Perfect for Valentine’s Weekend!

It was nice to be home for Valentine’s weekend after flying 7 of 9 days. Taking off again for Vermont and Pennsylvania shortly, so just a quickie for now. This from The Onion, as funny as ever, featuring K-Y Jam: http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/k_y_introduces_new_line_of

Mameshiba…

Happy December! Time for something a little lighter, and since I’ll be heading to Japan (and Taiwan) later this month, I wanted to share a cute (and yet strangely disturbing) bean-promoting ad from Japan. There are many of these (check YouTube); in each, a dog (shiba) bean (mame) magically appears, giving some factual trivia that’s not so pleasing to the person who’s eating.

Here’s one of my favorites, in which a man eating peanuts gets repulsed to learn that kissing exchanges two million bacteria: