too, if you dare…

I Got You Babe MP3

Yesterday, Phil Mickelson tried a chip shot on the 18th hole that would have forced a playoff with Tiger Woods for first place.

He missed, but his reaction created the shot of the day…

…of my blog. Not as fancy as some, fancier than what it was. I like the fact that I can categorize my posts as there are some of you that enjoy reading some topics more than others. There’s some other benefits, and I’m sure there wil be more changes coming…

But for now, I’m happy with the updated look and feel and hope you are too.

Now, to get back to writing on a regular basis…

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